Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Pages ...
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
124 THIRD VOYAGE OF THE DUTCH
While they were preparing to crofs to the welt of the White Sea, towards the coatt
of Lapland, they perceived that the water had nearly all run out of one of their little
cafks. They had more than forty leagues to go before they could meet with freth, fo
that they judged it proper to fail towards land in order to feek for fome {pring ; but the
fea dafhed fo violently along the coaft that they dared not approach.
‘They again fet fail between ten and eleven at night, and failed all that night and the
fcllowing day with a good wind, by which they made a great progrefs; fo that on the
twentieth, between four and five in the morning, they faw the land to the weft of the
White Sea, having before perceived by the roaring of the fea that they were not far off.
It was to them a great occafion to give thanks to God, that in thirty hours they had
happily pafled the White Sea, in which they had a very perilous paflage of forty leagues.
When they were off the coaft, and found that there was no way of advancing by
failing, they pafled between fome rocks, and came to a good road, where having en-
tered, they faw a large bark at anchor, and fome houfes on the coaft: they rowed to-
wards the bark, and having moored the {chuyt there, they landed and proceeded to thofe
houfes. The inhabitants received them with kindnefs ; they led them to a ftove where
they dried their clothes, and then ferved them with fith. In thefe houfes were thirteen
men, who went out to fifh every morning, and two of which commanded the others;
all of them living very foberly, and almoft conftantly on fifh.
Befides thefe thirteen Ruifians, there were two Laplanders with three women and a
child, who lived in great poverty, only eating the remnants of the Ruffians, who left
them fome pieces of fifh, and the heads which they threw to them, and which the Lap-
landers picked up, with great humility and many thanks. The Dutch regarded this
manner of living with great.compaflion, who, in whatever ftate they were themfelves,
and whatever pity they muft excite, could not forbear being moved for others, and con-
cerned at the mifery of thefe unfortunate people.
On the twenty-firit the mafter had fome frefh fith dreffled, of which the crew ate as
much as they pleafed, which had not happened for a length of time, and they made a
porridge of water and flour to fupply the place of bread. In the afternoon having ad-
vanced into the country to feek for fome cochlearia, they perceived two men on a little
mountain, and faid to one another that there mu{t be more inhabitants in the place than
they had feen ; and afterwards, without making any other reflection thereon, they re-
turned to their fchuyt.
Thefe two men, who were their own companions, and of the crew of the fhallop,
defcended from the mountain and went to the bark, to endeavour to procure fome pro-
vifions; but having come there without any defign, and as it were without thinking of
it, and having no money, they had refolved to give two pair of their breeches, becaufe
they had each two or three pair over one another. When they approached the bark
they faw the fchuyt, which was clofe to it, at anchor, and recognized thofe who were
within. The joy was reciprocal; they meffed together, and drank water as clear as
that of the Rhine at Cologne.
‘The crew of the fhallop had fuffered ftill more hardfhips than that of the fchuyt, and
both together returned thanks to God from the bottom of their hearts, becaufe he had
permitted them to meet again. On the twenty-fecond their companions arrived with
their veflel, and this completed their joy. ‘They entreated the cook of the Ruffians to
wet a fack of flour and make fome bread, to which he very willingly confented. As
the fifhermen returned at that time from the fea, the mafter bought of them four ftock-
fifth, which he had dreffed.
While the Dutch were at dinner, the man who commanded the Ruflians came to fee
them,
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
