A58039:73
A token for mariners
A token for mariners containing many famous and wonderful instances of God's providence in sea dangers and deliverances, in mercifully preserving the lives of his poor creatures, when, in humane probability, at the point of perishing by shipwreck, famine, or other accidents. much enlarged, with the addition of many new relations, one whereof happening this present year, and never before printed. Mostly attested by the persons themselves. Also The seaman's preacher, being a sermon on the right improvement of such mercies. And prayers for seamen on all occasions.A token for mariners containing many famous and wonderful instances of God's providence in sea dangers and deliverances, in mercifully preserving the lives of his poor creatures, when, in humane probability, at the point of perishing by shipwrack, famine, or other accidents. much enlarg'd, with the addition of many new relations, one whereof happening this present year, and never before printed. Mostly attested by the persons themselves. Also The seaman's preacher, being a sermon on the right improvement of such mercies. And prayers for seamen on all occasions.
London: printed by Hugh Newman, 1698
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Then for the preservation of their Venison, and lengthening of their firing, they thought best to roast every day half a Deer, and to stow it in Hogsheads, which accordingly they did, leaving so much raw as would serve to roast every Sabbath day a quarter, &c. And when this was over, they began again to think of their ensuing misery, that in case God should give them life, yet they were to live as Banished men from all Company; and as if their sorrows had been too little, they presently found an increase of it; for their Whale-Fritters, after they had been drenched in the Sea-water, lying close together, were grown mouldy, and spoiled: and again surveying their Bear, and Venison, they found that it would not afford them five meals a week, whereupon they were fain to cut off one meal more; so that for three months after, four day• in the week they fed upon the unsavoury mouldy Whale-Fritters, and the other three they feasted with Bear and Venison: But besides the want of meat, they now began to want light, so that all thei• Meals were Suppers: For, from the fourteenth ⟨p. 67⟩of October, to the third of February, they never saw the Sun so much as peep above the Horizon: But the Moon, when not obscured with Clouds, they always saw shining as bright as in England: All which darksome time, they could not certainly tell when it should be day, and when night.
Then for the preservation of their Venison, and lengthening of their firing, they thought best to roast every day half a Deer, and to stow it in Hogsheads, which accordingly they did, leaving so much raw as would serve to roast every Sabbath day a quarter, &c. And when this was over, they began again to think of their ensuing misery, that in case God should give them life, yet they were to live as Banished men from all Company; and as if their sorrows had been too little, they presently found an encrease of it; for their Whale-Fritters, after they had been drenched in the Sea-water, lying close together, were grown mouldy, and spoyled: and again surveying their Bear, and Venison, they found that it would not afford them five meals a week, whereupon they were fain to cut off one meal more; so that for three months after, four day• in the week they fed upon the unsavory mouldy Whale-Fritters, and the other three they feasted with Bear and Venison: But besides the want of meat, they now began to want light, so that all thei Meals were Suppers: For, from the fourteenth