for transporting of graine, for victualls for the ship,
which is in much smaller quantity, because it is best for the
private use of a few within the ship; the only best and safest
way, is, to take salt-fish barrells, or any caske in which any
salt-fish hath beene piled, as cod, herrings, salmon, sprats, or
any other powdred [_i.e._, _salted_] fish; and whilest the
vessels are sweet, you shall calke them both, within and
without, plaster [and] daubing them all over; then into them put
your graine of what kinde soever it be, and head them up close,
and then stow them in such convenient dry place of the ship, as
you shall thinke fit; and questionlesse, if beliefe may be given
to the worthiest authors, which hath writ in this kinde, you may
thus keepe your graine sweet, sound and in full perfection from
one yeere to an hundred and twenty yeers; but certainly daily
experience shows us, that all kind of graine thus put up and
kept, will remaine sound and sweet, three, foure, and as some
say, seven yeeres, for so far hath lately been try'd; and what
here I speake of [on] ship-boord, the like may be done in any
town of war or garrison, whether besieged, or not besieged, or
in any other place, where any necessity shall compell; the
proofe of this manner of piling or putting up of graine, serveth
as well for land as sea.

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