liave very good Boats for that purpofe ^ mann d with fix oars, 
fuch as they can row forwards or backwards, as occafioniequ^" 
reth. They row up gently to the Wha^ and fo he willfcarcely 
ihunthem 5 2nd when the Rqipineer;, ftanding ready fitted, fees 
iiis opportunicy, heftrikes his Harping-Iron into the Whale, 2- 
bout or before the Fins rather than toward the Tayl, Now the 
Harping-Irons arc like thofe, which are ufual in BngUnd in ftri- 
king Porpoifes $ but fingular good mettal, that will not break^ 
but wind, as they fay, about a mans hand. To the Harping- 
Iron is made faft a ftrong lythe rope, and into the Socket of that 
Iron is put a Staffe, which , when the Whale is ftruck, comes 
out of the Socket 5 and fo when the Whale is fomething quiet, 
they hale tip to him by the rope, and, it maybe, ftrike into him 
another Harping-Iion, or lance him with Lances in ftaves, till 
they have kiird him. This I write by relation, for I have not 
fcen any kill'd my felf. I hear not ^ that they have found any 
Sperma Ceti in any of thefe Whales ^ but I have heard froja 
credible perfons, that there is a kind of fuch as have the SPsr- 
ma zt Eleutheria^ and others of the Bahama-ldmds (where 
alfo they find often quantities of Amher-greefe) and that 
thofe have great teeth (which ours have not) and are 
very finewy. One of this place ( ^ohn PerMief) found 
one there dead, driven upon an Ifland 5 and, though I think 
ignorant in the bufinefs, yet got a great quantity oisperma Ceti 
OHt of it. It feems, they have not muchOyl^ as ours, but this 
Oyl> I hear, is at firft like Sferma Ceti 5 but they cfarifie it, f 
think, by the fire. When I fpeak with him ( whom I could 
not meet with at prefent;, and now the Ship is ready tofet fail) 
I fliall endeavour to be further informed • but at prefent with 
the tender of my humble fervice to the Rojd Society, and com- 
mending your Noble Defigne to thebleffing of th^ Almighty^ 
i takemyieave^&c. 
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