fiers, anil few the Snake, as welf as'thei blood that dilcoloured
the water. ,; W hat thefeid men depofed’upon oath in court, may
be feen b y the following inftfunaento fihte Original wa* fetft me,
and I think it deforves to be printed'&t hkg&. ■ It «kfes thus: - ■>
tc His mage%.^ chief aadvaCata in Èergëitt, Albert Chïïftiafl
Dais, the recorder, Hans jEhriftiak <5artn«y John Clies, r01ite r
Simenfen, Ölivèf ^Brkchrnand? .^eöögi^^mon^^^fót -^oi&sd dn'
Lange, Matthias Gram for Elias Beter Tudden, Clans Natkr foe
Didrick Haflap, Jochum TogR for-Henry Hiort, snd 'George
Wie-rs for Hans Chriftian ByfTrng, fwörnAbu^ghèrs and jurf^M&n^
gke, evidence,:- that, in, the year of our Lord
twenty-fecoad day of ï ’ebraa'tyyi ^w-fi lÖoÉso f t h i s "
City of Bergen, fcfe, procurator John llQütz appeared,: and pro*
fented a Letter which had' been d e liv e r e d ^ him that day, from
the honourable Lawrence -iie~J£etryr captain in th e navy, and
firfipdot, dated the preceding d a y f ï e b r a ^ s l i , wMorlin he
defires the faid procurator to 'procure ? him WritteftcOptes óf the
refpe&ive depolitioip?, attefted properly -upon oath, relttiög' to
the before-mentioned affair, • and what there happened: and the
faid- procurator, now prefeat, for that purpöfe? • huiftblyf begs,
that -two men, namely, NichdksJPeterfem Koppèr,-'4hef Nicholas
NiéholfonlAngleWigeny ihhabitatttstbf this dfcy, m ê y admitted
to make bath, that every. particular fet fêrtfe in*vi&eafcp@fiA
letter is'trüe ‘ which depofition he defines,may be^entered,in. the
a& of t^at iéffihns,"' This letter was aecbrdingly read to., the
faid deponents} and bias f o l l o w s 4
Mr. John Reutó,
The lattef end ó f Auguft, in the year 174S, as I was jpp. a
voyage, in my refuin from.Trundhiem, in a vety calm and hot day,
having a mind to put in at Molde, it happened, that when we
Were arrived with my miles o f the
aforefeid Molde^ being at a plage called Jule-Najfs, as, I was read-,
ing in b o o k , f * Heard a %ina oiva murmuring* v ip iï irom
amongft the men at'the oars,* who were might, in-number, and
obferved that the man at the helm kept off from the-, land. Upon
this I enquired whar-WAs the matter; and was inf^ftiéd that thfere
was a Sea-friake before us-. - dt then ordered the man (alt thó helm
to keep to the land agaii^pad tQ'c®n£ up with this ^feature*-o f
which I had heard Jo mahf fiorigs. Tho’ thp fellows were under
fome apprehenfions, theynivere obliged Jo obeymy orders. In
the mean time this Sea-fnakèpaffed by us,“and ;we were obliged to
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