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 boat the whale no ooner gets the wound with the harpunharpoon [sic] than he dives down, and runs for it, and hawls the boat after her by the line, with uch wiftnes that they need to row no more, but ets their oar up us a mat, by way of a sign to the hip, and thoe other boats about her.

That they troke a fih to come to their aid, let they hould need help, or their line run out, for they mut ometimes pay it out with uch peed, that one has to throw water upon the boats tem leatleſt [sic] it hould take fire: and till their line brake, or the harpunharpoon [sic] lip, no other hips crew mut throw out a dart at her. She runs without ret only up to blow out the water, and take breath then down again, and runs o far below water before he rie. If he runs below the ice and ries there in a mitake, it weakens her greatly: by foundering herelf on the ice, and being deprived of breath. I was in the boat myelf in chace of one, when he turned and roe dirrectlydirectly [sic] below our boat, and carried us up out of the water on her back, as on the top of a black rock, but providence was o kind, that our boat hurled down by her broad ide for had we falenfallen [sic] down before her. he had run us down, or had we come down behind her, he would kove our boat in peicespieces [sic], with a wah of her tail.

We was another time out on the Bran-watch, and lying to beide the ice, litening to hear the