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ALLISON’S VOYAGE FROM ARCHANGEL. 505
Friday, the fourteenth, fair and clear weather we had, but it froze fo vehemently
that I durft not let any man go out of the fhip, or do any work that day: cherifhing
and giving reit to the difabled, and referving the found.
Saturday, the fifteenth, {till clear as the day before, but freezing exceeding hard: the
wind in the morning at N. E., but at night S. E. with a violent ftorm. At noon we
reckoned the fun made his firft bodily appearance in our part of the world, for the
year enfuing: the day eight hours and a half long.
Sunday the fixteenth, it blew hard at N. W. in the morning ; at noon the wind was
at N. N.E. and freezing ; but not fo hard as before.
Monday, the feventeenth, we had much wind at N. W. with fome fnow ; the froft
too we looked upon as lefs vehement than formerly.
Tuefday, the eighteenth, the morning was bluftering and cloudy ; the wind at N. W.
At noon it cleared, and we faw the fun-beams gilding the tops of feveral hills, to our
great joy and comfort ; for we had not feen funfhine before in ten weeks. Afternoon
the wind came to the N.E.; fine weather ; we got a boat load of wood and two
hogfheads of water. The latter was difficult to come at, the fprings being all frozen,
up, only the run of the great {pring we found gliding under the full fea-mark.
Wednefday, the nineteenth, it was calm and good weather ; I caufed the decks and
fcuppers to be cleared of ice and {now : in doing which, we were forced to heat crows
of iron red hot, and fo by degrees melt a way through the {cupper-holes, and free
them from ice. And, with the fame inftruments and axes, cut through and raife up
the ice upon the decks, and to heave overboard. Notwithftanding it froze extremely
hard at this time, yet we had warm hopes of getting to fea, the wind being at S. E.
Thurfday, the twentieth, the wind was at W.S. W. and moderate: neither was it
fo cold as the day before; freezing no harder than it does in a hard froft in England ;
We hauled the fhip about twice to clear the hawfe; and in the afternoon went and got
perriwinkles, mufcles, and dills.
Friday, the twenty-firft, it blew hard at N. N. W. but was very warm, fo as to
caufe a {mall thaw. We gota boat load of wood and another of water ; and at the
edge of the fhore our men faw eggs, one of which they pulled upon land, with a long
bent ftick, and brought it on board. Thefe are likewife called fea-urchins, having
fomewhat growing upon the fhells like thorns, or the briftles upon the land hedge-hog.
The fhape is round and flattifh, the fhell thin, and the briftles eafily rub off: for a
further decription, I muft refer the reader to authors that treat of fuch things. It
was good news for me to hear of them, knowing what benefit they might be to us;
and therefore I caufed a piece of iron hoop to be fixed to the end ofa pole, and made
a net like a fifherman’s lead net again{ft the next day.
Saturday, the twenty-fecond, the wind was at W.S. W. the weather fair too, and
indifferent warm. We firft cleared the deck of the wood brought in the day before,
and ftowed it down into the hold for a fea ftore. Afterward fome went afhore with
the pole and net aforefaid, and got ftore of eggs; while others went a gunning, who
fhot only a fmall fowl, called a Greenland pigeon. I do not remember for the firft two
months and more after I came in here, I ever faw any but two birds or fowls flying,
and they were two crows of a dun colour, not different from ours fo called; and by
fome Royfton crows.’ Thefe flew often near the fhip, and at length were fo tame as
to light upon our deck; one of which our men fhot, poor and lean as he was, and
nothing but fkin, bone, and feathers. But before I came away I faw feveral of the
Greenland doves aforefaid, and fowls like what we call kitties, pick up things at low-
water, which I gueffed might be perriwinkles, and fea eggs efpecially. For one day,
VOL, I. Su (though
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