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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

his industry to the uttermost of his power 19 He againe discovers the Iland of America bearing N. and by W. about 15 leag off the variation 25 d. W. Latit 56 d. 48 m. this coast sheweth like broken Ilands and the Tyde of flood commeth from the North. 24 He had a violent storme Northerly and such a su●●e of the Sea came in that his roapes broke that were fast on shoare his Rudder was driven from his sterne by the force of the mighty Ilands of Ice so that he was forct to hale close into the bottome of a cove to save his Cloathes furniture and vi●tuals but before he had done the Ship was halfe full of water and he tooke little rest for that night which may very well be beleeved 25 The ship on ground he goeth about to set the water out of her and to stop so many of her leakes as he could come by and some went to building the shallop he caused his boate to be lanched over the Ice and sent his mate Edward Gorill with 3 more to seeke for a better place where to bring his ship on ground if it were possible to mend her againe They returned without any certainty by reason of the aboundance of Ice which choaked every place yet they found wood growing on the shoare Here Master Iohn Knight ended writing his Iournall with his life another proceedes as followeth 26 ON Thursday in the morning he caused some of his men to goe on board to save what things they could himselfe Edw. Gorrill his mate and 3 more of his company tooke the boate having with them 4 pistols 3 muskets 5 swords and a halfe pikes for to goe over to a great Iland not above a mile from the ship to see for Harbour to mend his ship in they tooke with them an Aequinoctiall Diall a paper to draw the land when they were passed over the Mr. his Brother and Mate with one more went on shore leaving ● in the Boate from 10 of the clocke in the morning untill 11 at night who heard no newes of them after they departed from the top of the hill then did the Trumpeter being one of them left in the Boate sound two or 3 times and the other did discharge his Musket two or 3 times more and so they came away to the W. side with the Boate where the ship was who were watching for their comming but when they see these two come and no more they marvelled where the rest were and when they were on land the others inquired for the Master and the rest but they could tell no newes of them after their departure from the boate but that they did see them goe on to the top of the Iland which report did strike all the men into great feare to thinke in what extremity they were because they wanted their Master 3 of their men their ship sunk and they nothing to trust too but their shallop which was at that time but ½ furnished This night lying on shoare in their Tent which was betwixt 2 Rockes they kept very good watch for feare of any peoples suddaine assault or if the Master and his company had travailed so farre as they could not come home againe that night if they should shoote a musket they might heare them but they came not at all 27 They consulted that 7 of them should goe over with the boat to try if they could see or learne any newes of their Master or of their men supposing that they were either surprised by the Salvages of the Country or else devoured by the wild beasts so they tooke with them 7 muskets swords and Targets and such provision as they had in the ship and went downe to the Sea side but they could not get over for Ice at length they returned with much adoe to come to shoare and went to the ship to save such things as they could get out of her 28 Faire weather they make cleare the ship and helpe to save and mend all things she lay upon the Rocks therefore they make her as light as they could for beating and bruising of her Hull that night it rained very sore and about clock 1. in the boat-swain and Stewards watch it being almost out the Steward goes on board the ship to pumpe leaving the boateswaine at watch some muskets shot from their Tent now while he was pumping there came over the Rockes a great sort of the Countrey people to the place where the boateswaine was at watch who when they saw him they shot arrowes at him running to him as fast as they could whereupon he discharged his musket at them and so fled backe to the Tent as fast as he could thinking they had beset it they were so many the Steward hearing the Musket goe off came forth of the Ship when he was comming saw the Salvages approaching their Shallop and cryed out to them in the Tent to save the boate and the Shallop who made what hast they could but when they came at their boat and see so many of the Salv. in the Shallop they were then afraid of being betraied at this time it rained sore yet calling their wits together they sent 2 of their men back to the tent the rest made towards the Salvages and shot at them some 3 or 4 muskets who when they perceived it they stood in the shallop and held up their hands to them calling one to another they thinking it were better to dye in their owne defence in pursuing the Salvages then they them for it was in the night and they were still in sight thus recovering their Shallop they sent more men to keepe the Tent the Salvages were but 8 men and a dog yet the rest followed but they were got into other boates before they over tooke them The Ice was so thick that they stucke fast in them they came so neere them as they could and shot a doozen shot at them before they could get cleare the shot caused them to cry out one to another very sore for their boates were full of men as far as they could iudge they are little people tawny coloured thick haired little or no beard flat nosed and are man-eaters 26 They carry all their provision aboard their Ship for feare of the Salvages second assault the ship lying betweene two Rocks and all without so full of Ice that they could not passe any way to sea no not with a boate this day 2 of our men watcht that we might have warning if any of them came againe with their boates the Carpenter made what hast he could with the shallop and did onely tinch but neither calk● nor pitcht her yet they brought her to the ship 30 They fall to worke with axes and pick-axes to cut the Ice for all about the Iland was nothing else and no place to ride free in that night it pleased God that they rowed her away with their oares but

but he had no ground at 100. Fath. a Cables length off shore And a great Current sets S. W. and N. E. 1. League ● ● in the houre The tide sets to the shore and thenone great peece of Ice breaking made a noyse as if the Cliffe had fallen into the Sea 10. The floud sets S. W. along the Land And it flowes so 11. Latitude here 63. ● ● This day they enter the Streights and set saile for Gabriels Iland then distant 10. Leagues 13. They enter within a Sound in a Sandy Bay the Land beares E. S. E. depth 8. Fatham a S. E. Moone full Sea they name this Sound Priors sound distant from Grabriels 10. leag 16. Calme and faire in 2. houres the Ice was froze about the Ship a quarter of an inch thicke The 19. the Captaine and he went on shore vpon an Iland with 8. men and from the top thereof they had sight of 7. Boates which came rowing from the East side to the Iland then they returned on shipboard and sent their Boate with 5. men to see which way they tooke and so with a white Cloth or waffe brought one of their Boates with their men in her along the shore rowing after the Boate vntill they see the ship and then they rowed on shore and he followed and gave every one of them a threed Point and brought one of them aboard where he did Eate and Drinke and then carried him ashore againe wherevpon the rest being 19. Persons came on boord but he could not vnderstand their Language they be like Tartars with long blacke haire broad faced flat nosed and tawny Coloured wearing Seale skinnes and so doe the women nothing differing but the women in the Face hath blue stroakes downe the Cheekes and about the eyes their Boates are made of Seale skinnes with a wooden keele within them much like vnto a Spanish shalop save onely they be flat bottomed and sharpe ended 20. They went on Land vpon the East side of the Iland with 4. men more in the Boate where they see their houses the people came to them calling and rowing one of them came into their Boate they carried him on board gave him a Bell a knife the Captaine commanded 5. men to set him on shore in an Iland not amongst their Company but they not regarding went to them who surprised their Boat and themselves never as yet heard of 21. The next day they shot off a Falken-gun and sounded a trumpet to heare from their men but were not answered this morning the Snow was on Foote thicke vpon the ha●tches 22. They went to the place where their men were lost and had sight of 14. Boates and some came neare them but they could heare nothing of their men 26. Returnes homeward at 8. a clocke in the night was thwart of Gabriels Ile and had Cape Labradore as he supposed W. 10. Leagues off 1. Had sight of Friesland 8. leag off from this day to the 6. they run along Iseland 25. Sight of Orkney 1. Anchor at Yarmouth Sir Martin Frobrisher his 2. Voyage 1577. DEparted from Blackwall the 26. of May with 3. ships to wit the Aide of the Queenes burthen 180. Tonnes the Michaell and the Gabriell accompanied with 140. Gentlemen Soldiers and Saylers victualed for halfe a yeare He went by the North the 7. of June arrived at Orkney in the Iles of Scotland 8. He departs from thence sailes betwixt W. and N. W. vntill the 4. of July 26. dayes saile from thence they meete with much Drift-wood as they suppose from New found Land And driven over with the Current which they say sets from the W. to the East The 4. of Iuly they had sight of Friesland 10. or 12. leagues off and great store of Ice 30. or 40. Fatham aboue water they supposed on ground though they could scarce sound the bottome for depth The Generall attempteth to goe on Land but cannot they coast it 4. dayes sees no signe of habitation Yet by Birds which in Fogs had lost the land came to the Ships they suppose the Country to be more habitable within then outward shoare maketh shew or signification The 8. they depart from thence 16. He comes to the making of the Land named the yeare before by him the Queenes Forland being as they judge it an Iland lying neere the supposed continent of America Another Iland lying upon the Asian side called Halls Iland betwixt which two Ilands goeth in Frobrishers straights or the unknowne passage into the Sea of Sur. He doth suppose that the Ice of this Coast is carried by some contrary E. or W. tyde or current upon the Coast of Freezland causing that Country to be farre more intemperate than other countries farre more North. At their first entrance they found the Straight mured with Ice the Captaine with his Pinnace past twice through before he durst hazzard in the great Ships They goe on land the people seemed to be joyfull thereof they embrace and the Captaine laid hands on them but they escape through nimblenesse and defends themselves with their bowes and Arrowes he tooke one all the rest escaped They put their Ships into the Straights all full of Ice they made 14. bourds in one watch to refraine the Ice the lightnesse of the night did them much comfort and helpe for sight and this hazard they made for safegard of their Captaine and Master who were on land 17. Being the day following the Capt. came on board with report of great riches hid in the bowels of that Continent Within 3. or 4. dayes after they had been in the Streights the W. and N. W. winds dispierst the Ice The 19. they enter without impediment The 20. they found a good harbour and names it Iackmans Sound anchoring the Ships there The Generall marches up into the land takes possession in the Queenes name and imployes his men about the businesse they came thither for Whilest they continued in this harbour they kept watch continually with boates and roapes ready to hale and towe away the Ice which otherwise might have driven thwart the Ships with Ebbe and flood The Generall findes not commodity answerable to his Expectation in the supposed America leaves the Ships coasts on to the supposed Asia the stones on land and Sand in Sea sparkle like Gold on both sides if all be Gold that glysters upon the West shore they found a dead Fish floating it proved by the horne to be a Sea Vnicorne the Spiders put therein dyed The Generall in further search findes Gold oare as he supposed with a good harbour and returnes to the Ships by the way he espies a Tent covered with Seale skins the people was fled he leaves glasses bels and knives therein onely tooke one Dog and nothing else leaves a letter with pen inke and paper for his men to write which was tooke from him the last

are simple in all their conversation but very theevish in stealing of Iron of which they make great account They in the end began to shew their Nature in cutting of Cables their Boate from their stern● and their Cloathes where they laid to aire They also stole their Oares a Calliver a Boare speare a sword wherevpon they brake the Peace by shooting off a Musket and a Faulcon at which noise they all departed with great feare They returned againe within 10. houres to intreat peace which was immediately granted they brought Seale skinnes and Salmon-peale but seeing Iron they could not forbeare to steale they eate their meate raw drinke salt water and eate grasse and yee with delight Their weapons are for the most darts but some have Bowes and Arrowes and Slinges with their Nettes made of whale-fynne with which they doe artificially catch fish with They have warre with some other Nation or Inland people for many of them are wounded He had amongst them Copper Ore blacke Copper and red Copper thinking to search the habitation of this Country in his Pi●●ace he entred a large River and went on Land to discover but the high Mountaines hindred his prospect He gathers Muscles for his supper and tooke harbour for that night vnder the Rockes where he see a mighty whi●le wind taking vp the water in great 〈…〉 for the ●pace of 〈…〉 houres without any intermission To conclude he found this not to be firme Land but mighty Rivers and Sounds and Throughlets betweene vast and desert Ilands with passage betweene Sea and Sea he returnes to his ship In his absence the people had stolne an Anchor and with sli●gs had thrown stones into the ship of half a pound weight he seemed to the Inhabitants to take no notice of the injurie done him hee tills them on land gives them bracelets and other toyes and intices 7. or 8. on board some of them goes into the maine top After Sunset they begin againe to assault them with stones in slings into the Mooneshine and with one stone strucke the Boatswaine that he overthrew him The 11. they came to make a new truce the Ringleader of the mischiefe was one the truce made they take one prisoner who pointed to his fellowes to bring the things that were stolne and he should be enlarged unto them The wind within an houre came faire they brought the fellow away One of his consorts came and followed talking to him at length they tooke leave making great lamentation The prisoner spake 4. or 5. words to the other clapping his hands vpon his face the other doing the like they depart This prisoner in few dayes grew a pleasant Companion trimmed vp his darts and fishing tooles made Okum and would lay his hand vpon a Roape to haile his meate was first dry Caplin they had taken there in their Tents when it was done he eate poore John The 14. of this Moneth one man dyed the rest were in good Health The 17. in the Latit of 63. ● min. he fell with a huge Iland of Ice in one entire Masse So big as they could not draw the limits with Bay and Capes and like huge Cliffes as he tooke it to be Land at first And in this place he had stickle and strong Currents No other but what the Ice made being forced through the water by the windes and drawing so much water as they bee eyther on ground or neere Also as his motion doth trouble and alter the waters true course which causeth the Tides to edy being neere it as Ilands in the Sea standing in the Flood or Ebbes way will doe the like He Coasts to S. off this Ice vntill the 30. of Iuly and saith ti was such a Barre to his proceedings as all his hopes were banished The 24. all his Ropes were frozen By a grosse fogge his men begin to grow sicke and feeble and told him he ought in Conscience to regard the safetie of his owne life and preservation of others and not through his over-boldnesse to leave their Widdowes and Fatherlesse children to give him bitter curses leave these excuses and come home Davis come home besides the great Ship was too great and unweldy to discover withall besides her charge was 100. pound a moneth So with divers other excuses he sends her homewards and with the Moone-shine made shift to steere E S E. from the Ice to seeke the next Land The first of August he sees land in 66 33. Longitude from London 70. deg here he graues the Moonelight that had beene forth but 3. moneths in a very good roade he findes this land to be all Ilands with Sea on E on W on N. but a Musk●ta stung him grievously the people here sends him a Seale driving with the tide which they had boyd up with bladders The people trade with him for skins as the others did and are in all things a like but in pronunciation of language more plaine and not hollow in the throate Their Salvage kept him close and made signes to them to get him a Companion Here he left the Mermaid at Anchor the 12 day and sailes W above 50 leagues sees land in 66 19 this land is 70 leagues from the other he anchors by an Iland of Ice from clock 9 to 3 in the morning The 15. he departs this land to the South sailes untill the 18 and then he sees land N W a faire Promontory in 65 and no land to Southward heere he had great hope of a Passage He sayles still southwards and sees Land S W and by S. the 17. by observation he was in 64 20 m. he had sailed by Cha●t and precise account 15 leagues S by W yet upon observation he found it S W. so as he saith it was by a Westerne Current August 19. it fell snow and foule weather they lie at h●ll all Night within 5. leagues of land The 20. the weather breakes up they beare in with land and got into a harbour close for all weathers they goe on land and can discer●e it to be all Ilands they come away in the afternoone with a N. E. winde faire weather shapes their course to the South whereby they may discover the passage They coast the land untill the 28. finding it still to continue to the S. from 67. to 57. he sees marvailous store of Sea fowle as Guls and others he tries for fish in one glasse kills an 100 Codde although he was but badly provided he doubting the weather steps into harbor in 56. d. sailes 10. leag up a River 2 leagues broad very faire Woods on both sides stayes here untill the first of Sept. had 2. great stormes he went 6. miles on land The woods were Furre Pyne-apple Elder Ewe Withe and Birch h● sees a black Beare and here were store of land river fowle as Goose Ducks Black-birdes Iayes Thrush and of Partridge and Feasant he kils great store with Bowe

Denmark for the discovery of Groenland 1605. his first Voyage Abstracted FRom Denmarke he set forth the 2 of May and saith hee found the Compasse varie Eastward at the Naes of Norway 7 deg 10 min. He saith that one league to the Northward of Faire ●sl● he found the race of a Tyde setting so strongly Northwestward as if it had bin in the race of Portland Faire Isle bearing E S E. foure leagues off Swi●borne head N. E. by N. eight leagues off The I le of Foule N E. the Compasse was varied to the Eastward of true North 60 deg 10. minutes and he thinketh that the Iland Busse discovered by the Busse of Bridgewater in Frobrishers last Voyage is not truly placed in the Marine Charts At his falling with Groenland hee named a headland Cape Christianus after the King of Denmarke in latitude 59 deg 50 minutes and he found it due for that none other before him hath named it S W. by W. five leagues from thence hee had 12 deg 15 min. variation Westwards standing from thence to Seawards he sayled three houres in blacke water as thicke as puddle He found Cape Christianus and Desolation to lie W. by N. 50 leagues distance and a Current S S W. set him violently into the Ice he also findes the Current upon the side of America to set to the North but contrary on the Groenland coast to the South He findes a harbour upon the Coast of Groenland and sailes 6 leagues up a great Inlet or river before he could find 16 fathomes to anchor in the land on both sides was steepie and mountainous He goes on land and findes houses or rather Tents covered with Seale-skinnes the people came to him crying Eliout holding up their hands their boates were covered all over with Seale skinnes about their Tents was great abundance of the flesh of Seales to drie with Caplin and of Pilchards innumerable of which with other fishes their rivers are full their dogs were very fat they found in their Tents Foxe and Seale skins very well drest also certaine coates of Seale and Fowle skins with the feather-side inwards they also found a certain vessell boyling upon a lampe the vessell made after the māner of a little pan the bottome of stone the sides of Whales Gils therein was Seales flesh boyling in Seale oyle and in another a dogges head boyled by those Tents lay two great boates with which he supposed they transported themselves from one place to another this not being the place of their continuall habits the boats were open with 8 or 10 thoughts and 20 foote in length at least for a sai●e they have the guts of some beast well drest and neatly sowed together After this the people came to them in their boates and bartered Seale skins and their Coats even for olde nailes or for a knife they will sell coate and boate Vnicorne horne or Mors teeth Whale finne with which they head their darts and weapons the Latitude of this Harbours mouth is 66. deg 30 min. an E and W. Moone makes a full Sea it floweth 3. fathomes and an halfe up and downe he had made about a barrell and ● ● of oyle and leaving it on land all night the Salvages let it forth The Salvages came the next day and bartered and going on land upon a sodaine without violence done them which shewes their wicked condition they assailed them with stones out of slings in most violent manner at the shooting of a Falcon-gun they all fled The next day againe they repaire to the number of sixty making new truce by crying Eliout but perceiving they had bags full of stones by them at the report of a Pistoll they all departed and after that they came to the same Cliffe againe and violently assaults them that no man could stand upon the hatches so as hee was glad to shield himselfe by loosing his Bonnets and lacing them about his ship and at the firing of a Musket they would ducke downe behind a Rocke the report gone they would afresh assault them He departs from hence and came to an anchor in an excellent haven on the S. side of a high hill which he named Mount Coningham this Sound for the goodnesse thereof he named Denmarke-haven 20 He loosed from this harbor the Salvages came againe to the number of 73. beating and making a hideous noise they enter into barter and throw Shels and toyes into his Boate he causing his boy to fetch them they shoote him through both buttockes with a Dart there were at this time mustered upon the Ilands to the number of 300 people Now followeth Mr. Iames Hall his Topographicall Description of the Land as hee discovered the same THe land of Groenland is a very high ragged and mountainous Countrey having many good Rivers Harbours and Bayes into 5. of which hee sayled 10 or 12 English leagues being very navigable with abundance of Fish of sundry sorts the Land in all places where I came seemed to bee fertile according to the Climate wherein it lyeth for betweene the Mountaines was most pleasant Plaines and Vallies insomuch as if he had not seene the same hee would not have beleeved that such a fertile land in shew could have bin in those Northerne Regions there is also great store of Fowle as Ravens Crowes Partridges Pheasants Seamewes Gulls with other sorts of Beasts he hath not seene any except blacke Foxes of which there are very many Hee doth suppose there are also many Deere for about their tents they found many Harts-hornes with the bones of other beasts also within the land he saw the footing and dung of divers other beasts he found the footing of one beast to be 8 inches over in the rivers were Fishes as Seales Whales and Salmon with divers other sorts of fishes the coast is a very good and faire land for 3 leag off he found 15 fathomes and as he approached the same 13 12 10 fathomes very faire sandy ground The people are a kind of Samoid or wandering nation removing from one place unto another they are people of a reasonable stature browne of colour very like the people of the East and W. India they are active and warlike vsing their darts and slings very nimbly they eate their meate raw or little parboild with blood oyle or water they apparell themselves in skinnes of such beasts as they kill but especially with Seales and fowles which they can dresse very soft and smooth in Summer turning the haire and feather side outwards in Winter inwards their weapons are slings bowes darts headed with bone or yron he supposeth them to be Idolatrous worshipping the Sun he met all the coast along much drift wood but from whence it came he knew not he coasted this Coast along from 66 deg to 69 deg and found many good sounds and harbours and returning towards his Shippe which he found in a harbour

The observation he made of Groenland That it is an exceeding high land and Mountaines which are very high within the land they are of stone some of one colour some of another all glistering but nothing worth if there be any Mettall it lyeth low in the earth and cannot well be come by there are some rockes purer then Alablaster the Northside of the Mountaines are continually covered with snow there are few trees but in one place 40 miles within the land in a river called Balls-river upon the Southside of a Mountaine there is a little Grove of Wood about 6 or 7 foot high like a Coppice in England it being of Willow Iuniper and such like they found much Angelica And he thinkes the Countrey people do eat thereof for he saw many of those rootes in their boates There are store of Foxes in the Maine and Ilands of sundry colours there are as white as snow and long surred there is divers Deere but they be farre up within the land for the Inhabitants doe hunt them sore that come towards the Sea where themselves live he see 7 at one time his men had divers Darts horns of Deere he see the foot of one beast bigger than the foot of an Oxe their Dogs and Foxe Pizzels have a bone within them the people all the Sommer time use nothing but fishing drying their fish and Seales flesh upon the rocks for their winters provision every one both man and woman have a boat covered with Seales skinnes close sowed that no water can enter them some of them are 20 foot long and not above a foot broad shaped like a Weavers shuttle so light that a man may carry many of them at once they use but one oare with a washe at both ends it is incredible to see how swiftly they rowe no ship being able to sayle so fast they sit in the midst of their boates and holds their oare in the middle In these boates they catch their fish as Seales Salmon Morses and others they strike some with Darts and angle others their coard is made of Whale-bone their hooke of a bone with which lines and hookes wee have catched very much fish I could not learne of their rites and Ceremonies but generally they worship the Sun they remove from place to place as their fishing doth serve they live in tents in the Summer and in winter in houses somewhat within the ground when they approach you they will hold up their hand to the Sunne Crying Eliout which we answering in like fashion they dare boldly come to us They make a Cave with stones wherein they bury their dead according to the bignesse of the Corpes defending them strongly from the p●ey of Foxes or Ravenous beasts they make another neare the former wherein they bury his bowe arrowes and da●ts and other his provision and he is buried in his apparell the coldnesse of the clime keepes the body from putrifaction 11 They eate their meate rawe yet they use fire they drink Salt-water by the Ship side Some of our men conceived them to be Man-eaters but he thinks not because they might have killed 3 of our men at one time filling water in an Iland far from our Ship and without any weapon at which time a great company of them came to them and searching their boate for Iron they gave them all they had with their chest keyes whereupon they depart without doing them any harme but let others take heed Since that I have entred thus farre into Groenland by the way of Capt. Davis and Mast Iames Hall heare the report of Dethmar Plef-kins a Minister sent into Iseland from Hamburgh 1563. GRoenland was first so named in the yeare of CHRIST 900. And although I purposed saith he to passe over Groenland with silence yet seeing I touched upon the land and observed some few things I thought it not impertinent to make mention of them There was in a Monastery in Iseland called Helgafiel a certaine blind Monke who lived miserably there he was borne in Groenland of a darke complexion and broad face the Governour commanded him to be brought unto him that he might know some part of the State of Groenland he said there was a Monastery of St. Thomas in Groenland into the which his parents thrust him when he was but young and after he was taken out by the Bishop of Groenland when he was 30 yeeres of age to sayle with him into Norway to the Archbishop of Nidrosia or Drunton to whom the Iland Bishops are subiect in his returne hee was left in a Monastery by the Bishop whose Country Groenland was this was done as he said in 1546. he said that Iland was called Groenland A●tiphrastically for that it seldome or never waxeth greene and that there is so great cold there throughout the whole yeere except Iune Iuly and August that being clothed and covered with Furres they could scarce be warme and that they had at home certaine round pieces of wood which being moved with their feet kept their feet warme he saith that it aboundeth as Island doth with fishes and that they had Beares and white Foxes ●ay Pigmies and Vnicornes and that the Day did not appeare untill the Sun had run through Pisces This Monke told us marvellous strange things that there was in the Monastery of S. Thomas where he lived a Fountaine which sent sorth burning and flaming water that this water was conveyed through Pipes of stone to the severall Cels of the Monks and that it made them warme as stoves do with us and all kind of meats might be boyled in this Fountain and fiery water no otherwise than if it had bin on a fire indeed he advertised moreover that the wals of the Monastery were made with Pumice stones out of a certaine mountain not farre from the Monastery like to Hecla in Iseland for if you powre this water upon the Pumice stone there will follow a slymie matter which in steed of lyme they use for motter After the Governors conference with him I came privately to demand certaine particulars touching the Pigmies and other things he had a little skill in the Latine tongue he understood me speaking Latine but answered me by an Interpreter he said the Pigmies represent the most perfect shape of man that they were hayrie to the outermost joynts of the finger and that the males have beards down to the knees but although they have the shape of man yet they have little sense or understanding or distinct speech but make shew of a kind of ●issing after the manner of Ge●se that his Abbot kept two of them in his Monasterie male and female but they lived not long and that they were unreasonable creatures and live in perpetuall darkenesse that some say they have Warre with the Cranes but that he knew not He affirmed that the same manner of food was in Groenland as in Iseland to wit of Fish but not of Cattell because

she was exceeding leake and the shallop also and which was worse they had never a Rudder to steere withall yet they rowed all night amongst Ice 1 and 2. They rowed up and down amongst the driving Ice with little hopes to recover their Countrey 3 The wind at N. they had a great current set to Southward they make fast to a peece of Ice and went to worke to stow their things snug close downe within board to make her stiffe for they had no ballast the Carpenter makes what shift he could to hang their Rudder having nothing to make Gudgions nor Pintels they were faine to breake open the Masters Chest to take the Iron bands to make fast 2 pickaxes for 2 pintels this Night they hang the Rudder with 2 pintels and a Cable through the middle of it to keepe it too with two tackes now were they in good hopes to get cleare for before their ship being Leake with her stem sore beaten with Ice and Rockes themselves with pumping and rowing were both sore and wearie 4 This day the wind came W N W. and was faire weather they got cleere out of the Bay the Noone-watch and was the first they had of long time before being all glad to watch to conduct the Ship cleare from the Ice their ship was so leake that if she stood vnpumped but halfe an houre they could not dry her with 1000 stroakes therefore they were inforced to Rumige and found many leakes but not that which caused them to pumpe so sore at last they find it close abaft the fore-foote where the keele was split in 2 or 3 places they could not come to stop it for it was vnder a timber in at which the Sea came so fast as it was not possible to keepe her free with both pumpes then did they take their maine bonnet and basted it with Okum and put it over-board right against their leake which eased them 4 or 500. stroakes in an houre they all this day consult to shape their course for New-found-land hoping to meete with some English or French and to mend their Ship at this time one of their men was very sicke another had his hand splinted and most of them all were so sore with rowing and pumping as they were not able to stirre but that they must perforce 5 They shape their Course for New-found-land 21 They fall with land being nothing but Ilands Latit 49 degrees 30 minutes 22 Faire weather they stand in among Ilands and a great Current set from Iland to Iland no ground at a 100 Fathoms they keepe too and fro all this night in great danger being among broken Rockes with thicke weather 23 They espie a dozen shallops fishing they make towards them they tooke harbour and remained in this Bay o Fogo untill the 22 of August repairing their ship and refreshing themselves the 24 of September they arrive a Dartmouth This journall from the death of Master Iohn Knight wa writ by Oliver Browne one of the Company An Abstract of the Voyage of Master Henry Hudson to the Northwest begun the 17 of Aprill 1610. and ended with his life being treacherously exposed by some of his Company 22 IN the Road of Lee in the River of Thames he caused Master Coolbrand to be set in a Pinke to bee carried backe againe to London This Coolbrand was every way held to be a better man than himselfe being put in by the Adventurers as his assistant who envying the same he having the command in his owne hands devised this course to send himselfe the same way though in a farre worse place as hereafter followeth 5 He came to the Isles of Orkney and here he set the N. end of the Needle and the North end of the Fly all one 6 He was in latitude 59 d. 23 m. and there he perceived that the N. end of Scotland Orkney and Shotland for hee visited them all as he saith are not so Northerly as is commonly set downe in the Charts 8 He saw Farre Ilands in Lat. 62. 24 m. but he staid not there 11 He fell with the E. part of Iseland then plyed up along the S. part of the land and came to the Westmost and the 15. he still plyed up untill the last of May and got some fowles of divers sorts 1 He put to Sea out of a harbour in the Westmost part of Iseland and according as hee writeth plyed to the Westward in Latit 66d 34 m. 2 He was in Latit 65 d. 57 m. small wind Easterly 4 He saw Greenland perfectly over the Ice this night Sun set at N. and rise N N E. The 5. he plyed in 65 d. still incom bred with Ice which hang upon the c●●st of Greenland 9 He was off Frebrishers s●ra●●s and p●ide Southward untill the 15. and then he was in Latit ●9 d. 27 m and had sight of Desolation and finds the errour of the former lying downe of the land running to the Northward as he saith untill this day in 60 d. 42 m. he saw much Ice many riplings and overfallings and a strong streame setting West Northwest 23 In sight of much Ice wind variable and in latitude 62. degrees 19. minutes 25 About midnight he saw the land North but was suddenly lost yet he runne still Westward in 6● deg 19 min. and he plyed upon the South side seeking the shore he was troubled with much Ice in latitude 52 deg 16. min. 8 Hee plyed off the shore againe untill this day the Pol●s elevation 60 d. 0 m. he saw the land from N W. by W. ½ N. unto the S W by W. covered with snow a Champion land and cals it Desire provoked 11 He plyed still to Westward and fearing a storme he anchored by 3 ragged Ilands in uncertaine deepes betweene 8. and 9 fathomes he findes the harbour unsufficient by reason of sunken rockes one of the which was the next morning 2. fathomes above water which he had gone over hee calls them the Isles of Gods mercy it floweth here better than 4 fathomes the stood came from North flowing 8 a Clock the Change day the latitude in this place is 62 d. 9 min. 16 Plying to Southward untill this day he was in 58 deg 50 min. there he was Imbayed with land and had much Ice 19 Vntill this day he plyed Westward and found his latitude 61 deg 24 min. where he see a Bay in the South land which he named Hold with h●pe 21 Hence he plies to the Northward had variable winds and findes the Sea more growne then he had any time since he left England 23 The Poles height was 61 deg 33. min. 25 He saw the Southland and named it Magna Britania 26 He was in latitude 62 deg 44 min. 28 He plied Southward off the Westward and was in 63. deg 10 min. 31 Plying Southerly he found himselfe in 62 d. 2● min. 1 He had sight of the North

Company at that poore allowance they were at and that there they lay the Master not caring to go one way or other and that they had not eaten any thing this three dayes and therefore were resolute either to mend o● end and what they had begun they would go through therewith or die when he heard this he told them he marvelled to heare so much from them considering that they were married men and had wives and children and that for their sakes they should commit so foule a thing in the sight of God and man as that would be for why should they banish themselves from their native countrey Henry Greene bad him hold his peace for he knew the worst of it which was to be hanged when he came at home and therefore of the two he would rather be hanged at home then starved abroad and for the good will they bore him they would have him to stay in the ship he gave them thankes and told them that hee came into the ship not to forsake her nor yet to hurt himselfe and others by any such deed Henry Greene told him then that hee must take his fortune in the Shallop if there bee no remedy quoth he the will of God he done Away goes Greene in a rage swearing to cut his throat that went about to disturbe them and left Wilson by him with whom he had some conference but to no good for hee was perswaded to goe on with the action whilst it was hot lest their parties should faile them and the mischiefe they intended to others should fall upon their owne shoulders Greene comes againe and demaunded what he said Wilson answered and said he is in his old song still patient then he spake to Greene to stay 3 dayes in which time hee would so deale with the Mr. as all should bee well but being denied he dealt with him but for 2 dayes nay for 12 houres there is no way then say they but out of hand then he told them that if they would stay while Munday he would joine with them to share all the victuals in the ship and would justifie it when he came at home but this would not serve wherefore he told them it was some worse matter they had in hand then they made shew of and that it was blood and revenge he sought or else he would not undertake such a deed at such a time of night Greene with that tooke his Bible which lay before him and sware that he would doe no harme and what he did it was for the good of the Voyage and for nothing else and that all the rest should doe the like the like did Wilson sweare Greene went his way and presently comes Ivett who because hee was an ancient man he hoped to have found some reason in him but he was worse then Greene for hee swore plainely that he would justifie this deed at home-comming after him came Iohn Thomas and Michael Pierce as birds of one feather but because they died as hereafter shall be shewed he let them passe then came Motter and Bennet of whom he demaunded if they were well advised what they had taken in hand they answered they were and therefore came to take their oath Now saith this writer because he was much condemned for this oath as one that plotted with them and that by an oath he should binde them together to performe what they had begun he thought good to set downe to the view of all men to see how well their oath and deeds agreed and thus it was You shall be true to God your Prince and Countrey you shall doe nothing but to the glory of God and to the good of the action in hand and harme to no man This was the oath without adding or diminishing he looked for moe of those companions althoughthose were too many but there came no more while it was darke and they in readinesse to put this deed of darkenesse into execution he called to him Greene and Wilson and prayed them not to goe in hand with it in the darke but to stay untill morning for now he hoped every man would goe to his rest but wickednesse sleepeth not for Henry Greene keepeth the Master Company all night and gave this writer bread which his Cabbin mate gave him and others were as watchfull as hee then he asked Henry Greene whom he would put out with the Master he said the Carpenter Iohn King and the sick men he said they should not doe well to part with the Carpenter what need soever they should have why the Carpenter was in no more regard amongst them then another for that he and John King were condemned for wrong done in the victuals but the chiefest cause was because the Master loved him and made him his mate upon this his returne from his wintring place thereby displacing Robert Bylot who they did grudge because hee could neither write nor reade for therefore said they the Master and his ignorant mate will carry the ship whether the Master pleaseth the Master having forbidden any man to keepe account or reckoning having taken from all men whatsoever served for that purpose well he obtained of Henry Greene and Wilson that the Carpenter should stay by which meanes after that they had satisfied themselves the Master and the rest might bee taken into the ship againe or hee hoped that some one or other would give some notice to the Carpenter Iohn King or the Master for so it might have come to passe and have beene by some of them prevented that were the most forward Now it cannot be amisse to shew how they were lodged and to begin in the cookes Roome there lay Bennet and the Cooper lame without the Cookes roome on the starboard side lay Thomas Woodhouse sicke next to him lay Sydrach Fenner lame then lay Wilson the boatswaine and then Arnold Lodlo next to him in the Gunners roome lay Robert Iuet and John Thomas on the Larboard side lay Michaell But and Adiran Moore which was never well since they lost their anckor next to him lay Michaell Peirce and Andrew Motter next to them without the Gunner roome lay Iohn King and with him Robert Bilot next to them himselfe and next to him Francis Clements In the midship betwixt the Capstone and the Pompes Henry Greene and Nicholas Simmes this night John King was late up and they thought he had beene with the Mr. but he was with the Carpenter who lay in the poope and comming from him was met by his cabbine mate as it were by chance so they went to cabbine together it was not long ere it was day then came Bennet for water for the kettle he went into the hold when he was in they shut the hatch on him but who kept it downe he knoweth not but upon the decke came Bennet In the meane time went Henry Greeene and another to the Carpenter and held him talke untill the Master came out of his

for that they had so promised him by signes the last day Now when wee came they made signes to their Dogs whereof there were many like Mongrels as bigge as Hounds and pointed to the Mountaines and to the Sunne clapping their hands Then Henry Greene John Thomas and William Wilson stood hard by the Boats head Michael Pierce and Andrew Motter were got upon the Rocks a gathering of Sorrell not one of them had any Weapon about him not so much as a stick save Henry Greene onely who had a piece of a Pike in his hand nor saw he any thing they had to shoot him with Henry Greene and Wilson had Looking glades lewes-trumps and Bells which they were shewing the Salvages standing round about them one of them came into the Boats head to shew him a Bottle This Writer made signes unto him to get him ou shore but he made as though he had not understood him whereupon he stood up and pointed him on shore In the meane time another stole behind to the sterne of the Boat and when he saw him on shore that was on the Boats head hee sate downe againe but suddenly hee sawe the leggs and feete of a man by him wherefore hee cast up his head and sawe the Salvage with his knife in his hand who stroke at his Brest over his head hee casting up his arme to save his brest the Savage wounded his arme and stroke him into the body under his right Pap the Salvage stroke a second blow which he met with his left hand and then stroke him into the right thigh and had like to have cut off his little finger of his left hand Now this Writer had got hold of the string of the knife and had wound it about his left hand he striving with both his hands to make an end of that he had begun found the Salvage but weake in the gripe God enabling him getting hold of the sleeve of his left arme he see his left side lay open to him which when he saw he put his sleeve of his left arme into his left hand holding the string of the knife fast in the same hand and having got his right hand at liberty hee sought for somewhat wherewith to strike him not remembring his Dagger at his side but looking downe he saw it and there with strooke the Salvage into the body and throat Whilst he was thus assaulted in the Boat their men were set upon on the shore John Thomas and William Wilson had their bowells cut and Michael Pierce and Henry Greene being mortally wounded came tumbling into the Boat together When Andrew Moter saw this medley hee came running downe the Rock and leaped into the Sea and so swam to the Boat and hung at her sterne untill Michael Pierce took him in who manfully made good the Boats head against the Salvages that pressed sore upon them Now Michael Pierce had got an Hatchet with which hee stroke one that hee lay sprawling in the Sea Henry Greene cried coragi● and laid about him with Trunchion this Writer cryeth to cleere the Boats head and Andrew Motter cryeth to bee taken in the Salvages betake them to their Bowes and Arrowes which they sent so amongst them that Henry Greene was slaine outright and Michael Pierce received many wounds and so did the rest Michael Pierce cleareth the Boat and put it from the shore and helpeth Andrew Motter in but in the clearing of the Boat Pricket received a cruel wound on his back with an Arrow Michael Pierce and Motter rowed away the Boat which when the Salvages sawe they came to their Boats which they feared they would have lanched to have followed them but they did not their Ship was in the middle of the Channell and yet could not see them all this time Now when they had rowed a good way from the shore Pierce fainted and could rowe no more then was Motter driven to stand in the Boats head and wave to the Ship which at first sawe them not and when they did they could not tell what to make of them but in they stood for them and so tooke them up Greene was throwne into the Sea the rest was taken into the Ship the Salvage being yet alive but without sence That day dyed Wilson cursing and swearing in most fearefull manner Michael Pierce lived two dayes and then dyed Thus have you had the tragicall end of Greene and his 3. Mates being the lustiest men in all the Ship The poore number that was left was to ply the Ship to and againe in the mouth of the Straits for there was no anchoring and besides they were to goe in the Boat to kill Fowle to bring them home which they did with great danger for if the winde blew there was an high Sea and the Eddie of the tide would carry the Ship so neere the Rocks as it feared the Master for so now they call By lot After which great labour and on the South Cape they had killed 300. Fowle they stood to the East but the wind came East and put them back againe to the Capes where they killed 100. Fowles at length a West winde drives them homewards for the most par along the North side of the Streight untill he fell into broken g●ound about the Queenes Forland and there anchored and ●●om thence he came to Gods mercies and from thence to those Ilands that lye in the mouth of the Straits but not seeing the land untill they were ready to runne their Bowsprit against the Rocks in a fogge but it cleered a little and then they might see themselves inclosed amongst Rockie Ilands and could finde no ground to anchor in They lie a trye all night and the next day the fogge continues they seeke for ground to anchor in but found none under 100. Fathoms The next day he weighed againe and stood to the East and now they are brought to the allowance of halfe a Fowle a day yet they had some meatleft and nothing else and now were glad to burne of the feathers for sowing of the skins which before they sleaed off the Fowle because they will not pull nor the garbidge also was not throwne away He saith that after they were cleare of those Ilands which lie out with two points one on the South East and the other on the North making a Bay to the sight as if there were no way through hee continued his course East South East and South East thinking to raise desolations from thence to shape his course from Ireland though Ivet perswaded to goe for New-found-land hoping there to have reliefe amongst our Countrymen but in Latitude 57. degrees the winde came South West and so it was thought fit to seek for food where some grew viz Ireland and so the course was directed In which time they were fain to frie their Fowles bones in Candle tallow putting vinegar thereto which was stirred amongst them and every man had