An account of several late voyages and discoveries

to Spitzbcrgcn. 1 5 5 times highcr tl1an thc othcr Bu:sko¡f has; thcy are fomewh:it of a darker brou·n Cvlour; but of thc farne bigncfs. We fa w th~rrHumbl1.: fo– vcr.11 times out of thc \Vatcr; olic rnight eafiiy take thcm, becauf~ of thcir h:gl, Finn that tlands on the top of thcir U:ick. T!u.:y are ne;!: Sword:fifb, nor of die fame kind \\C c1ll '1'1Jm• blers, which wc fec bctween the 1.•i/;e Jnd tf1c }lilge!.md. V. Of the WI1i:c.fifü. · 1 do aot hy this Namc mean lh~ I•Jh· \,Ye ca11 fohcrc in om··Country, that .iri;. hai. fin;;l!, bur I mean a biggcr fort, a:, l.,rg~ a.. a B,tts/.:,:,J~ fo fhape iikc a \Vhalc, and withom; Fimh ,.:a !his R~d\; lle hath two' Fins on bis H·.:!:~, JS tl am informed by otbcrs tha t hJ\'cca-ughr c:lle.:-:-1., Thc Tail 1s Jiltc unto a \Vhalc's. He {::uh 'L :SfJ.,t-hr,fe on bis Hc:acl; he lia.th n!fo :m ! ·!,:i~,.;i onhis Hcad lik~ a Whale. He is of ;'""Ilüwifh whirc wknr. He hath Fat cnm:glt 11i Fl'o~·.cr– tion to his bigncfs; 1 was told by th•.:m th:n ¡h:id qrnght one, that thcy <lid fill ·~ lhrr~i ar jF.it froiú onc; but chis Fat is ,•cry fo!"t, anti 'thc Uarpoon eafily br~aks out, whc, cfon; tht:y do nutcarc ·ro c.:itd1 thl!m. 'Wh::n wc t:.1.! ¡:k•1cy of th:m; th;! Skíppers fay, it is a ii-~11 ~1t ct gocll \\:ar for carching of \Vhal,·:,; fa,, if c)~cfo find ;Jod Food, tbc V.'hal~s find the f.·r.~:.: :..:fo. Wc faw cin thc 19th of J1m:! fome h:.u~c!1L~!i et tf1,·m. l\.~ .• ·r