266 GREENLAND. 



goc for Green-harbour, to hunt and kill Venison for part of 

 our winter provision. 



Having thus agreed amongst ourselves, the five and twen- 

 tieth day of August, the weather and Avind being both 

 faire, wee direct our course towards Green-harbour, some 

 sixteene leagues (as I before told you) distant from Bell 

 Sownd ; and the winde being fresh and faire, within the 

 space of twelve houres we there arrived. Upon which place 

 being now landed, the first thing we did was to make us a 

 Tent with the sayle of our Shallop, pitcht up and spread upon 

 our Oares ; a sorry one (God knowes) though it were, yet 

 under it we resolved to rest our selves that night, to refresh 

 our bodies with such food as wee there had, and the next 

 day to returne againe unto our hunting. The weather that 

 night proving faire and cleare, wee made our sleepe the 

 shorter (and, alas, what men could sleepe in such an cxtre- 

 mitie !); and fitting our selves and Shallop the best we might, 

 to Coles Parke we went, a place some two leagues distant 

 from us, and well knowne unto Thomas Ayers, that w^as one 

 of our Companie, to be well stored with Venison. Comming 

 a-shore at which place, though we found not so many Deere 

 as we indeed expected, yet seven we killed the same day 

 and foure Beares to boote, which wee also intended to eate. 



But the weather beginning now to overcast, and not likely 

 to continue good for hunting, wee that night returned againe 

 unto Green-harbour, where, making us a Tent of our Sayle 

 and Oares (as is before described), we fell to eate of such 

 meate as God had sent us, and bctooke our selves to our rest 

 upon it. Having rested our selves a while, and now finding 

 the weather to cleare up, we broke off our sleepe for that 

 time, fitting our selves and two dogges againe to goe a hunt- 

 ing, leaving William Fakely and John Dawes behinde us in 

 the Tent at Green-harbour as our Cookes (for the time), to 

 dresse some meate that wee had for our refreshment at our 

 return. 



