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 blow of ome whale; as I looked along a great way off on the ice, I aw like a great white ox coming runingrunning [sic] toward us; which proved to be a great bear, who had found the mell of us: we rowed off from the ice thinking he would not take the water but in he came with a plunge, and after us he comes; one of our harpineers makes a noenoose [sic], or loop, and mot dexterouly throws it about his neck, and hawlshauls [sic], him in to the tem, for had he come a-long-ide of us, we had been overet, by his weight and trength, fixed his long claws in the tern, the rope kept him closcloſe [sic] to, while we thrut a lance into his throat, and with one of his great fore paws he gripped the lance and bowed it o, that it was at the coming out till we run in another on the other ide of his throat, and after a tedious trugleſtruggle [sic] and blooding, expired.

The kin was old for five guineas in Edinburgh, but I would ait at the killing of twenty whales or I engaged uch a monter again. We likewie brought home two young bears with us, and as our cook was taking them up to Edinburgh, one of them napedsnapped [sic] off his thumb.

During the late war, I was taken by the French and retaken, and afterwards preed on the coat of Ireland and erved ix years aboard of the man of war, was aboard of the Hero, and with Admiral hawk when he beat the French fleet in capron-bay, of which battle I hall give a relation