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ALLISON’S VOYAGE FROM ARCHANGEL. sol
Tuefday, the fourteenth, fo clofe all day as to be fcarce good twilight. A young
man in our company took a Bible of a fmall print, to try if he could read in it, but could
not difcern his letters at twelve at noon. However I got up both my top-mafts and
main-yard crofs, hoifted my mizen-yard, and hauled aboard one of my haufers. ‘The
wind at W.S. W.
Wednefday, the fifteenth, we had as little light this day as the day before, with un-
certain weather, fometimes blowing frefh and fometimes calm; but the fcudd came
very fwift out of the W.S. W. all day: we got but half a boat’s load of wood. At
nine at night it blew a ftorm at N. W. with much {now, that we were forced to {trike
our yards and top-maits as faft as we could.
Thurfday, the fixteenth, it continued blowing hard at W.N. W., fnowing much
and freezing at fo extravagant a rate, that every thing became ice that was capable of
being made fo.
Friday, the feventeenth, it blew hard at S. S. E., with more fnow; and, at three at
night, or in the after part of the day (as you will pleafe to call it,) it proved a ftorm out
of the fame point.
Saturday, the eighteenth, the wind was all foutherly, blowing hard, and freezing
feverely, but dry over head. Bad as it was, we fetched a boat load of wood, and fome
went afhore in the fkiff and got perriwinkles. It was ftrange how thefe little creatures
could live, and endure fo much froft: for as foon as the water was gone from them,
they would foon be covered with ice, but the returning tide melted it. Thefe we took
off the fhore at low water, and brought them on board, where we boiled them in the
fhells, and picked out the fnail, or that part that was meat.
Sunday, the nineteenth, it blew hard at S. S. W., with much fnow and hard froft.
Monday, the twentieth, it blew defperately hard at N. E., with much {now and fe-
vere froft. Our day at this time was not four hours and a half long.
Tuefday, the twenty-firft, in the morning the wind was at N. W., at noon all
northerly ;. at night N. E. with little fnow but continued froft. About this time I ob-
ferved the fcooping or emptying of the boat, was a thing of too great labour for the
boys to do, fol ordered the men to take their turns ; this was very grievous to them ;
for in a night’s time it would be half full of fnow, and the water in the bottom frozen
pretty thick ; fo that they mutt firft throw out the fnow, then break a hole in the ice,
and by that feoop out the water, and at laft take away the ice with fhovels. The ftern
of the boat too would, in that time, be covered four or five inches thick with ice, and
about the edge of the water alfo, which we were forced to break off with mauls, or
wooden beetles. During this, our people fuffered fo exceedingly, as to come aboard
with their limbs almoft {tiff with cold, and their hair fo frozen as to hang with large
icicles in the fafhion of great tags.
Wednefday, the twenty-fecond, clofe fnowy weather all day, and the wind wefterly ;
but by that time it was quite dark it came to the N. E., blowing frefh. Here I think it
proper to fet down my conftant obfervation of the fky towards the north pole, which I had
made daily for four weeks laft paft : viz. that even during that time of light we called
day, it continued always black, as if it were a dark cloud forerunning a fquall. It
reached from N. W. to N. E. in the form of a rainbow, the arch elevated 15° or 20°,
which made me conclude, that fomething farther to the N. there muft be a continual
night ali that while.
Thurfday, the twenty-third, the morning was fair, but by noon the air was thick with
fnow. I got a boat load of water and fome wood, and gave every man two pounds
and a quarter of honey to make drink againft Chriftmas, I find no notice of wind
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