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A68562	Gods power and providence: shewed, in the miraculous preservation and deliverance of eight Englishmen, left by mischance in Green-land anno 1630. nine moneths and twelve dayes With a true relation of all their miseries, their shifts and hardship they were put to, their food, &c. such as neither heathen nor Christian men ever before endured. With a description of the chiefe places and rarities of that barren and cold countrey. Faithfully reported by Edvvard Pellham, one of eight men aforesaid. As also with a map of Green-land.	Pellham, Edward, fl. 1630.	1631 (1631)	STC 19566; ESTC S114323	22,160	49

Dogge but he was growne so fat and lazie that hee could not pull downe the Deere Seeking further out therefore we found abundance of Willocks egges which is a Fowle about the bignesse of a Ducke of which egges though there were great store yet wee being but two of us together brought but thirty of them to the Tent that day thinking the next day to fetch a thousand more of them but the day proved so cold with so much Easterly winde that wee could not stirre out of our Tent. Staying at home therefore upon the 25. of May we for that day omitted our ordinary custome Our order of late since the faire weather was every day or every second day to goe up to the top of a mountaine to spie if wee could discerne the water in the Sea which untill the day before we had not seene At which time a storme of winde comming out of the Sea brake the maine yce within the Sownd after vvhich the vvinde comming Easterly carried all the yce into the Sea and cleared the Sownd a great vvay although not neere the shoare at first seeing the cleare vvater came not neere our Tent by three miles at least This 25. of May therefore vvee all day staying in the Tent there came two Ships of Hull into the Sownd vvho knowing that there had been men left there the yeare before the Master full of desire to know vvhether vve vvere alive or dead man'd out a Shallop from the Ship with order to row as farre up the Sownd as they could and then to hale up their Shallop and travell over-land upon the snow unto the Tent. These men at their comming ashore found the Shallop which we had haled from our Tent into the water with a purpose to goe seeke some Sea-horses the next faire weather the Shallop being then already fitted with all necessaries for that enterprize This sight brought them into a quandary and though this encounter made them hope yet their admiration made them doubt that it was not possible for us still to remaine alive Taking therefore our lances out of the Boate towards the Tent they come wee never so much as perceiving of them for wee were all gathered together now about to goe to prayers in the inner Tent onely Thomas Ayers was not yet come in to us out of the greater Tent. The Hull men now comming neere our Tent haled it with the usuall word of the Sea crying Hey he answered againe with Ho which sudden answer almost amazed them all causing them to stand still halfe afraid at the matter But we within hearing of them joyfully came out of the Tent all blacke as we were with the smoake and with our clothes all tattered with wearing This uncouth sight made them further amazed at us but perceiving us to be the very men left there all the yeare with joyfull hearts embracing us and wee them againe they came with us into our Tent. Comming thus in to us wee shewed them the courtesie of the house and gave them such victuals as we had which was Venison roasted foure moneths before and a Cuppe of cold water which for noveltie sake they kindly accepted of us Then fell wee to aske them what newes and of the state of the Land at home and when the London Fleete would come to all which they returned us the best answers they could Agreeing then to leave the Tent with them wee went to their Shallop and so a-board the Ship where we were welcomed after the heartiest and kindest English manner and there we stayed our selves untill the comming of the London Fleete which we much longed for hoping by them to heare from our friends in England Wee were told that they would be there the next day but it was full three dayes ere they came which seemed to us as tedious a three dayes as any we had yet endured so much we now desired to heare from our friends our wives and children The 28. of May the London Fleete came into the Port to our great comfort A-board the Admirall we went unto the right noble Captaine Captaine William Goodler who is worthy to be honoured by all Sea-men for his courtesie and bounty This is the Gentleman that is every yeare chiefe Commander of this Fleete and right worthy he is so to be being a very wise man and an expert Mariner as most be in England none dispraised Unto this Gentleman right welcome we were and joyfully by him received hee giving order that we should have any thing that was in the Ship that might doe us good and increase our strength of his owne charges giving us apparell also to the value of twenty pounds worth Thus after fourteene dayes of refreshment wee grew perfectly well all of us whereupon the noble Captaine sent William Fakely and Iohn Wyse Masons own Apprentice and Thomas Ayers the Whale-Cutter with Robert Good fellow unto Master Masons Ship according as themselves desired But thinking there to be as kindly welcomed as the lost Prodigall these poore men after their enduring of so much misery which through his meanes partly they had undergone no sooner came they a board his ship but he most unkindly call'd them Run-awayes with other harsh and unchristian termes farre enough from the civility of an honest man Noble Captaine Goodler understanding all these passages was right sorie for them resolving to send for them againe but that the weather proved so bad and uncertaine I for mine owne part remained with the Captaine still at Bottle Cove according to mine owne desire as for the rest of us that staid with him hee preferr'd the Land-men to row in the Shallops for the killing of the Whales freeing them thereby from their toylesome labour a-shoare bettering their Meanes besides And all these favours did this worthy Gentleman for us Thus were wee well contented now to stay there till the twentieth of August hoping then to returne into our native Countrey which day of departure being come and we imbarked with joyfull hearts we set sayle through the foaming Ocean and though cross'd sometimes with contrary windes homeward bound yet our proper ships at last came safely to an Anchor in the River of Thames to our great joy and comfort and the Merchants benefite And thus by the blessing of God came wee all eight of us well home safe and sound where the Worshipfull Companie our Masters the Muscovie Merchants have since dealt wonderfully well by us For all which most mercifull Preservation and most wonderfully powerfull Deliverance all honour praise and glory by unto the great God the sole Author of it He grant us to make the right use of it Amen FINIS

floting crosse the stearne of a shipp the blubber is cut from the flesh by peeces 3 or 4 foote long and being rased is rowed on shore towards the coppers They place 2. or 3. coppers on a roe and the chopping boat on the one side and the cooling boate on the other side to receiue the oyle of the coppers the chopt blubber being boyled is taken 〈◊〉 out of the coppers and put in wiker baskets or barowes throwg h which the oyle is dreaned and run̄es into the cooler which is fall of water out of which it is convaied by troughs into buts or hogsheads The manner of killing the Seamorces The manner of kil●●ing Beares The Seamorce is in quantity as bigg as an oxe When the whale is killed hee is in this mann towed to the shipps by twoe or three shallops made fast one to another The peeces of blubber are towed to the shore side by a shallop and drawne on shore by a crane or caried by twoe menn on a barrowe to the twoe cutters which cutts them the breadt h of a trencher and very thin̄e by twoe boys are caried w th handhooks to the choppers Thus they make cleane and scrape the whale fins A tent and Coopers at worke Gods Power and Providence in the preservation of eight Men in GREENLAND nine Moneths and twelve Dayes But wee had the sentence of death in our selves that wee should not trust in our selves but in God which raiseth the dead Who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver in whom wee trust that hee will yet deliver us 2. Cor. 1. ver 9 10. GREENLAND is a Country very farre Northward situated in 77. degrees and 40. minutes that is within 12. degrees and 20. minutes of the very North Pole it selfe The Land is wonderfull mountainous the Mountaines all the year long full of yce and snow the Plaines in part bare in Summer time There growes neither tree not hearbe in it except Scurvygrasse and Sorrell The Sea is as barren as the Land affording no fish but Whales Sea-horses Seales another small fish And hither there is a yearely Fleet of English sent Wee eight men therefore being employed in the service of the Right Worshipfull Company of Muscowie Merchants in the good ship called the Salutation of London were bound for this Greenland aforesaid to make a voyage upon Whales or Sea-horse for the advantage of the Merchants and the good of the Common-wealth Wee set sayle from London the first day of May 1630. and having a faire gale wee quickly left the fertile bankes of Englands pleasant shoares behindeus After which setting our comely sayles to this supposed prosperous gale and ranging through the boysterous billowes of the rugged Seas by the helpe and gracious assistance of Almighty God wee safely arrived at our desired Port in Greenland the eleventh of Iune following Wherupon having moored our ships and carryed our caske ashoare wee with all expedition fell to the fitting up of our Shallops with all things necessarie for our intended voyage Wee were in companie three Ships all which were then appointed by the order of our Captaine Captaine William Goodler to stay at the Foreland untill the fifteenth of Iuly with resolution that if we could not by that time make a voyage according to our expectation then to send one ship to the Eastward unto a fishing place some fourescore leagues from thence whither at the latter end of the yeare the Whales use more frequently to resort A second of the three ships was designed for Green-harbour a place some fifteene leagues distant to the Southward thereto trie her skill and fortune if it were possible thereto make a voyage The third ship which was the same wherein wee were was appointed to stay at the Fore-land untill the twentieth of August But the Captaine having made a great voyage at Bell Sownd dispatches a Shallop towards our ship with a command unto us to come to him at Bell Sownd aforesaid his purpose being both to have us take in some of his Trane Oyle as also by joyning our forces together to make the Fleete so much the stronger for the defence of the Merchants goods homeward bound the Dunkirkers being very strong and rise at sea in those dayes Upon the eighth day of Angust thereupon leaving the Foreland wee directed our course to the Southward towards Green-harbour thereto take in twenty of our men which had out of ourships company beene sent into the lesser ship for the furtherance of her voyage But the winde being now contrary our ship could no way lye our course The fifteenth day being calme and cleare and our ship now in the Offing some foure leagues from Blacke point and about five from the Maydens pappes which is a place famous both for very good and for great store of Venison our Master sent us eight men here named altogether in a shallop for the hunting and killing of some Venison for the ships provision Wee thus leaving the ship and having taken a brace of dogs along with us and furnish our selves with a snap-hance two lances and a tinder-boxe wee directed our course towards the shoare where in foure houres wee arrived the weather being at that time faire and cleare and every way seasonable for the performance of our present intentions That day we laid fourteene tall and nimble Deere along and being very weary and throughly tyred first with rowing and now with hunting wee fell to eate such victuals as wee had brought along agreeing to take our rest for that night and the next day to make an end of our hunting and so fairely to returne to our ship againe But the next day as it pleased God the weather falling out something thicke and much yce in the Offing betwixt the shoare and the ship by reason of a Southerly winde driving alongst the coast our ship was forced so farre to stand off into the Sea to be cleare of they yce that wee had quite lost the fight of her neither could wee assure our selves whether shee were inclosed in the drift yce or not and the weather still growing thicker and thicker we thought it our best course to hunt alongst the shoare and so to goe for Greene-harbour there to stay aboard the ship with the rest of our men vntill our own ship should come into the Port. Coasting thus along towards Greene-harbour wee kill'd eight Deere more and so at last having well loaden our Shallop with Venison wee still kept on our course towards Green-harbour where arriving upon the seventeenth day wee found to our great wonderment that the ship was departed thence together with our twenty men aforesaid That which increased our admiration was for that wee knew they had not victuals sufficient aboard to serve them by proportion homewards bownd which made vs againe to wonder what should be the reason of their so sudden departure Perceiving our selves thus frustrated of our expectation and having now but bare three dayes