A NOVEL ALMANAC. 117

I cAME ON SHORE HERE ON THE AM

- 80TH or September 1659. Upon | wl zt
the sides of this square post I bY i CAME ONn/ iH
cut every day a notch with my |, SHORE HERE’
knife, and every seventh notch Se ey 659
was as long again as the rest, and = weg
every .first day of the month
as long again as that long one,

  
   
      
 
 
 
  

  

“y CUT EVERY DAY A NOTCH WITH MY KNIFE.”

and thus I kept my calendar, or weekly, monthly, and yearly
reckoning of time.

In the next place we are to observe, that among the many
things which I brought out of the ship in the several voyages
which, as above mentioned, I made to it, I got several things of
less value, but not all less useful to me, which I omitted setting