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120 THIRD VOYAGE OF THE DUTCH
they replied, Crabble propal ; the Dutch ‘conceiving they faid, the veffel is loft, replied
alfo Crable propal, thinking to fay, yes, we have loft it.
Afterwards the Ruffians made them underftand that in the other voyage they had
drunk wine in the fhip. One of the failors comprehending that they {poke of drinking
went to draw fome water, and having prefented it to’ them they fhook their heads and
faid,. Nocobre, by which they thought they would say»: that isnot good, The:mafter
having approached them, and having opened his*mouth and fhewn the infide, in order
to make them underftand that he was toriménted with’the fcurvy, and to afk if they had
no remedies for this diforder, they conceived the maltex would fay he was hungry, and
having returned to their lodia they brought a loaf of tye flour of about eight pounds
weight, and fome dried birds. The mafter thanked them and alfo’ made ‘them a pre-
fent of half a dozen bifcuits. He invited ‘two of the principal to come into the fehuyt
with him, where they prefented each with a glafs of wine of »what they had remaining.
The other failors went to the place where were’ ‘the other Ruffians, and» there boiled
fome bifcuits in water, inorder to take fomething warm. In fine it was.a great confo-
lation to have commerce with men after being deprived of that pleafure for thirteen
months. i
On the twenty-third in the morning, the Ruffians prepared to fail, and drew from
beneath the grafs on the brink of the’-fea, fome tons.of whale oil which they: had
buried in order to carry on board. ‘The Dutch who had-not been able tolearn their
route, perceived they took that of the Weigats.. They fteered the‘fame courfe and
followed them. But the weather was fo dark and mifty that they loft fight of one
another. un STULEN
In the mean time the Dutch entered a charinel between two ilands, and paffed them
till they were again entangled in the ice, without feeing “any opening by: which they
might leaveit ; which made them prefume that they ‘were near the Weigats, «and that
the N. W. wind had thus forced the iceanto the gulf.’ It was therefore neceflary to
put back, and return to the two iflands, to’one of -which’they moored their veflels.
On the thirty-firft they failed from this ifland towards another in which were two
croffes. Perceiving thefe, they perfuaded themfelves that they fhould meet with fome
people there: but they fawno one. Neverthelefs their trouble was’not’ loft; if they
found no men they found fome cochlearia, a herb of which: they were nearly allin want,
becaufe they were attacked with the feurvy, and fo affected, that the greater part owas
ready to fink under it. They ate the coch/éaria, in great quantities; becaufein Hol-
land they had heard much faid of its virtue, and they experienced it’ to’ be yet greater
than they had imagined. It had fo great andfudden an effect that they were furprifed ;
fo that thofe who were no longer able to eat bifewit, began to eat it’directly. - f
On the third of Auguft 1597 they deterniined to -crofs’ from Novaya Zemlia
to Ruffia. With this intention they fteered tothe S.S.W., and failed till fix in the
morning, when they again got entangled in the’ ices’ This new misfortune fenfibly
affected them, for they did not expect to be‘any ‘more expofed’ to it, and thought they
had been completely clear of it. Fg box
A calm coming on at the fame time, they endeavoured to extricate themfelves by
their oars; and in fa& by three in the afternoon they were in the main fea, where no
more ice was feen. As they proceeded at a good rate, they irnssined they fhould foon
be off the coafts of Ruffia; but at nifie at night they faw themfelvesaireth furrounded
with ice; anaccident which had nearly ruined them, and oecafioned them to fear they
fhould never be out of thefe dangerous parts.
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