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494 ALLISON’S VOYAGE FROM ARCHANGEL.
to fearch, and founded the bay and harbour all over, and made what difcovery I could
of things about us, finding a good watering-place, and plenty of wood near at hand,
At my return, upon complaint of fome of our men’s embezzling and ftealing our bread
I ordered it to be locked up; for it began to look with little hopes of getting out till the
light moon came. We got a boat’s load of wood and one of water that night on board ;
and began to confider further as to our fafety in that place, fhould the wind weiter, and
break our haulfer afhore.
Friday, the twenty-ninth, at break of day, I went and founded from my bow-anchor
to the eaftern fhore, and found forty fathom a little from it, {till depthening towards the
{aid fhore. Whereupon arguing with myfelf, that after removal of the fhip further in,
I might fet fail and come out as eafily, and yet in the mean time be fecure in the worft
weather ; I removed farther into the harbour, even to the place where we lay all winter.
This we had fcarce done, and made our fhip faft, but it began to blow right in, and foon
after it proved fuch a ftorm at N. W., that had we kept our late {tation we had in all
likelihood been loft. Here again our men were made fenfible of the goodnefs of God
towards us, bya frefh inftance. Then having account that our peafe were unreafonably
wafted, | ordered a barrel of them, with two great bags of bread, of two hundred and
a half each, to be brought up into the round-houfe, with all {mall provifons, as butter,
and cheefe, and fruit, to fecure them there; and reduced our men to half allowance,
that we might have fufficient wherewith to go to fea; for here we abode as neceflity
drove us, and not with any intent of refidence as yet. 1 obferved at this time the days
to fhorten exceedingly, bemg now not above feven hours, according to the explained
meaning of day in the paragraph aforegoing.
Saturday, the thirtieth, I moored the fhip with two bowers to the offen, along the
bank, that is to fay, one to the S. E., and the other tothe N. W., and carried both the
kedge anchor and warp anchor afhore, and placed them together, each with one flook
in the dry fhore, burying them with ftones, for the better holding. To one of thefe
my kedge haulfer, to the other my {tream cable, was taftened, likewife a new tow-line
to a great ftone, lying all as one to the W.5. W.; fo between all thefe fhe fwung by
the head. Take notice, the harbour wasin fafhion like an oven, lying S. E. and N. W.,
being a mile from the mouth to the botcom, and two cables’ length, viz. four hundred
yards in breadth or widenels: lying thus we fhut the oven’s mouth, that is, we could |
not, fo lying, fee into the wide fuel. My beft bower lay in twenty-one fathom, and my
{mall bower in nineteen; the middle of the harbour being of that depth, both upward
and downward, but fhowling toward either fide, with good clay ground.
It blew hard all day, with much fnow, and fome {mall rain; fo I fpread a fail
over my main-deck, the weather being fo fharp, there was no {landing upon the fame
without it. =
Sunday, the thirty-firft, it blew a ftorm all day at N. W., infomuch that we could
not continue the covering aforefaid, but were forced to take it down, and put the fail
together again.
‘Monday, November the firft, I fent all hands afhore to get firing; for the fnow in-
creafing, we feared our wood would all be buried under it. Our ordinary mannerof wood-
ing was to go in the long-boat, with fixteen or eighteen men, to the fhore upon which
the trees grew, almoft from the beach half way up the hills: they were birch moftly,
with fome {mall trees like willows, the biggeft of either not exceeding a middling man’s
thigh, and the appearance of them above the {now not above three yards. We cut
them as the depth of the fnow fuffered us, fome nearer, fome further from the root 3
for the plenty we had, eafed us from digging much. — Befides, unlefs the fnow was newly
7 fallen,
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