52 
A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN 
crane, before the flieboat could be laded, wee caused the 
men that rowed the shallop to towe a tree after them. 
Nowe, when wee had put off a little from the shoare, ther 
came 5 or 0 morses swimming hard by us and about us; 
some of them coming so neare the sterne of the bote, that 
we called for our launces, purposeing to strike them. They 
would diuers times laie their teeth upon the tree w ch wee 
towed (as it were, scratching the wood w th their teeth) ; 
but wee still rowed awaie, and at length they left us. 
Then wee passed thorow a great deale of small ice, and 
sawe, upon some peices, two morses; and upon some, one; 
and also diuers seales, layeing upon peices of ice. 
a storme in The 19 th of June, wee had a verie great storme, 
harbour. — the AAdnde being at south-south-west, — w ch was 
like to have driuen our ships upon the shoare; and, haueing 
3 dead whales floating at the sternes of our ships, wee were 
glad to cutt the hausers that they Avere tyed in, and to lett 
them driue a shoare, because wee feared otherwise that they 
would haue caused our ships either to break their cables 
or to haile home their anchors, and so be driuen upon the 
shoare. When the storme ceast, haueing continued about 
6 hoAvers, the water fell from the shoare; and wee sawe 
tAvo of the Avhales lie cast upon the shoare, and the water 
falne from them againe. The third whale Avas driuen further 
off; but Avee found him againe cast also upon the shoare, 
haueing lost almost all his finnes 1 out of his mouth. Ther 
Avas also, at the same time, 5 whales 7 heads driuen ashoare, 
w th toungs and finnes in them; whereby some labour was 
saued,Av ch should otherwise haue bene bestowed about hailing 
them ashoare for the cutting-out of the finnes. 
The 21 st of June, ther came a white beare downe from the 
mountaines, and took into Fresh-Avater Baye; w ch is the water 
1 Whalebone , then called whale’s fins. 
