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Kirby, R. S. [Editor]; Kirby, R. S. [Oth.]
Kirby's Wonderful And Eccentric Museum; Or, Magazine Of Remarkable Characters: Including All The Curiosities Of Nature And Art, From The Remotest Period To The Present Time, Drawn from every authentic Source. Illustrated With One Hundred And Twenty-Four Engravings. Chiefly Taken from Rare And Curious Prints Or Original Drawings. Six Volumes (Vol. 2) — London: R.S. Kirby, London House Yard, St. Paul's., 1820

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MIRACULOUS PRESERVATION. 301
Coolers, we rirpt it off and made three lamps of it; which
maintaining with oil that we found in the coopers tent
and rope yarn serving us instead of candlewicks, we kept
them continually burning; and this was a great comfort
to us in our extremity. Thus did we our best to preserve
ourselves; but all this could not secure us: tor we in our
own thoughts, accounted ourselves but dead men; and
that our tent was then our darksome dungeon, and we
did but wait our trial by our Judge, to know whether we
should live or die. Our extremities being so many, made
us in impatient speeches to break forth against the causers
of our miseries: but then again, our consciences telling
us of our own evil deservings, we took it either for a
punishment upon us, for our former wicked lives, or else
for an example of God’s mercy, in our wonderful delive-
rance; and humbling ourselves therefore under the migh-
ty hand of God, we cast down ourselves in prayer, two
or three times a day, which course we constantly held ail
the time of our misery.
The new year now' begun, and as the, dans began to
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lengthen, so the cold began to strengthen; which cold
came at last to that extremity, as that it would raise blisters
in our flesh, as if we had been burnt with fire; and if we
touched iron at any time, it would stick to our fingers
like bird-lime. Sometimes if we went but out of the
door to fetch in a little water, the cold would nip us in.
such sort, that it made us as sore'as if we had been beaten
in some cruel maimer. All the first part of the winter
we found water under the ice, that lay upon the bachc
on the sea-shore. Which water issued out of a high bav,
or cliff of ice, and ran into the hollow of the bache, there
remaining with a thick ice over it; which ice, we at one
certain place daily digging through with pick-axes, took
as much water as served for our drinking.
This continued until the 10th of January, and then
we were fain to make shift with snow-water, which we
melted
 
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