TO THE READER. .iOO 



tlicr; ixnd avc perceived by them, that they had as good 

 hopes to devoure us as wee to kill them. The Dutch kill'd 

 Ueares, 'tis true ; but it was for their skinncs, not for their 

 Hesh. The Dutch had a Surgeon in their Companie ; wee, 

 none but the great Physician to take care and cure of us. 

 They had the benefitc of bathing and purging ; wee, of nei- 

 ther. They had their Ship at hand to befriend them ; wee 

 had here perished, had not other Ships fetcht us off. They 

 had Card and Compasse : wee, no direction. If the Dutch 

 complained therefore of the extremity of the cold (as well 

 they might), and that when in building their house, they 

 (as Carpenters use to doe) put the iron nayles into their 

 mouthes, they there froze, and stucke so fast, that they 

 brought off the skinne and forced blood : how cold, think 

 you, Avere we, that were faine to maintaine two fires to keepe 

 our very niorter from freezing? The Dutch complain'd, that 

 iheir walls were frozen two inches thicke on the inside for 

 all their fire ; and if ours were not so, 'twas our pains and 

 industry at first in building. The Dutchmens clothes froze 

 upon their backes, and their shooes were like homes upon 

 their feete ; but that was their own ignorance ; for they had 

 Sea-coles enough with them, if they had knowne how to use 

 them. If theire drinke and Sacke were so hard frozen into 

 lumps of yce, that they were faine to cut it out : how much 

 harder was it for us, that were forced to make hot Irons our 

 best toasts to warme the snow withall for our mornings 

 draughts ! They used heated stones and billets to their feete 

 and bodies to warmc them ; which, though an hard shift, 

 yet was it better than wee had any. 



Lay now all these together : the distance of place, wee 

 being many miles more into the cold than they ; the want 

 both of meate and clothes ; and that the house wee lived in, 

 we had but three dayes respite to build for nine moneths to 

 come ; and then may the world see that the Dutch had the 

 liettcr provisions, and wee the abler bodies. If, therefore. 



