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510 ALLISON’3 VOYAGE FROM ARCHANCEL,
after they got aboard they recovered, the fhip being hot like a ftove, compared with the
open air. I remember for feveral days i could not bear the fharpnefs of the air, walk-
ing upon the deck, but was glad to clap my handkerchief double over my mouth and nofe
for a defence. You mutt know that for thefe four months paft, fince we came in here,
we fuffered our beards to grow at length for warmnefs, which would be often full of
icicles, from our breath congealed, after the expofing ourfelves for a little while upon
deck ; but approaching the fire they came off eafily, whereas to have pulled them off
before, had been to bring hair and ail.
Saturday, the nineteenth, we had little wind this day, and that at N. W., but much
fnow, and froft fo exceflive, that it was impoflible for a man to look to windward. In
the mornings, after fuch bitter nights as we had at this time, the glafs windows of my
yound-houfe, where I lay, would have ice upon them of the thicknefs of a crown-piece 3
fo that we were forced to fcrape it off with a knife to let in the ight. The great cabin
windows we kept fhut, up with boards nailed without, as well for the prefervation of ,
them againft weather, as warmth for the ten men | lodged there conftantly. The round-
houfe I referved to myfelf, though much colder; but 1 kept that in regard to the pro-
vifion I had ftowed therein. And to make known to them that I had fhared the fuffer-
ings with ’em, I fhewed them my bed, which was frozen to the boards on each fide, that
I durf{t not allow the boy to ftir it for fear of tearing ; thus for five months I left it, and
went to it morning and night, not pulling off my clothes fave for fhifting, only putting
on my fur gown at my arifing, and plucking it off when I laid down, to throw over me,
together with the rugs and blankets. And long fince finding the inconveniency of
going from the fire in the fteerage, where I refided by day, to my lodging at night, by
reafon of the {now that laid on the quarterdeck, I ordered the carpenter to caulk up
the round-houfe door; fo | made my paflage by a feuttle, or fally-port, down into the
great cabin, and by that means obferved the order they kept below me. As I layin my .
bed I could diftinguifh and tell every nail in the cieling or elfewhere, either head or
point, having a piece of ice like enamel upon it ; I fuppofe from my moi{t breath con-
denfed and froze. My books too, that ftood upon a fhelf over my head, had upon their
edges and corners the fame ornament; a fight I cannot fay whether more pleafant or
difmal.
Sunday, the twentieth, ’twas calm, with much fnow falling, and continued froft ; not-
withftanding I got up our fore-yard and mizen-yard in the evening, in hopes of an E,
wind ; but by night it came to W., continuing fair. ;
Monday, the twenty-firft, this morning was calm and fair, after a ferene and fharp-
freezing night; fo that we could not but obferve the furface of the water in the bay
about us to be covered with + hard fcum or thin ice, which made us fear being locked
up; but immediately the wind arifing at W., broke it all auay. We got a hogfhead
of water, and knocked off the ice round the fhip at the edge of the water; and in the
evening our men went afhore for recruiting their frefh provifion; and towards night it
blew fo hard, that | was forced to lower our yards down again.
Tuefday, the twenty-fecond, the day began with good weather enough as to wind,
only we had fome fqualls of {now ; it froze too, but very moderately. We got a boat of
wood ; and our men going up the hilla great height a wooding, faw the body of the
fun, reporting it when they came aboard with great joy; and indeed it was a fight for
them to rejoice at, having never feen it fince they came into this harbour. For it muft
be confidered we Jay low in the water, that we had lefs light for that reafon; yet was
the want of that compenfated by a more benign temperature of the air as to cold, than
we fhould have found upon any part of the fhore. For I am perfuaded that no houfe
we
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