A58039:78
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.
By this, the cheerful days lengthened so fast, that several sorts of Fowl resorted thither. March 16th one of their Mastiffs ⟨p. 70⟩went abroad which they never saw after; upon the coming of the Fowls, the Foxes, which all winter had kept their Burroughs under the Rocks, came abroad to seek for their livings; whereupon they set up Traps, which they baited with the skin of these Fowls, by which means they caught at times fifty Foxes; all which they roasted, and found to be good meat: then taking the Bearskins, ••aying the fleshy side upwards, and making springs of Whale-bone, they caught about sixty Fowls as big as Pigeons.
By this, the chearful days lengthen'd so fast, that several sorts of Fowl resorted thither. March 16th one of their Mastiffs ⟨p. 70⟩went abroad which they never saw after; upon the coming of the Fowls, the Foxes, which all winter had kept their Burroughs under the Rocks, came abroad to seek for their livings; whereupon they set up Traps, which they baited with the skin of these Fowls, by which means they caught at times fifty Foxes; all which they rosted, and found to be good meat: then taking the Bearskins, ••aying the fleshy side upwards, and making springs of Whale-bone, they caught about sixty Fowls as big as Pigeons.
May the first, the weather began to be pretty warm, so that they went daily abroad to seek for Provision: but nothing they could find for many days, till at length they met with abundance of Willocks eggs; of which they carried home thirty, intending the next day to fetch a thousand more, but the day proved so cold that they could not stir out of their Tent. The same day there came two ships of Hull into the Sound, who knowing that some men had been left there the year before, being very desirous to know whether they were dead or alive, the Master manned forth a shallop to go as near the shore as they ⟨p. 71⟩