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have very good Boats for that purpofe , mann’d with to oar$, 
fuch as they can row forwards or backwards, as.occafionrequi- 
reth e They row up gently to the Whale, and l'o he will Jfcarceiy 
ton them ; and when the Harpineer, (landing ready fitted, fees 
his opportunity, heftrikes his Harping-Iron into the Whale, a- 
boutor before the Fins rather than toward the Tayl. Now the 
Harping* Irons are like thofe, which are ufualin England in (h i- 
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 (Irong ly the rope, and into the Socket or that 
Iron is put a Staffe, which, when the Whale is (truck, comes 
out of the Socket; and fo when the Whale is fomething quiet, 
they hale up to him by the rope, and, it may be, (trike into him 
another Harping-kon, or lance him with Lances in (laves, till 
they have kill’d him. This I write by relation, fori havenot 
feen any kill’d my felf. I hear not, that they have found any 
Sperma Ceti in any of thefe Whales; but I have heard from 
credible perfons, that there is a kind of fuch as have the Sper- 
ma at Eleutheria , and others of the Bahama-lUmds (where 
alfo they find often quantities of Amber-greefe) and that 
thofe have great teeth (which ours have not) and are 
very finewy. One of this place ( $ohn Per inchief) found 
one there dead , driven upon an Ifland , and , though I think 
Ignorant in the bufinefs, yet got a great quantity of Sperma Ceti 
out of it, Itfeems, they have not muchOyl, as ours, bu t this 
OyL I hear, is at firft like Sperma Ceti * but they clarifie it, I 
think, by the fire. When I fpeak with him (whom I could 
not meet with at prefent, and now the Ship is ready to fet fail) 
I (hall endeavour to be further informed 5 but at prefent with 
the tender of my humble fervice to the Royal Society f and com- 
mending your Noble Defigne to thebleffmg of the Almighty* 
I take my leave, &c„ 
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