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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Gods Power and Providence Shewed IN THE MIRACVlous 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 the eight men aforesaid As also with a Map of GREEN-LAND They that goe downe into the Sea in ships that doe businesse in great waters These see the workes of the Lord and his wonders in the deepe PSAL. 107.23 24. LONDON Printed by R. Y. for IOHN PARTRIDGE and are to be sold at the Signe of the Sunne in 〈…〉 ROBERT DAVIES of Lannerch Denbighshire To the right VVorshipfull Sir HVGH HAMMERSLY Knight Alderman of the Citie of London Governour of the Worshipfull Company of the Muscovia Merchants And to the VVorshipfull Mr Alderman Freeman Captaine William Goodler And to all the rest of the Worshipfull Assistants and Adventurers in the said famous Company Edward Pellham dedicateth both this and his future Labours Right Worshipfull and most famous Merchants THe hard adventure my poore selfe and fellowes underwent in your Worships service is a great deale pleasanter for others to reade than it was for us to endure How ever hard wee have now endured it and if ever after-ages shall speake of it as the world still doth of the Dutch-mens hard Winter in nova Zembla thus much of the Voyage shall redound to your honours that it was done by your Servants This may also returne to our Countreys good That if the first inhabiting of a Countrey by a Princes Subiects which is the King of Spaines best title to his Indyes doth take possession of it for their Soveraigne Then is Green-land by a second right taken livery and Seisin of for his Majesties use his Subiects being the first that ever did and I beleeve the last that ever will inhabite there Many a rich returne may your Worships in generall and the brave Adventurers in particular receive from this and all other places and may your Servants be ever hereafter warned to take heede by our harmes God send your Worships long life and much honour and sufficient wealth to maintaine both This is the hearty prayer of your Worships poore servant Edward Pellham To the Reader COurteous Reader That God may have the onely glory of this our deliverance give mee leave to looke backe unto that voyage which the Dutch-men made into Nova Zembla in the yeare 1596. In which place they having beene like our selves overtaken with the Winter were there forced to stay it out as wee were Which being an Action so famous all the world over encouraged mee both to publish this of ours as also now to draw out some comparisons with them that so our deliverance and Gods glory may appeare both the more gracious and the greater This Nova Zembla stands in the Degree 76. North latitude our wintering place is in 77. Degrees and 40. Minutes that is almost two Degrees neerer the North Pole than they were and so much therefore the colder The Dutch were furnished with all things necessary both for life and health had no want of any thing Bread Beere and Wine they had good and good store Victuals they had Gods plenty and Apparell both for present clothing and for shift too and all this they brought with them in their Ship We God knowes wanted all these Bread Beere and Wine we had none As for meate our greatest and chiefest feeding was the Whale Frittars and those mouldie too the loathsomest meate in the world For our Venison 't was hard to finde but a great deale harder to get and for our third sort of provision the Beares 't was a measuring cast which should be eaten first Wee or the Beares when we first saw one another and we perceived by them that they had as good hopes to devoure us as wee to kill them The Dutch kill'd Beares 't is true but it was for their skinnes not for their flesh The Dutch had a Surgeon in their Companie wee none but the great Physician to take care and cure of us They had the benefite of Bathing and Purging wee of neither They had their Ship at hand to be-friend them wee had here perished had not other Ships fetcht us off They had Card and Compasse wee no direction If the Dutch complained therefore of the extremity of the cold as well they might and that when in building their house they as Carpenters use to doe put the iron nayles into their mouthes they there froze and stucke so fast that they brought off the skinne and forced blood how cold thinke you were we that were faine to maintaine two fires to keepe our very morter from freezing The Dutch complain'd that their walls were frozen two inches thicke on the inside for all their fire and if ours were not so 't was our paines and industry at first in building The Dutch-mens clothes froze upon their backes and their shooes were like hornes upon their feete but that was their owne ignorance for they had Sea-coles enough with them if they had knowne how to use them If their drinke and Sacke were so hard frozen into lumps of yce that they were faine to cut it out how much harder was it for us that were forced to make hot Irons our best toasts to warme the snow withall for our mornings draughts They used heated stones and billets to their feete and bodies to warme them which though an hard shift yet was it better than we had any Lay now all these together the distance of place wee being many miles more into the cold than they the want both of meate and clothes and that the house wee lived in we had but three dayes respite to build for nine moneths to come and then may the world see that the Dutch had the better provisions and wee the abler bodies If therefore the Dutch-mens deliverance were worthily accounted a wonder ours can amount to little lesse than a miracle The greater therefore our deliverance the greater must be Gods glory And that 's the Authors purpose in publishing of it God keepe the Readers from the like dangers So prayes he that endured what he here writes of Edw. Pellham The names of the Men thus staying in GREEN-LAND for nine moneths and twelve dayes VVIlliam Fakely Gunner Edward Pellham Gunners mate the Author of this Relation Iohn Wise and Robert Goodfellow Sea-men Thomas Ayers Whale-cutter Henry Bett Cooper Iohn Dawes and Richard Kellet Land-men A Whale is ordinarly about 60 foote longe When the whale comes aboue water the shallop rowes towards him and being within reach of him the harpoiner darts his harpingiron at him out of both his hands and being fast they lance him to death The whale is cut up as hee lyes