An account of several late voyages and discoveries

to Spitzbergen. 1 6 7 very Sea is tin~ed red all along where they fwim. Thofo l'Vhalu that are morta)Jy woun– ded heat themfclves, that rhey reek while they are alive, and the Birds fit on them, and car on them while they are fiitl alive. When the Wh.iles blow up d1~ Water, they fling out with it fome fattiíh Subfiance that floats upan the Sea Jike Sperm, and this Fat the 1.lf ,i!lmwcks devour greedily, of which fevcral thoufao<ls at– tend him, fo diat a Jtf7h11/e ofccn hath more At– tendants than a King hath Scrvants; as you may fee by T, in the Tab. A. Sometimts alío the Harpoons break out¡ then often Long– boacs of othe1· Ships attend, anclas foon as chcy fee that the Harpoon is come ou~, they fling their own into him, and che \Vhale is cheirs, altho' the firll Harpoon hath almoft kill'd che Whale, yet if he doth get loofc, che fct:onJ Pcr– ty c1aims him, and the fidl mufi look for ano– ther. Sometimes at the fame time cwo Har– poons,belonging to two feveral Ships, are Hruc.k into the Whale, fuch ones are divide::d cqually, and each one hath half; as y ou ma y fee ae Mil-1, in the Tab. A; the other t\vo, or three, or more Sloops, as m2ny as therc is of thcm, wait for the Whales coming up agaio,and when th~y fee that he is tir'd, they kili him outright wich Lau~ces. In doing chis is the greatelt dang~r, for the firft that do fling che Harpoon into him are dra~n along by the \Vhale, a:1d are at a good diftance from hirn, but thcfc rhac kill him wich Launcesare as well upon his Eoc 1 y as ac his fides, according as the Whale tun.s M -4 a1d