Note 497 — THE THIRD VOYAGE NORTH-WARD TO THE KINGDOMES OF CATHAIA and China, in Anno 1596.
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The 20 of March it was foule weather, bitter cold, and a north-east wind, then our wood began [by degrees] to consume,497 so that we were forced to take counsell together;498 for without wood we could not liue, and yet we began to be so weake that we could hardly endure the labour to fetch it.