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the Foxes, which had all this Winter kept their Burrows 

 under the Kockes, began now to come abroad and seeke for 

 their livings. For them Avee set up three Trappes like Rat- 

 trappes, and bayted them with the skinnes of these Fowles, 

 which wee had found upon the snow, they falling there in 

 their flight from the hill whereupon they bred towards the 

 Sea. For this Fowle, being about the bignesse of a Ducke, 

 hath her legs placed so close unto her rumpe, as that when 

 they alight once u.pon the land, they are very hardly (if ever) 

 able to get up againe, by reason of the misplacing of their 

 legs and the weight of their bodies ; but being in the water, 

 they raise themselves with their pinions well enough. After 

 wee had made these Trappes, and set them apart one from 

 another in the snow, we caught fiftie Foxes in them ; all 

 which Avee roasted, and found very good meate of them. 

 Then tooke Avee a Beares skinne, and laying the flesh side 

 upward, Avee made Springes of Whales bone, whereAvitli Avee 

 caught about sixty of those Foaa^cs, about the bignesse of a 

 pigeon. 



Thus continued wee untill the first of May, and the Avea- 

 ther then groAving warme, Avee were now pretty able to goe 

 abroad to seeke for more provision. Every day therefore 

 abroad wee went, but nothing could Ave encounter Avithall 

 untill the 24 of May, Avhen, espying a Bucke, wee thought 

 to have kill'd him Avith our Dogge, but he was grown so 

 fat and lazie that he could not pull doAvne the Deere. Seek- 

 ing further out therefore, Avee found abundance of Willocks 

 egges (which is a FoAvle about the bignesse of a Ducke), of 

 which egges, though there Avere great store, yet Avee being 

 but two of us together, brought but thirty of them to the 

 Tent that day, thinking the next day to fetch a thousand 

 more of them ; but the day proved so cold, with so much 

 Easterly Avinde, that wee could not stirre out of our Tent. 



Staying at home therefore on the 25 of May, Ave for that 

 day omitted our ordinary customc. Our order of late (since 



