An account of several late voyages and discoveries

I· ¡ i i J 6 ~ 77,e fourth Part of tl,e Po)'t1ge the Tab. A. marked with p.) If it is fiiff and heavy, the Whale doth draw it fiill wirh his · might; hut if ic doth hang locfe, fo that the Long-hoat is before and 6ehind equalJy high out of the Water, then the Men pnll in the Rope again, (as you may feen in thc Tab. A marked with q) and thc Rope-givcr layeth i~ down in ,·ery good ordcr (as you may fee ac 11, in the Ta b. .A) round, and one row above the ocher, that if the 11 7 hale Ihould draw on ag:iin, he may have it ready to give him with. out being entangled. Here is alfo this to be obfcrved, that if the Whale runs upon the leve! they muH not give him too much Rope, for if he fhould turn and wind himfelf much and of. t en about, he might eafily wind the Ropc about a Rock or heavy Stone, and fo falten it to ir, and fo che Harpoon would come out, and al) the Labour would be lofr; whích hath often hapm:cl, .and we our felvcs lofi one that way Thc other Long-boats that are towed behind whercin the Men look all beforc chem, and fi ítíll, and let thc Whale draw them along: I the Whale doth rowl upon che Ground, fo tha thc Long·boats or Sloops lye frill, they dra~ their Lines in again by degrees, . and the Rope maílerdoth lay them clown again in their pr pcr places, as thcy had been Iaid before. Whe tb.:y kill the \Vhale with Launccs, they alfo pu tht:ir Lines in again, untill they come near toth W hale, yet at fome diftance, tha t the others ma have room to la unce~ But they muft have grea ca re, that ali the Lines ofevery Sloop ma y 11