I did come with the lad and four horses.

I went before the team, and set the men to work to break a hole through a great old wall, which stood as it were before the ship.

We then laid a piece of timber across the hole from which was a chain, to which the tackle, that is the rope and pulleys, was hooked.

We then hooked one end of the rope to the ship, and set the horses to pull at the other.

The ship came out of the hole prosperously enough, and then we had to hook the tackle to a tree, which was growing near, and by this means we got the ship forward; but when we came to soft ground we were obliged to put planks under the wheels to prevent their sinking under the immense weight; when we came to the end of the foremost planks we put the hinder ones before, and so on; when there was no tree at hand to which we could hook the tackle, we were obliged to drive a post down to hook it to.