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A68252	The strange and dangerous voyage of Captaine Thomas Iames, in his intended discouery of the Northwest Passage into the South Sea VVherein the miseries indured both going, wintering, returning; and the rarities obserued, both philosophicall and mathematicall, are related in this iournall of it. Published by his Maiesties command. To which are added, a plat or card for the sayling in those seas. Diuers little tables of the author's, of the variation of the compasse, &c. VVith an appendix concerning longitude, by Master Henry Gellibrand astronomy reader of Gresham Colledge in London. And an aduise concerning the philosophy of these late discouereyes, by W.W.	James, Thomas, 1593?-1635?; Gellibrand, Henry, 1597-1636.; W. W. (William Watts), fl. 1633.	1633 (1633)	STC 14444; ESTC S109089	103,433	150

mischiefes our Ship is now becomne very leaky that we must pumpe euery halfe watch Here I called a consultation and after consideration of all our experience we were all of the same opinion that it was impossible to get to the Northward or to the Eastward by reason of the Ice Wherefore I resolued vpon this course When the winde blew South it would blow the Ice off the South shoare then we would seeke to get to the Westward betwixt it and the shoare I must confesse that this was a desperate resolution for all the coast we knew to be shoald and foule ground all rocks and stones so that if the winde should shift to the Northward there would be without Gods mercies little hope of vs. But here we must not stay The nights grew long the cold so increased that betwixt the pieces of Ice the Sea would be frozen I caused the Ship to be fitted and places conuenient againe prepared to sinke her the second time if so be we were put to extremities We presently put our proiect in execution the winde being at South and got about the shoalds of the Cape standing then into the shoare-ward to get betwixt it and the Ice we came into foure faddome water very foule rocky ground thinking to come to an Anker all night and let the Ice driue to Leeward But still there was so much Ice betwixt vs and the shoare that we were faine to beare vp amongst it into deeper water and to let the Ship driue amongst it The winde increasing we endured a most dangerous darke night of it In the morning we fell to worke to get the Ship againe out of the Ice into some cleere water which we saw West by South of vs. Some of our company out vpon the Ice to heaue her with their shoulders whilest others stood aboord with poles The rest stood to spill and fill the sayle By nine in the morning we had gotten into some cleere water and stood West and by South and into foure faddome water foule ground But being not able to weather some rands of Ice which did driue wee were faine to stand off againe and when the euening grew darke to come to an Anker About midnight there came a great piece of Ice which we could not auoyd athwart of our Cable and made the Ship driue and dragge her Anker This droue her into shoald water it being very rocky and foule ground We brought the Cable to Capstang and heau'd with such a courage that we heau'd home our Anker from vnder it Thus we did endeauour the best we could to keep our selues in eight and ten faddome water It then pleased God that the wind blew alongst the shoare otherwise it had gone far worse with vs. August 1632. The first of this moneth at breake of day when we could see a little about vs we fell to struggle and striue againe with the Ice and to get in neerer to the shoare There by reason the winde was opposite to come to an Anker we let the Ice driue to Leeward hoping that there was a cleere Sea to the Westward The Ice droue very thicke vpon vs and one piece came foule of vs which did touch our Spreet-sayle Yard and made the Ship driue But we soone cleered our selues of it Then we wayed and stood in neerer to the shoare but the water shoalded and there were so many great rands of Ice betwixt vs and the shoare that there was no comming to an Anker So wee turned betwixt the Ice many pieces of it being aground in shoald water and few pieces distant one from the other a Cables length This day we saw two Sea Morses on the Ice The second in the morning we were glad of the breake of day hauing most dangerously turn'd amongst the Ice all night and endured many a heauy blow We stood in againe to the shoare-ward to see if we could get some cleere water for to the Northward it was all impassable Ice We stood into fiue aad foure faddome but still all incompast with Ice So we stood off againe into deeper water and in the Euening we were inclosed amongst extraordinary great pieces It was a very thicke fogge withall so that we made fast the Ship to a great flat piece and went to sleepe and refresh our selues after our extreme paines taking The third fourth and fift wee were inclos'd amongst very great Ice and it blew such a storme of winde that we sometimes indeuouring to get forward to the Westward did strike such heauy blowes that made all the forepart of the Ship cracke againe Then we would giue ouer working and let her alone amongst it but then the Ice would breake and rise vnder vs that would indanger as bad vs as the former Our ship doth make aboue a tun of water euery watch which we must pumpe out beside our other labour God thinke on vs and be mercifull to vs amongst all these dangers The fift at noone we were in Latitude 55. 30. The Cape bearing off vs South-East by East some twelue leagues off And this is all we haue gotten since the two and twentieth of Iuly All night it blew a violent gale of wind at West North-West and about midnight our hawser by which we had made fast to a piece of Ice broke and we lost 14. faddome of it We beat all night most fearefully being tost from piece to piece because that in the darke we durst not venture our men to goe forth on the Ice for feare of losing them All the sixth the storme indured and droue vs againe with the Ice almost to the Cape The seuenth was the most comfortablest day wee had since we came out of our wintering place the wind came vp faire at East and we got although with our former inconueniences and dangers neerer to the shoare and into some open water making good way to the West-ward Moreouer our leake now stopt of its owne accord so that now we pumpt but little We sayld all night keeping good watch on the forecastell bearing vp for one and looffing for another Thus did we the eighth also but then the wind shifting to the North-west it droue the Ice on the shoare and we came to an Anker in eight faddom water The maine Ice we had some two mile to windward of vs but the set of the tyde kept it off from vs. At noone we were in Latitude 55. 34. In the Euening a range of Ice droue vpon vs which made vs weigh and stand in neerer the shoare into sixe faddom and there to come to an Anker The wind increasing about midnight the Ship did driue and was quickely in fiue faddom water wherefore wee let fall our Shoot-Anker and both held her But that that troubled vs was that was expected euery minute when the maine Ice would come vpon vs and then there would be no hope but to be put ashoare The ninth in the morning we waide our second

Anker the Ice being within lesse then a mile of vs. About eight in the morning a point of it came foule of vs which we preuented by waying and came to an Anker in three faddom and a halfe water The wind continued North North-West which was in on the shoare This morning I caused all our empty Caske to be fild with water and the Ship to be left vnpumpt and the places lookt to that we had prepared to sinke her For we were at present in as apparent danger as any time this voyage and to our great griefes it was all foule rocky ground The danger of this was if we made fast to a piece of Ice that drew deepe water then as soone as it came to ground on these rockes it would breake all to pieces and betray vs to our destruction About noone there came foule of vs the point of a range of Ice which we resolued to indure the extremity of with an Anker thinking to ride and breake through it we now perceiuing some open water beyond it Thrusting therefore and fending with our poles at last a great piece came thwart our hawser and there went a pretty Sea amongst it The Ship did now fall vpon it so violently that I expected euery blow she would beate out her bowes At length she did driue with it so that I thought the Cable had bin broken We brought it to Capstang to heaue it in but found that our Shoote-Anker was broken in the middle of the shanke We presently set our sayles thereupon indeuouring that way to edge in amongst the Ice off of this perilous shoare It pleased God to fauour our labour so that by eight in the Euening wee got off into seuen faddom and a darke night comming on we made fast to the biggest piece we could find It blew fairely all night but about midnight the wind came vp at North which was more on the shoare then before By breake of day on the tenth we were driuen into foure faddom very foule ground so that the lead did fall off the rocks three or foure foote we set our sailes and vsed our vttermost indeuours to edge off Some of vs went vpon the Ice to hale her others stood with poles to thrust by night At night we had gotten off into eight faddom and made fast to the biggest piece we could find If any man should aske why we now kept so neere to the shoare in this continuall danger I answer Because that in the offing the Ice was so extraordinary thicke that we could make no way any way through it Moreouer when we were in that great thicke Ice and that the winde came vp faire at South or South-East or East we could not get out of it Wherefore we chose to runne this aduenture and so preuent and ouercome all dangers with Gods assistance and our extreme labour The eleuenth in the morning was a thicke fog yet there sprung vp a gale of wind at East and we made in for the shoare From the eleuenth till the foureteenth the winde continued faire and we made all the saile we could night and day as the Ice would suffer vs. We had the shoare in sight by day on one side and the Ice within two miles on the other and we saild amongst disperst pieces luffing for one and bearing vp for another The 14. at noone we were in Latitude 57. 55. In the Euening we were imbayed in Ice and stood S. W. to cleere our selues of it but could not But seeing from top-mast head cleere water ouer it we put into it but there rose a very thicke fogge and night came on withall that we were faine to fast to a piece of Ice expecting day and better weather The 15. in the morning although the fogge was very thicke we indeauoured to get out of the Ice and stood away West but within 2. houres the water shoalded from 40. faddome to 25. whereby we knew that we had the shoalding of the Western-shoare Then we shapte our course to the Northward the fogge continuing so thicke that we could not see a Pistoll-shot about vs. We had not stood this way 2. houres but we heard the rut of the Ice a-head of vs which made the most hideous noyse of any we had heard this voyage We hal'd our tackes aboord and stood to the West-ward in this day darknesse hearing of it sometimes and sometimes seeing of it which was very large deepe and high Ice aboue the water We weathered it all except some few pieces and got into open water About Sunne-set there came a sudden gust at N. N. W. and before we could handle our sayles it was with vs and put vs to some trouble It dallied with vs by gusts till 9. a clocke and then it fell into a most violent storme We considered where we might haue the cleerest drift and so tooke in all and let her driue her head to the shoare-ward Before mid-night the water shoalded on vs to 15. fadd Then we turned her head to the Eastward and set our maine Course low set but as much as she could indure The water deepned but little and we knew that we were on those rockie shoalds which we strooke on the last yeere God be mercifull to vs. Here was the first great breaking Sea that we had this yeere The 16. in the morning we were driuen to a great Rand of Ice to avoyde which we set our fore-course too and stood to the shoare-ward in 13. fad water and then about againe We stood in a mile into the Ice but there went such a great swelling Sea in it that it was not indurable so we stood out againe About 3. a clocke in the afternoone the storme broke vp and blew faire at N. W. which prooued good for vs for we had not drift for 4. houres Besides it was but 2. leagues betwixt the shoalds and the Ice We set all our sayles and indeauoured to weather the Ice but in the Euening we were still pestered with it By mid-night we knew not which way to turne nor what to doe so we tooke in all our sayles and let her driue amongst it The Ice beat vs on euery side for there went amongst it a very great full Sea The 17. in the morning when we could see about vs we were in the middest of the Ice but with the last storme it was all broken into mammocks as big as a boate of 3. or 4. Tunnes which did giue vs many a heauy blow in the darke night If this storme had taken vs amongst it it had beaten vs all to pieces without Gods miraculous preseruation We made sayle and indeauoured to cleere our selues of it to the North-ward which by 8. in the morning we had done We then went to prayer and gaue God hearty thankes that had deliuered vs out of it For we were hourely for the space of sixe weekes as it were in the Iawes of death yea neuer any that I haue