A token for mariners

But here again, for the trial of their patience, and to teach them to rely more upon God's Providence, than upon any outward means of their own, this mischance befell them: The wind blowing hard into the Cove, and their Anchor coming home, their Shallop sunk into the Sea, and so wet all their Provision, and some of it they found swimming up and down by the shore: The sight thereof, wonderfully troubled them, to see the best part of their Provision, the only hope of their lives under God, in danger either utterly to be lost, or to be spoiled by the Sea-water, for which they had taken such pains, and run so many adventures in the getting of it: and in this their misery, they saw but one remedy, and that was a desperate one, viz. to run into the high-wrought Sea to their Shallops to save the remainder of their Provisions, now ready ⟨p. 62⟩to be washed away by the billows: This they did, and by main force drew the Shallops to the shore; then they went along by the Sea-side to gather up such of their Provisions as was swimming up and down: and when the weather proved fair, they went on to Bell-sound: where being arrived, they took out their provision, and viewed the great Tent which was built of Timber and Boards, and covered with Flemish Tiles: The use of it was for the Coopers to work and lodge in whilst they made Cask for the putting up of the Train-Oil; and they resolved to build another smaller Tent within that for their Habitations; and accordingly, taking down a lesser Tent that stood near to it, wherein the Landmen lay whilst they made their Oil, they fetched their materials from thence, both Boards, Posts, and Rafters, and from the Chimneys of the Furnaces, they took a thousand Bricks; they found also four Hogsheads of Lime, which mingled with sand from the shore, made good mortar: But the weather was grown so extreme cold, that they were fain to make two fires on both sides, to keep their mortar from freezing; then they raised a wall of one Brick thickness against the inner planks of the side of ⟨p. 63⟩the Tent; but by that time they had walled two sides of their house, their Bricks failed, so that they were forced to build the other two sides of boards; which being nailed on both sides the posts, they were hollow between, which they filled up with sand, that made it so tite, that the least breath of air could not possibly annoy them.

But here again, for the tryal of their patience, and to teach them to relie more upon God's Providence, than upon any outward means of their own, this mischance befel them: The wind blowing hard into the Cove, and their Anchor coming home, their Shallop sunk into the Sea, and so wet all their Provision, and some of it they found swimming up and down by the shoar: The sight thereof, wonderfully troubled them, to see the best part of their Provision, the only hope of their lives under God, in danger either utterly to be lost, or to be spoil'd by the Sea-water, for which they had taken such pains, and run so many adventures in the getting of it: and in this their misery, they saw but one remedy, and that was a desperate one, viz. to run into the highwrote Sea to their Shallops to save the remainder of their Provisions, now ready