Note 350 — THE THIRD VOYAGE NORTH-WARD TO THE KINGDOMES OF CATHAIA and China, in Anno 1596.
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The 27 of December it was still foule wether with a north-west wind, so that as then we had not beene out in three daies together, nor durst not thrust our heads out of doores; and within the house it was so extreme cold, that as we sate [close] before a great fire, and seemed to burne350 [our shins] on the fore side, we froze behinde at our backs, and were al white, as the country men351 vse to be when they come in at the gates of the towne in Holland with their sleads,352 and haue gone353 all night.