An account of several late voyages and discoveries

to Spiczbcrgen~· 1 55 flruck at one anothcr fo vehemently, that thc Water flew about like Dufi, fometimcs one, and fometimes the othcr was uppermofi; the Weather was a little ftormy, or elfe wc had {laid to have feen the end of tbe Battlc, fo we were forc'd to leave them. The dead U 1 hale kill'<l by thc S,Pord-ffb fiinks ata great difiance, but not prefently, and thofc that ~have been woundcd fome days beforc they are caught fmeI1 the worft, and drivc high above the Sea-water, when othcrs drivc cvcu with the Water; and fome fink. The U 1 hales have, as welJ as othcr Bcafls, their peculiar Diftempcrs and Ailmcncs, but I can only write of what I know by Hear,fay. An ancicnt and cxperienc'd Harpoonicr infor– med me, that he did once ca.tch a J;tlhale that was very feeble, and that al] bis Skin, but chicfly ncar unto the Tail and Fins, hung likc Films, as if they were old Rags dragg'd along behind him, and that he was quite lean, fo they madc but very little Train-oyl of his Far, for the Fat was quite whitc, and light wirhal as an empty Hcneycomb. · Before a Tempcfl: they beat the Water, that it doth fly about like unto Duft, with their Tail; but thcy havc che greateft ftrength when they ftrike fide– wards as if they did mow, fo that Qne might think that they were in a great agony, and a dying. They are mightily tormentcd by the Lice, w hereof I have treated more a t largc above: The Draught of this Loufe you may fee at d, in the Tab. ~ Th