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As late as the 5th of June, it snowed so violently that they 

 could only work within-doors, where they got ready the sails, 

 oars, rudder, &c. On the 12th, they set to work with axes and 

 other tools to level a path from the ship to the water, — a distance 



of five hundred paces. On the 13th, Barentz wrote a brief 

 account of their voyage and sojourn, placed it in a musket- 

 barrel, and attached it to th< fireplace in the house, for the infor* 



