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[[top third of page torn out, showing entry from previous page]] [[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 [[end page]] [[start page]] [[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
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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.