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¥26 THIRD VOYAGE OF THE DUTCH TO THE NORTH.
floe, which much refembled black goofberries, of which they ate, and found much be-
nefit from them ; for they perceived that thefe goofeberries completed the cure of the
{curvy.
One twenty-ninth they faw on a mountain the Laplander returning to them, but
without the failor he had conducted to Cola, which furprifed them and caufed fome
alarm. The Laplander being arrived gave a letter to the mater, who having broke it
open immediately found that the writer was extremely aftonifhed at his arrival at that
place with his crew ; that he believed them all loft along time fince; that their return
had given him the greater joy, as he had regarded their lofs as certain; that he would
come very foon to meet them with all kinds of refrefhments. ‘This letter was figned
John Cornelifz Riip. :
So agreeable a piece of news was received with great fatisfaction. They paid the
Laplander, and belides made him a prefent of a pair of breeches, ftockings, and fome
other clothes, fo that he was quite clothed in the Dutch fafhion, This man walked fo
quickly that it was perfectly aftonilhing : they had conftantly travelled for two days and
two nights, in order to arrive {peedily at Cola, when they were both together ; and at
the return of the Laplander alone, he had only been twenty-four hours on his journey.
The failors imagined there was a little witchcraft in the bufinefs: he gave them a par-
tridge he had killed on his return.
On thirtieth they remained all day in anxious fufpenfe to know who this John Cor-
nelifz was who had written. It occurred to them fometimes that it might probably be
the fame John Cornelifz who had been in their company ; but they afterwards rejected
this idea, becaufe they could not believe he was living, in the fame manner as on his fide
he could not believe they were ftill alive. The hardfhips he had fuffered, and would
fuffer, appeared to them {till greater than theirs, and they confequently concluded he
could not have fupported them, and that he was certainly dead. At length the matter
looked for a letter that this John Cornelifz who had failed with him had formerly
written, and finding it to be the fame hand-writing, he no longer doubted he was ftill
alive.
In the mean time they faw a yawl failing towards the coaft, and when it approached
they recognized John Cornelifz, who was with the failor they had fent to Cool. This
was a meeting of perfons who had believed each other loft, and who beheld one another
as rifen from the dead. John Cornelifz brought with him a cafk of Roftoc beer, wine,
brandy, bread, meat, pork, falmon, fugar, and feveral other refrefhments. On the lalt
day of Auguft they got ready and departed to proceed to Cola, after having returned
many thanks to the Ruffians, and having paid well for their lodging, fetting fail at mid-
night during the height of the tide.
On the firft of September, at day-break, which was about fix in the morning, they
found themfelves to the weft of the river of Cola, on which they proceeded, both row-
ing and failing at the fame time, till midnight. On the fecond they continued to afcend
the river, on the banks of which they had the pleafure of feeing trees, and they imagined
themfelves arrived in another world; for they had never yet met with trees in all the
other places where they had landed. Between feven and eight in the evening they
joined the veffe! of John Cornelifz. The meeting of the two crews was a new occafion
for rejoicing, the more fo as that of Cornelifz had been in the voyage of the preceding
year with the fame matter.
At dufk they entered Cola, and on the following day they unloaded their veffels and
landed to refreth themfelves, after incredible fatigues, in order to recruit their ftrength,
and be in condition to complete the voyage to Holland. On the eleventh they
obtained
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