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TO THE READER. 



Courteous Reader : That God may have the onely glory of 

 this our deliverance, give mee leave to looke backe unto 

 that voyage which the Dutch-men made into Nova Zembla 

 in the yeare 1596. In which place, they having beene (like 

 ourselves) overtaken with the Winter, were there forced to 

 stay it out as wee were. Which being an Action so famous 

 all the world over, encouraged mee both to publish this of 

 ours, as also now to draw out some comparisons with them : 

 that so our deliverance and Gods glory may appcare both 

 the more gracious and the greater. 



This Nova Zembla stands in the degree seventy-six North 

 latitude; our Avintering place is in seventy-seven Degrees and 

 forty Minutes, that is, almost two degrees ncerer the North 

 Pole than they were, and so much therefore the colder. The 

 Dutch were furnished with all things necessary both for life 

 and health ; had no want of any thing : Bread, Beere, and 

 Wine they had good, and good store. Victuals they had 

 Gods plenty, and apparell both for present clothing and for 

 shift too ; and all this they brought with them in their ship. 

 We (God knowes) wanted all these. Bread, Beere, and Wine 

 we had none. As for meate, our greatest and chiefest feed- 

 ing was the Whale Frittars, and those mouldie too, the loath- 

 somest meate in the world. For our Venison 'twas hard to 

 finde, but a great deale harder to get : and for our third sort 

 of provision the Beares ; 'twas a measuring cast which should 

 be eaten first. Wee or the Beares, when we first saw one ano- 



