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5t4 ALLISON’S VOYAGE FROM ARCHANGEL.
of wood; I mean the foundeft of them, for the reft had the froft in their feet or hands.
The wind continued in the fame quarter all the afternoon, but at night blew very hard.
Saturday, the twelfth, it blew hard at S. S. E. and froze fharply all day.
Sunday, the thirteenth, it blew frefh at S. by E. all day, but dry over head, with a
hard froft.
Monday the fourteenth, the weather was very uncertain, fometimes fqually, now
high wind, and then fair and clear. While it was fo, all that were aboard and able, went
afhore gathering dills and perriwinkles, and fuch as they could get for the belly.
Tuefday, the fifteenth, in the morning it proved fair and clear, fo that fome of our
folks went afhore to feek for provifion, and others continued in the fkiff, dragging for
fhell fifh. Thofe upon land happened to efpy two boats coming into the bay, and rowing
towards the fhip. ‘They prefently imagined them to be fome of their company fent out
four days before, and fell a hollowing to their fellows in the ikiff; which fo affrighted
the people in the boats, that they immediately turned about and made away. And
though I called to the fkiff with all fpeed to come aboard, and fent a man to the point
to fee for them, yet fuch hafte they made, as to be out of fight before he came. Soon
after fome of them appeared upon the point, and continued looking upon the fhip a good
while. Inthe meantime I fent a man up one of the hills, to difcover which way they
went, but he returned without being able to give any account ofthem. So we loft that
opportunity of commerce with them, who then if they had not been unluckily {cared by
noife, would doubtlefs have come on board us of their own accord: for the fhip lay,
in a manner, between them and our men in the fkiff and afhore; and I gueffed they
where wholly taken up with the fight of the fhip, where by my order, we lay filent and
hid: and for the future [commanded every one to be fo, upon the like occafion.
Thefe people, we fuppofe, were coming to take their fummer habitation, in the houfes
we defcribed, before: for to me it feemed, as if there were cattle and children in the
boat, but I could not, by all the inquiry I made, of thofe whom I faw afterwards, learn
who they were, or whether I gueft right of their intentions. In the afternoon it blew
frefh at S.S. E. however we filled three hogfheads of water.
Wednefday, the fixteenth, all the forenoon was calm and fair, which our men fpent
in dragging for fcallops and fea eggs, and gathering dills and perriwinkles at low
water.
At noon! took boat and rowed out to a hill, lying at the mouth of the harbour, and
went up as high as I durft venture, to look about the fwe/ And S. of us I thought I
faw feveral iflands, but could not difcern the bottom of the fwe/, which ran in very far
and wide.
‘Thurfday, the feventeenth, it continued fair, and our men went on fhore a wooding,
but had not been gone above two hours before they difcovered a yawl coming towards
the fhip; and according to the order given before, we let them come aboard us very
filently, expecting it was one of the boats we faw two days before. But it proved to
bea yawl that came from the North Cape, with four of our own men in her, and one
Finlander ; fent by my mate to fatisfy me, how things ftood there with the long-boat.
And indeed it was high time to releafe me from the fears I was in about them. He fent
in her a barrel of beef, a barrel of rye-meal, forty pounds of oat-meal, eighty pounds of
ttock-fifh, with other provifions of flefh, viz. mutton, pork, and venifon, all dried ; and
afmall cafkofbeer. ‘They likewife brought us the news of a peace concluded between
England, the reft of the confederates and France: and gave me the following account
of what happened to tlfem from the time of their departure. “* After we had failed to
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