m ■ H AcT I ViE :; O 'F i 'AM
c h a p . '$Markbrown colour, and fpouts water with conflderable
, XXX'; ■ foil& | We abfln ifchdffi&j^d i t ö a n JfLl
verairti^esi'^feoye the, water a large "jto^ièrcaper, 0 This
Hfhfl w itl^ w e r f.^ h ch i reliables; thé greenland ;w h ^ ,
' is moré.daögerousy oh, acGoupt.of Jts being. móre .adHye,
which proceeds from the bodybeipg finaller and flatter
. than that .of .the former i The jaw ia fhorter^-with;, very
fmall tiarhs: j, the dkin ifc whiter,; «ndL the, produce .of .its
blubber arnohots, feld0® t o > tons, c?
About the 2$d» the weathefi^fgian to ehaogetQbofidehr
ably, and the wholeThip’Sïpqmpa|iy were attacked with
a feVëreïcéid:ahd hbugb and many, AlfO with thg-aguo. |g
On thMJoth, the .cré.w .w.as. fo weak, as to be hardly able
I* to do their' duty* two hf^tbeF0dndeed,'&nd;O|ie:mariue^
were already 'dead. andr.overboard. GölOh^ifi^PoSih^
was. alfb at .thisrc.timp.fo ihuch indifpofefh that the command
devolved .upon me for a-de W; jd^y^uj-m^ hia[ijlr
• nefs, when oblervit^-the other lhip ahè^yahdif.lmpfl:
: - out of fight, I availed myXelf iOf ;my ^.0^niodoréihip^
• by hoifting a flag at the main-top, and-firing a gun
: to windward to bring her to, which. {he: ;puh£tualiy
obeyed, i
A l a n o w T w i m m i n g alongfid? the imp, we did
all that la y in o u r power to take it, but to nopurpofe.
Sharks are in thefe feas of different kinds; but :5f hat is
generally called .the white fliark is ;the- inofl terrible of
:arco^T oO?s" i i z ^ 5 ^ h m g ; op^n one
, thoufand pounds, and meafuring fixteen'or eighteen feet
in length; the head,which'i^ fometbingdepfeiredj is large;
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