[597] Swaert (now written zwaarden), lee-boards or whiskers. These are the boards still seen on the sides of Dutch flat-bottomed vessels, which serve to keep them steady, and to prevent them from drifting to leeward, when sailing with a side wind, or lying to. [↑]
[598] Van hoeden. See page 166, note 1. [↑]
[599] Ende maeckten daer presentinghen over om van een zee waters beschermt te zijn—and placed tarpaulings over them, to protect them (the goods) from the sea-water. [↑]
[602] Dat men noch effenwel onse handen daer aen mochten slaen—so that we could likewise grasp them with our hands. [↑]
[603] Om de buydenningen [buijkdenningen] in den bock ende schuyte te maecken—to make the bottom-boards (ceiling) of the yawl and boat. [↑]
[604] Cleyne vaetgiens—small casks. [↑]
[606] So mede als wy altemet int ys beset mochten werden—in order that whenever we should be enclosed by the ice. [↑]