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The Ruffians obferving their tacking, and that they took a wrong courfé, befides
that the tide was almoft pafled, fent two men to them in a little yawl, with a large loaf,
Thefe men gave them to underftand that they would do well to return to the bark,
where they would endeavour to give them more inftruction. The mafler prefented
another piece of filver with fome cloth to thefe meflengers, who continued without
wifhing to part. Thofe who were in the large bark raifed in the air a piece of bacon
and fome butter, to induce the Dutch to return. They therefore returned, and haying
fhewed their chart to the Ruffians; thefe latter made them comprehend that they were
{tillto the ealt of the White Sea and Candnoes.
The Datch were not lefs furprifed than affliGed with this intelligence, which they
could not believe till then, and to find themfelves fo diftant, efpecially on account of
their companions inthe fhallop. The mafter purchafed of the Ruffians three facks of
flour, a fide of bacon and half another, witha little cafk of honey, as much for his
crew, as for that of the fhallop, if they fhould rejoin.
Inthe mean time the tide having paffed, at the commencement of the ebb, they
croffed the channel at the mouth of which they were when the little yawl came to re-
call them, and ftood out to fea, failing until they had difcovered a large cape ftretching
very far, which they believed to be Candnoes. At night they anchored under this
cape, and boiled a pot full of flour with water; a mefs which they found excellent,
the more fo as they had mixed a little honey. They were yet extremely uneafy on
account of the fhallop which they faw no more, and of the fate of which they were
ignorant.
On the feventeenth being moored, they faw a bark coming from the White Sea to
which they failed. On boarding they prefented them a loaf without being yet afked
for one. The Ruffians wifhed to make them underftand in the beft manner they could
that they had feen their companions to the number of feven in their fhallop, and fpoken
to them. But as they found they were not underftood, they lifted up feven fingers,
and pointed to the fchuyt, giving them to underftand that it was as fmall a veffel with-
out deck which they had feen, and that they had fold them bread, meat, fifh, and
other things. The crew of the fchuyt beginning to comprehend what they faid, per-
fectly underftood them by feeing in their hands a little compafs which they had feen with
the boatf{wain’s mate. ‘They afked them if it was long fince they had feen their com-
panions, and where they then were. The Ruffians fignified to them that it was the
preceding day, and carefled the Dutch very much, who did not do lefs in thanking
them, elpecially on account of the good intelligence they had given them with refpect
to the fhallop. ‘The matter directed them to row with exertion towards the part where
the fhallop fhould be, in order to endeavour to rejoin them; and having ranged all
day along the coaft, about midnight they met with a {pring of frefh water, where they
watered the fhip, and at the fame place they alfo found fome cochlearia.
On the eighteenth at fix in the morning, they drew up the large {tone to which they
were moored, inftead of a ftream anchor, and continued to range the coatt, failing
till noon, when they again beheld another great cape upon which there appeared in-
diftin@ly fome crofles.
Towards fix in the evening, they recognized diftintly by the marks that it was the
Cape of Candnoes, which is at the mouth of the White Sea, and under which they
had wifhed fora length of time to arrive. This cape is very eafily known again by
five crofles which are there, and it can eafily be perceived how it bears off on each
fide, on one fide to the S. E., and on the other tothe S. W.
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