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BoatcSj which wee found SAvimming up aud downc the 

 shoaro. For, coming out of our Tent in the meaue time, 

 judge you what a sight this was unto us, to see, by mis- 

 chance, the best part of our provision (the onely hope of our 

 lives), to be in danger utterly to be lost (or at least spoyled. 

 with the Sea-water), for which we had taken such paines, 

 and run such adventures in the getting. In this our miserie 

 wee saw no way but one (and that a very desperate one), 

 namely, to runne presently into the high-wrought Sea, gett- 

 ing by that meanes into our Shallops to save the remainder 

 of our provisions, ready now to be washt quite away by the 

 billowes. A Halser thereupon we got, which fastning unto 

 our shallops, wee, with a Crabbe or Capstang, by niaine 

 force of hand, heaved them out of the water upon the shoare. 

 This done, all along the Sea side we goe, seeking there and 

 taking up such of our provisions as were swumme away from 

 our Shallops. Having by this meanes gleaned up all that 

 could be gotten together, we resolved from thenceforth to let 

 our Boates lye upon the shoare, till such time as the weather 

 should prove faire and better ; and then to goe over unto 

 Bell Sownd. 



The third of September, the Aveather proving faire and 

 good, we forthwith launched our Shallops into the water, 

 and in them wee that day got into Bell Sownd. Thither, so 

 soone as we were come, our first businesse was to take our 

 provision out of our Shallops into the Tent ; our next, to 

 take a particular view of the place, and of the great Tent 

 especially, as being the place of our habitation for the ensu- 

 ing Winter. This, which we call the Tent, was a kinde of 

 house (indeed), built of Timber and Boards very substan- 

 tially, and covered with Flemish Tyles, by the men of which 

 nation it had, in the time of their trading thither, beene 

 builded. Fourescore foot long it is, and in breadth fiftie. 

 The use of it was for the Coopers, employed for the service 

 of the Company, to workc, lodge, and live in, all the while 



