An account of several late voyages and discoveries

6 7he ftrft P "' ' of thi Yoy4g1 he blowed alfo very holJow, he C\ank alive and the Bird~ fed upon him. This Whale ferm;nted when it was dead, aod the fteam that came from it inffamed our eyes, and made them fore. Seé Tab. A ata. Tbis fame night C,rneliu, Sea111an Iofi bis Ship by the fqueezing and cru(hing together of the Jce, for in this place are very great She~ts or Jílands of Ice, and the Seamen call it Wefl.fce, becaufe it lieth towards the Wefr, as youmay fee in the Place B marked with b. On rhe 2d of J,me we had a fovere frofi io the forenoon, and in the night we faw the Moon ,·ery pa)e, as it ufed to look in the day ~ime in our Country, with clear Sun-füine, whereupon fo])o•1.•ed miíl: and foow, the wind North-eaíl' and by north. In the morning, J1111e the 4th, we were a hunting again after a Whale, and we ,:ame f¡ near unto one, that the Harponier was jufi a going to fling bis Harpoon into her, but fbe fonk down behind, and held her head out o the water, and fo funk dowo like a·fione ( a is to be feen by don die cut A ) and we fa her no more ; it was very like that the gm Ice-fieJd was foil of boles in the middle, fi that the Whale could fetch breath undcrneat the Ice. A great many more Ships ·by abou this fheet of Ice, one hunted the Whalcs to th otber, and fo they were frighted, ami b~cam very fhy. $o one gets as many fifues 3S thc ther, and fometimes rhey ali get one. We wer there fever~I times' á hunting that very day, 3n yet we got never a o.q~. · . ..