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[[preprinted]] July, TUESDAY, 17. 1860. [[/preprinted]]
What do you now propose to do?

This case may be an exception to the Rule

1st count the cost
or rather
1st

[[preprinted]] MONDAY, 30. [[/preprinted]]

We had none.  As for meat our greatest & [[Chiefest?]] feeding was the whale fritters & these mouldy too the loathsomest meat in the world.
For our venison 'twas hard to find & harder to get: & for our 3d sort of provision the bears, 'twas a measuring cast wh. should be eaten 
[[preprinted]] TUESDAY, 31. [[/preprinted]]
1st, we or on the bears when we 1st saw one another: & we perceived by them that they had as good hopes to devour us as we to kill them.  The Dutch killed bears tis true: but it was for their skins, not for their flesh.  The Dutch had a surgeon in their Co. but none but the great Physician to take

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[[preprinted]] August, WEDNESDAY, 1. 1860. [[/preprinted]]

[[strikethrough]] This Nova Zembla [[strikethrough]]
76° N Lat
In Nova Zembla the Dutch wintered in 1596
In

[[preprinted]] THURSDAY, 2. [[/preprinted]]

God's power & Providence shewed in the Miraculous Preservation & Deliverance of Eight English Men Left by Mischance in Greenland 1630
Nine months & 12 days

The Dutch were furnished

[[preprinted]] FRIDAY, 3. [[/preprinted]]

with all things necessary both for life & health; had no want of anything: bread beer & wine, they had [[strikethrough]] all [[/strikethrough]] [[grand?]] & good stores.  Victuals they had God's plenty, & apparel both for present clothing & stuff too; & all this they brought with them in their ship.  We (God knows) wanted all these; bread, beer, wine

Transcription Notes:
The book is damaged and missing part of the first page which exposes an earlier entry. I think "stuff" in the 5th line from the end refers to material to make clothes.