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between his lips ; the skin came off with as much pain, 

 on taking it out again, as though the iron had been red 

 not ; yet, notwithstanding the cold, there was open sea 

 for many weeks an "arrow-shot 7 beyond their ship. 

 The dwelling, slow in progress, was finished by the end 

 of October, and thatched with sea-wrack, the more effect- 

 ually to close the chinks in the roof and walls, and " we 

 set up our dyall, and made the clocke strike." On the 

 4th of November "wee saw the sunne no more, for it 

 was no longer above the horison ; then our chirurgion 

 made a bath (to bathe us in) of a wine-pipe, wherein 

 wee entred one after the other, and it did us much 

 good, and was a great meanes of our health." All the 

 spare clothing was distributed, regulations established 

 with regard to diet, and duties apportioned ; the master 

 and pilot being exempted from cleaving wood, arid other 

 rude labors. Traps were set to catch foxes for food, 

 and cheerfulness was as much as possible promoted ; 

 but at times they were snowed up, and could not open 

 their door for many days, and had no light but that of 

 their fire ; they were tormented with smoke, while ice 

 two inches thick formed in their sleeping-berths. The 

 clock stopped with the cold, after which they could 

 only reckon time by "the twelve-hour glass." 



The misery they endured may be judged of by the 

 tone of some of the entries in their journal ; such suffer- 

 ing was but too frequent : "It was foule weather 

 againe, with an easterly wind and extreame cold, almost 

 not to bee indured ; whereupon wee lookt pittifully one 

 upon the other, being in great feare that if the extream- 

 itie of the cold grew to bee more and more, wee should 

 all dye there with cold ; for that what fire soever wee 

 made it would not warme us ; yea, and our sacke, which 

 is so hot, was frozen very hard, so that when we were 

 every man to have his part, we were forced to melt it 



