IN THE YEAR 1613. 
53 
you see marked w th e, w th in S r Thomas Smyth’s Baye: 2 and 
Thomas Wilkinson, one of the master’s mates in the Mathew, 
vice-admiral, went forth in a shallop, and shott him w th a 
peece as he was swimming, and kil’d him, and brought 
him to the shoare. 
In this harbour, ther haue bene killed more whales than 
in anie other, but verie fewe deare; notwithstanding ther 
hath bene slaine in the country, this voyage, about 400 
deare. Wee kil’d very fewe morses, by reason the whales 
came in so fast that wee could not haue a fitt oportunitie 
to goe about that buisines; although ther was said to be, 
at one time, about 500 morses upon the beach before men- 
cioned: to w ch place wee went, prepared for their slaughter, 
the sixt of Julie ; and found ther but about 40, whereof were 
killed 32; and wee took their hides, their fat, and their teeth. 
Wee killed also good store of wilde fowle; as wilde-geese, 
culuerdumes, willocks, and such like; and some white land- 
partridges. Wee caught manie young foxes, w ch wee made 
as tame and familiar as spaniell-whelpes. I brought one 
of them out of the country, till wee came on the coast of 
England; and then he died. 
On the 24 th of June, the Mathew began to take in hir 
ladeing; and was fullie fraighted the 6 th of July w th 184 
tonnes of oyle, and 5,000 finnes, w ch were in 100 bundles, 
ech containeing 50. 
On the 8 th of July, the Mathewe, and the Rich- ^ 
J 1 ' Wee weyed 
ard and Barnard (w ch was also laded w th oyle and a g r c ^ r 0 °g fc m °/ 
finnes), weyed anchor forth of S r Tho. Smyth’s Baye ‘ 
Baye, w th purpose to come presentlie for England ; and the 
Tiger, our admiral, came also forth w th us to waft us alongst 
the coast of Greenland. 3 But, putting into Bel Sound the 
2 The position here referred to belonged to a part of the map that was mutilated; 
and, although the outline has been restored, the locality above mentioned cannot be 
precisely indicated. 
3 By Greenland, in this narrative, is always meant Spitzbergen. 
