94 -Dr. Atkin on preferring Health 
Not many years after thefe unfortunate at¬ 
tempts, an accident gave rife to an experiment, 
the event of which was fo entirely the reverfe of 
thefe, that it merits very particular notice. On 
the fame fide of Spitzbergen, between lat. 77 
and 78, a boat’s crew, belonging to a Greenland 
fhip, confiding of eight Englifhmen, who had 
been fent adiore to kill deer, were left behind 
in confequence of fome midakes, and reduced 
to the deplorable neceffity of wintering in that 
dreadful country, totally unprovided with every 
neceffary. From their narrative, drawn up in 
thac dyle of artlefs fimplicity which affords the 
dronged preemption of veracity, I fhall extradt 
the mod material circumdances. 
At their wintering place was fortunately a 
large fubdantial wooden building, erected for 
the ufe of the coopers belonging to the fifhery. 
Within this they built a fmaller one, which they 
made very compadt and warm. Here they con- 
drudted four cabins, with comfortable deer-fkin 
beds j and they kept up a continual fire, which 
never went out for eight months. They were 
tolerably fupplied with fuel from fome old calks 
and boats which they broke up for the purpofe. 
Thus provided with lodging, their principal care 
was about their fubfidence. Before the cold 
weather fet in, they killed a good number of 
deer, the greated part of which they cut up, 
roaded, and flowed in barrels; reserving fome 
raw 
