A NOVEL ALMANAC, 117

I cAMs ON SHORE HERE ON THE
30ru or SupremBer 1659. Upon
the sides of this square post I

 
   
  
 
 
  

cut every day a notch with my
knife, and every seventh notch
was as long again as the rest, and
every first day of the month

as long again as that long one,

“7 cur 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