A58039:99
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.
The Merciful Preservation and Deliverance of Captain Blose and his ships Company, who were Cast away in an Island of Ice near Russia, this present year 1697.
October the 7th. 1696. We came from Archangel in Russia in the Riga Merchant, Burden 300 Tuns, 18 Guns, Samuel Blose Commander. The 8th we had the Wind at North West by West, we plied to Windward, and it blew very hard; the 10th we took two Reefs in our Topsails; the 12th we took in our Topsails, and Reefed Costs; the 13th about One in the Morning we Sprung a Leak, in so much that we were forced to set both our Pumps to Work, and bear away before the Wind; yet still the Water increased; and the 14th we cut our Main-Sail from the Yard, and let him fly over-board, the Weather being so excessive thick by reason of the extraordinary much Snow that then fell, that we could not see the Land, nor any place where we could run our Ship Ashore to save our Lives; The 15th in the Morning, about One of the Clock, by Fortune, unexpected of us, before we see any Land, we struck upon an Island, called by the ⟨p. 103⟩Ruses, Mussoves, lying in the Missen Gulf, which by the Miraculous hand of God […] gotten well ashore, for as God of his wonderful goodness so ordered it, we struck about High Water, and as the Water fell away, our Ship dried, so that we got all safe to Land without any harm; and if it had pleased God we happened ever so little, either to one side or the other, we should have all perished amongst the Islands of Ice. When we got all ashore, we made us a Tent, and when it was Day, looking about us, saw something like Houses; so our Captain and a Dutch Merchant Passenger that we had on Board of our Ship, and our Doctor, went to see what they were, thinking to find some Inhabitants, but they could •ind none: then we went Aboard our Ship, and got all our Beef ashore that we could find, about One hundred Weight of Biscuit Bread, which was all the Bread we could find; then we Calculated that our Beef at Four Pieces a day, would serve us till the middle of May, and every Man one Biscuit a Day; but that would last but a small time: Besides, we got a shore Three Boxes of Candles, which was a great comfort to us in our necessity, by reason we