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502 ALLISON’S VOYAGE FROM ARCHANGEL.
taken this day, and likewife of fome few before ; but I am affured it was too dark to
think of flirring. We could not fee to eat our meat at noon without candles, of which
we confumed plenty, bringing about five hundred weight from Ruflia: for though
we kept two lamps burning day and night, we yet ufed candles upon frequent and
moving occafions.
Friday, the twenty-fourth, it proved fair and clear, the froft not exceflive; fo that
we cleaned our decks from {now and ice. ‘The wind was northerly all day, but towards
night it came to the E. Our men being very melancholy to think of their friends at
home providing good cheer, I told them they fhould not pinch on the day following ;
and accordingly ordered every mefs fhould have full allowance. ‘This put an end to
that kind of difcourfe, and they feemed pleafed with the expectation of fuch a fealt 5
but though not of hauling fharp * for it afterwards.
Saturday, the 25th, being Chriftmas-day, in the former part of the day we had good
weather, the wind at S. W., but for the latter part it blowed and fnowed. After dinner,
i fpared out of my own ftore, to every two men, a bottle of {trong beer, which they took
thankfully, and made their hearts truly glad. About fix at night, as I was walking
upon deck, I obferved it fo bright for a quarter of an hour, that we had it no lighter
for fome days at noon, fince our being here. This muft be from fome northern glance ;
the more remarkable then, as unufual in clofe weather.
Sunday, the twenty-fixth, it proved indifferent fair, with fmall {now like rain ; that is,
becoming drops of water, upon its alighting. or falling upon the deck ; the wind at
S. W.
Monday, the twenty-feventh, I fetched a boat of water, the weather being fair and
calm. This day I took up a hogfhead of the merchants honey, and fhared it equally,
giving each man his part, to make mead as formerly.
Tuefday, the twenty-eighth, the laft night was warm, and a {mall thaw we had; the
day held fair, and the night enfuing continued calm.
Wednefday, the twenty-ninth, {till over head fair enough, but it froze again ex-
ceflive hard; the wind atN.E. ‘The day was now five hours long, and at noon time
we faw it was perfect day.
‘Thurfday, the thirtieth, it blew hard at W. S. W., with fome fnow. I fent the long-
boat a wooding, and three hands in the fkiff for water ; and the latter I accompanied,
in order to vifit the infide of thofe houfes, that were juft by us, which our men dif-
covered foon after our coming into this bay or cove. Here were dwelling-houles fox
three families, as near as I could guefs, each having another for cattle adjoining, ‘and
one for drying of fifh, which was open like a cage, with poles lying acrofs. I carried
things with me for clearing the way to the doors from fnow; and, approaching them, I
found the dwelling-houfes were built above five feet from the ground, and twelve feet
broad, in form round. ‘The walls were made of {tones and mofs between them, inftead
of mortar, and roofed with the fame, by the help of rafters or fplit trees, their lower
ends refting upon the wall, and their upper joining at the top againft a hollow ftone,
which ferved both for chimney and window. And for a hearth there was a flat ftone,
laid fomewhat above the ground ; and on one fide a cabin, big enough for two people
to lie in, with fome {traw in it there left, which I guefled was all their bedding. In one
of them I found a barrel of rye-meal, but fo bad as not to be ufed for food. We met
there with a piece of a printed book, with a form of prayer therein, of the Danifh lan-
guage; as one of our men told us, who underftood it, being by birth of that nation.
* Sea-term for pinching the belly.
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