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
the Iles of Gods mercy the Master sent this Author over to discover this Iland to the North and north-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
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
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
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
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
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
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
authority thereof vpon the paine of severe punishment as well to him that shall first heare and conceale the same as to the first beginner That no man doe offer to filch or steale any of the goods of the Da 5 Ship or Company or doe offer to breake into hould there to take his pleasure of such provisions as are layd in generall for the whole Company of the Ship nor that any Officer appointed for the Charge and oversight thereof doe otherwayes then shall be appointed him but shall every man bee carefull for the necessary preservation of the Victuall and fuell conteyned in the hould and that also every Officer be so carefull of his store as hee must not be found vpon examination to deserve punishment That no man doe grumble at his allowance of victuall or steale Da 6 any froâ— others nor shall give crosse language eyther to superiour oâ— equall in reviling Words or daring speeches which doe tend to the inflaming of blood or inraging of choller remembring this also that a stroke or a blow is the breach of his Maiesties peace and may not want his punishment therefore as for other reasons That at the Boatswaines Call all the whole Company shall apppeare Da 7 above Dicke or else that his Mate fetch vp presently all such sloathfull persons eyther with Rope or cudgell as in such cases deserve the same The Quarter-masters shall looke into the Steeredge while the Captdine Master and Mates are at Dinner or at supper That all men doe duely observe the Watch as well at Anchor Da 8 as vnder sayle and at the discharge thereof the Boatswaine or his Mate shall call vp the other all praising God together with Psalme and Prayer and so committing our selves both soules and bodies Ship and goods to Gods mercifull preservation wee beseech him to steerâ— direct and guide vs from the beginning to the end of our Voyage which hee make prosperous vnto vs Amen I Set sayle from Deptford and comming by Greenwich where Da 5 Moneths May. then the Court lay I'discharged my Ordnance twice being 7. in number and this night anchored at Erith This day I came to Graves-end where having bought some Da 6 things needfull I set sayle againe and anchored that night betwixt â—he Shooe aud Whittaker This day passing by Essex and Suffolke it being in the night Da 7 and calme I anchored in Yarmouth Roades This day I weighed and set sayle at night I was thwart the Da 8 Shield This day I was put into Flambrough roade with much raine Da 10 and winde at N N W. I came into Whitby roade where I stayed with contrary Da 11 windes untill the 14 day I sayled along the Coast of Yorkshire Durham Northumberland Da 14 and Scotland to St. Tabs-head I was thwart of Buckhamnesse in Scotland where standing Da 15 to the Northwards with sharpe winds I broke my Maine-yard in the middest I came into Durt-sound a harbour in the greatest Iland of Da 16 Orkney but could not heere be provided of a new Maine-yard Wind contrary At clocke 3. in the morning I weighed and went out betweene Da 18 Pape Iland and Sanda at the Northend of the two heads of this Iland there lyeth a Rocke in the midst which doth so straiten the Flood-tyde it bounding thereon from out the Westerne Ocean that I was two houres overhaling ¼ of a mile for thereabouts is the length of that straitnesse and yet I dare say we went above 6. knots in halfe a minute I stood from hence N N W. with the N. part of Ways or Da 20 Hays Iland in 59 deg 8 min the ebbe comming forth carried Da 21 vs it being calme 9. miles to the S W. end which is a very steepe or perpendicular Cliffe against a very high Sea from the West course W N W. The rest as followeth in my booke of Courses Latitudes Variations and Distances The gale increasing I was enforced to hand both top-sayles Da 22 the Ship fell so deepe and shipped so much water forward oâ— in that high Sea comming from the West From this day untill the 23 I did not make above 17 leag Da 23 way W N W. it being faire weather with easie wind upon all points of the Compasse I had no ground at 200 fathomes I was this noone in 59 deg 5â— min. the weather faire and Moneths May. Da 24 cleere the Sunne setting and rising in our sight This morning came a great Whale by us the last night Da 25 and this day was calme we made small way the weather hot as it hath been since I came from Orkney latitude 59 d. 56 no ground at 335 fathomes It was faire weather and easie wind latitude 60 d. 0 min. Da 26 at night the Sunne went cleare to bed the variation taken by amplitude was 8 degrees This day the 28 and 29 the wind contrary I was in traverse Da 27 had little sight of the Sunne since the 26. It was easie wind and close weather and I observed in 58 Da 30 deg 39 m. I caused 3 peeces of Ordnance to be strooke into the hold and two of my greatest Anchors to be taken of the bowes at night I found a drift tree but it would not make me a maine yard It was faire dry calme and close weather since the 26 and Da 31 the great Westerne Sea was not downe untill this day This day was a faire wind with wet foggy weather Moneths June Da 1 I had faire winds but thicke close weather Da 2 This fulsome ugly morning presented the foulest childe Da 3 that the whole voyage brought forth with such variety and changes of the Elements Ayre and Water as if all had conspired to make our destiny fatall I lay a try in the Mizen course and caused the Carpenter to make loose and strengthen the fishes and wouldings of the maine-yard which being done I caused the Mizen to be strucke and the helme to be put on weather to try if the ship would weathercoyle if I had occasion to which she obeyed presently so as I was then put into good assurance of her quicke steerage against I was to enter into the Ice This day were many gusts of wind with small raine Da 4 This day was lesse wind and I made good way to the Da 5 Westwards Faire weather I continued my course to the Westward and Da 6 being in 60 d. 31 m. I directed the course W. by S. Faire weather but no Amplitude since the 26 of the last moneth here was much driftwood I proceeded with easie winds but faire thicke fog which ended in raine the Seas set from S S E. the wind changeable Da 8 Moneths June Faire weather the Sea so smooth as it had been made ready Da 9 to have been bowled upon Some fog and easie wind the ship made way to the Westward Da 10 the Sea exceeding smooth but no amplitude of long time Faire weather and easie winds I
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
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
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
noone the weather was close and began to blow hee was then 15. Leagues N. N. W. from the Cape he doth not write whether true course or no but in all the former Hopes Advance unto this Cape I have writ by him according to the true course and had 95. Fadome which made him assure himselfe that the Land winded a way more northerly and thereupon at noone hee stood away N. E. and by N. hoping that course would have bettered his depth but on the contrary for in 2. glasses he shoalded to 60. Fathoms then he hayled away E. S. E. assuring what experience had often shown him that as the water shoalded so the Land winded At 3. in the afternoone the weather thick the wind increasing and hee in 60. Fathome knowing there was no better depth to the N. ward hee stood E. S. E. till 8. at night having 50. Fathome the weather bad and night at hand hee stood about and kept it up with short sayle all that night betweene S. W. and by W. and W. S. W. From midnight till 7. this morning as from 8. last night till midnight thus standing brought him into 80. fathom he cast about to the Eastward with much winde at S. S. W. hazy and thick weather he heeled it up in courses and Bonnets till clock 2. they being starke calmed as it is a speciall note every Blower ends with a starke calme in those parts being then in 65. fathom E. he anchored and rid untill 4. in the evening when a smal gale rising at S. S. W. he waighed and stood S. E. guiding himselfe by his depth for the winde would not give him leave to better his hopes 17. From midnight to 8. this morning as the night before after that time there is small worth the Luke to write upon thaverse and his greatest depth 140. fathom untill the next day in the afternoone and then he had sight of the same Cape he sent his Boat unto the 14. day before It bore from him N. N. W. by compasse about 7. leagues so he steered S. S. W. untill midnight having runne since he set sayle at 2. in the afternoone 10. leagues S. E. and by E. Concluding he writeth that he came to 43. fathom which shoalding was upon the North part of the Iland he watered upon and that this Iland and the said Cape where his Boat was at the 14. day lyeth S. S. E. ½ Easterly and N. N. W. ½ Northerly about 10. leagues betweene both This morning day light he see the land bearing from S. W. by S. at which time he had 65. fathom 19. From 2. this morning untill noone he made away E. â—8 by N. 10. leagues At 7. he saw land on head at least 12. leagues of him he judged it to bee the high land of the Maine within Sir Dudley Diggs his Iland and yet to beare of him as it did it was strange unto him but he saith that Captaine Gibbons confidence was such as that hee must not let passe unspoken of for albeit that hee is so neere in blood as that modestie will not allow of his speaking too much of his merit yet hee will boldly say thus much of his sufficiency as hee assures himselfe he shall make it appeare at his returne if God please to let him live so long as that he is not short of any man that ever yet he carried to Sea All that he can say of him further is that for his Countries good and for the advancement of this businesse we have in hand he could wish his body were answerable to his other abilities which were it not himselfe but many and bis Country most would bee the better for it But that God that made us all of dust will not faile to raise up some good spirits he hopes for the further prosecution of this businesse as that by their honest endeavours and religious Resolutions they will effect that which as yet is not ripe for his Sickle but that God which best knowes what the truth of his endeavours have beene in this businesse he hopes will not faile to give a blessing to some that shall follow and for his part he desires to be blest no otherwise than as he hath sincerely laboured in it and therefore he must conclude and ever beleeve according to the word that Paul plants Apollo waters and God gives the increase So that untill his good will and pleasure is all that we doe cannot in this ought else prevaile At noone the weather faire and cleare he had a good observation by which Captaine Gibbons was well assured but himselfe and some others discenting from him in the bearing of the land from them were deceived in the set of the tyde which in his going out last yeere mightily carried him to the Northward as now as much to the Southward which then nor till now was not found by any of them all He steered open of the Land N. N. E. with tyde 5. leagues untill evening 4. and at 2. he had 307. fathom At 6. in the evening small winde C. Wolstenholme bore S. E. 7. leagues of the Westerne point of the westerne Iland S. E. by S. ½ S. 5. leagnes off he kept it up that he might get about the Westermost point of Nottinghams Iland it lying 8. leagues from Diggs his Iland there thinking to trie the tyde and from thence he purposed to goe to the N. maine betweene Salisbury and Nottinghams Ile to try the distance betweene them it being all he could doe for this yeere About 8. this morning the weather thick and he not above 4. leagues from Ile Nottingham in 64. fathom he anchored and as he remembreth to his comfort being ebbe hee found it a very strong one from S. S. E. to S. E. and by S. At noone slack it was a fresh gale at S. W. hee waighed to get about to the Westward of the Iland about 2 it blew hard and was thick weather with raine and thunder and within a mile of the shore It fell starke calme upon a sudden then he was iu a great ripling in 20. fathom water the Sea all breaches round about him like a Raffe which deserying he stood off with little winde along the Iland and found his drift more in lesse then in one Glasse Then hee could run a head before with both top-sayles on trip and a stiffe gale in 2. houres hee came to anchor to be fully satisfied of the tyde But when the tyde came it came with such force strength out of the N. W. and by N. as hee had much adoe to ride at and could not have ridde it had not he steered the ship all the tyde time the â—ight hee writes did comfort him for what was to be done hereafter for by the course of this tyde and hâ—s owne knowledge of the land being to the Westward of that place 200. leagues is 86. on the Sea and might very
and Iland in 30 fathomes the tyde went E. 2 knots the land lay E and West but I could not fully say it was an Iland for it lay like a Ridge or to Simily it like to the Retyres in the mouth of the River of Saine in Normandie I do hold that all those peeces of ice here are ingendered about those low Capes and Bayes as Mansils also is where easie tides goe they are soone frose over the Snow falling there on thickneth them so that by degrees they increases the Pettiedancere brought nor sent us any storme this night ended in raine and it was easie wind from the E N E. Wee made from the Ice this morning to stand to the land Da 21 we see last night it was ebbe tyde and set to the E. and I plide alongst it to find a fit place for the boate to land in it was iust at low water for they were glad to stay the setting of their glasse untill the tyde began to flowe And after that time clock 10. they staied untill it began to fall viz. 4 houres and so I accounted on shipboard riding upon 6 fath nere shoare the water so transparent as you might easily see the bottome the ice comming upon us we weyed Anchor the wind came gently from the N. we stood it upon the tyde to and againe along the land loofing and wareing from ice which came driving with the flood At their comming on board their accompt was this that the tyde did flowe but 4. howres and that it heightned but 6. foote and this was 2 dayes after the Coniunction of the Sunne and Moone so that the flood began at ½ past 10. and ended at ½ past 2. by this a South and by W. Moon makes a full Sea and the tydes motion ends with the flowing assuredly this was Carie Swans nest for both from East and West ends it stretcheth to the North our men chast Swans on shoare but got none they say there is earth strange Mosse Quag-myres and water plashes at clocke 4. I tocke leave and stood along from 6. fathomes into 30 loosing sight thereof and from thence I stood to the Westward◠with North-West wind close haled leaving both th◠Cape and the Ice behinde mee for the Sea Mors to sleepe upon there being good store thereabout Moneths July From the Cape or Swannes Nest this noone-tyde I was Da 22 16 leagues and one mile no ground at 70 fathomes for I was loth to stay the ship at any time me thought sayling had been uncouth but at 4 this morning I had 90 fathomes owzy ground thicke weather the wind easie and shifting betwixt N and N W. my way was to Southward of West This Meridian I was in 61 deg 37 min. at 8 the last day I Da 23 tooke the ship about and made way untill this day 12 11 leagues 2 miles N W. ½ W. it hath beene a faire cleare day easie winds the ayre warme and no Ice since I came into this Sea I did but thinke I saw land at N E. by E. This smooth Sea hath a small set from the West with lippering rising and falling as other Shallow Seas use to have the deepe last night was 115 fathomes I made way to this day 12 N W. by W. ½ W. 13 leagues This close morning hid the Sunne untill noone we being Da 24 in 120 fathomes the afternoone was cleare and gently breathed from W N W. I have not tryed for fish in this Sea as I did in Fretum Hudson where I got none I thanke God here we have not the like leisure here are some Seales but few Fowles the latitude of noone was 62 deg 20 min. here appeares to be more Riplins of Tyde the variation by Azimuth and Almicanter was 26 deg 31. min. at most the Sunne went cleare to bed and at midnight we had 60 fathomes deepe This morning Amplitude was 5 deg the Refraction is Da 25 great here and the Horizons thicke which begets uncertainties besides the Needle yet is very slow in comming to his respective point I now hope for warmer weather and clearer Sea than heretofore at noone I had 55 fathomes in latitude to 62 deg 36 min. since last day I made way N by E. 18 leagues faire weather the Sunne went downe cleare Ioy to our Antipodes the Henban flashing all night was a Da 26 hot day in as England in the morning I had 58 fathomes and white Corall the latitude 63 deg 20 min. the way since last day was N. 4 deg East 18 leagues since clocke 4 wee lay Larbord Tack N. W. it was a few drops of raine this Evening yet the Sunne set cleare and wee had deepe 65 fathomes at midnight and then was in the Ayre many Pettie-dancers The last night was so hot as it dryed up 15 fathomes water Moneths Iuly Da 27 for this morning we had but 50 the wind was betweene W and N N W. here was great store of Rockeweed and Tangle In the Ripline of a Tide I caused the boat to be lanched in 31 fathomes the Tyde came from N. by W. ½ a mile in an houre All this day the fog banks hath deceived mee but now I am sure I see land both the maine and Ilands of which there are many lying about 2 leagues into the Sea all ragged and broken rocks within this land bore from N. E. by E. to W. by S. here are great store of fish leaping and fairer weather cannot be I have sent the boat to land and to my comfort three things I could espie by the shore that it was flood Tyde and that it came from the Southward and that it doth flow and fall very much water before we came neere the Iland wee came over a banke of 8 fathomes and neerer the Iland we fell into 15. there seeming upon the land to be Poles erected and buildings of stone and other hillocks like Haycocks The boat went on land at clocke 6. and stayed 3 glasses or one houre and ½ in which time it flowed neere sixe foot it was flood before they went for while they were rowing to shore I did observe it had flowed at least 3 foot by certain rocks that were dry at our first approach they say that it had about 9 foot to flow at clocke 8. the tide returned and set to S. W. ward which sheweth that it runs halfe tide or else the Main beyond it is an Iland about which the tyde may have an uncontrary course as in some of the Sounds of the Iland of Selly at Englands W. end this Iland doth lie in 64 d. 10. m. of latitude and I took this place to be the N. E. side of Sir Thomas Buttons ut ultra I could see to the N. E. ward of this at least 10 leagues but no land at E. or S. E. it being as cleare an evening as could be imagined the land to be seene was from the N N. E. to the