Some of the entries in the account book are curious.  These are some of the items in the preliminary expenses:—­

“Jowsey’s Bill for harpoon stocks and seal clubs, L3 2 8
To ye master to get hands in Shetland, 21 0 0
To ye sailors to drink as customary ye first
  voyage, 1 1 0
A crimp shipping seamen, 0 6 0

Then in 1776 comes:—­

“By ye crimp’s bill Sept. ye 20th, 225 0 6

Each voyage meant an advantage to Pickering, for it supplied the salt pork for the sailors.  These are some of the entries:—­

“1776.  Paid for piggs at Pickering, L65 5 0 1777.  Do. do. 59 19 6
       Tom Dobson for carriage of do., 1 11 0
       Window broke by firing a signal gun for
         sailing, 0 4 6
1778.  Cheeses at Pickering, L 2 10 9
       Paid for Piggs at Pickering, 55 14 5
       Tom Dobson for carriage of piggs, 1 3 0
1779.  James Gray’s lodging ashore time of ye smallpox, 0 15 0
       Paid for piggs at Pickering, 51 2 0
       Paid at Saltergate for boys eating, etc., 0 4 6

[Illustration:  A Typical Cottage of the Oldest Type.

This is at Hutton Buscel.  The small window lighting the ingle-nook is invariably in this position in the oldest cottages, and the recess and the carved oak cupboard door are usually to be found in the wall as in the illustration.  In this, as in most of the cottages, a kitchen range has taken the place of the open hearth. ]

One imagines that these boys were in charge of the pigs.  But they must have been pork by that time for the next entry is:—­

“To Tom Dobson for carriage of pork, L1 16 0

and another entry mentions that it was packed in barrels at Pickering.

“1780.  Grundall Saltergate for lads eating, etc., L0 8 6

Then comes a gap of about eight years, several pages having been torn out.

“1789.  Robt.  Dobson for carriage of pork, L1 4 0 1792.  Lads at Saltergate as they came home, 0 2 6 1793.  A man coming to Pickering to bring news of
         ship—­be ashore, 0 8 0

This apparently means that a man was sent to Pickering to tell the owners that the Henrietta had arrived.

“1799.  Piggs at Pickering, L125 9 8 1801.  Do., 181 8 8 1802.  Do., 208 4 6 1815.  Old Tom’s expenses, turnpikes at Pickering, 0 6 6