An account of several late voyages and discoveries

I 5 o T1')e .fourtl, Pa,.t of the P'oyage thefe Bones I faw at Spitzberge11, lying on the Ssr11nd, abour 20 foot long, of a very white • colour, as if they had becn calcined. Our Sea- ¡ meo bring fome ofthcfe along with them home, to lliew us how big fome JIITh11les are, which are · already whiteoed to their Hands, for thofe that come frc(h from a U 1 h.ile, fiink abominably, be. caufe of the Marrow that is in them. Their Ficíh is courfe and bard, and it doth look like unto tbat of a Bu11; it is intermix'd with many Sinews; it is very dry and lean when it is boi– Jed,becaufe their Fat is only between thcir Flefh and Skin: Sorne looks green and blue as our powder,d Beef, chiefly where the Mufcles meet togethe~ ; if one lets it lie a little, it grows black and flinkiog. The Fleíh of the Tai boih, tenderdl, and is 11ot quite fo dry as tha of the JJody. When we have a mind to eat o a U 1 h.1le, we cut greé'.l.t pieces off before the Tau \Vhcre it is four-fquare, and boil it like othe Mcat; good Beef I prefer far befare it, ye rather than be flarv'd, I advife to eat Whale' Flefh, for none of our Meo dy'd of it, and ch Frenchmen did eat almofi daily of it, they flin it fometimcs on the tops of theit· Tubs, and le it líe until it is black; and yet they eat it fo aU that. Thc Fle(h of a f/flhale, as well as tha of the Se1t!es, is alone by it fclf, and che Fat a the top thcrcof, between che Flcfh and Ski It is ahom fix Inches thick on thc Back an<l .Be ly, bue I havc alfo fccn it a Foot thick upon Fin, according as they a re grcat or littlc l•ifJ ·¡~he Fct.~ of ~ht;:ir i;ndt:r Lip is thicker than cw · f oo