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and with the other timeabout, with great ſwiftneſs and kept his courſe after a whale from one part ſhe blew in to another, till at laſt he came up to her, jumped out of the boat on the back of the whale, and as ſhe had done blowing out the water, he flopped in a fede, (a piece of long wood made for the purpoſe) into her blow hole, where her breath comes out; ſo when ſhe came up again ſhe had no breath, being all chocked in a moment, ſo ſhe inſtantly died, and the reſt of the Indians came off from the ſhore, like a flock of gul maws in their leather canoes to his aſſiſtance, hawled her aſhore, and and eat her blubber both raw and unroaſted.
After this I went to the Greenland fiſhing, which I liked extremely well, and ſailed with Captain M'cCallum in the princeſs of wales: After we arrived at the ice we were all ſet to poſt in our different ſtations.
Our only care and attention was firſt to hear the blowing of the whales breath, and ſpouting up of the water, which they do to a proeigious hight in the air, and the noiſe of their breath is like a mighty wind at a diſtance; we keep all manner of ſilence, comes in behind her, or alongſide of her, the darts or harpun are wittered above the point, ſo that when it goes fairly in it cannot be drawn out without the wound be made more; the line or ſmall cord is made faſt to the end of the harpun, which line lies with us in the
