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ALLISON’S VOYAGE FROM ARCHANGEL, 503
In the houfes for cattle were ftalls and partitions of fticks crofling one another as hur-
dles are made, fuch as are in gentlemen’s {tables to part their {tone-horfes, with boards
too at the bottom. ‘hey were fo {mall as to contain nothing bigger than fheep or
oats; the latter being more frequent in the neighbouring countries. The doors of
thefe folds or houfes were not above three feet and a half high, and two in breadth ; they
were half full of fnow, fo that no dung could be obferved. To one houfe was an in-
clofure like a yard, with a pond of water, but frozen. Likewife there was a place dif.
cernible, where they hauled their boat upon land, when they had been a-fifhing.
Friday, the thirty-firft, in the morning it blew hard at S. W., but the latter part of
the day was very warm, and it fell a raining, and thawed very much. ‘This made us
_wifh for a light moon to be going with.
Saturday, January the firft, it blew hard at W., but warm to admiration fo as to
make a very great thaw; even the tops of feveral {mall hills, that laid under the higher
ones, became bare and clear of fnow. Withal a great deal of fnow that lay upon
many parts of the fhip was melted off. At the fame time came a great fea into the bay
where we lay, breaking very high at the harbour’s mouth ; but towards night the wind
was at W.N. W.
Sunday, the fecond, the wind was at S. W. blowing hard. It continued ftill thaw-
ing all this twenty-four hours.
Monday, the third, we had a warm, fair, and dry day, with little wind, and that at
‘S.W. This was the firft day we could open any fail fince we came in here: fo we
opened our mainfail to air it, and found no harm done to it, notwithftanding it had
continued fo long furled up, which we greatly feared before. We got a boat of water
too.
Tuefday, the fourth, ftill fair over head, and moderate as to wind, which was at the
S.5S. W., but the froft had made its return. I fent the boat into the fwel to fee if
they could take any fifh; but they got none. One hogfhead of water more they got
filled, and put between decks.
Wednefday, the fifth, it blew frefh northerly, with fome {mall fnow, and froze hard
again. I fent my men a-wooding where they could not but obferve, what alteration
the late open weather had made upon the trees, difpofing them to flourifh, by moiften-
ing their bark, and opening their buds confiderably; which the returning cold had
nipt again. Likewife upon the hills that were bare by the thaw, they found plenty
of green juniper, of which they gathered, and brought on board a great many branches.
_Withal they peeled off the tender bark of the willow-like tree, and bound it up in
feveral bundes, to hang*hea. the fire and dry, for an intended ufe. ‘his over and
above their load of wood, which they made good.
‘Thurfday, the fixth, it was very fair over head, but blowing pretty hard at S.S. W.,
the froft too increafing. Yet they made fhift to get a boat of wood, with more juniper,
and a quantity of bark as before.
Friday, the feventh, it proved very bad weather, the wind high at N. W., and much
fnow again. ‘This day’s confinement gave our people leifure to advance a new pro-
jet, and make trial of what they had got to fupply the want of tobacco; with which
had they been fufficiently ftocked, it would have been a great relief to them, and a
choice entertainment. For my ewn part I had juft enough to allow myfelf three or
four pipes in a day, and could not find in my heart to {pare any to my belt friend :
‘ though it could not but grieve my fpirits to fee one fmoaking in{tead of it, mere rags
of fuftian torn from a coat pocket. But this was before they found out the ufe of fome-
thing more like it, being parts of dried plants: I mean the tops of juniper before me
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