An account of several late voyages and discoveries

8 Tb~ -,,JI P,4rt of •he YoJcag, by • in the Plate C. For hcrc it is ju(t the famc, as wben they will fail into the Ice, if more then one.is thcre, for no body cares tQ be the firfr, becaufe they do not kno.win wbat condition the Harbour or tbe Ice is witbin. In our Voyage thither wc faw QO Ice at all, un. til we carne to Spitzberge11, for the Wind had blown it ali away; in the night we did cutof tbe fat of the Fifh, and filled with it 6; Kardeb or Veffels. That night we Cailed with thrce Boats into the E11gliP, Harbour or Bay, and faw a WhJt, and flung into him three Harpoons, and threw onr .Lances intQ him; the W/Ja/e ran unde ncath the fmall Ice, and iemained a great whi ~nder w a,er before he came up again, and tb · ran but a very little way befare he c~me up gain; and this he repeated very often, fo tb . we were fo'rced . to wait pn him above half a hour, bcfore he carne from underneath the Ice The Harpoons broke out at lengtb, and we1 him. On the Ice we fa w two great Sea-ho,fi or Mo~~,, that were got upon the theet of lec Jhrough a hole rhat was in it, aqd were aUeep we cµt off their return by covering the hol with a piece of ~ce; then we awaken·d the with our Lances, and tbey began to defen Jhemfelves for· awhile before they were kille We faw alf~ maoy White Fi{b. · · · On the 22th we had ·very fair weather, an prétty warró ; w~ ~ere ~-y ~e6~11fil1 ( Deer,fei where the Ice ftood firm : we fa w fix Whalt ~~d got ~ne of t~em tbat ·was a Male, and ~ .. " ., . . .. ' . .' . .. : . . . .' thl~