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A01108	North-vvest Fox, or, Fox from the North-west passage Beginning vvith King Arthur, Malga, Octhur, the two Zeni's of Iseland, Estotiland, and Dorgia; following with briefe abstracts of the voyages of Cabot, Frobisher, Davis, Waymouth, Knight, Hudson, Button, Gibbons, Bylot, Baffin, Hawkridge ... Mr. Iames Hall's three voyages to Groynland, with a topographicall description of the countries, the salvages lives and treacheries, how our men have beene slayne by them there, with the commodities of all those parts ... demonstrated in a polar card, wherein are all the maines, seas, and ilands, herein mentioned. With the author his owne voyage, being the XVIth. with the opinions and collections of the most famous mathematicians, and cosmographers ... By Captaine Luke Foxe of Kingstone vpon Hull, capt. and pylot for the voyage, in his Majesties Pinnace the Charles. Printed by his Majesties command.	Foxe, Luke, 1586-1635.	1635 (1635)	STC 11221; ESTC S105645	224,546	311

and arrowes At the harbours mouth were greatstore of Cod-fish The first of September he set saile and with faire weather coasts along to the Southward the 3. day being calme lets fall a Cadger to prove for fish In which place there was such aboundance as the hooke was no sooner over-board but it was taken it was the largest and best fed fish that ever he see and some of his men which were Fishermen said they never saw a bigger Skull of fish in their lives The 4. he anchors in a good roade among Ilands the Country low-land pleasant and full of woods To the N. of this place 8. leag finding a mighty great Sea between 2. lands to the W. the S land to his judgement is nothing but Iles he greatly desired to have gone into this Sea but winde or something was against him he anchored in 4. fadome fine sand In this place is fish and fowle mighty store he had left on land some fish to drie he sent 5. men on land for them The Countrey people lay lurking in the wood and on a sudden a●saulted them they slew 2. and greatly wounded other 2. one escaped by swimming with an arrow shot through his arme Great store of fish and fowle they made a hook of a crooked Spike before the baite was changd they tooke more then 40. great Cods the fish swimming so abundantly thicke about the hooke as is incredible to be reported This Davis in his Hydrographicall doth describe The 10. he shapes his course for homeward he arrived in England the beginning of October The Observation He departed from England the 7. of May 15. of June he sell with Land in 66d. 70. d. Longitude from London he was troubled with Ice he findes that there is Copper Ore the people may be brought to trade but are theevish and treacherous he stayed in harbours 24. dayes went no further to the Northwards then 66d. 17. m. in Long from London 70d. he returns the beginning of August and upon the coast of America in 55d. finds great store of great ●od-fish having not done so much as he did in his first voyage he arrived very safely in England the beginning of October You shall understand that the Sun-shine and the North-starre were to seeke the Passage betwixt Iseland and Groenland by the appointment of Captaine Iohn Davis of which their Voyage the relation is writ by Henry Morgan servant to Master William Saunderson Merchant of London a worthy and principall Adventurer in the Voyages of Davis as followeth FromCaptaine Davis THey departed in the Latitude of 60. deg the 7. of June and sailed into 66 and tooke harbour in Iseland the 12 and staies there untill the 3 of July then he comes forth and being a little troubled with Ice shapes his course for Groynland the 7 he sees it and ranges along untill the moneths end The 3 of August he comes to Gilberts Sound in 64 deg 14 min. Davis his Randevow and it seemeth was so appoynted to meete Davis and his fleete who departed from thence the 11. of July The people came and traded with them and in the end sought to betray them they plaid at foot-ball and our men cast them They depart from thence 5 or 6 leag Southwards the same people come to them againe they see Foxes and Dogs runne upon the Ilands as they observe them to be they found the hornes of Stags and footing but see none The 30 of August they depart for England the winde takes them contrary so as they take another harbour there come of the people and bring them Seale skinnes The Master would have changed one of the boates he had formerly bought which they would have taken from them by violence they fall to combat with our men and throwing their darts struck one of our men another of our men shot one of them into the brest with an arrow the fight continued our men tooke one of them into our boate his boate and all our men kild three of them two of them were shot with arrowes and the other hurt with a sword he with his boate taken was shot with an arrow our men cast him over-board and his consort tooke him up and conveyed him away they departed and would not come to us as before The 31 of August we departed from Gilbert sound the 3 of September they lost sight of the North Starre the 30 they enter our Channell They brought home 500 Seale skinnes 140 halfe skinnes what bone it was they brought home they know not Captaine Davis his 3. Voyage North-West 1587. FRom Dartmouth with 3 Shippes the Elizabeth the Sunne-shine and a Clincker called the Hellen of London The 12 of Iune there fell difference betwixt the Master of the Sunneshine and the Marriners for that the Seamen would goe on the Voyage a fishing the Master would not untill he had the company of the Elizabeth but the matter was reconciled and all were content to goe to the place of Randevow The 14. of Iune they descry land high and mountainous but did imagine themselves to be 16 or 17 leagues off The 16 they anchored in harbour the people came according to their olde order with crying Eliout and shewed them Seale skinnes The 17 they make way to set up their Pinnace they brought from London The 18. hee passed about the Iland hee found blacke Pumice-stones and salt kerned upon the Rockes white and glistering this day he tooke one of the people a strong fellow The 20 the Salvages came to the Iland where the Pinnace was set up and made ready to be lancht and tore the two upper stroaks away from her for love of the Iron I doubt in revenge of their prisoners and for harme done the last yeare but being thus much made unserviceable it was agreed the Elizabeth should have her to fish Now as they were ready to depart newes was brought the Captaine that the ships that they were to venter their lives in I thinke for the discovery had at one time 300. stroakes yet they agree to commit themselves to Gods mercy in her rather than returne with disgrace So they stand North-wards along the Land which they call the land of their Merchants because the people come and traffique with them but here they were in doubt of their Ship I take it the Elizabeth and Sunneshine are gone a fishing home himselfe went N. ward into 67. 40. where they had great store of Whales and fowle which they call Cortenous two Canoes came to them at Sea they cry El●out and gives Birds for bracelets one had a dart with a peece of Vnicorne horne the Salvage made stay thereof vntill he saw a knife and then he truckt they went along with them 3. houres The 25 came 30. Canoes 10. leagues off Land and brought Salmon-peeles Birds and Caplyn they give them Pinnes Needles Bracelets Nailes Knives Bells looking-Glasses and other tri●●es For a Knife a Naile or a Bracelet they

his ill reward had of the Spaniard and understanding of the Noble mind of the Queene of England and of her warres maintained so valiantly against the Spaniard hoping her Matie would do him Iustice for his goods lost by Capt. Cavendish he would be content to goe into England and serve her Matie in that Voyage to discover the N W. passage into the S Sea and would put his life in her Maiesties hands to performe the same if shee would furnish him with one ship of 40 tonnes and one Pinnace and that hee would performe the same from the one end of the Straits to the other and he willed me so to write into England Whereupon after this twice conference I did write to the old Lord Treasurer Cicil and to Sir Walter Rawleigh and to Mr. Richard Hackluit that famous Cosmographer praying that 100 pounds might be sent for the charge of sending this Pylot into England I received answer from some of my friend● that the action was well liked of if the money could be procured After one fortnight he went from mee into his owne countrey where he dyed There are divers other things written in the Originall as enticing perswasions to those undertakings and is to be read as in Sir Humfrey Gilbert Mr. Hackluit and also other which were his collections after his death incerted into the latter end of the 4th Booke of the 3 part of Purkas his works but because these latter truths have proved them to be but the imagination of men I omit them as things needlesse to this ornament for although I have beene carefull to be as compendious as I could yet I feare me my readers will thinke me totedious Concerning Capt. William Hawkridge of whom I find nothing written by himselfe but what hath come to my hands by manuscript or relation as followeth here HEe went bent by the West and the 29 of June he found himselfe betwixt land and land and thought he had bin in the great channell or Lumleyes Inlet where it pleased God by the cleering up of the weather to deliver him from a rocke he might have indangered himselfe upon to the E. ward This day he plyed it out againe to the E. ward finding that he was in the N. or wrong Channell where he saw 3 Rocks he wondred he had escaped for he had runne in amongst them This day was fayre and cleare weather the wind at N W. he stood out againe S E. all the forenoone amongst yce loofing for one and bearing up for another the current setting to the W. ward he tooke marks upon the land and by the logge the Ship run after 5 leag a watch and for all that got nothing he observed by his Astrolob and was in 62 d. 25 m. having had Fogs and Mists for 6 dayes before so as he could not observe and this day he had 29 d variation Westward the magneticall Amplitude 83 d true Amplitude 54. These dayes were fayre cleare weather the 4 was foggie This day the winde was E. This day he plyed to windward to weather Resolution the wind at E N E. This day was foggie wind N E. he lost sight of his Pinnace The 27 of Iune he made the Resolution and the 8 of July he was come backe againe out of the N. channell betwixt Resolution and Cape Elizabeth This day he met againe with his Pinnace and thought to have borne up but the fogge taking him he plyed to the Eastward to the intent he might get into the great channell This day standing to the N-shore with very foggie weather he was taken with an indraft of a strong tide and drawne in amongst divers Ilands about Cape Elizabeth and was in more danger then he saw but having a swelling Sea from the E. hee followed and so escaped all dangers This day he had a strong ripling of a tide his Latit 61 d. 30 m. and the body of Resolution bore N W. by N. from him The 12. 13. and 14 dayes he made account that he had kept that latit and rather to the N. ward but he was horst with a current he could not tell how above 1 d. 30 m. which all men know is 30 leag so that he was to the S. ward of Buttons Iland This day when he came to observe thinking he had bin in the mouth of the strait it proved otherwise the wind cóming contrary as at W and by S. some hopes were taken away that he should not insist any further for that yeare but that himselfe had framed a sound resolution to continue and persever From the 16 untill this day he plyed to the West and was faire by land not 3 leag of the sounding he had no ground in latit 61. 50. The wind N N E. and N E. cleare weather This day he espied land on the S. shore nere Cape Charles but to the E. ward he espyed a little Iland where he stood into a Bay to water and anchored in 25 fath fine fishing ground but catcht none he had land bore round from the N N W. to the E by N. the Ilands Lat. 62 d. 19 m. variat 3 d. 9 m. and here he had a tyde which minding the setting and flowing may cause some Argument of strong consequence to prove a passage that way on this Iland he caught Ducks here he found it to flow 21 foote water the tyde setting S E. and the flood from N W. and in this place a S. E. Moone makes a full Sea He sent the Mrs. Mate and Carpenter with others in the boat to rowe about the Iland and when it bore S. E. of them they had 74 fath halfe a mile from land a strong set tide from E. This day he set saile from this Iland the wind E S E. much wind all day This day in the morning he met with much yce This day he run 35 leag W. by N. but the last day at night he reckned himselfe to be at the westermost Cape on the N. side This day he run 25 leag W by N. but the last day he sawe land and thought it had bin Silisbury and Nottinghams Ilands but it proved the N. Mayne he sailed along W. by N. and W by S. with a stiffe gale at E N E. he found this land to be thicke with yce and very low and run 30 leag along by it The first of August he espyed this land and sailed along in 67 89 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 fat rocky ground as he stood to the S. ward it was white sand his lat was 63 d. 30 m. variat 27-he found an Iland sayling along the shore the depth betweene which and the Mayne was 70 fath This day he sailed along the N W. with fayre weather and easie wind This day he stood away S W. and anchored in 45 fath clay ground This morning he weighed and stood N W.

hath been dangerous From a boord wee see a Stag trotting from Port Nelson Da 18 along the sand we mand our boat presently but before they got to shore he tooke up over a Valley into the woods where they mist him I caused the Crosse which we found to be newly raised and this inscription of lead nailed thereon Moneths August I suppose this Crosse was first erected by Sir Thomas Button 1613. it was againe raised by Luke Foxe Capt. of the Charles in the right and possession of my d●ead Soveraigne Charles the first King of Great Brittaine France and Ireland defender of the Faith the 15 of August 1631. This land is called New Wales The wind being E S E. I could not yet come to Sea wherefore Da 19 I sent the Capenter upon the S side to fell the likeliest of 5 trees the Master had made choyse off to serve us for a Mayne yard and not one of them but was rotten within the wind doth begin to come about the Mrs. mate and I fetcht one boate lading of firewood this afternoone the Whales have now left to come in but my cheifest going on land was to see where the highest tyde this spring had left his marke and found it to have slowen 14 foote but the tydes at height of this spring were inforcd in with E S East and E N East windes or else they would not have slowed above 1. 2 foote This night 10. were many Pettiedancers I hope faire weather to come yet have wee had such as I pray our neighbours in England have no worse and then they cannot have better harvest weather to have in their crop and though this may be thought nothing pertinent to the History of a Sea Iournall yet having been disswaded from this voyadge in respect of the ice I may thus much write for the incouragement of others that may happen to navigate this way God giving good successe to this enterprise that a Sea voyage of discovery to a place unknowne and farre remote and in the like clime cannot be taken in hand with more health ease and pleasure I am sure it hath beene warme ever since we came from the yce The wind came about I sent the Pinnace on land to ballast Da 20 and to bring one broad stone to make a fire upon in her which I had formerly marked for that purpose at Port Nelson they found a board broken in two the one halfe quite gone whereon had beene the Kings Armes and inscription of the time of Sir Thomas Button his owne name when and why he tooke Harbour with other expressions This peice of board I brought away for I was undersaile when the Pinnace came on board so as I could not goe on Moneths August shore againe otherwise I would have endevoured to have renued the same as the act of my noble predecessors This ebbe I came to Seawards but for feare of shoale-water I Anchored in 4 fathome having little wind to chase the ship and a strong ebbe feare call'd what I had observed at my in comming into my remembrance so as I durst hazzard no farther whiles flood came and now I must adde one word or two to what is before concerning this dangerous river which I would be loath to seek in thick weather of either side the S. is best but is flat a great way off and Rockie ground the best of the deepe is ⅔ Channell to S. there is 12 fathomes in the entrance in one place wee chafed our Cables sore against the stones of which you might see 4 or 5 drie in the river at once the last quarter ebbe come swiftest in Spring-tydes it flowed 3 foot before the tyde set up the tyde returned to the Sea at a full Sea on shore The Sun and Moone did both set cleare this night In this River wee got no reliefe but one Duck heere a N. W. Moone maketh a full Sea I wayed againe about halfe flood and stood to Sea from 6. fathomes to 10. and Anchored in high water in 9 fathomes cleare ground making ready to ply or sayle the next flood for now I am to discover to the East betweene this and Master Hudson his West Bay of which I must onely making a journall their being nothing else of note In the morning I tooke the Cocke-boat into the ship with Da 21 the flood I stood to the S. E. and went into the Pinnace at the ship sterne to see her fitted to sayle wee came to 7 and 5 fathomes the land full of woods but lowe and stretched here E. and by N. from the Rivers mouth here is good smooth and even ground if any occasion were hereafter to use it the land is faire to be seene at 10 fathomes deepe upon the hatches the wind easie from S. S. W. and we stood 2 or 3 leagues in 7. fathoms we were at noon in 57 d. 10 m. all this night I could well discerne the land as I stood under sayle standing S. E. the land met us this hot Meridian but I was not in observation Da 22 after dinner with easie wind I tooke the Pinnace to sayle to shore but it fell to be calme and wee Romed all the way and therein found a white Beare which we kild cōming toshore it was ●lat and many great stones lay at the low water mark we were no sooner landed but we spied a blacke cloud at N. by W. when presently we see the ship had handed both top-sayles Moneths August so as I was constrained to leave this uninhabited shore and stand to the ship without erecting any thing thereon which we recovered but our coats were wet through first and yet the ship was come to us within 5 fathomes upon the Maine we stood along with land in sight where there appeared to be a Cape the land trenting more S. from our bowe we stood off and on all night from 7 to 20 fathomes I packt away along the land as neere as can be thought to Da 23 lie S. E. by E. the morning was faire yet the Sunne was vaied this calme afternoone we see 3 Beares in the Sea 5 miles from land the Mr kild them in the Pinnace this day we tryed the tyde 4 times and it set alwayes from the E. wards we are now so far from his primum mobile as I thinke it not worthy the looking after yet account must be taken this night the Sunne set cleare as could be and it was easie wind I have seene all the land hither from Port Nelson as I did before I came there but I cannot see any high land nor find any deepe water I would gladly see that comfort and then I would say that the M. were in the increase howsoever I thanke God it doth make the nights grow the lighter the ship is Anchored the watch is set a marke set on the lead-line sleep like a theefe doth slily steale upon me at 12 this night the tide did slacke I