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 and with the other timeabout, with great wiftnes and kept his coure after a whale from one part he blew in to another, till at lat he came up to her, jumped out of the boat on the back of the whale, and as he had done blowing out the water, he flopped in a fede, (a piece of long wood made for the purpoe) into her blow hole, where her breath comes out; o when he came up again he had no breath, being all chocked in a moment, o he intantly died, and the ret of the Indians came off from the hore, like a flock of in their leather canoes to his aitance, hawled her ahore, and and eat her blubber both raw and unroated.

After this I went to the Greenland fihing, which I liked extremely well, and ailed with Captain M'cCallum in the princes of wales: After we arrived at the ice we were all et to pot in our different tations.

Our only care and attention was firt to hear the blowing of the whales breath, and pouting up of the water, which they do to a proeigiousprodigious [sic] hight in the air, and the noie of their breath is like a mighty wind at a ditance; we keep all manner of ilence, comes in behind her, or alongide of her, the darts or harpunharpoon [sic] are wittered above the point, o that when it goes fairly in it cannot be drawn out without the wound be made more; the line or mall cord is made fat to the end of the harpunharpoon [sic], which line lies with us in the