At tlie beginning of this darksome^ irkesome time, wee 

 sought some mcanes of preserving light amongst us ; finding 

 therefore a piece of Shecte-lead over a seame of one of the 

 Coolers ; that we ript off and made three Lamps of it, which 

 maintaining with Oyle that wee found in the Coopers' 

 Tent, and Roape-yarne serving us in steed of Candle-weekes, 

 wee kept them continually burning. And this was a great 

 comfort to us in our extremity. Thus did we our best to 

 preserve our selves ; but all this could not secure us, for 

 wee, in our owne thoughts, accovmted our selves but dead 

 men ; and that our Tent was then our darksome dungeon, 

 and that we did but waite our day of tryall by our judge, 

 to know whether wee should live or dye. Our extremities 

 being so many, made us sometimes in impatient speeches 

 to breake forth against the causers of our miseries ; but then 

 againe, our consciences telling us of our owne evill deserv- 

 ings, we tooke it either for a punishment upon us for our 

 former wicked lives ; or else for an example of God's 

 mercie in our wonderfull deliverance. Humbling our selves 

 therefore, under the mighty hand of God, wee cast clowne 

 our selves before him in prayer, two or three times a day, 

 which course we constantly held all the time of our misery. 



The new ycare now begun : as the dayes began to lengthen, 

 so the cold began to strengthen ; which cold came at last to 

 that extremitie, as that it would raise blisters in our flesh, 

 as if wee had beene burnt with fire : and if wee touch't iron 

 at any time, it would sticke to our fingers like Bird-lime. 

 Sometimes, if we went but out a doores to fetch in a little 

 water, the cold would nip us in such sort, that it made us 

 as sore as if wee had beene beaten in some cruell manner. 

 All the first part of the Winter we found water under the 

 ycc, that lay upon the Bache on the Sea-shoare. Which 

 water issued out of an high Bay or Cliffc of yce, and ranue 

 into the hollow of the Bache, there remaining with a thicke 

 yce over it, which yce, wee at one certainc place daily digging 



