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and in color. After sailing further, they came into 

 shallow water, so shallow that their boat could not 

 reach the shore, which they saw at some distance, and 

 to which they were obliged to wade. There they 

 discovered the marks of a man's foot in the snow, and 

 plenty of wood, of which they shipped a good stock, 

 and returned on board. Soon after, they saw a ledge 

 of rocks, upon which they ran, and remained fast for 

 twelve hours, but at length got off, not wholly unin- 

 jured. 



They now began to look out for a place where they 

 might winter. The nights were become long and cold, 

 while the snow covered all the country. The party 

 sent to explore were at first unsuccessful, but on the 1st 

 of November they found a place where they might haul 

 their vessel aground. By the tenth day they were 

 frozen in, and began to look at their stock of provisions, 

 when they found they must be fed upon such an allow- 

 ance as would hardly keep in life, or last them to the 

 headlands, where fowls might be captured for their 

 supply. Hudson regulated the present allowances ID 

 the best way he could, and offered a reward to those 

 who added to the general stock, by killing or capturing 

 anything serviceable for food. In this they must have 

 had success, or their subsistence from April, the 17th, 

 even as far as Christmas, is a miracle, upon six months' 

 victualling. 



It appears that, on taking up their winter quarters, it 

 had been proposed to Hudson to erect a house on shore, 

 which he would not hear of being done while it was 

 practicable. The severe northern winter had set in, 

 when he altered his mind, and desired the carpenter to 

 put it in hand. The latter said he neither could nor 

 would set about it. Hudson pursued to strike him, 

 calling him uames, and threatened to hang him. The 



