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they make caske for the putting up of the Tranc Oyle. Our 

 view being taken, we found the weather beginning to alter 

 so strangely, and the nights and frosts so to grow upon us, 

 that wee durst not adventure upon another hunting voyage 

 unto Green-harbour ; fearing the Sownd would be so frozen 

 that wee should never be able to get backe to our Tent 

 againe. By land it was (we knew) in vaine for us to tbinke 

 of returning, for the land is so mountainous that there is no 

 travelling that way. 



Things being at this passe with us, we bethought our- 

 selves of building another smaller Tent with all expedition; 

 the place must of necessity be within the greater Tent. 



With our best wits, therefore, taking a view of the place, 

 we resolved upon the South side. Taking downe another 

 lesser Tent therefore (built for the Land-men hard by the 

 other, wherein in time of yeare they lay whilest they made 

 their Oyle) from thence we fetcht our materials. That 

 Tent furnisht us with one hundred and fifty deale-boards, 

 besides Posts or Stancheons and Rafters. From three Chim- 

 neys of the Furnaces wherein they used to boyle their 

 Oyles, wee brought a thousand Bricks : there also found 

 wee three Hogsheads of very fine Lyme, of which stuffe 

 wee also fetcht another Hogshead from Bottle Cove, on 

 the other side of the Sownd, some three leagues distant. 

 Mingling this Lyme with the Sand of the Sea shore, we 

 made very excellent good morter for the laying of our 

 Bricks : falling to worke whereupon, the weather was so 

 extreame cold, as that we were faine to make two fires 

 to keepe our morter from freezing. William Fakely and 

 my selfe, undertaking the Masonrie, began to raise a wall 

 of one bricke thicknesse, against the inner planks of the 

 side of the Tent. Whilest we were laying of these Bricks, 

 the rest of our Companie were otherwise employed every 

 one of them : some in taking them downe, others in making 

 of them cleane, and in bringing them in baskets into the 



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