[864] Boiled some of our biscuit. [↑]
[865] Namely, at Bear Island, on the 1st of July, 1596. See page 85. [↑]
[866] Verscheurende—ravenous. [↑]
[868] Cinghel—shingle; beach. [↑]
[869] Aldus aent eylandt ligghende—lying thus by the island. [↑]
[870] The Strait of Nassau. See page 27, note 4. [↑]
[871] Lepel-bladeren—spoon-wort or scurvy grass (Cochlearia officinalis), once in great repute as an antiscorbutic. [↑]
[872] Jae meest al van de scheurbuijck alsoo gheplaecht waren, dat wy naulijch voorts mochten, ende deur dese lepelbladeren vry wat bequaem, want het hielp ons so merckelijcken ende haestich, dat wy ons selfs verwonderden[[227]]—yea, most of us were so afflicted with the scurvy that we could scarcely move, and by means of this spoon-wort we were much recovered; for it helped us so remarkably and so speedily, that we ourselves were astonished. [↑]