PELLHAM'S WINTER QUARTERS 19 



Bell Sound, they eventually took up their quarters 

 there on the 3rd of September. 



Here was one of the so-called tents of the whale- 

 fishers. " This," says Pellham, " which we call the 

 tent, was a kind of house built of timber and boards 

 very substantially, and covered with Flemish tiles, by 

 the men of which nation it had in the time of their 

 trading thither been built. Four-score foot long it is 

 and in breadth fifty. The use of it was for the coopers, 

 employed for the service of the company, to work, 

 lodge, and live in, all the while they make casks for the 

 putting up of the train oil." As this was too large for 

 their comfort, they very sensibly built another within 

 it. " Taking down another lesser tent therefore (built 

 for the landmen hard by the other, wherein they lay 

 whilst they made their oil), from thence we fetched our 

 materials. That tent furnished us with one hundred 

 and fifty deal boards, besides posts or stanchions and 

 rafters. From three chimneys of the furnaces wherein 

 they used to boil their oil, we brought a thousand 

 bricks : there also found we three hogsheads of very 

 fine lime, of which stuff we also fetched another hogs- 

 head from Bottle Cove, on the other side of the sound, 

 some three leagues distant. Mingling this lime with 

 the sand of the sea-shore, we made very excellent good 

 morter for the laying of our bricks : falling to work 

 thereon, the weather was so extreme cold as that we 

 were fain to make two fires to keep our morter from 

 freezing. William Fakely and myself, undertaking the 

 masonry, began to raise a wall of one brick thickness 

 against the inner planks of the side of the tent. 

 Whilst we were laying of these bricks, the rest of our 



