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518 ALLISON’S VOYAGE FROM ARCHANGEL.
tations fitted up fuitably. Their religion too is Danifh, being of the Reformed Lutheran
church, in belief and difcipline ; their fermons being preached, and their divine fervices
performed, in the fame language. So that, though they have another language antient
and native in the country, yet they underftand and ufe the Danifh moftly. As to their
women I can fay but little, not feeing any myfelf, nor did the men I fent pretend to give
any account of their behavicur, or how they managed their families. They only told
mie, that their habit was like the Danifh women’s; but I could not but believe the
better fort of them love fine clothes, as well as our Englifh dames. For fending a
piece of wrought filk of feven or eight yards, the minifter’s wife at the cape bought it
readily : and, to fhew how much fhe was pleafed with her bargain, over and above the
price fhe agreed to and paid, fhe fent me a dozen of partridges and a cheefe. Her
hufband too made me a prefent of a fmall cafk of beer.. Nor was the merchant be-
hind him in civility, fending me a frefh leg of beef, but killed a month before, and with-
out any falt, preferved by the froft; and fome dry mutton withal. And truly they
might well enough afford it, confidering how dearly I paid for my provifion.
Friday, the twenty-fifth, it held fair, with little wind at S.S. E., betimes in the morn-
ing, I called all hands up, and heaved up our fheet anchor, which we carried out before
the long-boat went away, and got our yards and top-mafts up, clearing our decks and
fcuppers from {now and ice, and making, that night, all fit for the fea; having a long-
ing expectation, and great hopes it might be on the morrow.
Saturday the twenty-fixth, there was but little wind ftirring this morning, all we had
was from the S. E. notwith{tanding to get out, we unmoored, and got a part of our
fmall bower, and our cable aboard, leaving only a towling afhore to caft the fhip. By
that time our men had got their breakfaft, (which was a high word with us then,
and we began to fpeak it cheerfully,) it proved a fair gale at S. W. we heaved up our
anchor, and ca{t off our hawfe, and got out to the fve/, where we found the wind fair and
foutherly : but efpying a boat rowing towards us, we laid to, and took her up. In it was
the fame perfon that came before with the governor’s man, viz. the minifter’s fon, a
young man about thirty years of age. By him his father fent me tokens highly accept-
able, that is to fay, a whole calf ready roafted, a rarity, but not a wonder, becaufe en-
tire; feeing itwas not much bigger than one of our hares, ready drefled in England.
Alfo a runlet of beer, with a kid or wooden veflel of milk, containing above three
gallons ; which was very {weet and good. A {mall quantity of curds too, frefh and
tender ; with a couple of little thick cheefes, well tafted, but a little {trong of the run-
net; over and above, a ham of their choice bacon. I had much ado to force a prefent
upon him, his father having charged him not to take any thing of me, that I fhould
want in my paflage home. At length I perfuaded him to carry his mother a pound
of white fugar, and a pot of honey, anda parcel of raifins, and prefented himfelf with
two filk handkerchiefs: fo we parted, he for his home, and I made the beft of my
way for fea. ‘
We failed in the middle of the fuel for fafety, fo that we could make no nice obferva-
tion of the land; befides we were mightily difabled for diftant views by the {moke of
our green wood fires, which we had endured fo long. Howbeit we difcerned the fhore
to lie high on either fide, with wood upon it in fome places ; but in none fo much as where
we lay: as we had been told before by the people of the country. So that we happened
well into a place, fo plentifully fupplied with what we could not have lived without.
At four in the afternoon we got out of the fwel; by eight at night we were the
length of the eaftermoft part of the cape. It blew hard at S.S. W. fo that I was forced
to hand both my fails.
Sunday,
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