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Updated: May 9, 2025
Our fowlers have had as bad success. The snow is by this time pretty well wasted in the woods. We have a high tree on the highest part of the island which we call our watch-tree, and from the top thereof we can see far over the seas, but we find no appearance of breaking up yet. May 24. Very warm sunshine. The ice doth consume by the shore side, and cracks all over the bay with a fearful noise.
This day I went to our watch-tree, but the sea was still firm and frozen, and the bay we were in was full of ice. June 16. Here have there lately appeared divers sorts of flies, and such an abundance of mosquitoes, that we are more tormented with them than ever we were with the cold weather.
"A plague upon the beast!" he cried. "He hath slipped halter and strayed. I had come up with the young lord while I seek my horse." It was some ten minutes before the animal was discovered quietly browsing and brought back to the watch-tree, and then a sign must be made on the tree to let his companions know whither he had gone, so that they might follow immediately on their return.
These have been indeed days of fear and of confusion, but also, in the end, of comfort. Yesterday evening I went up to our watch-tree, taking a man with me, who should make a fire on the highest place of the island, to see if it would be answered.
After we had moored her we went all to prayers, and gave God thanks that had given us our ship again. June 19. There hath been the highest tide that we have known since we have been here, and in a happy hour have we got our ship off. This evening I went up to our watch-tree; and this was the first time I could see any open water, anyway, except that little by the shore-side.
"There be not many that know this path." Meanwhile Richard Wood, one of the other spies, had unexpectedly returned, read the sign on the watch-tree, and followed his companion. It was at this moment that Hugo discovered that Fleetfoot was not with them. In the excitement of getting under cover of the forest he had not noticed the dog's absence.
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