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102 THIRD VOYAGE OF THE DUTCH
in the ice; an accident which made all the refi fhudder thinking the bears would ‘inevit-
ably devour him. Inftead of which thefe ferocious beafts purfued thofe who fled to-
wards the veflel; during which time the mafter with de Veer and the man who had
allen into the chafm, went round the veflel, and entered on the oppofite fide to the
bears.
‘Thefe favage animals feeing that they had entered, advanced furioufly towards the
veffel where the crew, having no other arms but the two haiberts on which they could:
not depend, endeavoured to divert their attention by throwing pieces of wood at their
head, and other things after which they ran each time a piece was thrown, in the fame
manner as a dog runs afteraftone. One of the failors was fent into the cook-room to
{trike a fire, and another to feek for fome pikes. The more the failor haftened, the lefs
was he able to kindle any fire, fo that there was no opportunity of ufing their firelocks.
In the mean time the bears always returned to the aflault with equal fury. A halbert
was thrown which having {truck the largeft direétty on the mouth, he began to retreat,
and the others who were confiderably {maller, followed him flowly..at a diftance, and
left the crew to the liberty of dragging their fledge to their hut.
On the twenty-fixth, the greater part of the water was free clofe to the land, but
the ice always continued about the veffel. On the twenty-feventh, a white fox was
killed, which they roalted ; it very much refembled the rabbit in tafte. The fame day
they were employed in mending, and fixing the clock. They alfo prepared a lamp to
burn in the night time, and for this purpofe they ufed the fat of a bear which they
melted. On the twenty-ninth they carried on fledges a quantity of the herbs and
other things left by the fea on the fhore, which they placed about the fail that inclofed
the hut, that the cold might penetrate lefs through the planks, which were not let into
each other, the bad weather not having permitted them to do otherwife.
On the firft of November, in the dufk of the evening they faw the moon rife in the
eaft, and the fun yet rofe fufficiently high on the horizon to be perceived. On the
fecond they faw the fun rife in the S. S. E., and fet near the S.S. W.; but the whole
of his difk did not appear above the horizon: he was only feen on the horizon itfelf,
and a part of it remained concealed. On the fame day they killed a fox witha blow of
a hatchet, which they roafted.
’ On the third the fun rofe in the S. and by E., a little nearer the S. than the S. E.,
and fet in the S. and by W., alfo a little nearer the S., and the top alone of its difk
appeared above the horizon, although the fituation where they took altitude was as high
as the top of the veffel, which lay clofe. On the fourth it was no longer obferved, al-
though the weather was very ferene.
At this time the furgeon took a cafk or an empty pipe, and made a bath of it, where
they bathed one after another : from which they experienced much benefit. On the
fame day they took a fox, this animal appearing at that time while the bears were re-
tired as well as the fun, and did not again appear till the return of that ftar. i
As the fun had quitied the horizon, the moon had come to take its place, appearing
all day and night without fetting, when it was in its higheft quarter. ‘The fixth, was fo
dull a day that it could not be diftinguifhed from the night, the more as the clock,
which would have affifted them, had flopped ; fo that not conceiving it to be day, all
the people remained for a long time a-bed without rifing but on neceflary occafions, and
when they rofe, the were not able to difcern if the light they faw was that of the day or
the moon. ‘They even had much difpute concerning it, but finally found that it was
day and even the middle of the day.
On the eighth they diftributed the remainder of the bread, and the portions were
fixed at four pounds and five ounces for eight days, inftead as formerly of the fame
portion
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