Formerly the Dutch did try out their train-oyl in Spitzbergen at Smerenberg, and about the Cookery of Harlingen, where still, for a remembrance, all sorts of tools belonging thereto are to be seen, whereof I have made mention before. The French-men try up their train-oyl in their ships, and by that means many ships are burnt at Spitzbergen: and this was the occasion of the burning of two ships in my time.

They try out their train-oyl at Spiizbergen that they may load the more fat in their ships; and they believe it to be very profitable, for they go their voyage upon part, that is to say, they receive more or less according to what they catch; but I do not account it wisdom to fill up the room of the ship with wood where they might stow vessels. But our countrymen, as I told you before, put the fat into the vessels, wherein it doth ferment just like beer; and I know no instance that ever any vessel did fly in pieces, although they are stop't up very close, and so it becometh for the greatest part train-oyl in them. Of the fresh fat of whales, when it is burnt out, you lose twenty in the hundred, more or less according as it is in goodness.