ii2 N A T U R kA L H I P i O R Y if, Ww O'R W A T.
themfelves piifolifhed, from a principle pf gratitude to-God, and
confequently cannot be ftppbfid'to’have adulterated it with a
•deliberate falihood, they daily found no more than the above-
mentioned j vety- fmalf pbtfibri; on die following day;. their: feareh
was drily anftverdd, though they had» but the day before tom up
all the"6fher ;giafs, and form'^k'ind of a bolfter,
in their ftorc-but, and towards the period of' 'thfcir iriifery, they
met with more than at-firft, but ©h> the twelfth^ dayV when their
delivetanee Was at hand, this efeiflent'?entifely faded: them, fo that
not a blade ©ft k'was to be feefl. But on that day -they met with
fbmething, which had hitherto efeaped their dyes; thobtheid&afch
was confined to fo narrow- limits. waff a little fppt;: above?--
grown with forrel, which they ;-deaFed,,;afldfed on; it withe* devout,
checrfulnefs-j yet, when in the evening Andrew Engelbrecht-
foif crept thither, befog unable .to walk, .he,.found itftrefh grown.
It may be furnufed, that this was another fpot wfofoh hadfote been
touched, but to obviate this, he lays,- that foeyhad takencxa<ft no-,
ticc of the place, having obferved a piece of wood lying" near it. In
the mean time, thefe diftreffed young men, did not^giye^up all hopes-
of being delivered , by fome, psrihns who might rdortr . as many
did, to thefe defart mounfemafior th^vcafiians^radi^^ha^^awn
them thither. The inftrument which" providence made ufe of
for their preparation was their dqjg;-i who after cpntinumg right
days with their little baggage on. theiffeoife; bad/ retanfesh hrwnpp
howling and meaning: Frcmi the: gdef of tdns faidrifei epabiredt
was concluded they had met with, fome mifefortune, arid a man
was immediately difpatched to the mountain in feareh of them;
coming thither on :the efev<fotft day;bhe.tould /get, no; light of
them, but found their clothes,- -frei and from feyeral mpsks, ■ he
conjedured they had not been there for a eonliderable- time, upon
which he immediately returned with the mela^hfily new^ that
they were probably drowned On the, twelfth .day; being the i?th
ofAuguft, OkveEngelbrechtfen, appearing to be at lh}e laft gifp,
his heart throbbing with a, violence lb as to be heard, they funk,
into defpair, and Andrew, the younger, with what remains. of
fhength he fad, cut out on fame pieces of timber which were meft
in fight, a cohc^Ee, relation of then unhappy fate; and the text,
upon which he ehofe their funeral fermon flaould be preached,
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K T A T U R A L H I S T O R Y fof :m O R W A T \ 0 3
Pfalm lxxiii.- vef. *2,v,afld 26. After this tf i^ ^ u tu a lly eneo^-
yaged each other fofthe /hope-of eternal. felftity,bto patience, and
perfeverance in faith, jointly recommending thertifelvesffo' God,
fold totally defplfofoj^cjfiall temporal relief; -fince the ^hov^menr
tinned fierb had failed them. But in the. flight between the twelfth
and;'thirteenth day of .their famine,; b^fog- the, eighteenth,day of
Auguft, their hearts were, revived,; by the found of horfes galloping
up the-mountains* upon, which; they .called out, 'and.,being heard;
th e ; riders flteWuto their affiftance, and fputting'off in their boat,
which, as another inftan.ee of Gpd’s patermleUre,, had received
nO. damage, brought them afhory. Food being offered to them,
the elder brother coujd eat very litde of in and, the little ;he did
eat, threw him into ftucK a difordec,'as‘after his, return fogagepon*
fined „him eighj; days to his bed; however, heffurvived it thirty^,
feve^l^’e^-s. The younger ^brother found vhi&felf'Ids. incdmft
mpded, and in the year 1691 drew up thft relatfen,. panicul|rly
thanking God, that their dog, the fubordfoate mufaaa; o ftth d r
deliverance, had not ,£wam over to them when they called, and
made all the figns imaginable,' with a view oft killing ftm for
their fiiftenancc. I beg....pardon for this di^dfiota, and reft the
truth ’of. the fad: upon the authority of the party 'himfeif. •
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Aftpr thus treating ,of grain and grafs,. thechieft fuftenance o £Ml> Ifinda of
men ana otner.ammais.; t±Le culinary anagaraen vegetables are garden vege.
the next, in ptclet-. for our coniffleratibn'. ^Tfie conunonj^ople
here, and efpeciaUy;iinHthp,cptiSti-y,.,0 ^ :very ftttle tafte'for fchpfe
afifi even the towns and cities ided'.,torhe fupplied from England
and Holland with cabbage, leeks, and other' roots.’ But in this
century, efpecially within, thefe forty, yeaqs, a foreign fuppiyl Is5 become^
left neceflary, as gardening, grows more ’'into vogue, for
which the country is partly indebted, to a yery, ufeful little piece,
intitled^Tfie Norway Horticulture, publi£h,ed at Drontheim, hy
Chriftian Gartner; and a happy experience has fhewn, that all-
kinds efculent vegetables thrive in our gardens; |tMyTnfo^^e:
cabbage qf aft, kinds and* colours, green, whi'tb;:’ br red, dikewife
green peas, common and #ench heans, afpa||^s,;|htticho.aks,
melons; cucumbersj garlic, “payfley, fellary, marjoram, thyme,
i ’iage,