Mr. James Janeway's legacy to his friends containing twenty seven famous instances of Gods…

Having thus fitted every thing in the best manner they could, on the twelfth of September, looking out into the Sound, they espied two Sea-horses lying asleep on a piece of Ice, whereupon, taking up an old harping-iron, they hastened to them, and first slew the old one, and then the young; and so bringing them ashore, they flayed them, roasted, and eat them. Not long after they killed another; but the nights and cold weather increasing on them, and they viewing their Provision, found it too small by half; whereupon they stinted themselves to one reasonable meal a day, and agreed to fast Wednesdays and Fridays, excepting from the Graves or Fritters of the Whale (which was a very loathsome meat) of which they allowed themselves sufficient for ⟨p. 65⟩their present hunger: at which diet they continued about three months.

Having thus fitted every thing in the best manner they could, on the twelfth of September, looking out into the Sound, they espied two Sea-horses lying asleep on a piece of Ice, whereupon, taking up an old harping-iron, they hastned to them, and first slew the old one, and then the young; and so bringing them ashore, they flaied them, roasted, and eat them. Not long after they killed another; but the nights and cold weather encreasing on them, and they viewing their Provision, found it too small by half; whereupon they stinted themseves to one reasonable meal a day, and agreed to fast Wednesdays and Fridays, excepting from the Graves or Fritters of the Whale (which was a very loathsome meat) of which they allowed themselves sufficient for ⟨p. 65⟩their present hunger: at which diet they continued about three moneths.

Having finished what ever they could invent for their preservation; they found that all their Clothes and Shoes were worn, and torn; to repair which, they had this new devise; of Rope-yarn they made thread, and of Whale-bones needles to few their Clothes withal: But October the tenth, the nights being grown very long, and the cold so violent, that all the Sea was frozen over; and they having now nothing to exercise their minds upon, were troubled with a thousand imaginations: Sometimes they bewailed their absence from their Wives and Children, thinking what grief it would be to them to hear of their miscarriage: then thought they of their Parents, and what a cutting corrosive it would be to them to hear of their untimely deaths, &c. & being thus tormented in their minds with fear, and grief, & pinched in their bodies with hunger, and cold, the hideous monster of desperation presented his ugliest shape unto them: But thinking it not best to give way to grief and fear, they doubled their prayers to Almighty God for strength and patience in their miseries, by whose assistance, they