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ger, and at this dyet we continued some three moneths or 

 thereabouts. 



Having by this time finished what ever we possibly could 

 invent for our preservations in that desolate desert ; our 

 clothes and shooes also were so worne and torne (all to 

 pieces almost) that wee must of necessity invent some new 

 device for their reparations. Of Koape-yarne therefore, we 

 made us thread, and of Whale-bones needles to sew our 

 clothes withall. The nights were wax't very long, and by 

 the tenth of October the cold so violent, that the Sea was 

 frozen over, which had beene enough to have daunted the 

 most assured resolutions. At which time, our businesse 

 being over, and nothing now to exercise our mindes upon, 

 our heads began then to be troubled with a thousand sorts 

 of imaginations. Then had wee leisure (more than enough) 

 to complaine our selves of oar present and most miserable 

 conditions. Then had wee time to bewaile our wives and 

 children at home, and to imagine what newes our unfortu- 

 nate miscarriaares must needes be unto them. Then thousfht 

 wee of our parents also, and what a cutting Corasive it 

 would be to them, to heare of the untimely deaths of their 

 children. Otherwhiles againe, wee revive our selves with 

 some comfort, that our friends might take, in hoping that 

 it might please God to preserve us (even in this poore 

 estate) untill the next yeare. Sometimes did we varie our 

 gricfes, — complaining one while of the cruelty of our Master, 

 that M^ould offer to leave us to these distresses ; and then 

 presently againe fell wee, not onely to excuse him, but to 

 lament both him and his companie, fearing they had beene 

 overtaken by the yce and miserably that way perished. 



Thus tormented in mind with our doubts, our feares, 

 and our griefes ; and in our bodies, with hunger, cold and 

 Avants, that hideous monster of desperation began now to 

 present his ugliest shape unto us ; hee now pursued us, hee 

 now laboured to seize upon us. Thus, finding our selves 



