Westwards and sees the land of America in 62 deg 30 min. makes it to be Warwickes foreland it was high-land and covered with snow with other small Ilands there was great store of Ice upon the forelands Eastside but the sea was altogether cleare the land lay N by E. about 6 leagues in length 29 He was beaten to the Southwards by N. E. winds and finds Warwicks foreland to be an Iland hee discovers Lumleys Inlet a great Current setteth to the West the greatest hope of a passage this way the weather was fogge and snow he had a great whirling of a Current in latitude 61 deg 12 leagues from the Coast of America The 1 of Julie was fogge and snow the ayre very cold hee traverst to and againe in many overfals but by his course hee could not discerne which way the Current set but most like to the West he travers'd therein 16 or 17 dayes and could find no ground in 120 fathome 2 He discernes a maine banke of Ice in 60 deg faire weather he lancht his boate and loaded her twice therewith to dissolve to fresh-water hee sets into many overfals alongst this coast of America which coast here he conceives to be broken land 3 The S W. he stands in with the coast of America and meets with Ice 10 leagues off the water blacke and thick as puddle 8 He had beate it to the Northward and descries the land of America in 60 deg 53 min. being very high it bore S W. covered with snow he was 5 leagues off but could not come neare it for Ice 9 A storme began at N E. he cleares himselfe of the land and Ice by standing to Southwards the storme continued so that he stood to the Southwards in forecourse 17 From the 9 to the 17 he was in traverse and heere he heard a fearefull noyse of Ice he had thicke weather his roapes and sailes all frozen 18 The wind N E. extreame cold and frost the ayre very cleere his roapes were froze and it froze so extreamely that it was a maine barre to his proceedings and destruction to his men 19 He stood to Eastward with wind N E. and the same night his men conspired to beare up the helme and keep him in Cabbin they shew the reason for so doing in writing by good chance he understands thereof and prevents them The Reasons That although it were granted that we might winter betweene 60 and 70 degrees of latitude with safety of lives and vessels yet it will be May next before we can dismure them to lanch out into the Sea and therefore if the Merchants should have purpose to proceed on the discovery of the N. W. parts of America the next yeare you may be in the foresaid latitude from England by the first of May and so be furnished better with men and victuals to passe and proceed in the foresaid action Seeing then that you cannot assure us of a safe harbour to the Northward wee purpose to beare up the helme for England yet with this limitation that if in your wisedome you shall thinke good to make any discovery it seemeth there were some with him understood more then himselfe either in 60 or 57 degrees with this Northwest winde wee will yeeld our lives with your selfe to encounter any danger thus much wee thought needfull to signifie as a matter builded upon reason and not proceeding upon feare or cowardice Then being in latitude 68 and 55 min. there was no meanes to perswade them but they would beare up the helme whereupon he came out of his Cabbin to enquire who was the cause they answered one and all hoysing up sayles and directing the course South by West 22 Hee sent for the chiefest of the Mutineeres and punished them severely this day hee came by an Iland of Ice both ships launcht their boates to fetch some to make fresh-water this Iland crackt two or three times as though it had beene thunder-clappes and it brake in sunder to the great danger of his boates the one being halfe laden with Ice 25 It blew hard the course West by South with fogge and was in latitude 61 degrees and 40 minutes and findes an Inlet in this latitude 27 The South-south-East wind blew very hard with fog and raine his course West 30 The wind came in a shower to West North-west and blew hard and because the yeare was farre spent and many men sicke in both Ships he thought good to returne with great hope of this Inlet to be a passage of more probability then Davis his Straights because he found it not pestred with Ice and a straight of 40 leagues broad he saith he sayled 100 leagues West by South into the Inlet he saith also he found the variation to be 35 degrees Westward and the needle to decline or rather incline Observe 83 Degrees and a halfe the 5 of Julie he was cleere off the Inlet the 6 South-east wind and fogge the 7 8 and 9th hee passed by many great Ilands of Ice discovered an Iland upon the coast of America latitude 55 degrees 30 minutes 14 He stood off and on this coast from the 5 untill the 14 had some foule weather and made some Ilands he stands into an Inlet in 56 degrees and had good hope of a passage for divers probable reasons I finde nothing more of note but that upon the Coast of America betwixt 55 degrees 30 and 50 minutes he observed two variations the one of 17 deg 15 min. the other 18 degr 12 min. the coast was voyd of Ice unlesse some great Ilands drive from the North and that the ship had like to have perished for want of spare decks one whirlewind he saw upon this Coast take up the Sea into the Ayre extreamely that hee was entred 30 leagues within one Inlet latitude 56 degrees where if the wind had come Northerly South or East but one day he had perished 4 He had sight of the Iland of Silly the next day hee came into Dartmouth The generall Observation He set forth the 2 of May and returned homewards the 30 of Iuly his greatest latitude wee can be certaine of was 63 deg 53 min. and passing the Grand Meridian betwixt Orkney and Desolation hee had no variation his greatest was 35 degrees Westward hee neither discovered nor named any thing more then Davis nor had any sight of Groenland nor was not so farre North nor can I conceive hee hath added any thing more to this designe yet these two Davis and he did I conceive light Hudson into his Straights nor did he try in so long time being to and againe upon the Coast of America for Davis his fishing having such abundance of the largest and best fed Cod-fish that he saw his ships were never separated which shewed that they were not greatly distrest Master Iames Hall of Kingston upon Hull Pilot Major of three Ships set forth by the King of
she was exceeding leake and the shallop also and which was worse they had never a Rudder to steere withall yet they rowed all night amongst Ice 1 and 2. They rowed up and down amongst the driving Ice with little hopes to recover their Countrey 3 The wind at N. they had a great current set to Southward they make fast to a peece of Ice and went to worke to stow their things snug close downe within board to make her stiffe for they had no ballast the Carpenter makes what shift he could to hang their Rudder having nothing to make Gudgions nor Pintels they were faine to breake open the Masters Chest to take the Iron bands to make fast 2 pickaxes for 2 pintels this Night they hang the Rudder with 2 pintels and a Cable through the middle of it to keepe it too with two tackes now were they in good hopes to get cleare for before their ship being Leake with her stem sore beaten with Ice and Rockes themselves with pumping and rowing were both sore and wearie 4 This day the wind came W N W. and was faire weather they got cleere out of the Bay the Noone-watch and was the first they had of long time before being all glad to watch to conduct the Ship cleare from the Ice their ship was so leake that if she stood vnpumped but halfe an houre they could not dry her with 1000 stroakes therefore they were inforced to Rumige and found many leakes but not that which caused them to pumpe so sore at last they find it close abaft the fore-foote where the keele was split in 2 or 3 places they could not come to stop it for it was vnder a timber in at which the Sea came so fast as it was not possible to keepe her free with both pumpes then did they take their maine bonnet and basted it with Okum and put it over-board right against their leake which eased them 4 or 500. stroakes in an houre they all this day consult to shape their course for New-found-land hoping to meete with some English or French and to mend their Ship at this time one of their men was very sicke another had his hand splinted and most of them all were so sore with rowing and pumping as they were not able to stirre but that they must perforce 5 They shape their Course for New-found-land 21 They fall with land being nothing but Ilands Latit 49 degrees 30 minutes 22 Faire weather they stand in among Ilands and a great Current set from Iland to Iland no ground at a 100 Fathoms they keepe too and fro all this night in great danger being among broken Rockes with thicke weather 23 They espie a dozen shallops fishing they make towards them they tooke harbour and remained in this Bay o Fogo untill the 22 of August repairing their ship and refreshing themselves the 24 of September they arrive a Dartmouth This journall from the death of Master Iohn Knight wa writ by Oliver Browne one of the Company An Abstract of the Voyage of Master Henry Hudson to the Northwest begun the 17 of Aprill 1610. and ended with his life being treacherously exposed by some of his Company 22 IN the Road of Lee in the River of Thames he caused Master Coolbrand to be set in a Pinke to bee carried backe againe to London This Coolbrand was every way held to be a better man than himselfe being put in by the Adventurers as his assistant who envying the same he having the command in his owne hands devised this course to send himselfe the same way though in a farre worse place as hereafter followeth 5 He came to the Isles of Orkney and here he set the N. end of the Needle and the North end of the Fly all one 6 He was in latitude 59 d. 23 m. and there he perceived that the N. end of Scotland Orkney and Shotland for hee visited them all as he saith are not so Northerly as is commonly set downe in the Charts 8 He saw Farre Ilands in Lat. 62. 24 m. but he staid not there 11 He fell with the E. part of Iseland then plyed up along the S. part of the land and came to the Westmost and the 15. he still plyed up untill the last of May and got some fowles of divers sorts 1 He put to Sea out of a harbour in the Westmost part of Iseland and according as hee writeth plyed to the Westward in Latit 66d 34 m. 2 He was in Latit 65 d. 57 m. small wind Easterly 4 He saw Greenland perfectly over the Ice this night Sun set at N. and rise N N E. The 5. he plyed in 65 d. still incom bred with Ice which hang upon the câ—â—st of Greenland 9 He was off Frebrishers sâ—raâ—â—s and pâ—ide Southward untill the 15. and then he was in Latit â—9 d. 27 m and had sight of Desolation and finds the errour of the former lying downe of the land running to the Northward as he saith untill this day in 60 d. 42 m. he saw much Ice many riplings and overfallings and a strong streame setting West Northwest 23 In sight of much Ice wind variable and in latitude 62. degrees 19. minutes 25 About midnight he saw the land North but was suddenly lost yet he runne still Westward in 6â— deg 19 min. and he plyed upon the South side seeking the shore he was troubled with much Ice in latitude 52 deg 16. min. 8 Hee plyed off the shore againe untill this day the Polâ—s elevation 60 d. 0 m. he saw the land from N W. by W. ½ N. unto the S W by W. covered with snow a Champion land and cals it Desire provoked 11 He plyed still to Westward and fearing a storme he anchored by 3 ragged Ilands in uncertaine deepes betweene 8. and 9 fathomes he findes the harbour unsufficient by reason of sunken rockes one of the which was the next morning 2. fathomes above water which he had gone over hee calls them the Isles of Gods mercy it floweth here better than 4 fathomes the stood came from North flowing 8 a Clock the Change day the latitude in this place is 62 d. 9 min. 16 Plying to Southward untill this day he was in 58 deg 50 min. there he was Imbayed with land and had much Ice 19 Vntill this day he plyed Westward and found his latitude 61 deg 24 min. where he see a Bay in the South land which he named Hold with hâ—pe 21 Hence he plies to the Northward had variable winds and findes the Sea more growne then he had any time since he left England 23 The Poles height was 61 deg 33. min. 25 He saw the Southland and named it Magna Britania 26 He was in latitude 62 deg 44 min. 28 He plied Southward off the Westward and was in 63. deg 10 min. 31 Plying Southerly he found himselfe in 62 d. 2â— min. 1 He had sight of the North
25 25 25 fathomes at the distance of 7 leagues from my last nights Anchoring place I met another Iland three or foure more within it all lying almost without sight of the Maine I stood within them to seven fathomes and tooke about to make a perfect discovery of the Maine which done I Veered away the wind still about North North West I went to Seaward off the said Iland at whose Northeast end there lay a reefe which with the ebbe that fell over it made a great Ripling or Race so as I could discerne thereby when I might edge up againe here in this Overfall was a Sea Mors I tooke this to be the Checkes latitude 61 degrees 10 minutes I went over in nine fathomes and then standing Southwest came presently into twentie I hoped now for a sight of Hubberts comfortable Hope the land lay along Southwest and Northeast it hath blowen all this day to Course and Bonnet at night I Anchored at twenty fathomes two or three leagues from shore the land is low but within are many water ponds and small growne wood I stood along all those supposed Checkes from my last Da 3 nights Roade into 3. fathomes upon the shoare the land lowe but now and then a Sandie knowle or downe would appeare Moneths August much like the coast of Holland and â—landers wee made way S W. and by W. 10 leag and divers times see dry shelves betweene us and the shoare The Latit w is 60 d. 22 m. this afternoone was small wind from S W. and I sent the boat to the land being about 3 miles off my selfe with ship anchored in 7 fathomes I gave a token that if the water should shoale sodainely they in the boate should shoote off a Musket which before they came to shoare they did here were many Musketoes The Master was in the boate and had but 2 fathomes when they shot all the water within us was shoald so that then we were glad to wade forth although the tyde was flood it flowing 14 inches in two glasses but in further examining I found no good account onely this doth sustice that as I range along the coast I do goe from the tide and that it keepeth course with the Moone and that the further I speed from Sir Thomas Roes welcome it still floweth lesse water and the tides current is the easier here on land the Mr. found the reliques of a birch Cannowe the footings and hornes of Deere both small and great and of fowle an Arrowe headed with a nayle the head beaten broad and put into a shaft of 18 inches long he thought it flowed about 7 foote the floode began about clocke 8. I am sure it was slacke tyde at ship then and I will be slacke to write any more hereof for I cannot season the reckoning taken on shoare After the boates comming on board I stood off 3 glasses to anchor in 13 fathome water Hubbert makes me hope for now I draw nere here the tyde did set S W. and by W. the ebbe E and by South From the last day to this I made way S S W. 5 leag and am Da 4 now in 59 d. 53 m. of Latit standing along betweene 10 and 20 fath S S W. at night 10. I came to a land lying about 2 leag from the Mayne but so dry at low water that you may goe to the firme land betwixt the one and the other this lyeth from my last nights roade 10 leag S and by W. At the dayes appearance I went to this Iland it is all stones Da 5 as the other the Sea hath bin smooth of long time the Sunne rose cleare and at the 4 glasse after lowe water it did flowe 21 inches this was when the half tyde came to take his first set and came with a shuft I did account that it would Moneths August not flow lesse then 18 foote but after this shuft it flowed lesse and lesse untill full Sea that tyde the 3 first glasses did not flow above 2 foote Vpon this Iland were many corpes laid in the same manner as at Sir Thomas Roes Welcome the Salv. inhabitants had lately bin there left the skaddles of their fire they had also sunk a well ston'd it about for there was fresh water therein there was here some store of the ruined fragments of Cannowes and other firre wood with which we laded the boat on board there was also carved toyes in their graves I did Anchor at clocke 8 now these nights begin to be long left I might slip by some Inlet unseene this day was very â—ot and a small gale from S S W. we had all this time very hot dayes euer since we came from Carie Swans nest if that the cold N W. wind had not delayed them this Meridian I was in 59 d. 05 m. I stood off into 20 fath and went in againe to 15. the broken Iland in sight since noone untill this midnight I made way S. 3 leag and then I discerned the land to meete upon my weather bough and a head so I caused to tack about and lay N W. by N. in wind W by S. 5 glasses a leag it seemed to be higher land then I had lately seen from 15 fath deepe yesterday I came S. as before upon 18 and 20 fathoms I stood thus to the Northwards untill day light and then I see my land I was upon yesterday morning and the land within it which I see yesternight stretching into Hubberts Hope I stood about to the Southwards and the day light being come Da 6 on I could see the bottome of Vainely Hâ—apt Hubbert for so I â—â—ld it and the South land meeting E and W. the length of it at least 15 leagues I anchored the boate in 20 fathomes the Tyde came N. W. and this is that supposed Tide that set E and W. which was no more but the same Tyde I brought along with mee from Sir Tho. Roes Welcome comming all along the coast S W by S. falling into this Vaine Hope is enforced to alter his course by opposition of the S side of this large Bay and there to set E and W. as the land doth lye 1 mile 2 7. in one houre The Iland I was upon yesterday was doubtlesse the Checks named by Sir Thomas Button for what reason I know not except for that here his hope was crost he tooke it as a checke This land bore from me to the S E. by E. and was gentlie decending down to the Sea side the greenest best like I have Moneths August seene since I came out of the river of Thames and as it were inclosed with thick rowes of Trees betweene one meadowe and another distinct as it were Barne Elmes nere London and at sight hereof I did thinke of them and if there be any keeping of tame Deere or other beasts or tillage in all that countrey I should think it to be there for certainely there
way 32 leagues nere Da 26 the S E by East the land of this North side meeting us bore from the E by N. to the N N West and is the Mayne or Iland betwixt the Iles of Gods Mercy and Salvage Iles all upon the North side of Fretum Hudson and nere those bearings of land my Latitude was 62 degrees 40 minutes From the last Meridian unto this I made way 13 leagues Da 27 E by S. and had I le Sackveile N E. by E 2 â— E. 7 leagues off at this present I had sight of the land from Resolution and it bore from me from the N N E. to the E. about 9 or more leag This day and night was fayre weather the one by sight of the Sun the other by the Moone although the wind came against our wils to the S E. by S. with a frostie fog turning up to the North land it was cleare but at Sea it was thicke and thus plying up to the Eastward came within 4 leagues of this land which lay from East to N N E. and was the same wee drived along immured amongst the Ice at our entrance inwards wee got little by plying with contrary winds and yet I durst not put into a Sound for harbour of which wee might perceive some as also Roade-steeds made by Ilands lying nere the Mayne our weather side was froze as also all our ropes were a quarter of an inch thicke about The wind continued contrary and I stood off into the Da 28 Channell and on againe with frostie fogge and very cold but the wind blew not to above Course and Bonnet this day Moneths September I appointed 4 beefe dayes in the weeke With wind contrary I plyed it to the Eastwards the Aire was both thicke and cleare as I was neere or farre off the North Maine sometime it blew to both topsailes and sometime was eafie winde The evening 8. I stood to the S. ward being S. W. from the E. point of the N. land stretching toward Resolution 4 leagues I stood over untill this day clocke Da 30 one S. S. E. wreck and variation allowed 28 leag at what time we thought we had sight of the S. Maine about S. W. by S. 5. leagues off very high land This night was hazie and blew to Course and Bonnet comming betweene 2 Ilands of ice the Sea had beate much from off the weathermost which lay floting betwixt it and that to Leeward so as I loosed for one and bore up for another for the space of the 60 part of one houre and this was all the trouble the ice put me unto homeward bound This first day it blew lesse wind but all the morning was Da 1 Moneths October Snow the Lord for his mercy sake looke upon us for we are all in weake case dispairing more since this last frost and contrary winds that hath bin within these 5 dayes although the frost hath not beene uncouth to us then for the same weather we had for 3 weekes before and yet our allowance is enlarged to so much as we cannot eate with Sacke Aquavita Beere as well Oatemeale Meale Rice Pease and Beefe for salt fish our men can eate none nor doe I hold it fit they should These 2 dayes were spent in plying to the E. sometimes in Da 2 the sight of the N. land or Maine whereof lay 2 small Ilands Da 3 which we drive by as I drive inwards being then fast amongst the ice at 12 this day I tacked to the S. wards and at this instant the said land-bore from N W. by W. to the E. the Iland at the N. end by estimation was one league distant from the Maine that at the E. was 2 off This day hath been faire and cleere and it cleereth with bright Horizons at N. E. God send the wind from thence to take us out of those dilatory sufferings which we have more through lingring doubt of what wee shall feele then as yet we doe feele and expecting our freedome if wee were freed out of Fretum Hudson which upon a sodaine change wee may happely expect From last day noon unto this day 12 I stood upon a bowling Moneths October Da 4 making a S. E. way 31 leagues the wind Veering meâ—e Northerly I stood E. S. E. so neare as I could lie 20 leagues more and at midnight I had the Cape Chidly since called Buttons Ilands E. 4 leagues from me whereupon I stood to the North because I could not carry it about the Cape untill this day 5 in the morning and then tackt to the E. the Da 5 wind larging about to the Northward I doubled the Cape at clocke 12 weathering the same about 2 leagues having as at all headlands with Sea winds and cold weather a great Sea with an inset into Fretum Hudson against me that the shippe strucke in the Spritsaile yard and bowlspright under water I much fearing that the springing of our yards or Maâ—ts setled the topsailes so to ease them that I thought I did but double the Cape with much adoe it was high land consisting of diveâ—s ilands seeming as they were to bee sayled betwixt these were covered with Snow as also Resolution whose Cape Warwicke I see bearing N. and by W. at that instant after I had brought this Cape or Iles of Chidly W S. W. either the Tyde or Current did set me fast to the S. ward this day it froze so sore with the ships dipping in the Sea that our head and wet tackling were Canded over with Icesicles and many Snowie showres in earnest were sent from Boreas his frozen forge And for the haire of our faces to be of his hoary colour had been no noveltie to us these 4. weekes I stood from the Cape bearing S. E. ½ Southerly variation Da 6 and wreake allowed 51 leagues and 2 mile untill this noone time From thence untill this 12 E. by S. 54 leagues at what time Da 7 motion was made to come home in lesse sayle but answer was that I was not discharged as yet and therefore I would runne the ship out of victuall and pay for as yet I never durst carry sayle to see how fast I could drive Charles his Waine to the best advantage fearing that if I had sprung any of my Masts yards or tackling or wrong the ship it might have beene supposed I had done it upon purpose that then if I had stood need of excuse for feare or neglect I might have used that false colour blessed be the Almighty who never faileth those that depend on him truely this warmeth we find in the open Moneths October Ocean doth much revive us for truely if this extremity of the frost and snow had continued on with the Easterne winds we had within Fretum Hudson wee had beene constrained backe to have wintered in Hudsons Bay or else-where for the most of us were ready to fall downe with the rest that were downe already After I was
morning 4. all this day he past by many beds of Ice having great quantity to the N. of him and having run about 21. Leagues upon a true W. course 27. This 27. was close foggie weather with much snow freezing his shroude and tackling but at Clock 4. it cleared and he saw Land it being the I le Resolution bearing W. about 13. or 14. Leagues off he stands to to fro as Ice would suffer him when night came with W. wind he made fast to a peece of Ice 28. Faire weather all this day hee being fast to a peece of Ice with W. wind and hee could well perceive that hee â—et faster into the straights with the flood then the ebbe could take him back againe 29. This day the weather was faire and wind variable hee sets sayle and tacks to and fro along the Iland the nâ—xt morning 2. the wind came to S. S E. but he was so postured with Ice that with faire wind he could doe little good the wind continued a stiffe gaile all day and night for it was not darke and so was set within the point of the Iland so as now hee was within the straights This day was faire weather the wind N. W. hee saw Buttons Iles beare S. by compasse but S. S. E. with variation allowed which was 24. degrees some snow in the morning but very faire the afternoone the wind at W. N. W. hee perceiving the Ice to open close to the shore made way to get into anchor and by Clock 7. he was in good harbour on the W. side of Resolution where an E. S. E. Moone makes a full Sea or halke an hower past 7. On the change day the water doth rise and fall neere 4. Fathome the compasse doth vary 24. d. 6. m. and his Longitude from London 66. d. 35. m. the breadth of the S. channell is 16. Leagues and the breadth of the N. or Lumleys Julet is 8. Miles wide in the narrowest place He found here no signe of inhabitants but the tracte of Beares and Foxes Rocks and stony ground hardly any thing growing thereon it is indifferent high Land to the N. having one hill or summoke to the N. E. but to the South it falleth away very low This morning the wind came to the E. S. E. with much snow and foule weather at noone he wayed anchor and stood about by the Iland side as well as the Ice would give him leave to get to the N. shore with much variable wind and weather but stood fast in continuance amongst Ice untill the 8. day the wind fell contrary and being somewhat neere a point of a Land or rather a company of Ilands which hee called Savage Ilands having a great Sound or Indrust betweene the N. shore and them at Clock 6. hee came to Anchor neere one of them being the E. most save one but whiles he was forling this saile hee heard and saw a great company of Dogs howling and barking that it seeming very strange after he had mored his Ship hee sent his boare neare shore to see if they could discerne any people who returned said there were Tents and Canons and Doggs but for people they saw none this writer being fitted after Prayers and supper went on Land to their Tents with 7. others where finding no people they marched up to the top of a hill being about a flight shot where they saw a great Canon which had about 14. men therein being on the N. W. part of the Iland and about a Musket shot from them so called to them in Groenlandish speech making signes of friendship they did the like to them but being fearefull and he not trusting them also made signes of a knife and other trifles which he left upon the top of a hill and returned to these Tents againe where he found to the number of 30. or 40. Whale finnes with a few Seale skins which hee tooke with him leaving for them knifes beades and counters hee found a little Bay where were the Images of men and one the Image of a woman with a child at her back which he brought with him Amongst these Tents being 5. in number all covered with Seales skins were running 35. or 40. Dogs the most of them muzled there were of a Mungrills Mastiffe being of a brinded black colour looking almost like Wolves those Dogs they use in stead of Horses or as the Laplanders doe their Deere to draw their Steedes which are shot or lyned with bones of great fishes to keepe them from wearing their Dogs have collers and furniture very fitting Their apparell Boates and Tents with other necessaries are much like to those of Greneland but not so neate and artificiall they seeme to bee more rude and uncivill travelling up and downe as their fishing is in season for in most places where they were on Land they see where people had beene but where their habitation or winter aboad is they know not nor cannot conjecture This Iland lyeth in 62. degrees 32. minutes and in longitude West from London 72. degrees or neere there about being 60. Leagues from the entrance of the straights the compasse doth vary 27. degrees 30. minutes and South East Moone 4. degrees East maketh full Sea it floweth almost as much water as at Resolution the Tyde commeth from the Eastwards This day morning 6. he set sayle with North winde which continued not but was variable till noone it came to North West hee having sayled along the shore some 7½ leagues North North West the Ice lying so thick in the Offing that he could not well get out of it He perceived a good Harbor betweene two small Ilands and the maine and went in wherre he moord and stayd untill the twelfe day in the evening In this place a South East Moone make a full Sea Latitude 62. degrees 40. m. the tyde doth come from South East every point hath his set and eddy in this place hee could perceive of no people Lying still in the Ice the weather close and hazy as it had beene for 6. dayes being neere a great company of Ilands the winde West North West he stood in amongst them and at evening morne to one of them in a small Cove the better to defend her from the Ice here hee stood all the 17. day the 18. being almost calme he set sayle the better to get forth Here was a great company of Ilands each whereof hath his severall sets and eddyes which drive the Ice to and againe with such violence that hee was in greater danger here then if he had beene further off the Latitude of this I le he lay at was 63. d. 26. m. longitude neere 72. d. 15. m. from London Variation 27. d. 46. m. ½ past 9. the change day maketh full Sea this evening and morning he had a false gale at South East and he stood along by the land it being all
de Horera the Kings Coronista Maior maketh with vs also in the distance described but to produce some Authority more full I haue heere presented Thomas Cowles a Marriner and Master Michaell Lock Merchant and after them a little Treatis ascribed to Master Briggs And if any thinke that the Spanâ—ard or Portugall would soone haue discouered such a Passage this will answere that it was not for their profit to expose their East or West Indies to English Dutch or others whom they would not haue sharers in those remote Treasures by so neere a Passage First Thomas Cowles auerâ—eth thus much I Thomas Cowles of Bedmester in the County of Somrset Marriner doe acknowledge that Six yeares past being at Lisborne in Portugall I did heare one Martin Chacke a Portugall reade a Booke of his owne making which hee had set out 6. yeeres before that time in Print in the Portugall tongue declaring that the said Martin Chacke had found twelue yeeres now past away from the Portugall Iudies through a Gulfe of the New-found-land which hee thought to bee in 59. deg of the N. Pole by meanes that hee being in the said Indies with 4 shippes of great Burthen and hee himselfe being in a small ship of 80. Tunne farre driuen from the companie of the other 4. shipps with a West winde after which hee had past along by a great number of Islands which were in the Gulfe of the said New-found-land and after hee ouer-shott the Gulfe he set no more sight of any other land vntill hee fell with the N. N. west part of Ireland and from thence hee tooke his course home-ward and by that meanes hee came to Lifborne 4. or 5. weekes before the other shipps that were separated from his Company and since the same time hee could neuer see any of those Bookes because the King commanded them to bee called in and no more of them to bee Printed least in time it would bee their hinderance In witnesse whereof I set to my hand and marke the 9day of Aprill 1579. ¶ A Noate of Michaell Locke touching Freton Anjoy through the North-west Passage of Meta Incognita WHen I was at Venice in Aprill 1596. happily arriued there an old man aged about 60. called commonly Iuan de Fâ—â—â—a but named properly Apostollos Valerianâ—s of Nation a Greeke borne in the Island of Sepholonien of Profession a Marriner and an ancient Pylot of shippes This man came lately out of Spaine ariued first at Legorne and went thence to Florence where hee found out Iohn Dowlas an English-man a famous Marriner ready comming for Venice to be Pylot of a Venetian ship for England they came both to Venice together and Iohn Dowlas being well acquainted with mee gaue me notice of this Greeke Pylot and brought him to my speech and in conference this Pylot declared in the Italian and Spanish tongue these words following First hee said that hee had beene in the West India of Spaine by the space of Forty yeeres and sayled too and fro as Marriner and Pylot to many places thereof in the seruice of the Spaniard Also he said that hee was in the Spannish shipp which in returning from the Islands of Philipinas and China was robb'd neere Cape Callifâ—rnia by Captaine Canâ—ndish an English-man whereby hee lost 60. Thousand Duckets of his owne goods Also hee said that hee was Pylot of 3. small Shipps which the Victory of Mexicoe sent from thence armed with a 100. Souldiers vnder a Captaine Spaniard to discouer the streights of Anian along the Coast of the South Sea and to fortefie in that streight to resist the Passage of the English Nation which were afraid to passe through the streights into the South Sea and that by reason of a Mutinie which happened amongst the Souldiers for the Sodomie of their Captaine that Voyage was ouerthrowne and the Ship turned backe from Califirnia to Noud Spania without any effect of things done in that Voyage and at their returne the Captaine was punished at Mexicoe Also hee saith that after the said Voyage was so ill ended the Vice-roy set him out againe in 1592. with a small Caravell and a Pinnace armed with Marriners onely for discovery of the said Streight and hee following his course W. and N. W. in the South-sea along the coast of Nova Hispaniae and Califirnia and India now called North America all which voyage hee signified vnto me in a great Mappe and Carde of my owne which I laide before him vntill hee came to the Latitude of 47. degrees and that there finding the land to trent N. and N. E. with a broad Inlett betweene 47. and 48. hee being entred thereinto sayling therein more then twenty dayes and found the land trenting still sometimes N. W. and sometimes N. E. and also S. E. ward a farre broader Sea then at the said entrance and that hee passed by divers Ilands in that entrance and that at the entrance of this said Streight there is on the North-west coast thereof a great Head-land or Iland with an exceeding high Pinnacle or spired Rocke like a piller there-vpon Also he said that hee went on land indivers places and that hee saw some people on land clad in Beast-skinns and that the land was very fruitfull and rich of gold and silver and Pearles and other things like Nova Hispaniae Also hee said that hee being entred thus farre into the said Streight and being come into the North-Sea allready and finding the Sea wide enough every where and to bee about 30. or 40. leagues wyde in the Streight where hee entred hee thought he had now well discharged his office done the thing which he was sent to doe and that he not being armed to resist the force of the Saluage people that might happen to assault him therefore hee set sayle and returned towards Noua Hispaniae where he arrives at Aquapulco Anno 1592. hoping to be well rewarded of the Viceroy for his voyage so performed Also he said that he was greatly welcomed to Mexico by the Viceroy and had promise of great reward but staying there 2 yeares to his small content the Viceroy told him he should be rewarded in Spaine of the King and therefore willed him to repayre thither which he did performe At his comming thither he was greatly welcomed at the Kings Court in words but after long suite he could not get any reward there to his content and therefore at length he stole away and came into Italy to get home to live amongst his kindred in his owne country he being now very old Also he said that he thought that the cause of his ill reward was had of the Spaniards to be for that they did understand very well that the English Nation had now given over all their voyages for the discovery of the N W. passage wherfore they feared not them any more to come that way into the S. Sea and therefore they needed not his service therein any more Also he said that in regard of
Ireland so farre North that he came to a Land vnknowne where he saw many strange things This must needes be some part of this Countrey of which the Spaniards affirme themselves to be the first founders since Dannos time wherevpon it is manifest that this Country was by Brittanies discovered long before Columbus Of Madoâ—s returne there be many fables but he did returne and declared of the fruitfull Countryes he had seene with out Inhabitants and on the contrary what barren and wild ground his Brethren and Nephewes did kill and murder one another for He prepared a Navie of ships got with him such Men and Women as were desirous to live in quiet and taking leave of his friends tooke his journey thither againe Therefore it is to be supposed that he and his people inhabited part of this Country for it appeareth by Francis Lopez de Gomara that in Acuzamill and other places the people honored the Crosse whereby it may be gathered that Christians had beene there before the comming of the Spaniards This Madoc arriving againe in that West Countrey vnto the which he came 1170. left most of his people there and returned backe for more of his owne Nation acquaintance and friends to inhabite that faire and large Countrey went thither againe with 10. saile as I find noted by Guyten Owen I am of opinion that the Land wherevnto he came was some part of the West Indies As concerning Sebastian Cabot I cannot find that he was any further Northward then the 58. Degree and so returned along the Land of America to the S. but for more certainty heare his owne Relation to Galâ—acius Buâ—rigarius the Popes Legate in Spaine Vnderstanding saith he by reason of the Spheare that if I should saile by the way of North-west I should by a shorter tract come to India I caused the King to be advertised of my device who immediately caused two Caravels to be furnished with all things needfull which was as neere as I can remember in the yeare 1496. In the beginning of Summer I begun to saile North-west not thinking to find any other Land then that of Cataia and from thence to come into India But after certaine dayes I found the Land run to the North which was to me a great displeasure neverthelesse sailing along the Coast to see if I could finde any Gulfe that turned I found the Land still to continue continent to the 56. Degree vnder the Pole and seeing that there the Coast turned toward the East dispairing to find the passage I turned backe againe and sailed downe by the Coast of that Land toward the Equinoctiall Thus much from himselfe But heare how Baptistie Ramusius his Country man how he flattereth him thus It 's many yeares since it was written vnto me by Sebastian Cabota our Countryman a Venetian a Man of great experience and very rare in the Art of Navigation and the knowledge of Cosmographie who sailed along and beyond this Coast of new France at the charges of Henry the 7. King of England and he advertised me that having sailed along time West by North beyond those Ilands into the Latit of 67. Deg. and ½ vnder the North Pole and on the 11. day of Iune finding still the open Sea without any impediment he thought verily by that way to have passed on still to Cataia which is in the East and would have done it if the Mutinie of the shipmasters and Marriners had not hindered and made him returne home from that place Out of Robert Fabians Chronicle THere is also mention made of Iohn Cabota Sebastians Father by his meanes in the 13. yeare of Henry the Seauenth at the same Kings charge one ship was victuailed from Bristow wherein divers Marchants of London adventured sma stockes to search for an Iland he said was very Rich and replenished with great Commodities In his company went from Bristow 3. or 4. small Barkes laden with coarse Cloth Caps Laces Points and other trifles they departed the beginning of May but were not heard of in that Maiors time Out of the same Chronicle VVIlliam Purchase being Maior three Saluages were taken in New found Land and brought to the King they were cloathed in Beasts skinnes and eate raw flesh and spake such speech that no man could vnderstand them and in their demeanor much like to bruite Beasts of which two yeares after I saw two apparrelled after the manner of Englishmen in Westminster Parish I could not discerne them from English vntill I had learned what they were An Extract taken out of the Mappe of Sebastian Cabota cut by Clement Adams IN the yeare of Grace 1497. John Cabot a Venetian and Sebastian his Sonne with an English Fleete set from Bristow discovered that Iland which before that time no man had attempted on the 24. day of June this Land he called Prima Vesta that is to say first seene that Iland lying out before the Land he called the I le of St. John Because he discovered it vpon that day of St. John Baptist The inhabitants of this I le vse to weare Beasts skinnes in their Warres they vse Bowes Arrowes Pikes Darts Wooden-clubs and slings The soile is Barren in some places and yeeldeth little fruit but is full of white Beares and Stagges farre greater then ours it yeildeth plenty of Fish and these very great as Seales and Sammons there are Soales of a yard in length but especially there is great plenty of that kind of Fish which the Salvages call Baccalaos there are also bred Hawkes and Eagles Another Testimony of the Voyage of Sebastian Caboc taken out of the third Decade of Peter Martyr of Angleria THe North seas have bin searched by one Sâ—bastiaâ— Cabot a Venetian borne he furnished 2. Ships at his owne charge and first with 300. men directed his course towards the N. Pole that even in the Moneth of July he found monstrous heapes of Ice swimming on the Sea and in a manner continuall day light Thus seeing these heapes of Ice before him he was enforced to turne his sailes and follow the W. coasting the shore he was thereby brought so farre into the South by reason of the land stretching Southward that it was there almost equall in latitude with Fretum Herculeum As he travelled by the coasts of this great Land which he named Bacculaos he saith hee found the like course of waters toward the West but the same running more soft and gently then the swift waters which the Spaniards found in their Navigation South-ward wherefore it is not onely moâ—e like to be true but ought also of necessity to be concluded that betweene both the Lands hitherto vnknowne there should be certaine great open places whereby the waters continually passe from the East to the West Which waters I suppose to be driven about the Globe of the Earth by the incessant Motion and impulsion of the Heavens and not to be swallowed and cast vp againe by the breathing of Demogorgon as some
will sell their Coates or any thing they have They brought not above 20. skinnes but made signes that if they would goe ashore they should have more Chichesanege skinnes I thinke The 30. he was in 72. deg 12 min. at midnight the Compasse set the variation 28. deg West-ward he Coasted this Land which he called London Coast From the 21. to the 30. the Sea all open to the West and North-ward the Land on Starboard E. from him the wind shifted to the North. Then he left that shore and named the N. most part he did discover Hope Sanderson and shaping his Course West runne 40. leag and better without sight of any Land The 2. he meetes with a mighty banke of Ice West from him He would faine have quit it by the North-wards but the wind would not which if he had he would have runne W. vntill he had seene Land and have beene resolved The 6. being faire weather he puts the Barke amongst the Ice but could not prevaile the 7 8 9 10. He coasts the Ice the 11 was fogge and calme The 13 he determining to goe againe to the shore And harbor for 5 or 6 dayes Hoping in that time the extreame heate of the Sunne and beating of the Sea would have made way with the Ice but when he was nigh Land he durst not anchor for depth of water The Salvages came oft and truct for skinnes Darts they had for old and new knives and they would gladly have had him to the Land but he beareâ— away The 15. he finds himselfe driven 6. points west beyond his Course He layes the fault either in the Ship or Current The 16. he falls with the banke of Ice againe The 17. he had sight of Mount Raleigh at 12 at Night he was thwart of his old hole againe He sailes 60. leagues N W. vp the streights The 23 he anchors in the bottome of the Gulfe and calles the Iles Cumberland Iles. Whilst he was at anchor a Whale passed vp by him here the Compasse set at 30. d. variation This day also he departs shaping his course S E. and seeketh to recover the Sea The 25 be was becalmed in the bottome of the Gulfe the aire extreame hot Bruton the Master goes a Land to course Dogges they find many graves and Trane spilt the Salvage dogges was so fat they could scarce goe The 26 was a pretty storme at S E. 27 28 29. faire weather He had coasted the South-side shore of Cumberlands sound And was got cleare out into 62 deg betwixt which and 63. deg 00. he espies an opening And names it Lumleys Ilet And tells of great falls and Gulfes of water The 31 he see a Head-land he names Warwicks Forland The 1. he falls with the South-west Cape of the Gulfe and names it Chidleys Cape in 61 deg 10. min. From the first to the 12 He trents along the South-land sees 5 Deere on the top of an Iland he calls Darcyes Iland they take to another Iland his Boate was too little to carry his men and chase the Deere though it were in the water one of them was as big as a pretty Cowe and very fat their feete as broad as Oxe feete The 13. in 54 d. Latitude Heere he struck vpon a Rocke he stops his leake And Coasts along into 52 deg not finding his fishing ships as was appointed for them to stay and fish in Latit betweene 54 and 55 deg vntill the fine of this moneth but in 16 dayes they were fisht and gone home himselfe arrives at Dartmouth the 15 of September The Copie of Davis his Letter to Mr. Saunderson GOod Mr. Saunderson with Gods great mercy I have made my safe returne in health with all my company And have sailed 60. leag further then my determination at my departure I have beene in 73. deg finding the Sea all open and 40 leag betweene Land and Land The passage most probable the Bâ—cecution casie as at my comming you shall fully know The Marine Observation THat he Coasted the West side of Groynland farther then before from 65 deg odde min. to 72 deg odde minutes naming it London-Coast and on the West side was as farre vp his former streights as before onely he then forgot to name the Earle of Cumberlands Iles which now he hath done And besides he hath in his returne home seene and named Lumleys Inlet and passed by Fretum Hudson vnknowne Yet he hath named Cape Warwicke Which is the East part of Resolution Chidleys Cape the South bounds thereof now called Buttons Iles But vntruely these two things are both although in his Letter writ to Mr. Saunderson at his arrivall the 2. Voyage he doth assure the Passage to be in one of the 4. places vpon perill of his Life But I thinke he durst not venture it He went forth the 7. of May and returnes homewards the 23 of July His greatest Variation West was 30. deg And the 15 of Iuly he was driven 5 points W. of beyond his Course by what accident he knoweth not For to vse his owne words speaking of Warwickes Head-land This Cape as it was the most S. limit of the Gulfe wee passed over the 30 of this Moneth So was it the N. promontorie or first beginning of a very great Inlet whose South limit at this present wee see not Which Inlet or Gulfe this afternoone and in the Night wee passed over to our great admiration for the waters fall These abstracts are more at large to be seene in the first and 3 Volumes of Mr. Hâ—ckluits Voyages The Voyage of Captaine George Waymouth with two Fly-boâ—tes one of 70 th' other of 60. Tonnes 35 men victuaâ—led for 18 monethes set forth by the Muscovia and Tâ—â—kie Companies HE set forth the second of May 1602. hee went by the North made the Start or one of the Westmost Iles of Orkney it being low land bearing West in latitude 59 deg 30 min. he shapes a course betwixt N and West untill hee brings the Start North sayles away W and by N. in 59 deg 40 min. then steeres away W S W. in 57 deg 55 min. and there had no variation at all he hailed away Westward and had some fogge much raine but warme as in England 16 This day at noone he was 57 deg 35 min. and had not seene the Sunne or Moone in 76 houres before and now had variation 11 deg 18 He saw a great Iland of Ice in the afternoon he got sight also of the Southmost part of Groenland hee coasts this Ice to the North comming sometime into black water and presently the Sea would be cleare againe he could not game ground in 120 Fathoms neither could hee discerne any Current at which he reckons Cape Desâ—lation N N E 24 leagues off him 22 He was in 60 deg 37 min. latitude 27 The weather warme as in England he had great store of sea-Guls 28 He directs his course
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
him this day came 6. in Canooes they brought Salmon â—eale and such like which was good refreshing for his men the next day following the same 6. came againe but they saw them no more vntill the 6. day when hee had weighed anchor and was almost cleere of the harbour the same 6. and noe more came and brought of the like commoditie for which they gaue them Glasses Beades Counters and small pieces of Iron which they doe esteeme as wee Christians doe Gold or Siluer In this Sound was such Skulls of Salmon swimming too and fro that it was much to bee admired heere it floweth aboue 18. foote water It floweth on the change till seauen a clock It is a very good Harbour and easie to be kâ—owne having three high round hills like Piramidies close adjoyning to the mouth thereof and that in the midst is the lowest All this coast along is full of good Harbours by reason of so manie Ilands that lie from the Mayne By 3. this day hee was cleere of this place hauing a N. N. W winde faire weather So God sent him a speedy passeage for in 19. dayes after hee saw the the coast of England The 30. hâ— anchored in Douer Roade ¶ A briefe Discourse of the Probabilitie of a Passage to the Westerne or South Sea with Testimonies by mee Henry Briggs I Thought good to adde somewhat to this Relation of Mr. Baffyn that learned vnlearned Marriner and Mathematitian whose wanting Art of words so really jmployed himselfe in that jndustrious worke whereof heere you see so euident proofe This Mappe and Table would much haue jllustrated this Voyage jf trouble cost and his owne dispaire of passage that way had not made vs willing to content our selues with what followed of that leâ—aned and in this Argument three times thrice jndustrious Mathematitian Master Henry Briggs famous for his reading in both Vniuersities and this honourable Citie that I make a further Voyage of Discouery to find and follow the remote Passage and extent of his name Mr. Baffyn told mee that the Tide from the N. W. about Diggs his Island was mis-reported by mistaking the houre 8. for 11. and that hee would if hee might get imployment search the Passage from Iapon by the coast of Asia or qua data porta which way hee could But in the Indies hee died in the late Armouse businesse slaine in fight with a shot as hee was 24. trying bis Mathematticall conclusions for the discouerie of Sr. Thomas Button I haue sollicited for his notes and receiued of him gentle entertainement and kind promises being they forced me to stay in the City about necessarie vr Affaires hee would at his returne seeke and impart them since I heare that weighty occasions haue deteined him out of England and I cannot deliuer that I could not receiue which if I doe I purpose to giue them out of due place rather then noâ— at all once hee was very confident in conferrence with me oâ— a Passage that way and said that hee had therein satisfied hiâ— Maiestie who from his discourse in priuate suffered the necessitie thereof And the mayne Argument was there too so â—â— the Tyde for wintering in Port Nelson hee found the Tid rising euery 12. houres 15. soote Within the bottome of Hu 〈…〉 sons Bay it was but 2. Foote And in the bottome of Fretâ— Davies discouered by Baffyn but one yea and a West winâ— equalled the neepe Tydes to this Spring arguing the Neighbourhood of the Sea which is on the West-side of Amenia the Summer following hee found about the lat of 60. a strong Race of a Tyde running sometimes East-ward sometimes W. ward Whereupon Iosias Hubbart in his Plot called that place Hubbarts Hope now if any make scruple why this discouery was not persued by Sir Thomas Button let him consider that being Prince Henries Seruant and partly by him imployed whom I thinke named the Countrey New Wales The vntimely death of that Prince put all out of ioynt nor was hee so open that others should haue the glory of his discouery If any man thinke that the Passage is so farre as the Mappes vse to expresse Ammerica running into the West it is easily answered that either of negligence or ouer-busie dilligeate Mappes by Portugalls in the East and Spantards in the West haue beene so cleerely proiected heere That fabulous streight of Anian as before by Frances Gaules testimony and Nauigation is euident and hence the Portugalls to bring in the Moluceas to the Moietie of the World agreed vpon betweene the Spaniards and them are thought to haue much curtailed Asia and the longitude of those Islands giuing fewer degrees to them then in iust longitude is due so the older Mappes of America make the land from Magdalene Sireights to the South Seaâ— running North-west when they are rather contracted some-what Easterlie from the North and the like is iustly reported of their placing Periuvera and I know not nor they neither what Countries they make in America to run so farre to the N. W. ward which Sir Francis Drake his Voyage in that Sea his Nova Albion being little further North-ward then Aguatulie plainely conuinceth to bee otherwise yea the late Mappe of Culifirma found to bee an Island the Saluage discourses of all the Countries North-ward and West-ward from Virginia the Fame whereof filled my friend Mr. Dormer with so much confidence that hearing of strange Shipps that came thither for a kind of Vre or Earth the men vsing Forks in their Diet with Caldrons to dresse their Meate and things nothing suitable to any parts of America hee supposed them to come from the East neere China and Iapon and therefore hee made a Voyage purposely to discouer but crossed with diuers disasters hee returned to Virginia frustrate of attempting that yeere but fuller of confidence as in a Letter from Virginia hee signified to me where death ended his designe soone after but how often are the vsuall Charts reiected by experience in those Nauigations in the workes recorded Painters and Poets are not alwayes the best Oracles For further proofe of a passage about these parts into the W. or S. Sea as it is called from the first discouerie thereof to the South from the parts of new Spaine whence it was first described by the Spaniards there is mention of a Portugall taken in a Carracke in Queene Elizabeths dayes of Famous Memorie confirming this opinion Sir Martin Frobisher also from a Portugall in Ginney receiued Intelligence of such a Passage hee saying hee had past it the Pilots of Lisborne are said generally to acknowledge such a thing And the Admirall â— D'Garsia Ieaffrey Loaisâ— of Citie Royall in the time of Charles the Fifth is reported by the Coast of Baccalos and Labradore to haue gone to the Mollâ—â—aâ— Yascâ— Decorâ—nado writ to the Emperour that at Sâ—bola hee was 150. leagues from the South Sea and a little more from the North Anthonio
this hot weather doth fast dissolve them This night clocke 2 came a small Iland of Ice brought up with the latter flood and by his draught being deeper in the Tydes way then the flact or masht Ice had a greater motion continued by the undertyde then that which had inclosed us of which we were fast unto one of the biggest content to wit 3 Acres this Iland did drive right with us and but that some few masht Ice interposed thereby diverting the course thereof some 2 or 3 ships length it had drove directly upon us and had crusht us mainely if not to peeces it being â— or 10 fathomes above water and if it had boarded us being undermined by the waters continuall working the outside thereof by that shake might have fallen into the ship and have sunke her this was the greatest danger we were in since I came into Fretum Hudson the fault being in the watch who did not call that we might have set the ship the one way or the other about the peece we were fast unto before we were so ingaged as I could doe neither about one houre after the said Iland tooke his recourse backe againe to the East with the ebbe faster then the other ice could doe This morning 8 the Sunne was up before we saw it Da 1 Moneths July the day was warme and close but calme so as I could not stirre for want of wind the straight doth cleere and this N. land that hath continued with us since we departed with Resolution it now bearing from E. and by S. to N. by E. if Baffinn writ truely that Resolution is an Iland separate from this then is this another though formerly taken for the N. Maine and longer as shall be showne at my returne homeward the tyde doth set as the land doth lie South-East and Northwest This night 7 it was an Ayre farre better then a younger brother the ice well thinn'd I caused the ship to be loosed and by that time the Master with the boat was come from killing of Fowle I stood to the N. about foure miles this fayre day being at an end I made fast set the watch and went to Cabbin This morning 2 an easie gale breathed from the E. by South which caused mee to send to the boatswaine to call up the Company where a chiefe one amongst us being too suddenly awaked speaking something peevishly I told the rest that the matter was not great for the children did so when they were awaked out of their sleep I began now to find the want of a Shallop which at home I did so earnestly desire for my Cocke boat would nor Rowe noâ— Sayle to any purpose so as I durst hardly send her from me for when it was any billow she was not to be rowed and with saile to windward shee would doe nothing although I had caused a large Lee board to be made to helpe her This Meridianall observation the wind came West and I was in 61 d. 57. m. and stood in close to this inremarkeable shore so all the land within this straight may be called for it is all shoring or descending from the highest mountaine to the Sea Whereon the Snow falling by degrees doth presse Da 2 and burthen it selfe making the masse more solid which at the Spring time when it loosneth from the earth it s own weight doth force downward into the Sea being all composed of Moneths July fresh water it may be conceived that the most Ice we meete in this passage in thus ingendred in the Vallies betwixt the Mountaines is some Snow undesolved We are now cleere of chattered Ice yet in sight are some Islands about which wee can compasse as we please here lyeth many small Ilands close by the Mayne and there doth appeare to be fayre sounds into the land upon the Sea this calme time that hath beene doth swimme a kind of corrupt slime one may thinke it may come by generation of great fishes for it feeles soft and unctious but put it into the fire it will not burne I doe thinke that all this time of our imprisonment this North shore hath beene free as I could espie it at Hiperions going downe which valed with a blacke Skreene of moyst Fogge wet through our Coates before we see it againe this fayre dayes Westwind blew cold and uncouth from out the passage wee are all upon kinde tearmes drinking one to another God hold it This morning the Sunne lickt up the Fogges dew as soone Da 3 as hee began to rise and made a shining day of it I cannot say hot it being counter-checkt by a coole Top-sayle Gale from West North-West which made our Noses runne the cleare day emboldened me to stand within two leagues of land to the deepe of 32 fathomes the ground white sand and gray with shels the water was falling the houre 11 before noone the Sunne and Moone in opposition a good Tyde set along the shoare to the Northwards the Sunne set cleare it was faire weathen and calme the ship drove along the shore this night to the Westward This morning at clocke one I called to lanche the Boate to send to shore to try the Tyde and against that time that I could send to land I had drawne those instructions following and giving them to Iohn Coatesworth whom I appointed alway to goe in the boate at whose returne I expected an account These are the Instructions First You shall take with you into the boate one halfe houre glasse one halfe minute glasse one logge and line cleane Paper one Pensill of blacke Leade and one Compasse with Moneths July some peeces of Iron Secondly One quarter Saw two Axes three Carbins Guns with Powder and Shot two or three Lances two Swords two Pikeaxes and every man his one day bread Thirdly At your departure from the ship turne the halfe houre and when it is neere out set your Logge to goe by the halfe minute that thereby you may estimate the distance betweene the ship and land as also what the boate can rowe an houre Fourthly When you shall approch neere the shore in the Tydes way I meane cleare of Bay-point or Rocke Anchor the Boat sound the deepe and marke the Tyde how it doth set and by your Logge what it doth passe in the halfe minute having rode there for halfe a Glasse weigh your Anchor and goe to land and duely observe what quantity of water it doth flow or fall perpendiculer in one Glasse whether the heightening or lessening be equall in every Glasse while yee stay or noe Fifthly Being thus on land with your Compasse set all Lands or Islands in sight draw the forme with your Paper and Pensill and estimate their distance Sixtly Remember I give you no libertie to goe within the land yet if for recreation goe no further then the full Sea marke and armed leaving two to keepe the Glasse and Boat looke for stones of Orient colour or of weight
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
Peregrine for so I call the last Head-land having the Knowle thereon I had from 70. to 100. 120. 80. and to 30. fathomes this equally arbitrated day and 〈…〉 with wet hazle I stood in two Top-sayles over my Courses N. E. by E. 24. leagues This day morning I met with Land I tooke to be S. W Da 14 side of Sea-horse Point and this 120. fathomes was open upon the Bay betwixt point Peregrine and this Land where for anything yet knowne there may be a through-let this land is of an indifferent height descending by degrees to the Set this night was thicke wet fogge here was yee put into this Bay as might be suspected by the S. E. Winds which had blowne so long before untill now I stood neare to see if any thing of note were upon the Land but comming neare Yee we Tacked to Sea againe This morning was sleight fogge and raine but after prayers the Sunne shone and thawed our men and made them more limber I was in 63. deg 41. the Horizon was thicke but I think I was not farre amisse at ½ past 12. it fell calme the weather beganne to thicke I Anchored in 55. fathomes the Tyde came from the W. Moneths September For so lay the Land and I have boulted it upon a Bowlin with more or lesse Wind ever since the 6. day I rid at Anchor this night and at past 1â— the ebbe Tyde did not leave his course but onely stacke from 7. to that houre the Wind at N. blew of the Land and the Ship came not to Wind-road I had duly marked the Lead-line and tryed divers times how the Tyde did flow and at sâ—aâ—ke water I found it to have slowed 20. foot and this was 24. houres before the conjunction and as I doe remember Mr. Baffia saith that on the other side of this Poynt it doth flow a S. and by E. Moone this night I did sit up on purpose to be satisfied herein Henceforth I doe write true course variation and wreke allowed the Compasse hath neare 26. deg heare this night clocke one I was under Sayle and Runne 4. Leagues E. N. E. when I met with yee but small as chaffe and at the dawning of day I did by this yee assure my selfe that I was the length of Sea-horse Point to the E. For that this North wind had blowne the mash't yee from above the North side of the Poynt and so it proved this yee was both small and small of it and thinne we Runne through it without stay or abatement of Sayle I stood away from hence close hal'd E. N. E. 25. leagues 2. Da 15 miles then being towards night I had sight of Mills Isle so named by Bilot because of the Ice grinding against him like the grinding of a Mill and also of Salisburie bearing S. E. and Mill I le from N. E. to N. N. E. this day and night were hazie the lands had much snow on them our Sailes with wet fogge and frost were stiffe as Vellome standing this Milners Isle along in the night came off either small mash't Ice or else the shadow of the Moone deceived me to trie whether I durst not but cast about to the West againe along the Isle thinking here in this milde Channell to try the Tyde that all obstacles being removed the difference betweene Baffine and Sir Thomas Button might now be reconciled before I put to the N. W. from Nottingham in practice as I was instructed all night I stood to and againe and found a good flood Tyde set to N. W. the Mr. was up this night but was not able to continue This morning I plyde it up to the West end of the Island Da 16 and when the Tyde was done I put into a through-let I named Hurins Through-let for that hee upon the fore-yard conducted in the Ship in the entrance of this Harbour lyeth a Rocke in the middle which is covered at ½ Tyde we borrowed Moneths September close upon the W. side in 10 fathomes and Anchored in 13 the sound about 3 flight shot over the Tyde did flow about 4 fathomes the flood doth set through it to the N. it lyeth NE. in a S. S. E. Moone maketh full Sea This Iland lieth along E. ½ S. Nottinghams Ile lieth from Da 16 this S. ½ E. Salisbury S. S. ½ E. the North Mayne N. ½ W. all in sight at once and yet it was none of the cleerest dayes there is 6. goings out and in to this sound 5. to the N. and but one to the South I went on land this morning to hasten our men to fill water Da 17 in a Coue where there is good landing for Sea Mors of which wee see here good plentie and going on land one amongst the rest with her young being in our way strucke her yong diuers times to make it diue downe which when shee see it would not shee encountered our boate and with her teeth strucke at her Iohn Coatesworth strucke her through the necke with a Lance that all the water about the boate was bloodie the young and damme went downe and once againe mounted but after wee see them not I haue heard the Mors killers say that their skinnes are so tough as no Lance will enter it doth yeeld so and therefore to kill them they must bee before them to pricke them vpon the nose that shee by casting vp her head may stretch her skinne tought at her breast wherein the launce will enter with more facilitie but this proued otherwise After wee had watered and come aboard the flood bending with easie winde N. N. W. wee could not ouer-haile to get forth the same way wee came in but turned it to the N. westward with tide and came out at the W. most sound where in the N. Channell I found it to come more then 3. houres Tide after full Sea on shoare and that very sharpely the next nights flood I plied vp to the N. mayne This morning flood I plied vp by the N. mayne and stopt Da 18 the ebbe in 60. fathomes neere shoare the winde N. N. W. with sometimes showers of small snow and hard frost so as all our tackling and shippe bowes where the water came were all â—ce-sickles but it was easie winde and smoth Sea here I was 5. miles to N. of a faire head land so made by the land trenting E. and N. from the same I named it King Charles his Promontorie with another Cape to the N. the land being there N. and Moneths September S. 4. deg W. which I named Cape Maria in a most bounden and dutifull remembrance of my King and Queene because if this proue a passage these are the most remarkeable and of greatest note and most eminencie drinking their health with the young Princes I had no obseruation since the 14 but doe account the Kings Promontorie to lie in 64. deg 46. min. the Queenes about 8. leagues distant N. from thence there lieth to