The North-west and North-east passages 1576-1611 . she came again towardsus, and we prepared ourselves to withstand her,wherewith she rose up upon her hinder feet, thinkingto ramp at us; but while she reared herself up, oneof our men shot her into the belly, and with that shefell upon her fore-feet again, and roaring as loud asshe could, ran away. The 17 of September thirteen of us went wherethe wood lay with our sleds, and so drew five and fivein a sled, and the other three helped to lift the woodbehind, to make us draw the better and with more ease;and in that manner we drew wood twice a day
The North-west and North-east passages 1576-1611 . she came again towardsus, and we prepared ourselves to withstand her,wherewith she rose up upon her hinder feet, thinkingto ramp at us; but while she reared herself up, oneof our men shot her into the belly, and with that shefell upon her fore-feet again, and roaring as loud asshe could, ran away. The 17 of September thirteen of us went wherethe wood lay with our sleds, and so drew five and fivein a sled, and the other three helped to lift the woodbehind, to make us draw the better and with more ease;and in that manner we drew wood twice a day, andlaid it on a heap by the place where we meant to buildour house. William Barents. Third Voyage Northward 131 The 25 of September we raised up the principalsof our house, and began to work hard thereon. The 26 of September we had a west wind andan open sea, but our ship lay fast, wherewith we werenot a little grieved; but it was Gods will, which wemust patiently bear, and we began to make up ourhouse: part of our men fetched wood to burn, the. How we built a house of wood, wherein to keep ourselvesthrough the winter rest played the carpenters and were busy about thehouse. As then we were sixteen men in all, for ourcarpenter was dead, and of our sixteen men there wasstill one or other sick. The 27th of September it blew hard north-east, andit froze so hard that, as we put a nail into our mouths 9—2 132 William Barents. Third Voyage Northward (as, when men work carpenters work, they use to do),there would ice hang thereon when we took it out again,and make the blood follow. The same day there camean old bear and a young one towards us as we weregoing to our house, being all together (for we durst notgo alone), which we thought to shoot at, but she ranaway. The 29 of September, in the morning, the windwas west, and after noon it blew east, and then wesaw three bears between us and the house, an old oneand two young; but we notwithstanding drew ourgoods from the ship to the h
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