the Iles of Gods mercy the Master sent this Author over to discover this Iland to the North and North-West he met with a covery of Partridges and kild onely the old one it was barren land having nothing thereon but water plashes and torne Rockes as though it had beene subiect to earthquakes to the North of this Iland there is a great bay or Sea they know not what it may prove there was a great Iland of Ice on ground which with the spring tide was set on float and carried to the N W. but came not backe within sight here they found some drift wood on shoare From thence he stood to S W. to double the land to the W. off him through many peeces of Ice at length he found a cleare Sea and raised land to the N W. whereupon he stood more to S. then before and fell amongst Ice which he would have doubled to the N. but could not then he stood to the S W. amongst the Ice and strove to get to the land but could not for the Ice from out of this bay he stood to the North and was soone cleare of the Ice then he stood to S. W. and W. where he was inclosed with land and Ice having land on the one side from the S. to the N W. and on the other side he see land from E. to W. but the land that lay to the N. and lay E. and W. was but an Iland he went so farre as he could and made fast to the Ice the tyde brought upon him but the ebbe did open and made way and 7 or 8 houres he was cleare and with the great Ilands of Ice was carried to the N W. He stands to the W. along the S. shoare and raised 3 Capes or headlands one above another the middlemost is an Iland with a Bay which he thinkes will prove a good harbour he names them Prince Henries Forland when he had laid these he raised another which was the extreame part of the land looking towards the N. upon it are two hils but one above the rest like an humlocke he names it King Iames his Cape to the N. of this lyes certaine Ilands he names it Queen Annes Forland he still followed the N. shoare beyond the Kings Forland there is a Bay wherein lyeth some broken land and close to the maine but he passed by on the night From thence he stood to the N. and W. to double this land againe and fell with land that stretched from the maine like a shoare from S to N. and from N to W. and downe to S again here a storme takes him and he stands to N. and raises land then he stood to S. againe for he was loathat any time to see the N. shoare the storme continuing and he comming to the S. he found himselfe shot to the W. a great way which he mervailed at considering his leaward way to S. W. ward off this land there is a hill he named Mount Charles to the N. and beyond this is an Iland that to the East hath a fore head land and beyond it to the W. other broken land where he thinks may be found a good harbour he names this Cape Salisbury He then left those lands to the North-East and fell into a ripline or overfall of a current which he thought to be shoald water but had no ground he put on still in sight of the South-land and raised land 2 leag from the maine he tooke it to be the North maine but it proved an Iland having a very faire Head-land to the West which he named Cape Digges on the other side to the East was another Cape or head-land which he called Cape Worstenholme betwixt which two he sailed South He sends the Boate on shore to Digges his Iland and in her going she was overtaken by a storme of Raine Thunder and Lightning they came to the N East-side being high-land but with much adoe going to the highest part they find some plaine ground and Deere 4 or 5. And after 16 in one Heard but could not come nigh them with Musket shot Thus going from place to place they see to the West a Hill higher then all the rest it was steepe and they could not get vp to it but on the South-west side and on that side was a great water pond from whence on the South runneth a streame of water as much as would drive a Mill falling into the Sea and in this place bred great store of Fowle and the best grasse grew there they had seene since their comming from England they found Sorrell and Scurvey-grasse in great aboundance they found likewise Hills made like to hay-cockes within which were great store of Fowle hanged by the neckes they tooke many of them and downe a valley carried them to their Boate. In this time the Master had brought in the Ship betweene the two lands shot off some peeces to call the boat on board for it was a fogge they perswaded him to stay heere for refreshing but he would not but sailed downe to the S. the land beares E from him and the same Maine that he had all the time followed he looseth the sight thereof because it fell away to the East and after he had sailed 25 or 30. leag he came to shallow water broken ground and Rockes which he passed to the S. and in a storme of winde the water still shoalding he came to anchor in 15 fathomes After this he wayed and stood S E. for so the Land laid and came to have land on both sides then he anchored and sent the Boate on land the Land on the W. was a very narrow point and to the S. there was a large Sea He stood to the South betweene these two Lands in this place not above two leagues and in the sight of the East-shore in the end he lost sight thereof and came into the bottome of a bay into 6. or 7. fathom water then he stands vp againe to the N. by the West-shore vntill he came to an Iland in 53 deg where he tooke in water and ballast From thence he passed to the N. but some 2 or 3 dayes after there fell some reasoning concerning their comming into this Bay and going out the Master takes occasion to reviue old matters and displaces his Mate Robert Ivet and also his Boate-swaine for words spoken in the great Bay of Ice he places Robert Bylot his Mate and William Wilson Boate-swaine and then stands vp to the N vntill he raised land and then downe to the S. then vp againe to the N. and then downe to the S. and on Michaelmas day he came in and went out from certaine Ilands which he sets downe for Michalmas Bay from thence he stood to the N. and came into shole water the weather thicke and foule He anchored in 6 or 7 fadomes and lay there 8 dayes before which time he could
as followeth may better satisfie then the historie it selfe can jâ—lusâ—erate The Example ADmit a ship to be nere the shore to the N. W. of the point of Portland in Dorset-shiere with easie S. S. W. gale standing W. close hal'd the Flood-tide being comming in from about the Berry into the Bay of Lyme falling S. E. into the Race shall take the said ship vpon the Lee-bowe and in despight carrie her into the Race at the S. point of Portland it setting E. where then shee shall stemme the same whose greater force she not being able to ouer-haile shall tacke her about the said Point and then setting E. N. E. and N. E. vpon her wether bow shall carry her into the grasse now with same wind same tide and same winding shee shall bringe the same land W. S. W. or S. W. vpon her this same happened to me at this new head-land which being in the night did not a little stumble mee to find out vntill my remembrance questioned with my experience to find the cause which otherwise we must haue thought that wee raised a new land for which similie as other jnducements to the furtherance of this enterance I haue named the same fore-land my Lord Westons Portland Heere followeth the Demonstration The tydes do abate to morrow being quarter day the last Moneths September night was some lightning This day wee see the Sun but to no use I drive along the coast with an easie breath from N. some snow fell Standing along this coast betwixt the Queenes Cape and Da 22 L. Westens Portland I named another headland Cape Dorchester remembring Captaine Davis writeing of Secretarie Walsingham who saith that at his death this Voyage was left freindlesse though I am sure this Noble Successour revived it againe with his best furtherance and my incouragement I came to this Cape at 6 this morning I had along the land 20 fathomes there are store of Sea Mors in this Sea the land doth lye full of Snow it freezeth the very Ship side and steepe tubbes the Capes as L. Westens Portland and Cape Dorchester are distant about 20 leagues the land stretching to the S E. to the North of L. Westens Portland I named Foxe his farthest the deep Bay or Inlet to the S. betwixt the same and Cape Dorchester I named the North side Poynt Barte that on the South browe Carleton This Meridian I was in 65 d. 30 min. Cape Dorchester bore S E. by E. 4 leagues I have come backe againe from L. Westens Portland 26 leag S E by S. which is about 1 deg 5 min. and I was to the W. of it 12 min. added maketh 1 deg 17 min. to 65 deg 30 min. maketh 66 d. 47 min my furthest N. this day the wind was all over at clocke 4. it came to the North and having stopt the flood tyde going 2 knots ½ I wayed and came along S S W. and S W. by S. as the land did cost and fell into 40. 60. 78 fathomes and then it being night I did recount I was past the overfals to S the Queenes Forland then I directed the course to be S. This morning Aurora blusht as though shee had ushered Da 23 her Master from some unchast lodging and the ayre so silent as though all those handmaides had promised secrecy the Eastermost of Mill I le bore S E. by E. the North Mayne from the Kings Promontory stretching E. away Prince Charles his Forland so named by Bilot bearing E N E. and at the East-â—ide of the said Forland goeth in a very fayre sound I named â—t the Prince his Cradle an Iland on the West I named his Nurses of this Cape 1 league I had 120 fathomes the Prince his Forland doth lye 5 leagues S E. from the Kings Promontory yesterday the Carpenter laid downe haveing not Moneths September beene well for diverse dayes before it was little wind with great store of Henbans and Pettidancers a common incident to these parts in cleare nights This fayre day wee came along the North Mayne E S E Da 24 with N W. wind 10 leag distant from the Princes Cape E South-East lyeth a fayre Cape I named Cape Dorcet and 3 leagues to the East of that is another I named Cape Cooke in due respect to Sir Iohn Cooke Secretary of State with a deepe Bay betwixt them as it were halfe incircleing an Iland remote from the Mayne I named it Ile Nicholas the former names given as Cape Linsey Cape Portland Cape Dorcet Cape Dorchester Cape Cooke I gave in duetifull remembrance of those Lords Commissioners for the Admiraltie whose furtherance and countenances in my dispatch for his Maiesties Pinâ—ace the Charles I had towards the accomplishment of this designe I le Nicholas I named it in remembrance of Master Edward Nicholus Secretary to the said Lords whom I have often troubled I named those Capes as the occasion in my discoverie offered it selfe The land to the East from Ile Nicholas along the North Mayne lyeth in sight North East by East and the same Mayne from Cape Dorcet by Cape Cooke lyeth East by North about the former distance at the end thereof there is no land to be seene to the N. I directed the course from Ile Nicholas E S E. This evening clocke 8 I was distant as before from the I le 8 leagues and Salisbury was from mee West by South one halfe Southerly 12 leagues I lancht away from hence true Course as all is set downe East South East This noone I had steered this course 4 watches 25 leag Da 25 to bring mee betweene the Salvage Iles and Prince Charles his Cape upon the South Mayne at this time the body of the â—ortheâ—most I le bore from mee N N E. one halfe N about 6 leagues the night was close but faire weather this night and last day wee came by many small Ilands of Ice all the small chattered which this strait laid so full of being desolved and gone for we see none since we came from Sea Horse Poynt this day was some Snowe God continue Moneths September this W N. W wind for wee have many that already have made a Scurvie Voyage of it the Mr. is up againe running as before 5 leagues at clocke 4 Cape Charles bore S W. by S 1 â— S. about 12 leagues off These Ilands called Salvage Iles lye N. W. from one greater Iland I cannot say it to be the North Mayne because it doth bend to the Northwards both from the W. and E and therefore the W. end I take to be that named the Queenes Cape at the E. end doe lye 2 Ilands the one bigger the other lesse I named the one Sackfield the other Crowe after Sir Sackfield Crowe late Treasurer to his Majesties Navie from the W. to the E. of this land or Iland is many showes of Sounds or Bayes ragged and high the land being barren to sight From the last noone to this I made
our honour before we obtaine it for it may credibly be affirmed that this Virgin is yet pure and untoucht either by Christian Indian or other nation although many great dowries have beene spent about her and some brave Knights have bid faire for her yet it is not to be doubted but that the English have imbracâ—â— her about the middle Onely these make for our purpose that the â—hinois extend their coast to the N. E into 50 d. and know no other but that they may continue it further The other is Paulus Venetâ—â— who sailed along the coast of Mangia from Cataia towards the N E. 1500 miles this doth argue that we have not straits or passage to saâ—le from so far W. as we have bin to the end of our Discovery into Mare del Zur Resting my weary invention upon the staffe of this opinion for a while to bee better satisfied concerning this Current which the most Authors insist so strongly vpon as makes me doubt if I were to follow thereby to find the end of this Dedâ—lâ—s his Laborinth I should very hardly have any hopes of returning againe the same way because they urge so vehemently upon this naturall motion of the Orbes so as in Magellans Strait men are violently driven backe inferring thereby that all things included shall by consequence follow the same so that I should fight against the streame to Returne the same way But while I am thus pondering out this doubt its prompt into my minde that if all things included must follow then should also the Earth walke in the same Revolution with his neighbour the Sea as also my selfe and yet keepe at the same distance so as I am never the nearer nor further for my purpose by those Circular motions But now my Iudgement wishes me to stay nearer home and let these wandering travels of the thoughts past for that my owne experience is better able to satisfie me then all those Elimentary cogitations and thus in few words as thou didst cary a flood tide along with thee through Fretum Hudson to Swans-Nest from the E. out of the Hyperborian so hast thou found another on the W. side thereof comming from the W. out of the Mare del zur which shall bring the home againe with the like expedition whreby thou wert carryed forth The Probability WEe have observed in the former Iurnals of Sir Martin Frâ—brisher Davis Waymouth Hall Knight and Mr. â—udson that the current doth set from the E. side of Groneland over to the S W and W and that nere the coast it sets W. in wherein we have floated all this time and thereby are brought to harbour in Resolution where it flowes 5 fathomes right up and downe and if the account brought unto me by my men may be beleeved that the flowing doth farre surmount this and that a E S E Moone maketh full Sea it doth also appeare bâ— Mr. Bylot that farther within the straits as at Salvage I le a S E. Moone brings high water and that it flowed â—quall water with Resolution as also at the Iles of Gods Mercy by Mr. Hâ—dson it â—lowed above 4 fath they being almost in the halfe way the distances being nere 85 leag the course W. N. W. 31 deg and differing in Latit nere about 1 d. from Salvages to Mill Ile is 59 leag W. by N. where it â—loweth nere 4 fath and a S S E. Moone and in all those three channels in which I have beene viz. betwixt Sir Dudly Digs his Ile and Notiâ—ghams Ile betwixt that and Mill I le as also betwixt Mill Ile and the Kings Promontory in all these 3 I say for I have had sure triall and so had no man before mee that the tide of the flood doth come from the S E. running halfe tide and with as swift a current as goeth in the River of Thames from Mill I le to the S. side of Sea Horse Poynt they being distant 25 leag I found the tyde to flow as nere as I could take it by the lead line 20 foote and a S. by E. Moone full Sea the tide of ebbe there holding his course doth but onely slacke for the time of floud about 4 howres which strong tide in the two N. most channels betwixt Nottingham and the Kings Promoâ—tory by all likelyhood doth contiâ—ue his pasiage betweene Cape Comfort on the West and my Lord Westons Portland on the East returning their waters into Frâ—tum Dâ—â—is by the Iles of Cumberland For the tyde that commeth on the South Channell between Cape Wâ—lstenholme and Salisbury I le are consumed in strength and flowing setting into Hudsons Bay betweene Swans nest Sir Robert Mansils Ile and Sir Dudley Digges the most part of the latter flood falling into Hudsons bay From Sea-horse Point on the West to Caries Swans-nest the distance is about 58 leagues there it doth flow but 6. foote in height and but 4. houres in time for Hudsons Bay hath devoured the latter flood so as heere wanteth both tyde and time to wit from neere 5. fathomes to 4. to neere 4. to 20. foot but now to 6. foot yet this flowing is continued according to the Moones course to wit from E S E. to S E. to S S E. to S by E. to S by W. Which is an evident and assured token that this Tyde was fed and continued from the Easterne Ocean comming in betwixt Cape Farwell in Groynlaâ—d and the North maâ—â—e of America but now ended heere into this great Bay and â—bly â—etuâ—ned baâ—ke againe at the recourse of the tyde For in Mr. Hudâ—â—â—â— Voyage the tyde of flood the ship setting on ground upon a Rocke was found to come from the E. the â—â—be from the W which was no other then the Tyde and thâ—t came in and set forth betwixt Cape Wolstenholme and Cape Digges It is now probable that this Tyde of the S. Channell comming from the East is not an end and that Tyde on the North is turned away as I have found by experience at Carie Swannes Nest Standing from hence 7â— leagues into the latitude of 64 10 m. which is to the North of that high land called Hopes Advanâ—'d I found a Tyde setting from the North as the land did their coast which Tyde did flood above 20 foote water in the dead neepe as it was at my being there and that it did runne halfe tide being full Sea about clocke 11. So as about a W. S. W. Moon maketh full Sea I was commanded by the letter of my instruction to make a perfect Discovery either by Ship or Boat of all that undiscovered betwixt this latitude and Port Nelson and also that betwixt Port Nelson and Hudsons West Bay in which discovery I now came to finde that I was out of my way for sayling from this land where I found this new Tyde which land I have named Sir Thâ— Rowes Welcome it being on the Northmost known part
by espying certaine Worlockes which the Captaine had caused to be set as Beacons for to give him knowledge of their being In this his absence from the Admirall the Saluages had done them much violence the Captaine had taken three of of them whom he kindly intreated others of them he slew this evening he takes in his provision of fresh water He sets on land one young man to be left in the Countrey to his cruell fortune and this was done by expresse command of the State-holder of Denmarke before his comming sorth they also in the Pinnace set another on land both being malefactors giving of them small necessaries It may be those people lived a long time after and may bee yet living if the Salvages have not devâ—ured them he sets sailes and comes to Sea where he found much drift Ice with a high Sea which he thought to be a current setting through Fretâ—â—â— Davis to the Southward as by experience he proved for by observation this day at noone he was in Latitude 62 deg 40. m. whereas the day before he was in Latitude 66 deg 10 min. having made by account a S by W. way about 10 leagues this current he did find to set along the Coast of Groenland South by East 15 This day he was in Latitude 57 degrees the 16 day close weather he meetes with a mighty skull of Whales amongst drift Ice and meetes also a great current setting West North-west over for America This is the current found by Frobrisher comming from the East and butting upon the East-side of Groenland and doth strike along the Land to Cape Christianus otherwise called Cape Farewell 1 Hee met with a skull of Herrings so that he knew himselfe not farre from Orkney he was in Latitude 58 deg 40 m. and sounding had 42 fathomes very sandy ground with some blacke dents when shortly after and the same day in the evening he sounded againe and had but 20 fathomes dented ground he was neere the shore before he saw it for it was thicke weather 10 He came to Elsenore Rode in Denmarke The second Voyage of Master Iames Hall from Denmarke to the further discovery of Groenland with five Shippes observed 1606. â—7 HEe set forth from Copemanhaven and went betwixt Orkney and Shotland the 7 of Iuâ—e which day one of the Groenlanders dyed it seemed it was one of them he had brought from thence the yeare before 14 He accounteth himselfe to be 19 deg 45 min. from the Meridian of the Naes of Norway 14 He steereth away W. the wind S E. and thick weather he imagineth himselfe in 58 deg 10 min. Latit at which time by reason of a Northerly Current contrary to his expectation he had made a West way Southerly 22 leagues and then as he supposeth the Compasse varied West-ward one point 1 He sees land being 8 leag off with a great banke of Ice lying off the S W. end thereof he supposeth it to bee Busse Iland and that it lyeth more to the West-ward then it is placed in the Marine charts Steering away W by N. he was in a great Current setting S S. W. the which he did suppose did set betwixt Jseland and Busse I le over with America from hence he steeres away W N W. 6 He found himselfe to be in 58 deg 50 min. whereby contrary to his expectation he did plainly see the South-erne current to be the cause this Evening he found the Compasse to be varied 12 deg 5 min. West-ward this Night their Pinnace and Vice-admirall come foule of one another 8 He was in 59 deg 30 min. and findes still the Current and variation to carry him to the South-ward of West 10 He sees the Coast of America in Latit 60 deg 16 min. about 9 leagues off and findes the needle varied 23 deg W. the hill tops were covered with snow the shore to the N. full of Ice he had a Current set West into the shore and indangers him Had not a gale fresh at S West brought him off 18 Vntill this day he passed many Mountaines of Ice at Noone was in 63 deg 45 min. Latit 19 Being amongst much Ice and plying to get cleare saith he seeth the Land of America in 64 Latit it lay S and N. very high and ragged covered with Snow He findes still a strong Current to the West from the Latit 51. his Compasse was placed ¾ of a point to East-ward of N and was carried almost 4 points to West-wards beyond his judgment he found this Current to set W N W. the Compasse varied 23 degrees From the 20 vntill the 25. he passeth and traverseth over from the West side for Groyneland and had sight of Queene Annes Cape 10. leagues off 27. He seeth the Capes he named the last yeare as Cape Annt Cape Sophy the Foords also as Rumells foord Christianus foord and puts into Coninghams foord where he saith the Silver was The Salvages come on board and barter with them for Iron with Seale skinnes and Whale-fynne he searcht vp the Foord and findes it to be but a Bay with many greene and pleasant Ilands the people to the number of 25. followes them with their Boates some of his men on Land travailes vp the Mountaines and sees raine Deere 6 There fell some small difference amongst them about choosing of an anchoring place the water being deepe and they removing from their first Road-sted further vp the River where it floweth S E. and N W. in Latitude 66 deg 25. minutes 9 The Captaine went vp the River with his Boate where they came to see their winter Houses which were builded with Whales bones the baulkes thereof were of Whales ribbes and covered with Earth they had certaine vaults or roomes vnderground 4 square two yards deepe in the Earth The towne consisteth of about 40. houses they found the buriall of their dead the Corps wrapped in Seale-skinnes and stones laid in the manner of a Coffin over them This day they take 5 of the inhabitants to bring into Denmarke to be informed of their Country which they call Secaâ—â—nga and say that within the Land they have a great King who is carried vpon mens shoulders 10 They come forth of Rumels foord and in great danger got to Sea being inforced betweene certaine Ilands which lye off Cape Sophie 4 leagues into the Sea the last yeare he named them Knights Ilands being got there he came into 66. deg 50. min. Laâ—it W N W. from Cape Sophy 15 leag off 18 He goes within sight of shore being all high land like Ilands and great store of Ice betwixt him and the same 28 He coasted to and againe amongst Ice vntill this day having had a storme and meetes one of his Fleete which had beene separated from him he fell with two bankes of Ice and is 8 leag off Desolation by account but could not
a travis And above all the variation of the compasse whose wonderfull opperation is such in this Bay encreasing and decreasing so suddainely and swift being in some part as in Wolstenholmes and Smiths Sound varied above 5. points or 56. d. a thing almost incredible and almost matchiesse in all the world besides so that without great care and good observations true description would not have beene had In fine whatsoever my labours are or shall be I esteeme too little to expresse my thankfull mind for your many favours wherein I shall be ever studious to supply my other wants by my best endeavours and ever rest at your worships command William Baffyn The Journalls of his Voyage set forth at the charge of the right worshipfull Sir Thomas Smith Knight Sir Dudley Diggs Knight Mr. Iohn Wolstenholme Esquier and Mr. Alderman Ioanes with others in the Discovery Robert Bylot Mr. himselfe Pilot. 1616. HE set from Gravesend and went about by the W. by Ireland and the first Land hee saw was within Fretum Davies in 65. degrees 20. minutes on the 14. May the forenoone and 6. of the people being on fishing came to him to whom hee gave small peeces of â—ron and they keeping him company with great love suppose he had intended to come to anchor but when they see him stand off from shore they followed a while and then went away discontented as he thought Hee prosecuted his voyage being loth to Anchor as yet although the wind was contrary but plyed to the N. ward untill he came into 70. d. 20. m. there he entred a faire sound neere Cape Davies his London coast the people espying him with great wonder and gazing fled away in their Boates and after this night hee saw them no more yet they left there Dogs running to and fro upon the Iland At this place hee stayed two dayes taking in water and doing things needfull the Tydes not rising above eight or nine foote made him dislike of the passage it floweth ¼ past 9 upon the change day the Tyde commeth from the South At N. Sun hee set saile and plied to the Northward with flood Tyde Hee found a dead Whale about 26. Leagues from the shoare hee made fast to her and got some sinne out of her the next day he was enforced by storme to leave her having stood from her not above 3. Leagues N. W. hee came toIce then and tackt into the shoare againe and a great storme ensued This day he came faire by Hope Saunderson Captaine Davies his farthest betweene 72. d. and 73. that evening at N. Sunne hee came to Ice which hee put into plying all the next day to get through He was cleere off the Ice and not farre fromshoare the wind North East hee put in amongst divers Ilands the people seeing him fled away leaving behind and under a small Rock hidden two young Maids or women the Ship riding not farre off the Master with some others went on Land they making signes to bee carried to the Iland where their Tents were there adjoyning When they came there they found two old women more the one to estimation 80. yeares the other younger there was also one woman with a child at her back who had hid her selfe amongst the Rocks untill the other had told her how kindly they had used them in giving them peeces of Iron and other trifles in change whereof they gave them Seale skins other things they had none save dead Seales and fat and blubber which the poore women were very diligent to carry to the Boate and put into their Casks making shew that the men were over at the Maine and at another small Iland something more Eastward then they made signes to them that hee should shew them his shippe and set them where the men were the foure youngest came into their Boat and when they were in the Shippe they much wondred and they gave them of his meate which they taâ—ing would not eate two of them hee set to the Iland where they found the men to be the other two he set to their Tents againe those thâ—â— went to seeke the men could not find them but came backe to the Ship againe and were set over to the other side This place they called Womens Iland it lyeth in 72. degrees 45. minutes the Flood commeth from the S. ward at deepe Tydes the water 〈…〉 not above 6. or 7. foote S. S. E. Mâ—one 〈…〉 full â—â—â— the â—nhabitants being very poore living châ—eâ—ely upon Seales flesh dried which they eate raw and cloâ—â—â— themselâ—es with the skinnes as also they doe cover their Tents and Boates therewith which they can dresse very well the women differ from the men in apparell and are marked in the face with divers black streakâ—s or lines the skinne having beene raised with some sharpe Instrument when they were young and black colour put therein so growne in that by no meanes it can be got forth Concerning their Religion he saith little onely they have a kind of worship or adoration to the Sunne to which they will point striking their hand upon their breasts and crying Elyoute there dead they bury on the sides of the hills where they he making a pile of stones over them yet not so thick but that he could see the dead body the aire being so piereing that it keepeth them from stincking savour so likewise hee hath seene there doggs buried in the same manner This day hee set saile from thence with faire weather the wind contrary yet hee plyed it up betweene the Ice and shoare as it hath beene in a channell of 7. or 8. Leagues broade on the 9 〈…〉 was in 74. â— â— much pestered with Ice neere â— small Ilands lying 8. Myles from shoare where hee anchored Those Ilands hee taketh to bee frequented by people at the latter end of the yeare as it seemed by the houses and places where their Tents had stood but as yet they were not come the flood Tyde was very small not rising above 5. or 6. foote yet the ebbe runneth with indifferent stream caused by the melting snow from off the mountaines Seeing that as yet hee could not proceed hee determined to stand in for the shore there to abide untill the â—ee were more consumed which he plainely saâ—â— to wast very fast hee came to anchor 73. 45. m. here hee continued 3. dayes without any shew or signe of people This day there came 42. of the Inhabitants in their Canoes they gave him Seale skinns and many peeces of the horne of Vnicorne and shewed him divers peeces of Ice Mors teeth making signes that to the N. ward were many of them hee gave them in exchange thereof peeces of Iron glasses and Beads 4. severall times they repayed to him bringing alwayes of those commoditie aforesaid by reason whereof he called this place Horne Sound Here hee staid 6. dayes and on this day at night sets sayle with
upon the West side of Bâ—â—â—ons Bay whereas there it flowed so much water as before and a W. S. W. Moone now coasting along this West side upon a S. W. by S. true course as the land did lie about 18 leagues to an Iland I named Brâ—â—ke Cobham there the best observation that I could make I found that it flowed a West by South Moone and but 10 foot the neepe Tyde but indeed I doe distrust this account as in my journall doth appeare Coasting from hence to Port Nelson 130 leagues I found it there to flow a N. W. Moone and in the neepe Tide but 9 foot water and the best Spring Tyde assisted by the wind brought in but 14 foot water and after from thence towards Hudsons West Bay it flowed lesse water vetâ—unne with course for the time of full Sea went with Sunâ—e so as it was easie to conjecture that I went from the Tyde which is especially to be incerted to make this Treatise to be better understood and how this tide doth waste it selfe Now it cannot be denyed but that this Tyde that is moved according to the course of Tydes with his constant ebbing and â—lowing so great a distance as about the West side of this Bay câ—â—cuting neere betwixt Hudsons Bay and Sir Thomas Roes Wâ—lcome the distance of it neere 253 leagues having many rubbes and checkes by the way amongst the ilands and shoals should be able to repaire and recall againe this huge quantity of waters every 12 houres if it were not fed and â—upplyed from some great and waste Ocean nor if there prove to be a passage as is most likely as hereafter shall follow it cannot be conceived but that it must be so spatious as cannot be visable betweene land and land and why may it not be that there is no straight but that the Sea lies open to the North as at C. Finmarke after that the land doth trent Westward as may be suspected by the want of ice that the land being farre remote to the North or West the South doth keepe it selfe from frigitating by its continuall chaâ—ing and adjectating as we see by the iles of farre shotland and Orkney standing in and neere the same parallel with our frozen Fretum Hudson where no Snow will lie for any time in Winter the cause may be by the Seas moving about them their circuits being so small as the Seas breathing through the Tydes and winds contiuuall chafing about them doth evaporate some part of his warmenesse into the Ayre whereby the frost is restrained from the exercise of his power for the Sea hath a kinde of temporature betwixt too hot and too colde in the hot and cold Zones it is much to bee hoped by this want of ice that as at the North Cape of â—inmarke although I doe assure mee that this passage lyeth South-wards off that parallell and about the Articke Circle that this Continent of the Septentrionall part of America may incline to the West Southward about this latitude as that of Europes doth to the East for by this flowing of water in 60 d. 10 m. neere 4 fathomes as at Resolution in the East it cannot be farre to the winding of the land Westwards The next is to inquire from whence this Tyde should come for that is the way to the passage for it cannot be said to come from the East through Fretum Hudson for there need no more to disprove that then what went before when that Tyde did end at Carie Swans Nest in flowing but 6 foote and 4 houres as it doth at the height of all Rivers being farre from the Sea Should it come from the North then it should as well Current that land on the East side of this Bay to Carie Swans Nest along that small distance of 40 leagues if such a thing be at all or no as upon the West side For 250 leagues of now knowne discovery setting from the North it should divide equall waters betwixt them which is found to the contrary and if such land doth lie 40 leagues along from Swannes Nest Westward then is there not aboue 30 more for the brenth of the passage froÌ„ through whence this ride doth come which I should thinke were to narrow to let in and out so much water in the time mentioned to bring any flood on this side now in handling for at Swannes Nest the flood set West and the Ebbe East and if this Tyde going West were met with more water from thence it must flow extraordinarily high at the Nest as in great Rivers in time of land-waters the Sea flood meeting puts up the waters to such heights as doth inforce all their bounds and rejected the Tydes course which I found to be constant for that I was there two floods one ebbe and a halfe How can it now be imagined but that the Tâ—de doth come from the West and so coasteth along the same side as wee may observe upon all Tydes from what sea soever they come looke upon what side they enter they Current the same and so doth this for that called Vtultra never proved Bay yet and who hath named the same might as well be deceived here as at other places by fogs bankes for if this part be protracted I cannot see that there is any discovery made at all on both sides betweene Hubarts vaine hope and Swanneâ— Nest worth the noting Therefore it must be confest that this Tyde doth come from the West so inclining to that shore and that it is a Tide hath been proved for I doe not thinke that there 's any that will pretend inundating impulsing or ingulfing and that it doth proceed from some great Ocean is without all contradiction for comming to this West side I found great store of fish playing at the crust of the water and of great fish which is a maine argument for there was Whales Sea-mors and Seales of which there are infinite which fish doe not hive in Winter but in deepe Oceans and that those Whales must come from the West is certaine for all the way from Cape Farewell in all that distance of neere 500 leagues we did not see one untill I came there which if there had beene any lying so long becalmed and amongst the ice having light nights we should have seene them for they are fish that affect to play and breath above the water The maine land was high within Sir Thomas Roes Welcome as in all the straights besides with deepe water to shore whereas discovering Southwards it fell to bee low land with shallow shore at 11 fathoms wee could but see it upon the hatches This is much contrary to the Oceans who are bounded with high mountainous climes steepe Promontories ragged Rockes and inamoled Ilands subsisting upon insearchable deepes salt and greene-coloured waters wherein live the great sishes Now let us compare this Tyde with some others neerer our owne home with which we are the most familiar as
wish their pride to know that Gods mercy is over all his Creatures and hath created as good men in the North as in the South let no man bee disdained misprised or vndervalued for his wants except in Vertues For I doe not thinke but litle Mr. IEFFERY that pretty Courtier can pitch his eye-sight as high into the Firmament as Mr. EVANS his Maiesties great Porter And for Sea-men where have you better than the Scotsh-men are and yet North-Countrey men It was also cast into my dish that I was an Officer of the Admiralty a poore conceit to obiect against me for this vndertaking and as much as to say as the greatest Civilian held to be in Christendome cannot be capable of higher Promotion if hee belong to the Admiraltie I have also placed a Polar Map or Card that this Discoverie may be the better vnderstood and for that I did desire to give satisfaction by Demonstration of all treated of in the Booke for otherwise another proiection could not have contained it but at vnreasonable diversity and because I cannot describe all the Names in Fretum Hudson of Capes Ilands and Bayes at length in Letters in respect of the smalnesse of the Degrees of Longitude I have inserted them in a table by the letters of the Alphabet as thou shalt find beginning with A b c d and tracted my owne way and discovery foorth and home in small prickes I acknowledge it to be but rough-hewen like Ship wrights â—imber but what it wants in smoothnesse or forme let thy good Report licke it into I trust I shall not need to vse the fashion of Authors to make any doubt of carping Momus or rayling Zoilus seeing I have intended thy Good without any Reservation to my selfe But I feare mee I have held thee too long in this place like him who purposeth to take a long Iourney stumbles vpon his owne threshold but have Patience for I had rather be in fault then want I have here prostrated my duty to my King and my service to my Countrey craving thy favourable acceptance I rest From Kingston upon Hull this first of Ianuary 1635. Thine in all welwilling Luke Foxe CERTAINE TESTIMOnies concerning King Arthur and his Conquests of the North regions taken by Mr. Hacklute out of the Histories of the Kings of Brittaine written by Galfridus Monamutensis newly Printed at Hedleberg 1587. Lib. 9. Cap. 10. IN the yeare of CHRIST 517. King Arthur in the second yeare of his raigne having subdued all parts of Ireland sayled with his Fleet into Iseland and brought it and the people thereof into subjection the rumour being spred throughout all the other Lands that no Countrey was able to withstand him Doldanius King of Gotland and Gunfacius the King of Orkney came voluntary unto him and yeelded their obedience promising to pay him Tribute The winter being spent hee returned into Britaine established his Kingdome in perfect peace he continued there for the space of twelue yeares Lib. 9. Cap. 12. After that King Arthur sending his Messengers into divers Kingdomes hee summoned such as were to come to his Court aswell out of France as out of the adjacent Ilands of the Sea and a little after from these adjacent Ilands came Guillaumarius King of Ireland Malvatius King of Iseland Doldunus King of Gotland Gunnotius King of Orkney Lot the King of Norway and Archilius King of Denmarke A testimony of the Right and Appendances of the Crowne of the Kingdome of Brittaine taken out of Mr. Lambert Fol. 137. pag. 2. ARTHVR which was sometimes the most renowned King of the Britaines was a mighty valiant and famous Warriour This Kingdome was too little for him and his minde was not contented with it hee therefore valiantly subdueâ— all Scantia now called Norway and all the Iles beyond Norway to wit Iseland and Groenland which are appertaining unto Norway Sweveland Ireland Gotland Denmarke Semeland Windeland Curland Roe Femeland Wireland Flaunders Cherilland Lapland and all other Lands of the East sea even unto Russia in which Lapland he placed the Eastmost Bounds of his Brittish Empire and many other Ilands beyond Norway even under the Pole which are appendances of Scantia now called Norway he planted the Christian Faith throughout all Norway matched their Nobility with Brittish bloud called Norway the Chamber of Brittaine and incorporated them unto us Another testimony out of Galfridus Monumetensis concerning the Conquest of Malga King of England Lib. 11. cap. 7. MALGO succeeded Vorciporius which was the goodliest man in person of all Brittaine a Prince that expulsed many Tyrants hee was strong and valiant in warre taller then most men that then lived and exceeding famous for his vertues This King also obtained the Government of the whole Iland of Brittaine and by most sharpe battailes he recovered to his Empire the sixe Ilands of the Ocean Sea which were before Tributaries to King Arthur namely Ireland Iseland Gotland Orkney Norway and Denmarke The Voyage of Octher to the Northeast parts beyond Norway reported by himselfe vnto Alfred the famous King of England about the yeare 890. OCTHER sayd that the Countrey wherein he dweit was called Helgoland hee told his Lord King Elfreed that he dwelt furthest North of any Norman he sayd that he dwelt towards the North part of the Land towards the West coast And in another place hee affirmeth that there was no man dwelling towards the North from him and aâ—lirmed the land to stretch farre to the North yet all Desert and not inhabited Vpon a time he fell into a fancy to know how farre the Land stretched Northward whereupon hee tooke his voyage directly North along the Coast having alwayes the Desert land upon his Staâ—board and upon the Larboard the maine Ocean and continued his course for the space of 3. dayes in which space hee was come as farre towards the North as the Whale-hunters used to travell hee proceeded to the North as farre as hee was able to sayle in other 3. dayes at the end whereof he perceived the Coast turned toward the East or else the Sea opened with a maine Gulfe into the land hee knew not how farre well he wist and remembred that he was faine to stay till hee had a Westerne wind and somewhat Northerly and thence hee sayled plaine East along the Coast still so farre as hee was able in 4. dayes at the end of which time hee was compelled to stay untill he had a full Northerly wind for as much as the Coast bowed downe thence directly towards the Southward at leastwise the Sea opened into the Land that he could not tell how farre so that hee sayled alongst the coast directly South so farre as he could travell in five dayes and at the 5. dayes end hee descryed a mighty River which opened very farre in the land at the entry of which River hee stayed his course and in conclusion turned backe againe For he durst not enter so feare of the Inhabitants of the Land
with the lands end of England and puts into Milford haven in the Admirall The 2. barkes were separated at Seaby storme the one arrived at Bristow the other came about Scotland and arrived safely at Yarmouth In this voyage they lost two men Queene Elizabeth named the land Meta incognita Things Remarkeable in this second Voyage THey are men of large Corporature good proportion and of colour not much unlike the Sunne-burnt Country man They weare their haire something long cut disorderly before their women weare their haire long knit up with two loopes some of them Races their cheekes chins and faces whereupon they lye a colour like darke Azure They eate all their meate Raw as flesh fish fowle or but lightly perboyled with water and bloud they will eate Ice as we doe Suger For necessity they will eate grasse like bruit beasts without table or stoole and when their hands are imbrued in blood they licke them cleane with their tongues They yoke their Dogs for use as wee doe Oxen and when they grow old they fatten them to eate and if they dye they doe the like They apparell themselves in skins of Beasts Fowle sowed together with the sinewes thereof to defend them from cold They make their apparell with hoods and tailes which tailes they bestow as favours to ratifie any friendship showen them the mens garments are not so long as the womens They weare their hose close to their legs from the wast to the knee without any opening before as well the one kind as the other upon their legs they weare hose of leather with the fur-side inward 3. paire at once especially the women in these hose they put their necessaries they carry about them they put also a bone into their hose from the foote to the knee whereon their hose being drawne are held up in place of garters They dresse theyr skins very soft and supple with haire on in winter they weare the skin-side inwards in Sommer outward other apparell they have none Their beasts fishes and fowles are all their meate drinke apparell houses bedding and all their Riches Their houses are tents covered with skins pitched with quarters foure square meeting at tops sewed together with sinewes their entrance is alwayes ore against the Sunne They have other sorts of houses which they found not to be inhabited raised with stones and Whale bones and covered with skins the entering not unlike unto an ovens mouth which they frequent during their hunting time and so leaves them untill they come thither againe They have 2. sorts of Boates the one only for one man the other for 16. men they kill all their fish and flesh with darts and it may be thought they repaire to some other place to live in winter farther from the Sea side they will eate theyr flesh and fish smell it never so filthily what knowledge they haue of God or what Idoll they adore is unknowne they make signes of people that weare bright plates of Gold in their foreheads The Country is high and mountainous great quantity of snow lying thereon there is little plaine ground and no grasse but that which is like unto mosse growing upon soft ground such as we get turffe upon There is no wood at all There is great quantity of Deere their skinnes like unto Asses their heads or hornes doe farre exceed any both in length and breadth of those Countryes their feete are great as Oxen which measured were 7. or 8. inches in breadth their are also Hares Wolves fishing-Beares and sundry sorts of Sea fowle The 3. Voyage of Sir Martin Frobrisher this Voyage the Queene gave him a Chaine of Gold Articles to be observed in his Fleete 1. INprimis to banish Swearing Dice and Card playing and filthy Communication and to serve GOD twice a day with the ordinary service vsed in the Church of England and to cleare the glasse according to the old order of England 2. The Admirall shall carry the light and after his light be once put out no man to goe on head of him but every man to fill his sailes to follow as neare as they may without indangering one another 3. That no man shall by day or night depart further from the Admirall than the distance of one English mile and as neare as they may without indangering one another 4. If it chance to grow thicke and the wind contrary either by day or night that the Admirall be forced to cast about before her casting about she shall give warning by shooting off a piece and to her shall answer the Vice-admirall and the Reare-admirall each of them with a Peece if it be by night or in a fogge and that the Vice-admirall shall answer first and the Reare-admirall last 5. That no man in the fight discrying any saile or sailes give vpon any occasion any Chase before he have spoken with the Admirall 6. That every night all the Fleete come vp and speake with the Admirall at 7. of the clocke or betwixt that and eight and if the weather will not serve them all to speake with the Admirall then some shall come to the Vice-admirall and receiue the order of their course from Mr. Hall chiefe pylot of the flight as he shall direct them 7. If to any man in the flight there happeneth any mischance they shall presently shoote off 2. peeces by day and by night 2. peeces and show 2. lights 8. If any man in the night come vp and hayle his fellow knowing him not he shall give him his watch word Before the world was God the other shall answer him if he be one of our flight After God came Christ his Sonne so that if any be found amongst vs not of our company he that first discryeth any such saile or sailes shall giue warning to the Admirall by him selfe or other that he can speake vnto that sayles better then he being neâ—rer vnto him 9. That every ship in the fleete in the time of Fogs which continually happen with little winds and most calmes shall keepe a reasonable noise with Drum and Trumpet or otherwise to keepe themselves cleere one of the other 10. If it fall so thicke and misty that we lay to Hull the Admirall shall give warning with a peece and putting out lights one over the other to the end that every man may take in his sailes and at his setting of sailes againe doe the like if it be not cleare 11. If any man discover Land by night that he give like warning that he doth for mischances 2. lights and 2. peeces if it be by day one peece and put out his flag and strike all sailes he hath abroad 12. If any ship shall happen to loose company by force of weather then any such ship or ships shall get him into the Latitude of and so keepe that Latitude vntill they get Friâ—land they shall get them into the Latit of and to the North of and being once entred into the straights all
she was exceeding leake and the shallop also and which was worse they had never a Rudder to steere withall yet they rowed all night amongst Ice 1 and 2. They rowed up and down amongst the driving Ice with little hopes to recover their Countrey 3 The wind at N. they had a great current set to Southward they make fast to a peece of Ice and went to worke to stow their things snug close downe within board to make her stiffe for they had no ballast the Carpenter makes what shift he could to hang their Rudder having nothing to make Gudgions nor Pintels they were faine to breake open the Masters Chest to take the Iron bands to make fast 2 pickaxes for 2 pintels this Night they hang the Rudder with 2 pintels and a Cable through the middle of it to keepe it too with two tackes now were they in good hopes to get cleare for before their ship being Leake with her stem sore beaten with Ice and Rockes themselves with pumping and rowing were both sore and wearie 4 This day the wind came W N W. and was faire weather they got cleere out of the Bay the Noone-watch and was the first they had of long time before being all glad to watch to conduct the Ship cleare from the Ice their ship was so leake that if she stood vnpumped but halfe an houre they could not dry her with 1000 stroakes therefore they were inforced to Rumige and found many leakes but not that which caused them to pumpe so sore at last they find it close abaft the fore-foote where the keele was split in 2 or 3 places they could not come to stop it for it was vnder a timber in at which the Sea came so fast as it was not possible to keepe her free with both pumpes then did they take their maine bonnet and basted it with Okum and put it over-board right against their leake which eased them 4 or 500. stroakes in an houre they all this day consult to shape their course for New-found-land hoping to meete with some English or French and to mend their Ship at this time one of their men was very sicke another had his hand splinted and most of them all were so sore with rowing and pumping as they were not able to stirre but that they must perforce 5 They shape their Course for New-found-land 21 They fall with land being nothing but Ilands Latit 49 degrees 30 minutes 22 Faire weather they stand in among Ilands and a great Current set from Iland to Iland no ground at a 100 Fathoms they keepe too and fro all this night in great danger being among broken Rockes with thicke weather 23 They espie a dozen shallops fishing they make towards them they tooke harbour and remained in this Bay o Fogo untill the 22 of August repairing their ship and refreshing themselves the 24 of September they arrive a Dartmouth This journall from the death of Master Iohn Knight wa writ by Oliver Browne one of the Company An Abstract of the Voyage of Master Henry Hudson to the Northwest begun the 17 of Aprill 1610. and ended with his life being treacherously exposed by some of his Company 22 IN the Road of Lee in the River of Thames he caused Master Coolbrand to be set in a Pinke to bee carried backe againe to London This Coolbrand was every way held to be a better man than himselfe being put in by the Adventurers as his assistant who envying the same he having the command in his owne hands devised this course to send himselfe the same way though in a farre worse place as hereafter followeth 5 He came to the Isles of Orkney and here he set the N. end of the Needle and the North end of the Fly all one 6 He was in latitude 59 d. 23 m. and there he perceived that the N. end of Scotland Orkney and Shotland for hee visited them all as he saith are not so Northerly as is commonly set downe in the Charts 8 He saw Farre Ilands in Lat. 62. 24 m. but he staid not there 11 He fell with the E. part of Iseland then plyed up along the S. part of the land and came to the Westmost and the 15. he still plyed up untill the last of May and got some fowles of divers sorts 1 He put to Sea out of a harbour in the Westmost part of Iseland and according as hee writeth plyed to the Westward in Latit 66d 34 m. 2 He was in Latit 65 d. 57 m. small wind Easterly 4 He saw Greenland perfectly over the Ice this night Sun set at N. and rise N N E. The 5. he plyed in 65 d. still incom bred with Ice which hang upon the câ—â—st of Greenland 9 He was off Frebrishers sâ—raâ—â—s and pâ—ide Southward untill the 15. and then he was in Latit â—9 d. 27 m and had sight of Desolation and finds the errour of the former lying downe of the land running to the Northward as he saith untill this day in 60 d. 42 m. he saw much Ice many riplings and overfallings and a strong streame setting West Northwest 23 In sight of much Ice wind variable and in latitude 62. degrees 19. minutes 25 About midnight he saw the land North but was suddenly lost yet he runne still Westward in 6â— deg 19 min. and he plyed upon the South side seeking the shore he was troubled with much Ice in latitude 52 deg 16. min. 8 Hee plyed off the shore againe untill this day the Polâ—s elevation 60 d. 0 m. he saw the land from N W. by W. ½ N. unto the S W by W. covered with snow a Champion land and cals it Desire provoked 11 He plyed still to Westward and fearing a storme he anchored by 3 ragged Ilands in uncertaine deepes betweene 8. and 9 fathomes he findes the harbour unsufficient by reason of sunken rockes one of the which was the next morning 2. fathomes above water which he had gone over hee calls them the Isles of Gods mercy it floweth here better than 4 fathomes the stood came from North flowing 8 a Clock the Change day the latitude in this place is 62 d. 9 min. 16 Plying to Southward untill this day he was in 58 deg 50 min. there he was Imbayed with land and had much Ice 19 Vntill this day he plyed Westward and found his latitude 61 deg 24 min. where he see a Bay in the South land which he named Hold with hâ—pe 21 Hence he plies to the Northward had variable winds and findes the Sea more growne then he had any time since he left England 23 The Poles height was 61 deg 33. min. 25 He saw the Southland and named it Magna Britania 26 He was in latitude 62 deg 44 min. 28 He plied Southward off the Westward and was in 63. deg 10 min. 31 Plying Southerly he found himselfe in 62 d. 2â— min. 1 He had sight of the North
shoare from the N E by â— to the W. by S. the N. 12 leagues off the W. part 20 leagues he had no ground at 180 fathomes and he thought hee see land bearing E N E. on the Suns side but could not make it perfectly here he found the latitude 62 deg 50. min. 2 This day he had sight of a Faire headland 6 leagues off which he called Salisburies Foreland he ran from thence W S W. 14 leagues in the midst of which he came in to a great whirling Sea whither caused by the meeting of a streames or overfals he knew not thence sayling W by S. 7 leagves farther he was in the mouth of a straight and had no ground at 100 fathomes the straight not being above 2 leagues broad in the passage in this Westerne part which from the Eastern part of Fretum Davis is distant 250 leagues 3 This day he put thorough this passage which was narrow after his men had been on land that did observe the flood-tide did come from N. flowing by the shore 5 fathoms After he had sailed West by South 10 leagues the land fell to the Southwards and the Iles to the West left him he observed and found himselfe in 61 d. 20 m. and a Sea from the Westwards He names the Cape on the Star-board C. Digges being an Iland that on the Larbord stands upon the maine named by him Cape Worstenholme here is all I finde extant of his owne writing although he lived untill Iuly following before he was exposed A large discourse of the said Voyage and the successe thereof written by Abacuk Pricket Who lived to come home They came to the Iles of Orkney and from thence to Farre one day being calme they fell to fishing and kild good store of God and Ling from thence they raise the Iles of Westmony in one of which the King of Denmarke hath a fortresse by which they passed to raise the Snow-hill-foote a mountaine so called on the N W. part of the land and in that course they see the famous Mount Hecla which cast out much fire a signe of foule weather to come they leave Island on sterne and met a maine of Ice lying upon the Northpart thereof which when they see they stood backe for a Harbour in Island called Derefer where he kild good store of Fowle from thence they put to Sea againe but the wind not serving he puts back againe into another harbour called Lowsie Bay heare they found a Bath so hot as would scald a Fowle He put forth for Groenland and thought he saw land but iâ— prooved a fog banke He raised Groenland but great store of Ice hung upon the land this land is Mountainous with hils like Suger loaves covered with Snow He coasted along betwixt W and N W. untill he saw Dissolation which is a great Iland on the N W. part of Groenland here he saw great store of Whales some came about and under the ship but did no harme From hence he directed his course N W. and would have hailed more Northerly if the winde would have suffered him in this course he see the first mountainous Ice about the last of June he raised the land N. off him he tooke the same to be that Iland which Capt. Davis set in his Chart on the W. side of this straight he would have gone to N. thereof but the winde would not suffer him so he fell on the Southside into a great ripling or overfall of a current into this current he went and made his way Northward off W. untill he met with Ice which hung on this Iland wherefore he cast about to the South and cleared himselfe and then stood to the W amongst some store of sloting Ice and upon the Ice store of Seales he still made way N W. and meetes sometimes with Ice and then againe cleare thus proceeding betwixt Ice and Ice he sees a great Iland of Ice overtumble which was a good warning to him not to come neere them the next day he had a great storme and was driven to put in amongst the Ice and there to lye some of his men fell sicke he will not say for feare though he see no other signe of griefe The storme ceasing he put from the Ice standing W S W and N W. and as the cleare Sea and Ice would suffer him seeing the sea thus continued he would seeke to the S. but the more he strove the worse he was for he was fast inclosed and began to dispaire as he after told this Writer hee thought he should never have got out of this Ice but there haue perished Wherfore he shewed him his Card that he was 100. leag further than ever any English man was and referred to their choyse to proceed further or no whereupon some wisht them at home others any where so from amongst the Ice but in this distraction there passed words which was thought upon long time after There was one told the Master that if he had a 100 pound he would give 90 therof to be at home but the Carpenter made answere and said if he had 100. he would not give 10 upon any such condition but would hold it as good money as ever he had any and by Gods leave to bring it as well home well to worke they goe and with labour get the ship cleare the sea being also cleere a league or 2 off the course now is N N W. in the end he raised high land at S. W. covered with snow and names it Desire provokes he heard the noyse of a great overfall of a tide that came out of the Land and now he could well discerne that formerly he had beene imbayed and that Time made his acquaintance so well knowne to the Ice that when wet fogge or foule weather came he should make fast to the broad peece of Ice and run and sport and fill sweete fresh water upon the same after he had brought this land to beare S off him he had a current or tyde to open the Ice being carried first one way and then another but in bayes they lay as in a pond without mooving in the Bay wherein he was thus troubled he see of those Icie mountaines on ground here was 120 and 140 fathomes of water and here he sees a Beare upon the Ice his men gave chase to him but lost him by the tydes carrying away the Ice the Beare was gone out of their reach He continued his course towards the North-West and raised land to the North and Ice where there was a Beare which came from Ice to Ice untill she came neere them and then she runne away hee stood along on the South side of this land meeting with Ice which seeing he stood into the shore and found a harbour in the West end of this Iland he went over one Rock of two fathomes and a halfe and at low water it was so much bare he names it
protract this Voyage to try whether this ut ultra proved a Bay or no must begin here and proceed to Carys Swans nest From this noone untill midnight he stood N. E. by N. 18. leagues with much winde and goowne Sea From midninght being in 15. fathoms the weather hazy the winde S. W. he stood off N. E. by North 12. leagues till noone seeing the weather like to be bad and at 3. in the morning he found his depth not answerable to his expectation for he had but 25. fathom and at â— past 3. 21. fathom hee stood S. E. till 4. that morning and had 30. fathom 27. About 6. this morning hee gave order to take in his Skiffe the weather clearing he saw land N. and by E. about 5. leagues off and was as the other land that hee last sawe something higher and having edged in with the land from this morning 6. untill noone the land was N. E. and by E. from him From noone untill 6. in the evening he steered E. one point without the land 4. leagues at 6. he anchored 32. fathom It was then slake water for at 8. came a strong set from N. by E. at 11 the winde S. S. W. and blew much hee weighed and stood away N. E. with his Fore and Mision Sayles 28 At midnight he put out all sayles and stood N. E. away 4. leagues untill morning 4 having depth then 73. fathom he edged in N. and N. and by E. upon that tyre hee found the night before and runne from this morning 4. untill noone 6. leagues N somewhat Easterly This noone with bould winde S. he loost up for the shore to get an oppertunity if possibly to send his Boat on land to have found which had beene the flood and which the ebbe but when he came within 2. leagues of shore hee found the Bay all broken ground and the Sea full of breaches a good way off the shore and some within one mile under his Lee. The weather growing suddenly very thick he came to an anchor at one a clock in the afternoone and sent the Boat on Land but they had not beene from him halfe a Glasse but it grew so thick that he caused Muskets to bee shot to call the Boat back againe at the end of 5. Glasses they returned saying that having rode halfe an houre at anchor they could discerne no tyde no more could he in the Ship In this place it is a Bay full of small Iles neere the shore under the high land and as he rode bore on him N. N. E. Easterly and S. W. at clock 4. the winde began to blow very much hee wayed and stands E. N. E. of with a S. S. W. winde untill 6. that night the winde encreasing to a great storme he takes in his maine and top sayles and stands away E. N. E. with a foresayle at 8. a clock he had 63. fathom and so standing one houre longer it began to shoald contrary to expectation he came into 50. fathom for that to fore running Eastward hee alwaies depened his water which now shoalding he edged of E. till midnight they had but 44. fathom which perceiving he found that he was imbayed therefore to prevent further danger he strook sayle and lay to Halle 29. From midnight untill 3. this morning he lay on Hull having the water so shoald and at 3. the weather clearing a little with the increase of the daylight hee saw land from the E. by S. to the N. N. E. Easterly which perceiving hee set his Sayles and flats about his Ship head and stood W. of till noone 4. Leagues Thus at noone it falling calme and hazie he anckors with his ledge Anckor hee feared all the coast along to bee rockie ground and being thus at anckor at 23. Fadome he had at 2. a Clock a little cleare and saw the Land not pastt 2. Leagues from him from the N. to the W. S. W. which together with the Land which he saw in the morning from S. to the E. by S. N. E. Easterly gave him assurance that he was imbayed for that he could not be of that Easterne Land above 7. Leagues Being thus at a Non plus himselfe by observation the day before by his reckoning since to be as far Northerly fully as 65. d. It troubled him something and especially to see the Easterne Land to treul away Southerly well the wind comming about to N. N. E. hee came out of this hee called a Bay and saith hee was enforced therein by extremity of a S. W. wind and yet hee saith that by his not far standing from the West side this Bay cannot be above 16. or 17. Leagues over from Land to Land and in his running hee found the depth of it to be not above 4. and 5. and 30. Leagues But as a wise Gentleman and one well understood in the Rules of Navigation who having exactly surveyd these journall writs in the Margent I cannot find that it proved a Bay nor is it one by any thing herein written and for other things knowne is none About 5. in the afternoone the wind encreased to a great storme he tooke in his Sayles and went away with a free and sprit sayle having 46. Fadome and betweene 7. and 8. hee came after to 62. Fadome and in a cleere hee saw the Land E. and by S. 3. Leagues off From the time that he set sayle this afternoone untill 8. at night he ranne 7. Leagues S. S. W. the wind at N. N. E. At Clock 10. hee stood S. E. hoping to have found the Land to wind away and running but â…“ of an houre he came to smooth water upon a suddaine and had but 26. Fadome And the weather being yet hazie hee saw the Land faire by him bearing E. S. E. very high Land then he edg'd of untill midnight S. S. E. Easterly having come since 8. a Clock 5. Leagues From Midnight Land still in Verioe he edg'd off W. N. W. and at 2. in the morning hee came into 65. Fadome then hee edg'd of W. and S. W. and S. S. W. untill 4. in the morning when the storme was so violent that he was driven to steere away before it with his fore course at 5. this morning by the extremity of the Sea he sunk his long Boate. All this morning he steered untill S. S. S. W. 5. Laagues along the shoare and every stache hee saw the Land not above 3. Leagues from him from 8. untill Noone hee steered S. 5. Leagues then the storme began to lesson and he put out more Sayle And this Easterne Land hee saw to beare S. S. E. Easterly from him and lyeth as neere as he could Iudge S. Westerly and Westerly From Noone untill Midnight hee stood away S. S. E. 13. Leagues and from Midnight untill this noone S. S. E. 6 Leagues and 4. Leagues S. S. W. 31. This day at Noone it was cleere and by his observation
well say one degree more on land to the Northward hee then saw good reason for it At 8. this night the weather being a little cleere with ebbe he wayed and plied to windward to get about the N. W. end of the Iland and being about the West point the ebbe being dâ—ne he saw another point open upon him that bore N. the winde at N. W. in 33. fathoms the weather thick and bad he anchored where in lesse than one houre the tyde of flood came most strong as before from N. W. and by N. whereby he concluded having brought the Northerne point N. from him thaâ— it was the true Channell tyde for had it beene otherwise it would have come as the land lay which was N. but now being open of the land and finding it to come from the N. W. and by N. he faith in his judgement that course and N. N. W. must direct whomsoever shall seeke this passage hereafter And the rather to continue himselfe in this opinion he now to late found that those that were this way first himselfe the last yeere were all of them deceived of the set of the tyde within Sir Dudley Diggs his Iland for there they found it come more Westerly which was caused by many broken Ilands that lye to the Westward of it which he never sawe untill his returne homewards And upon this tyde if I can judge saith he we cannot be deceived for this caveat he doth give to whomsoever shall succeed him in this discovery That whensoever he loseth his strong tyde or finds ground in 200. fathoms let himselfe he is out of his direct course for finding of this Voyage So this his experience upon his unhappy counter-course taught him that whensoever it is to be found it must bee in deepe water and in a strong tyde and in this course that he took he hopes it will not be imputed an errour of his for what he did in the directing of it for it was to follow the letter of his instructions For albeit he was precisely tyed to stand with Hudsons Westerland in 58. d. yet he never came much to Leeward of 61. d. till he was encountered with land 200. leagues Westward from Sir Dudley Diggs his Iland How much in effect I received in a Manuscript from Sir Thomas Roe besides divers others towards the furtherance of my Voyage But further from Abacuk Pricket who saith they came not through the maine Channell of Fretum Hudson nor thorow Lumleys Inlet but that he came through into the Mare Hyperborum betwixt those Ilands first discovered and named Chidleys Cape by Captaine Davis and the North part of America called by the Spaniards who never saw the same Cape Labradorr but it is meet by the N. E. point of America where there was contention amongst them some maintaining against others that them Ilands were the Resolution which Josias Hubbart withstood untill he stood himselfe into the danger of displeasure but at length it proved a new streight and a very straight indâ—ed to come through which resolved all doubts but hereupon all their plots and Iournalls This part which came unto my hands I have writ thinking there may be some that will protract the same he met no Ice in his home comming untill he came into Fretum Hudson and but little there Iournals more taken from them and therefore who doth desire any further satisfaction from this Voyage must seeke it from Sir Thomas Button onely Pricket saith that they were at home in 16. dayes Concerning the Voyage of Captaine Gibbons with a Ship called the Discovery vitled for 12. Monethes in the yeare 1614. LIttle is to be writ to any purpose for that hee was put by the mouth of Fretum Hudson 28 with the Ice driven into a Bay called by his Company Gibbons his hole in Latitude about 57. upon the N. E. part oâ— Stinenia where hee laid 10. weekes fast amongst the Ice iâ— danger to have beene spoyled or never to have got away so as the time being lost hee was inforced to returne The Voyage of Robert Bilot yet forth by Sir Dadley Diggs Mr. Iohn Wolstenholm Alde man Iones 16. 15. in the discovery of 55. tunnes burthen Written by William Baffine THis Robert Bylot had beene in this ship all tâ—â— 3. voyages before viz. Hudson as you finde by Pricket Sir Thomas Button and Gibbons and therefore was a man well experienct that way his company consisted of 16. men and 2. boyes he anchored in Lee read the 18. Aprill 6 Vpon this day he had sight of Groenland on the East side of Cape Farewell that night he had a great storme but hee kept southerly to get cleare of the Ice that lay on shore Hee kept his course untill the 17. day seeing many great Ilands of Ice some doth affirme that there is not above one 7. part of the Ice above water saith Baffine hee observed one peece to be 140. Fathome above water this day hee came to the firme Land of Ice as hee supposed being in 61. 16. the Latitude of the S. part the I le Resolution then hee asked opinion concerning putting in amongst the Ice saying the Sea was on the N. side of the South channell and much Ice hee must passe and if he could get but 2. or 3. Leagues within the Ice it would open every Tyde and so hee should get something on his way having all the channell to the S. on him and with this resolution he put in W. E. N. E. wind this first entrance Baffine liked not well finding scarce a place to put the Ships-head into being 30. Leagues from any Land towards evening they were fast amongst the Ice 22. Sometimes ere day the Ice would something open and so made what way hee could to the N. W. in for the shore untill this day the wind all South yet hee could see plainely so that he seekt to the Southward doe what he could This day the wind came up at N. N. W. and hee determined to stand forth againe for if the wind had come'd at N. E. it had beeene impossible for him to have fetcht any part of the channell againe for he thought he drave fast to the southward with South wind yet he had not seene the Land 23. Hee was also determined to spend 20. or 24 dayes in Fretum Davis to see what hopes would bee that wayes supposing there would be little good done in Hudsons straights for the time limited hee plyed to get to Sea-ward and at Clock 8. in the night hee was cleared from the Ice hee then changed his opinion and stood to the N. all hee could as the Ice would give him leave câ—mming 30. Leagues to N. E. by N. in Latitude 61. d. 50. m. at Clocke 6. the wind came N. N. E. 26. This day was faire and coole but the after noone was close and hazie hee tooke in his sayles and held untill
lea E by S. and 8 S E by E. the wind at N. at 8 in the evening calme but cleare weather they were close about the N. shore in 80 fath he had a ripling of a Tyde to the E. ward the land was something low towards the water but double height within land it lyeth W N W. and ESE This day he past by an Iland they tooke to be the W. most end of the straight and see Sir Dudâ—y Diggs his Iland being high land and see the S. shore and a gut when it beareth S W. seemeth to be 4 miles over they also â—ee Nottighams and Salisburies Ile and a channell betweene them of 8 leag and this strait is over about 15 leag they stood away this day E by N. 1 To this noone from the last 2 â— leag E. by S latit 63. Salisbury bore N N W. and the W. Cape on the N. shore bore N. E. variat 28 d. the wind N E by N. 2 To this noone 21 leag E by S and S S W. 5 leagues this morning he was close aboard the N. Coast it seemeth high ragged land and full of guts he was becalmed and befogged and stood S. wards into the channâ—ll having 1 10. oazie ground There is nothing else oâ— note untill the 7 day when Resolution bore N W. from him The 9 day he was open in Davis his straite in 59 d. 25 m. and had variat 26 deg 10 This day by storme his Pinnace threw over their boate and he lost sight of her This is all that is to be observed that he entred Fretum Hudson the 22 of Iuly and returned from his Search the 16 of August having beene no further to the N. then almost 65d. and vpon the S. side of Fretum Hudson neare Cape Charles the Tide came from S E. as it doth on the N. side the rest is he was set at his entring the mouth of the straite 30 leag to S. of Cape Chidley FINIS COurteous Readers the Printer but especially the Corrector craves your patience for this long Errata following which is also my request although to my unknowledge and in my absence they not being acquainted with the Methode of our Sea tearmes have coÌ„mitted all these mistakes in 6. sheets beginning at N and ending with S. being sent to another Presse for expedition and for others I desire thy good construction promising they shal be amended at the next Edition Marg Pag Li For Reade  113 39 sowing saving  114 20 strong through evill steeridge  116 7 one Mr. Hudson   22 account action  117 34 manured manned  118 18 the he  119 14 for from  121 18 to I hung a plummet  123 13 being beginning  124 33 tire tide Marg 125  began begin   5 me no   23 so to   29 ledge â—edge   39 trent wend.  126 12 free fore   24 verioe view   30 S. â— Â Â 3â— stache stache   36 leave out Westerly   13 drew drive   24 0 30.  127 11 10 â— Â 128 9 0 This 5th  129 40 man Boates.  130 3 men men were   9 mater Winter Marg  3 Mautâ—ls Sir Râ— Moâ—â—ils   17 have leave Marg 131 2 mans Mâ—â—s teeth   18 they hav They would   24 stay Sea   29 83 clocke 8. 3.   36 rulde ride   37 N. land N. and.   39 with N. N   40 by 44 by W. 4.  132 26 is all is as all   29 bad bold   1 turne try   4 he boatâ— or â—ore the Boat comming on board   4 15 fath in 15 fathâ—â— Â Â 3 former hopes former from Hopes  133 15 E. o.   20 Luke note   21 thaverse traverse  135 â— Raffe rate  136 â—â— is 86 and 66.   21 well say well see   6 himselfe himselfe know   17 how muc thus much   32 Iournals Read in the 37 were taken  137 7 about 57 58 and a halfe    Stinenia America    20 weeks 10 weekes   11 10. â—5 1615.  138 2 he seekt he set   â—8 nâ—hld and â—â—ld   25 to to fro to and fro  139 8 maer 5 fa neere 5 fathâ—â—â— Â Â 15 Sumoche Humocke   31 Cannons Câ—â—â—wes   36 Cannon Câ—â—â—w  140 4 little â—ay a little box   12 shot slâ—ad  141 4 morue mored   13 false faire  142 7 so pertise so precise    the â—uyle the angle    not come come   13 welbes will be   16 W. of W W. of London  144 7 the edge eddy  14â— 35 doubted doubled  146 28 perswad perceived  147 5 4 fath 5 fâ—thaâ—s  156 6 â—â— 150   21 he caud 8th he came   22 instruÌ„ent â—nstructions   24 your wil. you William   25 ler    26 your desi ur desired   29 gazing gaging   33 land â—â—end MY PREPARATIONS to the Voyage GEntlemen our Yorkeshire Proverbe is Plaine dealing is a Iewell So it is that I was neither importuned nor intreated to this vndertaking by any eyther Noble or Gentle but the Truth is that I had beene itching after it ever since 1606. when I should have gone Mate to Iohn Knight of whom doth follow yet I must confesse that heere my ambition soared a pitch higher then my abilitie as now time hath made me to know yet his Discretion and Experience taught him to discerne of what could bee in my youth but I presuming vpon some parts I had as the vse of the Globes and other Mathematicke Instruments having beene Sea bred from my Boyestime and had beene in the Mediterranian Spaine France Holland Norway Denmarke and the Balticke Sea thought my selfe to bee fit for the best imployment desired to be pluckt before I was ripe but hee durst not depend vpon me in that place for the Voyage so as I did not proceed with him yet I was still kept in Marine imployments along the Coast and Crossing the Sea whereby I gained Experience and also at the Returnes home of all Ships from thence I enquired of the Masters Mates and others that were that way imployed whereby I gathered by Report and Discourse and Manuscripts how farre they had proceeded what they had done and what was to doe To better which I often repaired to Mr. IOHN TAPPE whose acquaintance was much amongst these men he also acquainting me with Mr. THO. STERNE Globe-maker whom I have found to have engrossed all those former Voyages by Relation Manuscripts and Maps from whom I gathered much and must needs say hee is a
setting more strongly into Fretum Hudson then the ebbe doth set forth doth haile in those mountaines bred in the W. side of Fretum Davis into Fretum Hudson as they are passing by to the South As also this may be noted that here and especially nere within the mouth of this strait the Compasse doth almost loose his sensitive part not regarding his magneticall Azimuth without much stirring the smooth water may be some cause the Ship wanting her active motion but I should strange that the cold should benum it as it doth us Nay I should rather thinke that the sharpenesse of the ayre interposed betwixt the needle and his attractive point may dull the power of his determination or here may be some mountaines of the one side or the other whose Minerals may detaine the nimblenesse of the needles mooving to his respective poynt but this I leave to Phylosophie By this time the kind E N E. breese hath brought me nere the Iland of Nottingham and I am making ready to send the boate on land within 2 miles to try the tyde having cast the lead amongst shels and stones 35 fathomes deepe Sir Dudly Diggs his Iland bare from mee W S W. the E. part of Nottingham E S E. the Pole elevated 63 d. 12 m. and comming betwixt Cape Wolstenholme and the E. end of Nottingham at noon I met the ebbe comming from the N W. as I could perceive by the overfalls I towed my boate into 19. fathomes and sent her on land driving along the Iland untill her returne These Iles as Resolution Salisbury and Nottingham are Da 15 high at the East end and low at the West this Iland was also named by Master Hudson in due bequest to that most honourable Lord Charles Hawvrd Earle of Nottingham then Lord high Admirall of England a small remembrance for the charge countenance and instruction given to the Search of the enterprise and though smaller yet being by his Lordship Moneths July accepted neither time nor fame ought to suffer oblivion to burie for whensoever it shall please God to ripen those seedes and make them readie for his sickle whom he hath appoynted to be the happie reaper of this crop must remember to acknowledge that those honourable and worthy personages were the first Advancers The boate went at clocke 5 in the afternoone they were away 5 glasses it was flood and in one houre it flowed 10 inches they said that it had 2 houres to slow and had about 2 foot to high they brought a little fire-wood and 3 stint birds they found the foundation of an old Tent at their comming on board the W. end of the land bore N and by E. the S E. end S by E. I edged off untill I brought the N W end N E. the E. end E by S. there I caused the boate to anckor in 60 fathomes the tide came from S E. 2 leag a watch We see great store of Sea Mors playing by the Ilands side from thence I directed the course S W. with carrying away with stiffe gale from S E with both top sailes a trip all the night being twi-light clear some few Ice was in the way but by the helpe of the same thankes be to God wee shunned them This morning clocke 8. I had sight of Mansils Ile for I fell right with the North end thereof it is lowe land but the highest is to the East at that instant I had also sight of Sir Dudly Diggs his Iland and I was not certaine whether I saw the East Mayne or no for a fogge came on presently Master Hudson also named this Iland of Sir Dudlie Diggs a gentleman who hath planted many of the best Vines in this Vineyard succeeding his father and Grandfather in the Mathematicks whose learned knowledge together with his purse added no small proportion to this building to whom my selfe and many others of my quallity shall be still beholden while times age continues This afternoone was 2 fogges 2 cleares the 3 was wet fog at clocke 7. I thought I see Cape Pembrooke upon N. Mayne at clocke 4. before I had 90. fath this afternoone wee see many Sea-Mors and had store of Ice W from this Iland of Sir Robert Mansils I thinke so named by Sir Thomas Button as also Cape Pembrooke Southampton and Carie Swans nest the last most eminent of the 3. I stood as ice would give leave S W. and to the Westward at clocke 8. wee clewd up Moneths July all sailes and drive 2 leag in 18 houres The next morning 4. wee had 120 fath owsie grownd at 7. before the deepe was but 96. here we see Sea-Mors had one sight of the Sunne in the afternoone and all this day we heard the Sea beate upon the ice to windward of us Wee stood 2 glasses to the North with wind at East to get Da 18 cleare off the ice wee drive in all this last night and had those depths at 55. 55. 54. the lead brought up a little white Corrall I set saile this day at clocke 4. and thought then that I see land at N. it was hazie and at clock 12 I thought I had got as much as I lost the day before I pusled all this day amongst the ice and at night was glad to make fast to a peece whereon was a white Beare the ice here is not so dirty as it hath been and I iudge my selfe now not farre from Carie Swans nest Was foggie and calme the wind all over the afternoone Da 19 began to cleare the Beare came againe and wee pursued him from ice to ice he swimming and diving at length the Master kild him with a lance and wee made about 12 gallons of oyle of him although he was but young some of it wee eate boyld without any taste at all but like beefe but being roasted it tasted oylie and rammish This night was cleare above head but fog bankes about the Horizon at clocke 12 there was Pettiedancers or henbanes as some write them North in the firmament betokening a storme to follow within 24 houres there was many Starres also in appearance as those of note Charles-Wayne Auriga Botes and Antonius I could have no observation for ice and fogge dimmed the horizon I thought I see land againe at clocke 8. and had deepe 70 fathomes The Master cald to make loose this morning and all those Da 20 3 or 4 dayes wee have beene fast I cold not observe any thing of the tydes set yet I doe account wee are not far from Carie Swans Nest Wee steered as ice would suffer betweene W N W. and W S W. and did iudge wee made way about 4. leagues and one mile easie winde and reasonable cleare at clocke 9. wee make fast to the ice a reasonable Moneths Iuly distance from a low Iland as I seemed for it thought I could see both ends Vpon sight hereof I caused the Boate to be anchored betweene the ship
West Southward The newes from land was that this Iland was a Sepulchre for that the Salvages had laid their dead I cannot say interred for it is all stone as they cannot dig therein but lay the Corpes upon the stones and wall them about with the same Coâ—â—ining them also by laying the sides of old sleddes above which have been artificially made the boards are some 9 or 10 foot long 4 inches thicke in what manner the tree they have bin made out on was cloven or sawen it was so smooth as we could not discerne the burials had been so old and as in Da 12 Moneths Iuly other places of those countries they bury all their Vtensels as bowes arrowes strings darts lances and other implements carved in bone the longest Corpes was not above 4 foot long with their heads laid to the West it may be that they travell as the Tartars and the Samoides For if they had remained here there would have been some newer burials there was one place walled 4 square and seated within with earth each side was 4 or five yards in length in the middle was 3 stones laid one above another mans height we tooke this to be some place of Ceremony at the buriall of the dead neare the same place was one station laid stone upon stone as though they would have something remarkeable there was fowle but so skadle as they would not abide them to come neere them and Ravens bigger then ours we rob'd their graves to build our fires and brought a whole boates loading of fire-wood on board their Corpes were wrapped in Deare skinnes their Darts were many of them headed with Iron and nailes the heads beaten broad wayes in one of their Darts was a head of Copper artificially made which I tooke to be the work of some Christian and that they have come by it by the way of Canada from those that Trade with the English and French Our men found stinking oyle in a fish gut and some small Whale Finnes this Iland I named Sir Thomas Rowes Welcome I stood off into 33 fathomes that night untill clocke 2 the wind West for I was directed by the letter of my instruction to set the course from Carie Swannes Nest N W by N. So as I might fall with the Westside in 63 d. and from thence Southward to search the passage diligently all the Bay about untill I came to Hudsons Bay I was in latitude 63 d. 37 m. plying up with S W. winds Da 28 very faire and cleare weather I saw as it were a headland to the South and petty Islands and broken ground of the Maine here was great store of fish leaping and many Seales I saw one Whale this day the land lyeth S. W. and by S. along I stood W. about the headland the last day shewed me in 7 Da 29 and 8 fathomes untill I raised another white Iland bearing S. W. and betwixt that Iland the Maine which I had now brought N. W. on me there was as it had been a Caw see or ridge of stone but bearing with the E. thereof I fell into 35 and 40 fathomes the tide runne W. by S. one mile â— 7 in one Moneths July houre After this it fell to be easie wind I sent the boate to the land and plyed with the ship thereunto for that wind which was blew from thence and comming neere it after Sunne-set we could see 2 or three huge Whales playing close by the land side in shoale water for we without them in the ship had but 12 fathomes I stood to the S W. end of the Island and there stayed for my boat which came at clocke 11 in the night she had been 14 Glasses from the ship which was thus imployed Item in Rowing to the land 4. one in chasing of Duckes in the next the water fell 9 Inches and for 3 more in the one it fell 3 Inches in the other it flowed 3 Inches and in the 2 last it flowed 2 foot ½ so as it flowed about 10 foot but I doe trust to this In their comming on board they Anchored in 8 fathomes at the Iland point and that was 2 Glasses after those formerly accounted the Tide came from N E. and by E. at 3 miles ½ one houre this point of the Iland made the Tyde goe sharpe by this it may be gathered that it was full Sea at ½ past 12. it cannot be otherwise computated but that it floweth here S W. it being 3 dayes before the full Moone But I am not fully acertained of this Tyde as yet for those Ilands have their severall indrafts and sets betwixt one another for at clock 1. it set W by S. and now it hath neere the same set continuing from 1 unto 10 of clocke more then 9 houres it seemeth strange unto me being a Tyde and no Current to be better satisfied I cannot for the best will runne at their pleasure when they are on land to seeke for such things as the shoare may afford them the worst worst able to give account must keep the boat therefore this account cannot hold with truth nor doth it I named this Iland Brooke Cobham thinking then of the many furtherances this Voyage received from that Honourable Knight Sir Iohn Brooke whom together with Master Henry Brigges that famous Mathematicall Professor were the first that countenanc'd me in this undertaking This Noble Knight graced me in the delivering of my Petition to his Majestie and afterwards brought me to his Royall Presence there to shew the hopefull possibility of the attempt And after this persisting in his kindnesse invited mee to his owne Table where I had my dyet continually assisting Moneths July me with monies towards my expence as also paying for the charge of the Privie Seale and for the ships bringing about from Chatham to London and in some with Master Brigges was at all the charge hereof while the Voyage was put off untill the next yeere when that yong Sir John Wolstenholme was appointed Treasurer Now for this Iland it is all of a white Marble of indifferent height with many water Ponds therein and great store of Fowle especially water fowle they brought on board two goodly Swannes and a young Tall Fowle alive it was long headed long neckt and a body almost answerable for it was but pen-feathered I could not discerne whether it was an Estridge or no within 3 or 4 dayes the legges by mischance were broken and it dyed Our dog being on land hounded himselfe at a Stagge or Reine Deere and brought him to obey Peter Neshfield one of the Quarter-Masters followed the chase and having neither Gun nor Lance let him goe it may be he tooke compassion when he saw the Deere shed teares the dog having hurt his feet very sore upon the hard stones was not able to pursue him and so they parted with blood-shed but it came from the Deere and Dogs feet they did imagine that
call'd to lift the anchor from the ground bring the ship Da 24 to saile the other dayes N. N. W. wind doth make the Seas swelling still continue now the wind S. E. by S. I must stop the ebbes and ply the floods the distance were too tedious and to small purpose to insert here Prayers being ended I called to heave up anchor at clock 8 Da 25 we anchored again this day we made good way to the E S E. and in one Ripling had 40 fathomes land faire in sight upon the hatches but this great comfort was not a furlong long for the water shoaled to the old rate againe presently this night was calme with much raine I had up my anchor clocke 5 and stood along to the East Da 26 sometimes E. S. E sometimes S. E. as the land lay or met mee at noone it came fog â— anchored for 1 houre it clearing up again after dinner I see the land trent to the S. wards wherefore I tooke the Pinnace and went within 2 miles of a point that lay upon our Bowe as we were at anchor nere which point all the land was belaid with round Rocks and all along the shore were ledges of the same and halfe a mile without us Moneths August towards the ship I stood off to give the ship warning thereof who had espied the same before I came to them so I stood into the shore which lay S. along the ship came along in sixe fathomes and I had 4 hard within the ridges This day a N. N. W. wind hath conveid away abundance of wilde Geese by us they breed here towards the N. in those wildernesses there are infinite numbers and when their yong be fledge they flye S. wards to winter in a warmer countrey I hoped by their taking flight the wind would have continued This low land thus trenting makes me doubt it will bring Da 26 us still with this shallow water to joyne with Hudson and then leave us and fall away S. and there also must I leave it I could not perceive that it did slow above five foot water yesterday and the flood set S. E. the waters side is so flat and Rocky that we cannot land with the Pinnace we can discerne the going in of many small Rivers and there out-sets by the change of waters whose colour is more dunne then the Sea it selfe Was thicke close weather at night 7 it wet the night Da 27 proved close the wind changed from N. W. to S. E. the land lay S. E. and we had a great plumpe of wood on shore like an Iland I stood twice into 4 fathomes of land and once into 3 and a halfe but could not see the trees on hatches the land stretching the tydes running and flowing the expected high land and all hopefull things are now at an end this night casting up my Cards I did account I was from Port Neâ—oâ— true course E. S. E. 60 leagues and that I must be in 55 degr 50 min. latitude This coldest day I felt since I came from Nottinghams Ile Da 28 was but the Harbinger of Winter I Anchored in 7 fathoms and 3 leagues oâ—line I had but 4 fathomes I stood off into 25 fathomes and in againe into 11 and Anchored it brew to top-sailes halfe Mast high the land low full of trees the night was thicke with reasonable wind at East I road still all night for I could get nothing by plying against Da 29 wind the wind now doth Souther about clock 7. we espied a saile standing right with us it was Captaine James of Bristâ—ll hee came close in at our sterne and wee saluted each other he standing in towards the shoare which was in sight but standing Moneths August off againe hee could not fetch vs for it was ebbe the streame and wind setting him to lee-ward whereupon hee stood into Sea and out of sight which greeued mee much searing I should not see him againe nor know what discouerie he had made but he tackt about inward againe and the wind Estering at night hee fetch 't me and sent his Shallop on board inuiting mee to dinner the next day with my Master and his mate There came on board of mee his Lieutenant his Coxen and three more I gaue order to my Officers to take downe the 4. rowers betweene the Decks and to entertaine them at seuerall messes and to enquire of them with what land they fell first after their comming from our owne Coasts what lands they had beene at or in what harbours when they entered Fretum Hudson how long they had beene amongst the Ice and at seuerall times what Islands they had seene or Capes formerly discouered what was there most Northerliest latitude they had beene in and what day they see first this side or bottome and in what latitude they came ouer this bay in I enquired also the like of his Lieutenant whom I entertained in my Cabin so that before they went away I heard that they first met with Ice at Cape Farwell and that they entered Fretum Hudson the 20. day of Iune they had beene distrest in harbour and had like to haue lost their shippe the fire smoake my men see on land the 23. day of Iune was theirs they had seene the Iles Nottingham and Salisbury and was on land on Sir Robert Mansfells Isle hauing beforebeene sore pestured with Ice The greatest latitude North was 64. deg and that in this bay of Sir Thomas Buttons they had beene troubled with Ice talking thereof as though they tooke pleasure to runne against it nay they said they had runne into the Ice as far as the maine mast and that they came ouer in 59 deg of this their Northmost latitude of their suffering at Resolution their grounding in this Bay the harme of their men throwne at Capsten and what else I desired to haue I had and that they had him on shoare here but two dayes before and kill'd two Partridges they said also that there was no offering to goe home if they found no passeage for that the Ice could not bee disolued this yeere but they must stay vntill the next yeere to haue light nights to shift themselues amongst them and this I did for that I did not know how wee might be separated beefore I talked with Cap. Moneths August Da 29 Iames himselfe and I gaue order to acquaint them with what also they demanded of vs telling them that I had beene in Port Nelson and that I had seene and came along this coast neuer without sight of land from the latitude of 64 deg 2. quar and that in Port Nelson I had beene on the S. side and on the land also before they came and had named it new Yorkeshiere but being a barren waste Wildernesse of Birds and wild beasts of prey and chiefely for that it is out of the roade of trading and the passage where none hereafter will desire to come I conceine that I can
got cleere I had for some reasons thought to have home come by the N. but the weaknes of our persons the long nights the cold dark weather with the decayed Moone altered my purpose although the N. by Orkny was the shortest cut and so nearer some refreshing yet this being the warmer and in darke nights the more comfortable I directed the course to fall with the Iland of Silly having yet great care day and night specially to looke out for the Ice which I supposed might be set from off Groenland or out of Fretum Davis but God be thanked we see none after we came from the Cape The daily courses and distances homewards were followeth the wind as in the Margent Our sicke men are as yet able to doe nothing the Master is Da 8 laid downe againe wee had last night and especially this morning a whole storme the afternoon it faired and the wind came about with Sunne to the West wee carried both top sailes a trip This day considering the great want I found of the Boat Da 9 swaine our sayles and tackling being sore torne in this time he came not above Decke I placed John Coatesworth in his roome for his diligence This day was reasonable weather we made way the 8 day and this 56 leagues 2 miles E. S. E. ½ Southerly This day was top sayle Gale last night the wind Southering Da 10 made us hand them both we made from last 12 to this 49 leagues E. S. E. ½ S. the wind veered S. ward but staid not The wind was fickle but we made way E. S. E. 34. leagues Da 11 and were in 57 d. 35. latitude The wind variable our way S. E. by E. 27 leagues Da 12 After midnight the wind came to S. E. with much raine I Da 13 tooke in topsayles and clued up the foresaile forting the yard Armes thigh after clocke 4 the wind favouring came to S. W. and I made way by account as before 33 leagues South-East Moneths October This day the Master came abroad againe and not since the Da 14 7 day before the wind was all day about S. W. thicke and wet the true way traverse excepted of the last day and this was 47 leag S. E. by East Thicke fog and the way from last day to this 47 leagues Da 15 S. E by E. and at clocke 8 we were in 59. degrees 15 minutes latitude The way was S. E. 8. d. E. wards 36 leagues â— â— Da 16 The way 30 leagues E. S. E. Da 17 The way Veering 37 S. E. 4 d. E. wards Da 18 The way 57 S. E. 5 d. E. Da 19 The way 17 â— â— E. by N. Da 20 The way true course 26 E. Da 21 The way 28 â— â— E. 4. d. N. Da 22 The way 33 E. S. E. latitude 51 d. 16. m. Da 23 The way 42 E. Da 24 The way 35 E. 4 d. N. Da 25 The way 14 E. 4. N. latitude 50 d. 9 min. Da 26 These courses were all true variation allowed The way â—8 â— Da 27 This day in the morning I had sight of Siâ—â—iâ— distant foure leagues off Da 28 The 31 blessed be Almighty God I came into the Downes with all my men recovered and sound not having lost one Man nor Boy nor any manner of Tackling having beene forth neere 6 moneths all glory be to GOD. To whom this may concerne Answere to uncertaine rumors or aâ—â—ersions given forth against me concerning my returne home from the Northwest this yeare given at my home-comming AS wherefore I had not found the passage and why come I home and did not Winter hath he fulfilled his Commission how farre hath he beene and those that had more insight inquired whether I had beene North-West from Ile Nottingham or no with Why did hee not bring letters from Captaine Iames some concluding that I have done nothing I did attempt the Discovery towards the Northwest from the Iles of Nottingham and Saâ—iâ—bury about the midst of Julie and had at that time proceeded according to the letter of my Instruction if I had not beene prevented by these following meanes viz. 1 I had been immured with Ice from the first day of my entering Fretum Hudson being the 23 day of Iune vntill the 4 of Iuly following after which time I got cleere and comming unto Salisbury Isle I lay fast againe betweene the South and the North Maine about 7 dayes amongst ice where being neere the said Isle I could easily discerne the Tyde come from the East through Fretum Hudson and not from the Northwest 2 Getting cleere of the ice I trent about the said Isle to the South as also Nottinghams where sending the Boat on land brought word that it had flowed so much water as in my Iournall is mentioned of and that the water had more to flowe and after that running off into 60 fathomes and anchoring the Boat I found the Tyde come from the South-East or through Fretum Hudson 3 Standing along the said Isle to W. ward untill I brought the same I meane the W. end N. E. it began to be full of ice in the W. Channell betwixt Nottingham and Shark Point as before betwixt the North Maine and Salisbury so as the Master his Mate and my selfe conclude that there was no entring the said Northwest as yet or untill the ice was dissolved and to that point the Master and Mate wished me to write what I would concerning that impossibility of passage untill the ice were gone and they would signe the same promising that they would bee willing to see the same before their going home if no passage proved elsewhere to be found Whereupon considering that that Tyde came not from the North-West for certaine which is the absolute ground of my instructions but from South-East disproved also by Master Bylot who was in the same Voyage and ship with Sir Thomas Button saying that both he and all his Company did plainely see the Tyde come from S. E. at Cape Comfort and also the I le Nottingham averring that they which tooke that account were mistaken in the time taking 8 a clocke for 10. Now as it was not possible as yet to enter for ice the wind being liberall I directed the course towards Carie Swanâ—â—â— Nest hoping to follow the instructions in the search of Bâ—ttons and Hudsons Bay of which there was as great hopes as at the Northwest and were there as many and as strongly of that opinion as of the other and come backe againe thither by that time the ice was dissolved which I hoped would be about the fine of August or not at all if no passage proved in the said Bay to be had but finding none I proceeded from that search having first finished the search of the foresaid Bay as followeth in briefe Being come out of Hudsons Bay and Anchoring at Sharke Point I found the Ebbe to goe with good Current from the West but
to begin at the mouth of the River Thames towards which two Tydes resort And at the mouth thereof it floweth a S. and N. Moone at the S. Foreland S S. E. in the Channell of the I le of Wight S. E. or S. E. by S. at Plimmouth E. at the Gulfe where the Ocean doth first enter our Channell E. N. E this reckoning goeth against the Sunne and Moone yet this is the way to finde the Sea from whence the tide doth come Likewise along stthe North coast there commeth another tide to the saide River bringing the like flowing and almost answerable at the same distance for from off Harwich it floweth S. S. E. at Yarmouth S. E. at Laresnesse E. by N. at Whitby N. E. at Barwick N. N. E. at Backhaâ—â—nesse N. by E. in Orkney N. Now we know that both those Tydes the one from the North the other from the West came both out of the Westerne Ocean and that from the North by the lands trenting his channell his Current from the West Eastwards to S. E. as at I â—mmouth to S. S. E. as at St. Lawrence W. to S. E. as at Hambrough to S. as at Hull to S. W. as at Harwich and to W. into the said River of Thames So as here it is made manifest that both Tydes comming out of the Western Ocean E doth in the end goe or set just against themselves as they set at their first comming from the Ocean And therefore why wee you not thinke that the land to the West in this passage shall bend towards the South into Mare del Zur as it doth here trented within this Bay S. W. by S. from latitude 64. 1 â— to 59. but to draw these points to a head it is said these Tides met at the Keâ—tish â—nocke and turne their streames into Thames it not being able to retaine them both the other parts are turned along the coast of Flanders Holland Frisland and Zutland where those sides doe end by reason of the Baltickes Seas bottome it being farre unto beside the strait Channels betweene it and the sound It is made now heare to appeare that he that will seeke the Ocean as the Atlanticke to the West or the Hiperâ—orian to the North for the moâ—th of the River of Thames must follow the Tyde one thing is to be observed that it â—loweth more water upon this coast of England then it doth upon the other coasts mentioned the reason may be because England standeth nearer the West Sea Listen now againe how places farre remote from these our neighbour Channels doth correspond with them as in Grâ—enland it â—lowed E. and W. Moone and following the tide 1â—0 leagues to Resolution it flowed E. S. E. as before and so the â—idâ—â—etting in with the Sunne untill it flowed S. by W. at Swaâ—â—es Nest and there is lost in Hudsons Bay so that it holds the same quality in the processe of time with the former from the West and it is apparent that to seeke the Ocean from the bottome of Rivers deepe Bâ—yes or within lands as the Mâ—diterraniâ—n or the Bâ—lâ—icke we must find the flood tide and follow it downâ— the hill of time I meane proceeding against it we shall shorten the flood as this day we shall be where it floweth a S. Moone which we account to bee 12 of the clocke to morâ—ow we shall be where the same Tyde flowed but 9. So that I being but allowed what experience doth make due unto me both neare home and else where I make no doubt but to prove this passage It followeth now to parâ—allâ—ll this supposed passage with those formerly declared and certainely knowne beginning at Port Nelson where I had the exâ—ctest account of his flowing point and climing the flood for so he must conceive that sayleth against Tide found that it flowed there a South East Moone at the Checks where I was on land it flowed E. S. E. at Bâ—gges his Mathematickes East at Brooke Cobham E. be N. at Sir Thomas Roes Welcome E. N. E. Now it is prooved that the course time and change of this Tyde doth correspond with all other Ocean Tydes it running also halfe Tyde which is the floods running still the way of sâ—ood untill it be halfe â—bbe on shore the â—bbe running likewiâ—e his course in continuance untill the water bee halfe flowed upon the shore so as it cannot be said to want any joynt or member of an Oceans flood but may rightly bee tearmed a limme thereof It may be objected that although by all likely hood that is a passage yet it may prove to be a great distance to saile through and how shall a man doe to know when he is thorow that thereby he may direct his course Southward I answere it can be no great distance for that the water doth heighten in Spring-Tydes almost as much water at Sir Thomas Roes Welcome in the Spring Tydes as at C. Warwicke which standeth in the edge of the Hyperborion Ocean and therefore how can this Tyde come farre from his sea and bring constantly as much water as it floweth in any place that standeth neere the Oceans lips How can then the Mare del Zur be farre from hence for the distance betweene Cape Warwicke and Swans Nest is not above 200 leagues where this Tydes quite consumed so at the like distance from Sir Thomas Roes Welcome This new Tyde along that Bay holds the same untill in the bottome thereof it be consumed for I have heard from some that if North winds doth not inforce the Tydes that they doe not flow above two foot in Hudsonâ— E. and W. Bay Me thinketh there is three materiall proofes that maketh better for our purpose for to answere and free this doubt though all the rest of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Master Wills makes for the passage The first is that the Cosmographers of China doe extend their coasts to the N. E. even to the 50 d. of latitude and may doe further for any thing they know The second is Paulâ—â—Venetus that lived there and sayled from Cattaâ— 1500 leagues North-East and might have gone further for any land he see The 3. is Barnard la Tore the 4 may be the ships found by Francis Wasques at Sierra Nevado not being of America but were a moneth in comming thither from Asia all making that this passage cannot be long for that they of Asia extend the breadth of their country so farre to East Beside Francisco Gaule the Spanish Pylot reports of a high set of a Sea from the Northward in his passage from Japâ—n to Callyfornia which he sayth continued howsoever the windes blew this doth shew the Sea to be open to the N. for the like may be observed upon our N. coast about Whitby where the highest set of the Sea commeth from the N N W. although that poynt bloweth oblicke to the coast yet there is more Sea therwith then the N. E. wind bringeth that blowes
yeare if they were living Their men march up againe and found their Tents were remooved to the foreside of the Bay they fled by Sea our men incompasse them both by land and Sea they defend themselvs with bowes Arrowes and fiercly assault our men We wounded 3. with our Arrowes who perceiving themselves hurt desperately lept from the Rockes into the sea and drowned themselves The rest escaped by flying into the Mountains onely women stayed the one for Age the other having had a Child was brought on Shipboard being shot through the hayre of her head but her child was shot through the arme which the Chirurgion endeavoring to cure she pluckt off the applyed salues and like a Dog with licking healed vp the Childs arme The man Salvage formerly taken and she brought together every man with silence desired to behold the manner of their meeting the which was more worth the beholding then can well be expressed At their first sight they beheld each the other very wistly a good space without speech or word vttered with great change of Colour and Countenance as though it seemed the griefe of their Captivitie had taken away the vse of their tongues the Woman at first very soddainly as though she disdained or regarded not the man turned away and began to sing as though she minded another matter but being againe brought together the Man broke vp the silence first and with a sterne and stayed countenance began to tell a long solemne tale to the woman wherevnto she gave good hearing and interrupted him nothing till he had finished and afterwards being growne into more familiar acquaintance by speech they were turned together so that I thinke the one would hardly have lived without the comforts of the other and for so much as we could perceiue albeit they lived continually together yet they did never vse as man and wife though the woman spared not to doe all necessary things that appertaine to a good huswife iâ—defferently for them both as in making cleane their Cabine and in every other thing appertaining to his ease For when he was sicke she would make him cleane and kill and flea the dogs for their eating and dresse his meate Onely I thinke it worth the noting the continencie of them both for the man would never shift himselfe except he had first caused the woman to depart out of his Cabine and they both were most shamefast least any of their privie parts should be discovered either of themselves or of any other This Bay was named Yorke Sound The point Bloudy Point Our men returned to their Tents seeing there was no hope to bring them to Civility made spoile of theÌ„ wherein they found an old shirt a doublet a Girdle and shooes of the men lost the last yeare This done they returne againe to their Ship And the third day they depart from this supposed America The fourth they came to the Generall in a faire harbour on the East side which they named the Countesse of Warwicks Sound In this place they fully intend to â—ade with the supposed gold Minerall to counteruaile the charge of their first and this second Voyage The Inhabitants come to them againe and make shew that 3. of the 5. men are alive making signes for penne and inke and that within three or foure dayes they would returne and bring those that were living Sir Martin Frobrisher his Letter to the English Captaines taken the last yeare in Meta Incognita IN the Name of GOD in whom wee all beleeve who I trust hath preserved your bodies and Soules amongst those Infidels I commend me unto you I will be glad to seeke by all meanes you caâ— devisâ— for your deliverance either with force or with any Commodities within my ships which I will spare for your sakes or any thing else I can doe for you I have on board of theirs a man a woman and child which I am contented to deliver for you but the man of theirs which I carried away the last yeare is dead in England moreover you may declare unto them that if they deliver you not I will not leave a man alive in their Countrey And thus if one of you can come to speake with me they shall have either the man woman or child in pawne for you and thus unto God whom â— trust you doe serve In hast I leave you to him we will daily pray for you this Tuesday morning the 7. of August Yours to the utmost of my poore MARTIN FROBRISHER I have sent you by these bearers Pen Inke and Paper to write back againe if persoally you can come to satisfie me of their estate Here their Captive being on shore set up 5. small stickes in a Circle one by another with a small bone placed in the middest they conceited thereby he would give his Countrimen to understand that for 5. men betrayed the last yeare he was taken prisoner which hee signified by the bone in the middest for afterwards wee showed him the Picture of his Countryman which the last yeare was brought into England whose counterfeit was drawne with his Boate and furniture both as he was in his owne and also English apparell hee was upon the sodaine much amazed thereat and beholding advisedly the same with silence a good while as though he would straine curtesie whether should begin the speech for hee thought him no doubt a living creature at length began to question with him as with his Companion and finding him dumbe and mute seemed to suspect him as one disdainfull and would with a little helpe have growne into choller at the matter untill at last by feeling and handling he found him but a deceived Picture and than with great noyse and cryes ceased not to wonder thinking that we could make men live or dye at our pleasure They also make signes they have a King carried on mens shoulders a man farre surpassing any of ours in bignes and stature It may be thought they are vsed to traffique with some other Nation yet for all this faire dealing they lay lurking to betray our men with divers signes and raw flesh which we got and it served for meate for the man and woman whose stomackes as yet could not digest the Shippes victuals One amongst them counterfeited himselfe â—ame who being shot at with a Calliver to affright him he presently tooke to his legges and runne away but in all this time they cannot heare of their men Their weapons are Bowes Arrowes slings and darts they have 2. sorts of Boats the one is for one man and close deckt shaped like a Weavers shuttle the other open and will carry 14. men more or lesse and planckt with Seale skinnes It is thought that their habitation in Winter is farre within the land and that they abide here in Summer onely to live upon Fish The 24. of August after they had satisfied their minds and laden their Shippes they depart falls