THE VOYAGE. 453 



[also in Systema Naturae, Vindobonce, 1767, 8vo. Ed. 

 Decima tertia, 3 T. — T. I. pars. II. p. 1076, 277]. They 

 dug up these creatures, krak, which are a species of 

 earth-worms, metmaskar, in this way. They had a 

 little digger, grep, of iron with three grains or tines, with 

 which they dug up the loose sand where these worms 

 had their residence, when they commonly found them 18 

 inches deep in the sand. The sign which they had to be 

 able to know where these worms lived is that they creep up 

 out of the sand at high water, and lie upon it, but as 

 soon as it is ebb and the tide goes out they creep down 

 under the sand. Meantime, as far as they have been on 

 the surface of the sand they leave their track behind 

 them, which consists of bare fine sand, and looks like 

 small worms lying in a ring, or of disc-shaped forms, 

 kringel-lika former, in the other sand. These raised 

 sand-rings indicate to the fishermen the place where the 

 worms live, and by that means betray them. The worms 

 they get are collected in bottles, and are used as bait 

 on hooks for whiting or cod. They call them Logworms.* 



Machine to wind up Boats. 

 At Deal there is ebb and flood, when the water for 

 six hours rises high up, and for six hours falls very far 

 out, therefore to get up the boats so that they may stand 

 more safely and not be broken by the waves when it 

 begins to be high water, they have on the beach above 

 where the boats stand, capstans, with perpendicular axes, 

 with which by means of a rope which is fastened near 

 the bottom of the boat, they wind it up as high as they 

 wish on the beach. 



The 8th August, 1748. 

 Next day at 3 o'clock in the morning we left Deal, and 



* That is Sea-worms. O. Norsk, Lugr, the sea. [J. L.] 



