about the monasterie.
Their houses are builte about the hill on euery side, in forme rounde, and 25. foote broade, and in mounting vpwardes they goe narower and narower, leauing at the toppe a litle hole, whereat the ayre commeth in, to giue light to the house, and the flore of the house is so hot, that being within they feele no colde at all. Hither in the sommer timeTrade in sommer time from Trondon to S. Thomas friers in Ingrouelãd. come many barkes from the Ilands there about, & from the Cape aboue Norway and from Trondon. And bring to the Friers al maner things that may be desired, taking in change thereof fishe which they drie in the sunne or in the colde, and skins of diuers kindes of beastes. For the which they haue wood to burne and timber verie artificially carued, and corne & cloth to make them apparell. For in change of the two foresayde commodities all the nations bordering rounde about them couet to trafficke with them, and so they without any trauell or expences haue that which they desire. To this monasterie resort Friers of Norway, of Suetia and of other countreys but the most part are of the Islandes.Resort of friers from Norway & Sueden, to the monasterie in Ingrouelande called S. Thõ. There are continually in that part many barkes, whiche are kept in there by reason of the sea being frozen, wayting for the season of the yeere to dissolue the Ice. The fishers boates are made like vnto a weuers shuttle, taking the skins of fishes, they fashiõ them with the bones of the same fishes, and sowing thẽ together in many doubles they make them so sure and substanciall, that it is miraculous to see, how in tempests they will shut thẽselues close within, and let the sea and winde carrie them, they care not whether, without any feare eyther of breaking of drowning. And if they chance to be driuen vpõ any rocks, they remaine sounde, without the least bruse in the worlde: And they haue as it were a sleeue in the bottome which is tied fast in y͏ͤ middle, & when there cõmeth any water into their boat, they put it into the one halfe of y͏ͤ sleeue, thẽ fastning y͏ͤ ende of it wͭ two peeces of wood and loosing y͏ͤ band beneath they conuey the water forth of the boate: and this they doe as often as they haue occasion without any perill or impediment at all.
Moreouer, the water of the monasterie being of sulphuriousor
