Purchas his pilgrimes. part 3 In fiue bookes. The first, contayning the voyages and peregrinations made by ancient kings, patriarkes, apostles, philosophers, and others, to and thorow the remoter parts of the knowne world: enquiries also of languages and religions, especially of the moderne diuersified professions of Christianitie. The second, a description of all the circum-nauigations of the globe. The third, nauigations and voyages of English-men, alongst the coasts of Africa ... The fourth, English voyages beyond the East Indies, to the ilands of Iapan, China, Cauchinchina, the Philippinæ with others ... The fifth, nauigations, voyages, traffiques, discoueries, of the English nation in the easterne parts of the world ... The first part.

A larger Discourse of the same Voyage, and the successe thereof, [ 30] written by ABACVK PRICKET.

WE began our Voyage for the North-west passage; the seuenteenth of Aprill, 1610. Thwart of Shepey, our Master sent Master Colbert backe to the Owners with his Let∣ter. The next day we weighed from hence, and stood for Harwich, and came thither the eight and twentieth of Aprill. From Harwich we set sayle the first of May, along the Coast to the North, till we came to the Iles of Orkney, from thence to the Iles of Faro,* 1.1 and from thence to Island: on which we fell in a fogge, hearing the Rut of the Sea ashoare, but saw not the Land whereupon our Master came to an Anchor. Heere we were embayed in the South-east part of the Land. Wee weighed and stood along the Coast, on the West side towards the [ 40] North: but one day being calme, we fell a fishing, and caught good store of fish, as Cod and Ling, and Butte, with some other sorts that we knew not. The next day, we had a good gale of wind at South-west, and raysed the Iles of Westmonie, where the King of Denmarke hath a Fortresse, by which we passed to rayse the Snow Hill foot,* 1.2 a Mountayne so called on the North-west part of the Land. But in our course we saw that famous Hill, Mount Hecla, which cast out much fire, a signe of foule weather to come in short time. Wee leaue Island a sterne of vs, and met a Mayne of Ice, which did hang on the North part of Island, and stretched downe to the West, which when our Master saw, he stood backe for Island to find an Harbour, which we did on the North-west part, called * 1.3 Derefer, where wee killed good store of Fowle. From hence wee put to Sea againe, but (neither wind nor weather seruing) our Master stood backe for this Har∣bour againe, but could not reach it, but fell with another to the South of that, called by our [ 50] Englishmen, Lousie Bay: where on the shoare we found an hot Bath, and heere all our Englishmen bathed themselues: the water was so hot that it would scald a Fowle.* 1.4

From hence the first of Iune we put to Sea for Groneland, but to the West wee saw Land as we thought, for which we beare the best part of a day, but it proued but a foggie banke. So wee gaue it ouer, and made for Gronland, which we raysed the fourth of Iune. Vpon the Coast there∣of hung good store of Ice, so that our Master could not attayne to the shoare by any meanes. The Land in this part is very Mountaynous, and full of round Hils, like to Sugar-loaues, couered with snow. We turned the Land on the South side, as neere as the Ice would suffer vs. Our course for the most part was betweene the West and North-west, till we raysed the Desolations, which is a great Iland in the West part of Groneland. On this Coast we saw store of Whales,* 1.5 [ 60] and at one time three of them came close by vs, so as wee could hardly shunne them: then two passing very neere, and the third going vnder our ship, wee receiued no harme by them, pray∣sed bee God.

From the Desolations our Master made his way North-west, the wind being against him, who

else would haue gone more to the North: but in this course we saw the first great Iland or Moun∣tayne of Ice, whereof after we saw store. About the latter end of Iune, we raysed Land to the North of vs, which our Master tooke to bee that Iland which Master Dauis setteth downe in his Chart. On the West side of his Streight, our Master would haue gone to the North of it, but the wind would not suffer him: so we fell to the South of it, into a great Rippling or ouer∣fall of current, the which se••teth to the West. Into the current we went, and made our way to the North of the West, till we met with Ice which hung on this Iland. Wherefore our Ma∣ster casting about, cleered himselfe of this Ice, and stood to the South, and then to the West, through store of floting Ice, and vpon the Ice store of Seales. We gained a cleere Sea, and con∣tinued our course till wee meete Ice; first, with great Ilands, and then with store of the smaller [ 10] sort. Betweene them we made our course North-west, till we met with Ice againe. But, in this our going betweene the Ice, we saw one of the great Ilands of Ice ouerturne, which was a good warning to vs, not to come nigh them, nor within their reach. Into the Ice wee put ahead, as betweene two Lands.* 1.6 The next day we had a storme, and the wind brought the Ice so fast vpon vs, that in the end we were driuen to put her into the chiefest of the Ice, and there to let her lie. Some of our men this day fell sicke, I will not say it was for feare, although I saw small signe of other griefe.

The storme ceasing, we stood out of the Ice, where wee saw any cleere Sea to goe to: which was sometime more,* 1.7 and sometime lesse. Our course was as the Ice did lye, sometime to the North, then to the North-west, and then to the West, and to the South-west: but still inclo∣sed [ 20] with Ice. Which when our Master saw, he made his course to the South, thinking to cleere himselfe of the Ice that way: but the more he stroue, the worse he was, and the more inclosed, till we could goe no further. Here our Master was in despaire, and (as he told me after) he thought he should neuer haue got out of this Ice, but there haue perished. Therefore hee brought forth his Card, and shewed all the company, that hee was entred aboue an hundred leagues further then euer any English was:* 1.8 and left it to their choice, whether they would proceed any further; yea, or nay. Whereupon, some were of one minde, and some of another, some wishing them∣selues at home, and some not caring where, so they were out of the Ice: but there were some who then spake words, which were remembred a great while after.

There was one who told the Master, that if he had an hundred pounds, hee would giue foure∣score [ 30] and ten to be at home:* 1.9 but the Carpenter made answere, that if hee had an hundred, hee would not giue ten vpon any such condition, but would thinke it to be as good money as euer he had any, and to bring it as well home, by the leaue of God. After many words to no purpose, to worke we must on all hands, to get our selues out, and to cleere our ship. After much labour and time spent, we gained roome to turne our ship in, and so by little and little, to get cleere in the Sea a league or two off, our course being North and North-west.

In the end, we raysed Land to the South-west, high Land and couered with Snow. Our Ma∣ster named this Land,* 1.10 Desire prouokes. Lying here, wee heard the noyse of a great ouer-fall of a tyde, that came out of the Land: for now we might see well, that wee had beene embayed be∣fore, and time had made vs know, being so well acquainted with the Ice, that when night, or [ 40] foggie, or foule weather tooke vs, we would seeke out the broadest Iland of Ice, and there come to anchor and runne, and sport, and fill water that stood on the Ice in Ponds, both sweete and good. But after we had brought this Land to beare South of vs, we had the tyde and the cur∣rent to open the Ice,* 1.11 as being carried first one way, and then another: but in Bayes they lye as in a pond without mouing. In this Bay where wee were thus troubled with Ice, wee saw many of those Mountaynes of Ice aground, in sixe or seuenscore fathome water. In this our course we saw a Beare vpon a piece of Ice by it selfe, to the which our men gaue chase with their Boat: but before they came nigh her, the tyde had carried the Ice and the Beare on it, and ioyned it with the other Ice: so they lost their labour, and came aboord againe.

We continued our course to the North-west, and raysed Land to the North of our course, to∣ward [ 50] which we made, and comming nigh it, there hung on the Eastermost point, many Ilands of floting Ice, and a Beare on one of them, which from one to another came towards vs, till she was readie to come aboord. But when she saw vs looke at her, she cast her head betweene her hin∣der legges, and then diued vnder the Ice: and so from one piece to another, till she was out of our reach. We stood along by the Land on the Southside ahead of vs, wee met with Ice that hung on a point of Land that lay to the South, more then this that we came vp by: which when our Master saw,* 1.12 he stood in for the shoare. At the West end of this Iland (for so it is) we found an Harbour, and came in (at a full Sea) ouer a Rocke, which had two fathome and an halfe on it, and was so much bare at a low water. But by the great mercie of God, we came to an Anchor cleere of it:* 1.13 and close by it, our Master named them, the Iles of Gods Mercie. This is an Har∣bour [ 60] for need, but there must be care had how they come in. Heere our Master sent me, and o∣thers with me, to discouer to the North and North-west: and in going from one place to ano∣ther, we sprung a Couey of Partridges which were young: at the which Thomas Woodhouse shot,* 1.14 but killed only the old one. This Iland is a most barren place, hauing nothing on it but

plashes of water and riuen Rockes, as if it were subiect to Earthquakes. To the North there is a great Bay, or Sea (for I know not what it will proue) where I saw a great Iland of Ice aground, betweene the two Lands, which with the Spring-tide was set afloat, and carried into this Bay or Sea to the North-westward, but came not backe againe, nor within sight. Here wee tooke in some Drift wood that we found ashoare.

From hence we stood to the South-west, to double the Land to the West of vs,* 1.15 through much floting Ice: In the end wee found a cleere Sea, and continued therein, till wee raysed Land to the North-west. Then our Master made his course more to the South then before: but it was not long ere we met with Ice which lay ahead of vs. Our Master would haue doubled this Ice to the North, but could not; and in the end put into it downe to the South-west through much [ 10] Ice, and then to the South, where we were embayed againe. Our Master stroue to get the shoare, but could not, for the great store of Ice that was on the coast. From out of this Bay, we stood to the North, and were soone out of the Ice: then downe to the South-west, and so to the West, where we were enclosed (to our fight) with Land and Ice. For wee had Land from the South to the North-west on one side, and from the East to the West on the other: but the Land that was to the North of vs, and lay by East and West, was but an Iland. On we went till we could goe no further for Ice: so we made our ship fast to the Ice which the tide brought vpon vs, but when the ebbe came, the Ice did open, and made way; so as in seuen or eight houres we were cleere from the Ice, till we came to weather; but onely some of the great Ilands, that were car∣ried along with vs to the North-west.

[ 20] Hauing a cleere Sea, our Master stood to the West along by the South shoare, and raysed three Capes or Head-lands, lying one aboue another. The middlemost is an Iland,* 1.16 and maketh a Bay or Harbour, which (I take) will proue a good one. Our Master named them Prince Henries Cape, or Fore-land. When we had layd this we raised another,* 1.17 which was the extreme point of the Land, looking towards the North: vpon it are two Hills, but one (aboue the rest) like an Hay-cocke; which our Master named, King Iames his Cape. To the North of this,* 1.18 lie cer∣taine Ilands, which our Master named, Queene Annes Cape, or Fore-land. Wee followed the North shoare still. Beyond the Kings Cape there is a Sound or Bay, that hath some Ilands in it: and this is not to be forgotten, if need be. Beyond this, lieth some broken Land, close to [ 30] the Mayne, but what it is I know not: because we passed by it in the night.

Wee stood to the North to double this Land, and after to the West againe, till wee fell with Land that stretched from the Mayne, like a shewer from the South to the North, and from the North to the West, and then downe to the South againe. Being short of this Land, a storme tooke vs, the wind at West, we stood to the North, and raised Land: which when our Master saw, he stood to the South againe; for he was loath at any time that wee should see the North shoare. The storme continuing, and comming to the South shoare againe,* 1.19 our Master found him∣selfe shot to the West, a great way, which made him muse, considering his Leeward way. To the South-west of this Land, on the Mayne, there is an high Hill, which our Master named Mount Charles. To the North and beyond this, lieth an Iland, that to the East hath a faire head,* 1.20 [ 40] and beyond it to the West other broken Land, which maketh a Bay within, and a good Road may be found there for ships. Our Master named the first, Cape Salsburie.* 1.21

When we had left this to the North-east, we fell into a Rippling or Ouer-fall of a Current, which (at the first we tooke to bee a Shoald: but the Lead being cast, wee had no ground. On we passed still in sight of the South shoare, till we raised Land lying from the Mayne some two leagues. Our Master tooke this to bee a part of the Mayne of the North Land; but it is an I∣land, the North side stretching out to the West more then the South. This Iland hath a faire Head to the East, and very high Land, which our Master named Deepes Cape:* 1.22 and the Land on the South side, now falling away to the South, makes another Cape or Head-land, which our Master named, Worsenhams Cape. When wee were nigh the North or Iland Cape, our Master sent the Boat ashoare, with my selfe (who had the charge) and the Carpenter, and diuers others, [ 50] to discouer to the West and North-west, and to the South-west: but we had further to it then we thought; for the Land is very high, and we were ouer-taken with a storme of Raine, Thun∣der and Lightning. But to it we came on the North-east side, and vp we got from one Rocke to another, till we came to the highest of that part. Here we found some plaine ground, and saw some Deere; as first, foure or fiue, and after, a dozen or sixteene in an Herd,* 1.23 but could not come nigh them with a Musket shot.

Thus, going from one place to another, wee saw to the West of vs an high Hill aboue all the rest, it being nigh vs: but it proued further off then we made account; for, when wee came to it, the Land was so steepe on the East and North-east parts, that wee could not get vnto it. To [ 60] the South-west we saw that wee might, and towards that part wee went along by the side of a great Pond of water, which lieth vnder the East side of this Hill:* 1.24 and there runneth out of it a streame of water, as much as would driue an ouer-shot Mill; which falleth downe from an high Cliffe into the Sea on the South side. In this place great store of Fowle breed, and there is the best Grasse that I had seene since we came from England. Here wee found Sorell, and that

which wee call Scuruy-grasse, in great abundance. Passing along wee saw some round Hills of stone, like to Grasse cockes, which at the first I tooke to be the worke of some Christian. Wee passed by them, till we came to the South side of the Hill; we went vnto them, and there found more; and being nigh them, I turned off the vppermost stone, and found them hollow within, and full of Fowles hanged by their neckes.* 1.25 Then Greene, and I, went to fetch the Boat to the South side, while Robert Billet and hee got downe a Valley to the Sea side, where wee tooke them in.

Our Master (in this time) came in betweene the two Lands, and shot off some Peeces to call vs aboord; for it was a fogge. Wee came aboord, and told him what we had seene, and per∣swaded him to stay a day or two in this place, telling him what refreshing might there bee had: [ 10] but by no meanes would he stay, who was not pleased with the motion. So we left the Fowle, and lost our way downe to the South-west, before they went in sight of the Land, which now beares to the East from vs, being the same mayne Land that wee had all this while followed. Now, we had lost the sight of it, because it falleth away to the East, after some fiue and twenty or thirty leagues. Now we came to the shallow water, wherewith wee were not acquainted since we came from Island; now we came into broken ground and Rockes, through which we passed downe to the South. In this our course we had a storme, and the water did shoald apace. Our Master came to an anchor in fifteene fathoms water.

Wee weighed and stood to the South-east, because the Land in this place did lie so. When we came to the point of the West Land (for we now had Land on both sides of vs) we came to [ 20] an anchor. Our Master sent the Boat ashoare, to see what that Land was, and whether there were any way through. They soone returned, and shewed that beyond the point of Land to the South, there was a large Sea. This Land on the West side, was a very narrow Point. Wee weighed from hence, and stood in for this Sea betweene the two Lands, which (in this place) is not two leagues broad downe to the South, for a great way in sight of the East shoare. In the end we lost sight thereof, and saw it not till we came to the bottome of the Bay, into sixe or seuen fathomes water. Hence we stood vp to the North by the West shoare, till wee came to an Iland in 53. where we tooke in water and ballast.

From hence wee passed towards the North: but some two or three dayes after (reasoning concerning our comming into this Bay,* 1.26 and going out) our Master tooke occasion to reuiue old [ 30] matters, and to displace Robert Iuet from being his Mate, and the Boat-swaine from his place, for words spoken in the first great Bay of Ice. Then hee made Robert Billet his Mate, and Wil∣liam Wilson our Boat-swaine. Vp to the North wee stood, till we raised Land, then downe to the South,* 1.27 and vp to the North, then downe againe to the South: and on Michaelmasse day came in, and went out of certaine Lands: which our Master sets downe by the name of Michael∣masse Bay, because we came in and went out on that day. From hence wee stood to the North, and came into shoald water; and the weather being thicke and foule, wee came to an anchor in seuen or eight fathome water, and there lay eight dayes: in all which time wee could not get one houre to weigh our anchor. But the eight day, the wind beginning to cease, our Master would haue the anchor vp, against the mind of all who knew what belonged thereunto. Well, [ 40] to it we went, and when we had brought it to a peake, a Sea tooke her, and cast vs all off from the Capstone,* 1.28 and hurt diuers of vs. Here wee lost our Anchor, and if the Carpenter had not beene, we had lost our Cable too: but he (fearing such a matter) was ready with his Axe, and so cut it.

From hence we stood to the South, and to the South-west, through a cleere Sea of diuers sounding, and came to a Sea of two colours, one blacke, and the other white, sixteene or seuen∣teene fathome water,* 1.29 betweene which we went foure or fiue leagues. But the ••••ght comming, we tooke in our Top-sayles, and stood afore the wind with our Maine-sayle and Fore-sayle, and came into fiue or sixe fathomes, and saw no Land for it was darke. Then we stood to the East, and had deepe water againe, then to the South and Southwest, and so came to our Westermost [ 50] Bay of all, and came to an anchor neerest to the North shorae. Out went our Boat to the Land that was next vs, when they came neere it, our Boat could not flote to the shoare it was so shallow:* 1.30 yet ashoare they got. Here our men saw the footing of a man and a Ducke in the snowy Rockes, and Wood good store, whereof they tooke some and returned aboord. Being at anchor in this place, we saw a ledge of Rockes to the South of vs, some league of length; It lay North and South, couered at a full Sea; for a strong tide setteth in here. At mid-night wee weighed, and stood to goe out as we came in; and had not gone long, but the Carpen••er came and told the Master, that if he kept that course he would be vpon the Rockes: the Master con∣ceiued that he was past them,* 1.31 when presently wee ranne on them, and there stucke fast twelue houres: but (by the mercy of God) we got off vnhurt, though not vnscarred. [ 60]

Wee stood vp to the East and raysed three Hills, lying North and South: wee went to the furthermost, and left it to the North of vs, and so into a Bay, where wee came to an anchor. Here our Master sent out our Boat, with my selfe and the Carpenter to seeke a place to winter in: and it was time; for the nights were long and cold, and the earth couered with Snow. Ha∣uing

spent three moneths in a Labyrinth without end, being now the last of October, we went downe to the East, to the bottome of the Bay:* 1.32 but returned without speeding of that we went for. The next day we went to the South, and the South-west, and found a place, whereunto we brought our ship, and haled her aground: and this was the first of Nouember. By the tenth thereof we were frozen in: but now we were in, it behooued vs to haue care of what we had;* 1.33 for, that we were sure of; but what we had not, was vncertaine.

Wee were victualled for sixe moneths in good proportion, and of that which was good: if our Master would haue had more, he might haue had it at home and in other places. Here we were now, and therefore it behoued vs so to spend, that wee might haue (when time came) to bring vs to the Capes where the Fowle bred, for that was all the hope wee had to bring vs home. [ 10] Wherefore our Master tooke order, first for the spending of that wee had, and then to increase it, by propounding a reward to them that killed either Beast, Fish, or Fowle, as in his Iournall you haue seene. About the middle of this moneth of Nouember, dyed Iohn Williams our Gunner:* 1.34 God pardon the Masters vncharitable dealing with this man. Now for that I am come to speake of him, out of whose ashes (as it were) that vnhappy deed grew which brought a scandall vpon all that are returned home, and vpon the action it selfe, the multitude (like the dog) running after the stone, but not at the caster: therefore, not to wrong the liuing, nor slander the dead, I will (by the leaue of God) deliuer the truth as neere as I can.

You shall vnderstand, that our Master kept (in his house at London) a young man, named Hen∣rie Greene, borne in Kent, of Worshipfull Parents,* 1.35 but by his leud life and conuersation hee had [ 20] lost the good will of all his frinds, and had spent all that hee had. This man, our Master would haue to Sea with him, because hee could write well: our Master gaue him meate, and drinke, and lodging, and by meanes of one Master Venson, with much adoe got foure pounds of his mother to buy him clothes, wherewith Master Venson would not trust him: but saw it laid out himselfe. This Henrie Greene was not set downe in the owners booke, nor any wages made for him. Hee came first aboord at Grauesend, and at Harwich should haue gone into the field, with one Wilkinson. At Island the Surgeon and hee fell out in Dutch, and hee beat him a shoare in English, which set all the company in a rage; so that wee had much adoe to get the Surgeon aboord. I told the Master of it, but hee bade mee let it alone, for (said hee) the Surgeon had a tongue that would wrong the best friend hee had. But Robert Iuet (the [ 30] Masters Mate) would needs burne his finger in the embers, and told the Carpenter a long tale (when hee was drunke) that our Master had brought in Greene to cracke his credit that should displease him: which words came to the Masters eares, who when hee vnderstood it, would haue gone backe to Island, when he was fortie leagues from thence, to haue sent home his Mate Robert Iuet in a Fisher-man. But, being otherwise perswaded, all was well. So Henry Greene stood vpright, and very inward with the Master, and was a seruiceable man euery way for manhood: but for Religion he would say, he was cleane paper whereon he might write what hee would. Now, when our Gunner was dead, and (as the order is in such cases) if the company stand in need of any thing that belonged to the man deceased, then is it brought to the Mayne Mast, and there sold to them that will giue most for the same: This Gunner had a gray cloth [ 40] gowne, which Greene prayed the Master to friend him so much as to let him haue it, paying for it as another would giue: the Master saith hee should, and thereupon hee answered some, that sought to haue it, that Greene should haue it, and none else, and so it rested.

Now out of season and time,* 1.36 the Master calleth the Carpenter to goe in hand with an house on shoare, which at the beginning our Master would not heare, when it might haue beene done. The Carpenter told him, that the Snow and Frost were such, as hee neither could, nor would goe in hand with such worke. Which when our Master heard, hee ferreted him out of his Cabbin to strike him, calling him by many foule names, and threatning to hang him. The Carpenter told him that hee knew what belonged to his place better then himselfe, and that hee was no House Carpenter. So this passed, and the house was (after) made with much labour, but to [ 50] no end. The next day after the Master and the Carpenter fell out, the Carpenter tooke his Peece and Henry Greene with him, for it was an order that none should goe out alone, but one with a Peece, and another with a Pike. This did moue the Master so much the more against Henry Greene, that Robert Billet his Mate must haue the gowne, and had it deliuered vnto him; which when Henry Greene saw, he challenged the Masters promise: but the Master did so raile on Greene, with so many words of disgrace, telling him, that all his friends would not trust him with twenty shillings, and therefore why should he? As for wages he had none, nor none should haue, if he did not please him well. Yet the Master had promised him to make his wages as good, as any mans in the ship; and to haue him one of the Princes guard when we came home. But you [ 60] shall see how the deuil out of this so wrought with Green, that he did the Master what mischief•• hee could in seeking to discredit him, and to thrust him and many other honest men out of the Ship in the end. To speake of all our trouble in this time of Winter (which was so cold,* 1.37 as it la∣med the most of our Company, and my selfe doe yet feele it) would bee too tedious.

But I must not forget to shew, how mercifully God dealt with vs in this time: for the

space of three moneths wee had such store of Fowle of one kinde (which were Partridges as white as milke) that wee killed aboue an hundred dozen,* 1.38 besides others of sundry sorts: for all was fish that came to the net. The Spring comming, this Fowle left vs, yet they were with vs all the extreame cold. Then in their places came diuers sort of other Fowle, as Swanne,* 1.39 Geese, Duck, and Teale, but hard to come by. Our Master hoped they would haue bred in those broken grounds, but they doe not: but came from the South, and flew to the North, further then we were this Voyage; yet if they be taken short with the wind at North, or North-west, or North-east, then they fall and stay till the winde serue them, and then flye to the North. Now in time these Fowles are gone, and few or none to bee seene. Then wee went into the Woods, Hilles, and Valleyes, for all things that had any shew of substance [ 10] in them, how vile soeuer: the mosse of the ground, then the which I take the powder of a post to bee much better, and the Frogge (in his ingendring time as loathsome as a Toade) was not spared.* 1.40 But amongst the diuers sorts of buds, it pleased God that Tho∣mas Woodhouse brought home a budde of a Tree, full of a Turpentine substance. Of this our Surgeon made a decoction to drinke,* 1.41 and applyed the buddes hot to them that were troubled with ach in any part of their bodies; and for my part, I confesse, I receiued great and present ease of my paine.

About this time, when the Ice began to breake out of the Bayes, there came a Sauage to our Ship,* 1.42 as it were to see and to bee seene, being the first that we had seene in all this time: whom our Master intreated well, and made much of him, promising vnto himselfe great matters by [ 20] his meanes, and therefore would haue all the Kniues and Hatchets (which any man had) to his priuate vse, but receiued none but from Iohn King the Carpenter, and my selfe. To this Sauage our Master gaue a Knife, a Looking-glasse, and Buttons, who receiued them thankefully, and made signes that after hee had slept hee would come againe, which hee did. When hee came, hee brought with him a Sled, which hee drew after him, and vpon it two Deeres skinnes,* 1.43 and two Beauer skinnes. Hee had a scrip vnder his arme, out of which hee drew those things which the Master had giuen him. Hee tooke the Knife and laid it vpon one of the Beauer skinnes, and his Glasses and Buttons vpon the other, and so gaue them to the Master, who receiued them; and the Sauage tooke those things which the Master had giuen him, and put them vp into his scrip againe. Then the Master shewed him an Hatchet, for which hee would haue giuen the Master one of his Deere skinnes, but our Master would [ 30] haue them both, and so hee had, although not willingly. After many signes of people to the North, and to the South, and that after so many sleepes he would come againe, he went his way, but neuer came more.

Now the Ice being out of the Sounds, so that our Boat might go from one place vnto another, a company of men were appointed by the Master to go a fishing with our net; their names were as followeth:* 1.44 William Wilson, Henry Greene, Michael Perce, Iohn Thomas, Andrew Moter, Bennet Mathewes, and Arnold Lodlo. These men, the first day they went, caught fiue hundred fish, as big as good Herrings, and some Troutes: which put vs all in some hope to haue our wants supplied, and our Commons amended: but these were the most that euer they got in one day, for many dayes they got not a quarter so many. In this time of their fishing, Henry Green and William Wil∣son, [ 40] with some others, plotted to take the net and the shallop, which the Carpenter had now set vp, and so to shift for themselues. But the shallop being readie, our Master would goe in it him∣selfe, to the South and South-west, to see if hee could meete with the people; for, to that end was it set vp, and (that way) wee might see the Woods set on fire by them. So the Ma∣ster tooke the Sayue and the Shallop, and so much victuall as would serue for eight or nine dayes, and to the South hee went. They that remained aboord, were to take in water, wood, and ballast, and to haue all things in a readinesse against hee came backe. But hee set no time of his returne; for he was perswaded, if he could meet with the people, hee should haue flesh of them, and that good store: but hee returned worse then hee went forth. For, hee could by no meanes meete with the people, although they were neere them, yet they would set the [ 50] woods on fire in his sight.

Being returned, hee fitted all things for his returne, and first, deliuered all the bread out of the bread roome (which came to a pound a piece for euery mans share) and deliuered also a Bill of Returne, willing them to haue that to shew, if it pleased God, that they came home: and he wept when hee gaue it vnto them. But to helpe vs in this poore estate with some reliefe, the Boate and Sayue went to worke on Friday morning, and stayed till Sunday noone: at which time they came aboord, and brought fourescore small Fish, a poore reliefe for so many hungry bellies. Then we wayed, and stood out of our wintering place, and came to an Anchor without, in the mouth of the Bay: from whence we wayed and came to an anchor without in the Sea, where our bread being gone,* 1.45 that store of cheese we had was to stop a gap, whereof there were fiue, whereat the [ 60] company grudged, because they made account of nine. But those that were left, were equally diui∣ded by the Master, although he had counsell to the contrarie: for there were some who hauing it, would make hast to bee rid thereof, because they could not gouerne it. I knew when Henrie

Greene gaue halfe his bread, which hee had for fourteene dayes, to one to keepe, and prayed him not to let him haue any vntill the next Munday: but before Wednesday at night, hee neuer left till hee had it againe, hauing eaten vp his first weekes bread before. So Wilson the Boat∣swaine hath eaten (in one day) his fortnights bread, and hath beene two or three dayes sicke for his labour. The cause that moued the Master to deliuer all the Cheese, was because they were not all of one goodnesse, and therefore they should see that they had no wrong done them: but euery man should haue alike the best and the worst together, which was three pounds and a halfe for seuen dayes.

The wind seruing, we weighed and stood to the North-west, and on Munday at night (the [ 10] eighteenth day of Iune) wee fell into the Ice, and the next day the wind being at West, we lay there till Sunday in sight of Land. Now being here, the Master told Nicholas Simmes, that there would be a breaking vp of chests, and a search for bread, and willed him (if hee had any) to bring it to him, which hee did, and deliuered to the Master thirty cakes in a bagge. This deed of the Master (if it bee true) hath made mee maruell, what should bee the reason that hee did not stop the breach in the beginning, but let it grow to that height, as that it ouerthrew himselfe and ma∣ny other honest men: but there are many deuices in the heart of man, yet the counsell of the Lord shall stand.

Being thus in the Ice on Saturday, the one and twentieth of Iune at night,* 1.46 Wilson the Boatswayne, and Henry Greene came to mee lying (in my Cabbin) lame, and told mee that they [ 20] and the rest of their Associates, would shift the Company, and turne the Master, and all the sicke men into the shallop, & let them shift for themselues. For, there was not fourteen daies victual left for all the Company, at that poore allowance they were at, and that there they lay, the Master not caring to goe one way or other: and that they had not eaten any thing these three dayes, and therefore were resolute, either to mend or end, and what they had begun they would goe through with it, or dye. When I heard this, I told them I maruelled to heare so much from them, considering that they were married men, and had wiues and children, and that for their sakes they should not commit so foule a thing in the sight of God and man, as that would bee; for why should they banish themselues from their natiue Countrie? Henry Greene bad me hold my peace, for he knew the worst, which was, to be hanged when hee came home, and therefore of the two [ 30] he would rather be hanged at home then starued abroad: and for the good will they bare me, they would haue mee stay in the Ship. I gaue them thankes, and told them that I came into her, not to forsake her, yet not to hurt my selfe and others by any such deed. Henry Greene told me then, that I must take my fortune in the Shallop. If there bee no remedie (said I) the will of GOD bee done.

Away went Henry Greene in a rage, swearing to cut his throat that went about to disturbe them, and left Wilson by me, with whom I had some talke, but to no good: for he was so perswa∣ded, that there was no remedie now, but to goe on while it was hot, least their partie should faile them, and the mischiefe they had intended to others should light on themselues. Henry Greene came againe, and demanded of him what I said. Wilson answered, He is in his old song, still pati∣ent. [ 40] Then I spake to Henry Greene to stay three dayes, in which time I would so deale with the Master, that all should be well. So I dealt with him to forbeare but two dayes, nay twelue houres; there is no way then (say they) but out of hand. Then I told them, that if they would stay till Munday, I would ioyne with them to share all the victuals in the ship, and would iustifie it when I came home; but this would not serue their turnes. Wherefore I told them, it was some worse matter they had in hand then they made shew of, and that it was bloud and reuenge hee sought, or else he would not at such a time of night vndertake such a deed. Henry Greene (with that) ta∣keth my Bible which lay before me, and sware that hee would doe no man harme, and what hee did was for the good of the voyage, and for nothing else; and that all the rest should do the like. The like did Wilson sweare.

Henry Greene went his way, and presently came Iuet, who because hee was an ancient man,* 1.47 [ 50] I hoped to haue found some reason in him; but hee was worse then Henry Greene, for hee sware plainely that he would iustifie this deed when he came home. After him came Iohn Thomas, and Michel Perce, as birds of one feather: but because they are not liuing, I will let them goe, as then I did. Then came Moter and Bennet, of whom I demanded, if they were well aduised what they had taken in hand. They answered, they were, and therefore came to take their oath.

Now, because I am much condemned for this oath, as one of them that plotted with them, and that by an oath I should bind them together to performe what they had begun, I thought good heere to set downe to the view of all, how well their oath and deedes agreed: and thus it was. You shall sweare truth to God, your Prince and Countrie: you shall doe nothing,* 1.48 but to the glory of [ 60] God, and the good of the action in hand, and harme to no man. This was the oath, without ad∣ding or diminishing. I looked for more of these companions (although these were too many) but there came no more. It was darke, and they in a readinesse to put this deed of darknesse in exe∣cution. I called to Henry Greene and Wilson, and prayed them not to goe in hand with it in the darke, but to stay till the morning. Now, euerie man (I hope) would goe to his rest, but wic∣kednesse

sleepeth not; for Henry Greene keepeth the Master company all night (and gaue mee bread, which his Cabbin-mate gaue him) and others are as watchfull as he. Then I asked Henrie Greene, whom he would put out with the Master? he said, the Carpenter Iohn King, and the sicke men. I said, they should not doe well to part with the Carpenter, what need soeuer they should haue. Why the Carpenter was in no more regard amongst them, was; first, for that he and Iohn King were condemned for wrong done in the victuall. But the chiefest cause was, for that the Master loued him, and made him his Mate, vpon his returne out of our wintering place, thereby displacing Robert Billet, whereat they did grudge, because hee could neither write nor read. And therefore (said they) the Master and his ignorant Mate would carry the Ship whither the Master pleased: the Master forbidding any man to keepe account or reckoning, hauing taken from all men whatsoeuer serued for that purpose. Well, I obtained of Henrie Greene and Wilson, [ 10] that the Carpenter should stay,* 1.49 by whose meanes I hoped (after they had satisfied themselues) that the Master, and the poore man might be taken into the Ship againe. Or, I hoped, that some one or other would giue some notice, either to the Carpenter Iohn King, or the Master; for so it might haue come to passe by some of them that were the most forward.

Now, it shall not bee amisse to shew how we were lodged, and to begin in the Cooke roome; there lay Bennet and the Cooper lame; without the Cooke roome, on the steere-board side, lay Thomas Wydhouse sicke; next to him lay Sydrack Funer lame, then the Surgeon, and Iohn Hudson with him; next to them lay Wilson the Boatswaine, and then Arnold Lodlo next to him: in the Gun-roome lay Robert Iuet and Iohn Thomas; on the Lar-boord side, lay Michael Bute and A∣dria Moore, who had neuer beene well since wee lost our Anchor; next to them lay Michael [ 20] Perce and Andrew Moter. Next to them without the Gun-roome, lay Iohn King, and with him Robert Billet: next to them my selfe, and next to me Francis Clements: In the mid-ship, betweene the Capstone and the Pumpes, lay Henrie Greene and Nicholas Simmes. This night Iohn King was late vp, and they thought he had been with the Master, but he was with the Carpenter, who lay on the Poope, and comming downe from him, was met by his Cabbin-mate, as it were by chance, and so they came to their Cabbin together. It was not long ere it was day: then came Bennet for water for the Kettle, hee rose and went into the Hold: when hee was in, they shut the Hatch on him (but who kept it downe I know not) vp vpon the Deck went Bennet.

In the meane time Henrie Greene, and another went to the Carpenter, and held him with a talke, till the Master came out of his Cabbin (which hee soone did) then came Iohn Thomas and [ 30] Bennet before him,* 1.50 while Wilson bound his armes behind him. He asked them what they meant? they told him, he should know when he was in the Shallop. Now Iuet, while this was a doing, came to Iohn King into the Hold, who was prouided for him, for he had got a sword of his own, and kept him at a bay, and might haue killed him, but others came to helpe him: and so he came vp to the Master. The Master called to the Carpenter, and told him that he was bound; but, I heard no answere he made. Now Arnold Lodlo, and Michael Bute rayled at them, and told them their knauerie would shew it selfe. Then was the Shallop haled vp to the Ship side, and the poore, sicke, and lame men were called vpon to get them out of their Cabbins into the Shallop. The Master called to me, who came out of my Cabbin as well as I could, to the Hatch [ 40] way to speake with him: where, on my knees I besought them, for the loue of God, to remem∣ber themselues, and to doe as they would be done vnto. They bad me keepe my selfe well, and get me into my Cabbin; not suffering the Master to speake with me. But when I came into my Cabbin againe, hee called to me at the Horne, which gaue light into my Cabbin, and told mee that Iuet would ouerthrow vs all; nay (said I) it is that villaine Henrie Greene, and I spake it not softly.

Now was the Carpenter at libertie, who asked them, if they would bee hanged when they came home: and as for himselfe, hee said, hee would not stay in the Ship vnlesse they would force him:* 1.51 they bad him goe then, for they would not stay him: I will (said hee) so I may haue my chest with mee, and all that is in it: they said, hee should, and presently they [ 50] put it into the Shallop. Then hee came downe to mee, to take his leaue of mee, who perswaded him to stay, which if he did, he might so worke that all should bee well: hee said, hee did not thinke, but they would be glad to take them in againe. For he was so perswaded by the Ma∣ster, that there was not one in all the ship, that could tell how to carrie her home; but (saith he) if we must part (which wee will not willingly doe, for they would follow the ship) hee prayed me, if wee came to the Capes before them, that I would leaue some token that wee had beene there, neere to the place where the Fowles bred, and hee would doe the like for vs: and so (with teares) we parted. Now were the sicke men driuen out of their Cabbins into the Shallop; but Iohn Thomas was Francis Clements friend, and Bennet was the Coopers, so as there were words betweene them and Henrie Greene, one saying, that they should goe, and the other swea∣ring [ 60] that they should not goe, but such as were in the shallop should returne. When Henrie Greene heard that, he was compelled to giue place, and to put out Arnold Lodlo, and Michael Bute, which with much adoe they did.

In the meane time, there were some of them that plyed their worke, as if the Ship had beene

entred by force, and they had free leaue to pillage, breaking vp Chests, and rifling all places. One of them came by me, who asked me, what they should doe. I answered, hee should make an end of what hee had begun; for I saw him doe nothing but sharke vp and downe. Now, were all the poore men in the Shallop, whose names are as followeth; Henrie Hudson, Iohn Hudson, Arnold Lodlo, Sidrack Faner, Phillip Staffe, Thomas Woodhouse, or Wydhouse, Adam Moore,* 1.52 Henrie King, Michael Bute. The Carpenter got of them a Peece, and Powder, and Shot, and some Pikes, an Iron Pot, with some meale, and other things. They stood out of the Ice, the Shallop being fast to the Sterne of the Shippe, and so (when they were nigh out, for I cannot say, they were cleane out) they cut her head fast from the Sterne of our Ship, then out with their Top-sayles, and towards the East they stood in a cleere Sea. In the end they tooke in their Top-sayles, [ 10] righted their Helme, and lay vnder their Fore-sayle till they had ransacked and searched all pla∣ces in the Ship. In the Hold they found one of the vessels of meale whole, and the other halfe spent, for wee had but two; wee found also two firkins of Butter, some twentie seuen piece of Porke, halfe a bushell of Pease, but in the Masters Cabbin we found two hundred of bisket Cakes, a pecke of Meale, of Beere to the quantitie of a Butt, one with another. Now, it was said, that the Shallop was come within sight, they let fall the Main-sayle, and out with their Top-sayles, and flye as from an Enemy.

Then I prayed them yet to remember themselues: but William Wilson (more then the rest) would heare of no such matter. Comming nigh the East shoare they cast about, and stood to the West and came to an Iland, and anchored in sixteene or seuenteene fathome water. So they sent [ 20] the Boat, and the Net ashoare to see if they could haue a Draught: but could not for Rocks and great stones. Michael Perse killed two Fowle, and heere they found good store of that Weede, which we called Cockle-grasse in our wintering place, whereof they gathered store,* 1.53 and came a∣board againe. Heere we lay that night, and the best part of the next day, in all which time we saw not the shallop, or euer after. Now Henrie Greene came to me and told mee, that it was the Companies will, that I should come vp into the Masters Cabbin, and take charge thereof. I told him it was more fit for Robert Iuet: he said, he should not come in it, nor meddle with the Ma∣sters Card, or Iournals. So vp I came, and Henrie Greene gaue me the Key of the Masters Chest, and told me then, that he had laid the Masters best things together, which hee would vse him∣selfe when time did serue: the bread was also deliuered me by tale.

[ 30] The wind seruing, we stood to the North-east, and this was Robert Billets course, contrarie to Robert Iuet, who would haue gone to the North-west. We had the Easterne shoare still in sight, and (in the night) had a stout gale of wind, and stood afore it, till wee met with Ice, into the which we ranne from th••ne to thicke, till we could goe no further for Ice, which lay so thicke ahead of vs (and the wind brought it after vs asterne) that wee could not stirre backward, nor forward: but so lay imbayed fourteene daies in worse Ice, then euer wee met to deale withall, for we had beene where there was greater store, but it was not so broad vpon the water as this: for this floting Ice contained miles, and halfe miles in compasse, where we had a deepe Sea, and a Tide of flood and ebbe, which set North-west and South-east. Heere Robert Iuet would haue gone to the North-west, but Robert Billet was confident to go through to the North-east, which [ 40] he did. At last, being cleere of this Ice, he continued his course in sight of the Easterne shoare, till he raised foure Ilands which lay North and South: but we passed them sixe or seuen leagues,* 1.54 the wind tooke vs so short. Then wee stood backe to them againe, and came to an Anchor be∣tweene two of the most Northermost. We sent the Boat ashoare, to see if there were any thing there to be had, but found nothing, but cockle Grasse, whereof they gathered store, and so retur∣ned aboard. Before we came to this place, I might well see, that I was kept in the ship against Henry Greenes minde, because I did not fauour their proceedings better then I did. Then hee be∣gan (very subtilly) to draw me to take vpon me to search for those things, which himselfe had stolne: and accused me of a matter no lesse then Treason amongst vs,* 1.55 that I had deceiued the company of thirtie Cakes of bread. Now they began to talke amongst themselues, that Eng∣land [ 50] was no safe place for them, and Henry Greene swore, the shippe should not come into any place (but keepe the Sea still) till he had the Kings Majesties hand and Seale to shew for his safe∣tie. They had many deuices in their heads, but Henry Greene in the end was their Captaine, and so called of them.

From these Ilands we stood to the North-east and the Easter Land still in sight: wee raysed those Ilands, that our Master called Rumnies Ilands. Betweene these Ilands and the shallow ground to the East of them, our Master went downe into the first great Bay. We kept the East shoare still in our sight, and comming thwart of the low Land, wee ranne on a Rocke that lay vnder water, and strooke but once; for if shee had, we might haue beene made Inhabitans of that [ 60] place: but God sent vs soone off without any harme that wee saw. Wee continued our course and raysed Land a head of vs, which stretched out to the North: which when they saw, they said plainly, that Robert Billet by his Northerly course had left the Capes to the South, and that they were best to seeke downe to the South in time for releife, before all was gone: for we had small store left. But Robert Billet would follow the Land to the North, saying, that he hoped in

God to find somewhat to releeue vs that way, as soone as to the South. I told them that this Land was the Mayne of Worsenhome Cape, and that the shallow rockie ground, was the same that the Master went downe by, when he went into the great Bay. Robert Iuet and all said, it was not possible, vnlesse the Master had brought the ship ouer Land, and willed them to looke into the Masters Card, and their course how well they did agree. We stood to the East, and left the mayne Land to the North, by many small Ilands into a narrow gut betweene two Lands, and there came to an Anchor. The Boat went ashoare on the North side, where wee found the great Horne, but nothing else. The next day wee went to the South side, but found nothing there,* 1.56 saue Cockle grasse of which we gathered. This grasse was a great releefe vnto vs, for with∣out it, we should hardly haue got to the Capes for want of victuall. The wind seruing we stood out, but before we could get cleane out, the wind came to the West, so that we were constray∣ned [ 10] to anchor on the North side.

The next day, wee weighed and doubled the point of the North Land, which is high Land, and so continueth to the Capes, lying North and South, some fiue and twentie or thirtie leagues. To the North we stood to see store of those Fowles that breed in the Capes, and to kill some with our shot, and to fetch them with our Boat. We raised the Capes with joy, and bare for them, and came to the Ilands that lie in the mouth of the streight: but bearing in betweene the Rockie Iles,* 1.57 we ranne on a Rocke that lay vnder water, and there stucke fast eight or nine houres. It was ebbing water when we thus came on, so the floud set vs afloat, God guiding both wind and Sea, that it was calme, and faire weather: the ebbe came from the East, and the floud from the West.* 1.58 When wee were afloat, wee stood more neere to the East shoare, and there [ 20] anchored.

* 1.59The next day being the seuen and twentieth of Iuly, we sent the Boat to fetch some Fowle, and the ship should way and stand as neere as they could: for the wind was against vs. They had a great way to row, and by that meanes they could not reach to the place where the Fowle bred: but found good store of Gulls, yet hard to come by, on the Rocks and Cliffes, but with their Peeces they killed some thirtie, and towards night returned. Now we had brought our ship more neere to the mouth of the Streights, and there came to an anchor in eighteen or twentie fathom water, vpon a R••ffe or shelfe of ground: which after they had weighed their Anchor, and stood more neere to the place where the Fowle bred, they could not find it againe, nor no place like it: but were faine to turne to and fro in the mouth of the Streight, and to be in danger of Rockes, [ 30] because they could not find ground to let fall an Anchor in, the water was so deepe.

* 1.60The eight and twentieth day, the Boat went to Digges his Cape for Fowle, and made direct∣ly for the place where the Fowle bred, and being neere, they saw seuen Boates come about the Easterne point towards them▪ When the Sauages saw our Boate, they drew themselues toge∣ther, and drew their lesser Boats into their bigger: and when they had done, they came rowing to our Boat, and made signes to the West, but they made readie for all assayes. The Sauages came to them, and by signes grew familiar one with another, so as our men tooke one of theirs into our Boate, and they tooke one of ours into their Boate. Then they carried our man to a Coue where their Tents stood toward the West of the place, where the Fowle bred: so they carried him into their Tents, where he remayned till our men returned with theirs. Our Boat went to [ 40] the place where the Fowle bred, and were desirous to know how the Sauages killed their Fowle: he shewed them the manner how, which was thus, They take a long Pole with a snare at the end,* 1.61 which they put about the Fowles necke, and so plucke them downe. When our men knew that they had a better way of their owne, they shewed him the vse of our Peeces, which at one shot would kill seuen or eight. To be short, our Boat returned to their Coue for our man, and to deliuer theirs. When they came they made great joy, with dancing and leaping, and stroking of their brests: they offered diuers things to our men, but they only tooke some Morses Teeth, which they gaue them for a Knife, and two glasse buttons: and so receiuing our man they came aboard, much rejoycing at this chance, as if they had met with the most simple and kind people of the World. [ 50]

And Henry Greene (more then the rest) was so confident, that (by no meanes) we should take care to stand vpon our Guard:* 1.62 God blinding him so, that where hee made reckoning to receiue great matters from these people, he receiued more then he looked for, and that suddenly by being made a good example for all men: that make no conscience of doing euill, and that we take heed of the Sauage people, how simple soeuer they seeme to be.

The next day, the nine and twentieth of Iuly, they made haste to be ashoare, and because the ship rid too farre off, they weighed and stood as neere to the place where the Fowle bred, as they could: and because I was lame, I was to go in the Boat, to carrie such things, as I had in the Cabbin of euery thing somewhat: and so with more haste then good speed (and not without swearing) away we went, Henry Greene, William Wilson, Iohn Thomas, Michael Perse, Andrew, [ 60] Moter, and my selfe. When we came neere the shoare, the people were on the Hils, dancing and leaping: to the Coue we came, where they had drawne vp their Boates: wee brought our Boate to the East side of the Coue, close to the Rockes. Ashoare they went, and made fast the

Boat to a great stone on the shoare, the people came, and euery one had somewhat in his hand to barter: but Henry Greene swore they should haue nothing, till he had Venison, for that they had so promised him by signes.

Now when we came, they made signes to their Dogges (whereof there were many like Mongrels, as bigge as Hounds) and pointed to their Mountaine, and to the Sunne,* 1.63 clapping their hands. Then Henry Greene, Iohn Thomas, and William Wilson, stood hard by the Boate head, Mi∣chael Perse, and Andrew Moter were got vp vpon the Rocke, a gathering of Sorrell: not one of them had any weapon about him, not so much as a sticke, saue Henry Greene only, who had a piece of a Pike in his hand: nor saw I any thing that they had wherewith to hurt vs.* 1.64 Henry [ 10] Greene and William Wilson had Looking-glasses, and Iewes Trumps, and Bels, which they were shewing the people. The Sauages standing round about them, one of them came into the Boats head to me to shew me a Bottle: I made signes to him to get him ashoare, but he made as though he had not vnderstood me, whereupon I stood vp, and pointed him ashoare. In the meane-time, another stole behind me to the sterne of the Boat, and when I saw him ashoare, that was in the head of the Boat, I sate downe againe: but suddenly I saw the legge and foote of a man by mee. Wherefore I cast vp my head, and saw the Sauage with his Knife in his hand, who strooke at my brest ouer my head: I cast vp my right arme to saue my brest, he wounded my arme, and strooke [ 20] me into the bodie vnder my right Pappe. He strooke a second blow which I met with my left hand, and then he strooke me into the right thigh, and had like to haue cut off my little finger of the left hand. Now, I had got hold of the string of the Knife, and had woond it about my left hand, he striuing with both his hands, to make an end of that he had begunne, I found him but weake in the gripe (God enabling me) and getting hold of the sleeue of his left arme, so bare him from me. His left side lay bare to me, which when I saw, I put his sleeue off his left arme into my left hand, holding the string of the Knife fast in the same hand: and hauing got my right hand at libertie, I sought for somewhat wherewith to strike him (not remembring my Dagger at my side) but looking downe I saw it, and therewith strooke him into the bodie, and the throate.

Whiles I was thus assaulted in the Boat, our men were set vpon on the shoare.* 1.65 Iohn Thomas and William Wilson had their bowels cut, and Michael Perse and Henry Greene being mortally [ 30] wounded, came tumbling into the Boat together. When Andrew Moter saw this medley, hee came running downe the Rockes, and leaped into the Sea, and so swamme to the Boat, hanging on the sterne thereof, till Michael Perse tooke him in, who manfully made good the head of the Boat against the Sauages, that pressed sore vpon vs. Now Michael Perse had got an Hatchet, wherewith I saw him strike one of them, that he lay sprawling in the Sea.* 1.66 Henry Greene crieth Coragio, and layeth about him with his Truncheon: I cryed to them to cleere the Boat, and An∣drew Moter cryed to bee taken in: the Sauages betooke them to their Bowes and Arrowes, which they sent amongst vs, wherewith Henry Greene was slaine out-right, and Michael Perse receiued may wounds, and so did the rest. Michael Perse cleereth the Boate, and puts it from the shoare, and helpeth Andrew Moter in: but in turning of the Boat, I receiued a cruell wound in [ 40] my backe with an Arrow: Michael Perse and Andrew Moter rowed the Boate away, which when the Sauages saw, they ranne to their Boats, and I feared they would haue launched them, to haue followed vs, but they did not, and our ship was in the middle of the channell, and could not see vs.

Now, when they had rowed a good way from the shoare, Michael Perse fainted, and could row no more: then was Andrew Moter driuen to stand in the Boat head, and waft to the ship, which (at the first) saw vs not, and when they did, they could not tel what to make of vs, but in the end they stood for vs, and so tooke vs vp. Henry Greene was throwne out of the Boat into the Sea, and the rest were had aboard, the Sauage being yet aliue, yet without sense.* 1.67 But they died all there that day, William Wilson swearing and cursing in most fearefull manner. Michael Perse liued two dayes after, and then died. Thus you haue heard the Tragicall end of Henry Greene and his [ 50] Mates, whom they called Captaine, these foure being the only lustie men in all the ship.

The poore number that was left, were to ply our ship too and fro, in the mouth of the streight, for there was no place to anchor in neere hand: besides, they were to goe in the Boate to kill Fowle, to bring vs home, which they did, although with danger to vs all. For if the wind blew, there was an high Sea, and the eddies of the Tydes would carrie the ship so neere the Rockes, as it feared our Master, for so I will now call him. After they had killed some two hundred Fowle, with great labour on the South Cape, wee stood to the East: but when wee were sixe or seuen leagues from the Capes, the wind came vp at East. Then wee stood backe to the Capes againe, and killed an hundred Fowle more. After this, the wind came to the West, so wee were driuen to goe away, and then our Master stood (for the most) along by the North shoare, till he fell in∣to [ 60] broken ground about the Queenes Fore-land, and there anchored. From thence wee went to Gods Mercies, and from thence to those Ilands, which lye in the mouth of our Streight, not see∣ing the L••nd, till we were readie to runne our Bosprite against the Rockes in a fogge. But it cleered a little, and then we might see our selues inclosed with Rockie Ilands, and could find no

ground to anchor in. There our Master lay atrie all night, and the next day the fogge continu∣ing, they sought for ground to anchor in, and found some in an hundred and odde fathomes of water. The next day we weighed and stood to the East, but before wee came heere, we had put our selues to hard allowance, as halfe a foule a day with the pottage: for yet we had some meale left, and nothing else. Then they beganne to make triall of all whatsoeuer: wee had ••layed our Fowle,* 1.68 for they wil not pull: and Robert Iuet was the first, that made vse of the skins by burning of the Feathers: so they became a great dish of meate, and as for the garbidge, it was not throwne away.

After we were cleere of these Ilands, which lie out with two points, one to the South-east, and the other to the North, making a Bay to the sight as if there were no way through, we con∣tinued [ 10] our course East South-east, and South and by East, to raise the Desolations, from thence to shape our course for Ireland. Thus we continued diuers dayes: but the wind comming against vs, made vs to alter our course, and by the meanes of Robert Iuet who perswaded the company, that they should find great reliefe in Newfound Land, if our Country-men were there, and if they were gone before we came, yet should we find great store of bread and fish left ashoare by them: but how true, I giue God thankes, we did not trie. Yet we stood to the South-west, and to the West, almost to fiftie seuen degrees: when (by the will of God) the winde came vp at South-west. Then the Master asked me, if he should take the benefit of this wind, and shape his course for Ireland. I said it was best to goe, where we knew Corne grew, and not to seeke it, where it was cast away, and not to be found. Towards Ireland now wee stood, with prosperous winds for [ 20] many dayes together: then was all our Meale spent, and our Fowle restie and dry: but (being no remedie) we were content with the Salt broth for Dinner, and the halfe Fowle for Supper. Now went our Candles to wracke, and Bennet our Cooke made a messe of meate of the bones of the Fowle,* 1.69 frying them with Candle-grease, till they were crispe, and with Vineger put to them, made a good dish of meate. Our Vineger was shared, and to euery man a pound of Can∣dles deliuered for a weeke, as a great daintie. Now Robert Iuet (by his reckoning) saith, wee were within sixtie or seuentie leagues of Ireland, when wee had two hundred thither. And sure our course was so much the longer, through our euill steeredge: for, our men became so weake, that they could not stand at the Helme, but were faine to sit.

* 1.70Then Robert Iuet dyed, for meere want, and all our men were in despaire, and said wee were [ 30] past Ireland, and our last Fowle were in the steep-tub. So, our men cared not which end went for∣ward, insomuch as our Master was driuen to looke to their labour, as well as his owne: for some of them would sit and see the fore-sayle, or mayne-sayle flie vp to the tops, the sheetes being ei∣ther flowne or broken, and would not helpe it themselues, nor call to others for helpe, which much grieued the Master. Now in this extremitie it pleased God to giue vs sight of Land, not farre from the place, our Master said he would fall withal, which was the Bay of Galloway, and we fell to the West of the Derses, and so stood along by the coast, to the South-west. In the end, there was a joyful cry, a sayle, a sayle, towards which they stood, then they saw more, but to the neerest we stood,* 1.71 and called to him: his Barke was of Fowy, and was at anchor a Fishing: he came to vs, and brought vs into Bere Hauen. Here we stayed a few dayes, and delt with the Irish, to supply [ 40] our wants, but found no reliefe: for in this place there was neither Bread, Drinke, nor mony to be had amongst them. Wherfore they aduised vs to deale with our Country-men, who were there a fishing, which we did: but found them so cold in kindnesse, that they would doe nothing without present money, whereof we had none in the Ship. In the end, we procured one Iohn Waymouth, Master of the Barke that brought vs into this Harbour, to furnish vs with money, which hee did, and receiued our best Cable and Anchor in pawne for the fame. With this money, our Master with the helpe of Iohn Waymouth, bought Bread, Beere, and Beefe.

Now, as wee were beholding to Waymouth for his money, so were wee to one Captaine Tay∣lor, for making of our contracts with Waymouth, by whose meanes hee tooke a Bill for our Cable and Anchor, and for the mens Wages, who would not goe with vs, vnlesse Waymouth wold passe [ 50] his word for the same: for they made shew, that they were not willing to goe with vs for any wages. Whereupon Captaine Taylor swore hee would presse them, and then, if they would not goe, hee would hang them.

In conclusion, wee agreed for three pound ten shillings a man, to bring our Ship to Plimouth, or Dartmouth, and to giue the Pilot fiue pound: but if the winde did not serue, but that they were driuen to put into Bristow, they were to haue foure pound ten shillings a man, and the Pi∣lot sixe pound. Omitting therefore further circumstances, from Bere Hauen wee came to Pli∣mouth,* 1.72 and so to an anchor, before the Castle: and from Plimouth, with faire winde and weather without stop or stay, wee came to the Downes, from thence to Grauesend, where most of our men went a shoare, and from thence came on this side Erith, and there stopped: where our Master Robert Billet came aboord, and so had mee vp to London with him, and so wee came to Sir Tho∣mas [ 60] Smiths together.

Forasmuch as this report of Pricket may happely bee suspected by some, as not so friendly to Hudson, who returned with that Companie which had so cruelly exposed Hudson and his, and therefore may seeme

to lay heauier imputation, and rip vp occasions further then they will beleeue; I haue also added the re∣port of Thomas Widhouse, one of the exposed Companie, who ascribeth those occasions of discord to Iuet. I take not on mee to sentence, no not to examine; I haue presented the Euidence iust as I had it: let the Bench censure, hearing with both eares, that which with both eyes they may see in those, and these notes; to which, I haue first prefixed his Letter to Master Samuel Macham.

MAster Macham, I heartily commend me•• vnto you, &c. I can write vnto you no newes, though I haue seene much, but such as euery English Fisherman haunting these Coasts can report better [ 10] then my selfe.

Wee kept our Whit sunday in the North-east end of Island; and I thinke I neuer fared better in Eng∣land then wee feasted there. They of the Countrey are very poore, and liue miserably: yet we found there∣in store of fresh Fish and daintie Fowle. I my selfe in an after-noone killed so much Fowle,* 2.1 as feasted all our Companie, being three and twentie persons at one time, onely with Partridges; besides Curlue, Plo∣uer, Mallard, Teale, and Goose. I haue seene two hot Bathes in Island, and haue beene in one of them. Wee are resolued to trie the vttermost, and lye onely expecting a faire winde, and to refresh our selues to auoyd the Ice, which now is come off the West Coasts, of which wee haue seene whole Ilands,* 2.2 but God bee thanked, haue not beene in danger of any. Thus I desire all your prayers for vs. From Island this thir∣tieth of May, 1610.

[ 20]

A note found in the Deske of Thomas Wydowse, Student in the Mathe∣matickes, hee being one of them who was put into the Shallop.

THe tenth day of September, 1610. after dinner, our Master called all the Companie together, to heare and beare witnesse of the abuse of some of the Companie (it hauing beene the request of Ro∣bert Iuet) that the Master should redresse some abuses and slanders, as hee called them, against this I∣uet: which thing after the Master had examined and heard with equitie what hee could say for him∣selfe, [ 30] there were prooued so many and great abuses, and mutinous matters against the Master, and action by Iuet, that there was danger to haue suffred them longer: and it was fit time to punish and cut off far∣ther occasions of the like mutinies.

It was prooued to his face, first with Bennet Mathew our Trumpet vpon our first sight of Island, and hee confest, that hee supposed that in the action would bee man-slaughter, and proue bloodie to some.

Secondly, at our comming from Island, in hearing of the companie, hee did threaten to turne the head of the Ship home from the action, which at that time was by our Master wisely pacified, hoping of a∣mendment.

Thirdly, it was deposed by Philip Staffe our Carpenter, and Ladlie Arnold, to his face vpon the holy Bible, that hee perswaded them to keepe Muskets charged, and Swords readie in their Cabbins, for they [ 40] should bee charged with shot, ere the Voyage were ouer.

Fourthly, wee being pestered in the Ice, hee had vsed words tending to mutinie, discouragement, and slander of the action, which easily tooke effect in those that were timorous; and had not the Master in time preuented, it might easily haue ouerthrowne the Voyage: and now lately beeing imbayed in a deepe Bay, which the Master had desire to see, for some reasons to himselfe knowne, his word tended altogether to put the Companie into a fray of extremitie, by wintering in cold: Iesting at our Masters hope to see Bantam by Candlemasse.

For these and diuers other base sl••nders against the Master, hee was deposed; and Robert Bylot, who had shewed himselfe honestly respecting the good of the action, was placed in his stead the Masters Mate.

Also Francis Clement the Boatson, as this time was put from his Office, and William Wilson, a [ 50] man thought more fit, preferred to his place. This man had basely carryed himselfe to our Master and to the action.

Also Adrian Mooter was appointed Boatsons mate: and a promise by the Master, that from this day Iuats wages should remaine to Bylot, and the Boatsons ouerplus of wages should bee equally diuided betweene Wilson and one Iohn King, to the owners good liking, one of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Masters, who had very well carryed themselues to the furtherance of the businesse.

Also the Master promised, if the Offenders yet behaued themselues henceforth honestly, hee would bee a meanes for their good, and that hee would forget iniuries, with other admonitions.

These things thus premised touching Hudsons exposing, and Gods iust iudgements on the Ex∣posers, as Pricket hath related (whom they reserued as is thought, in hope by Sir Dudley Digges [ 60] his Master to procure their pardon at their returne) I thought good to adde that which I haue further receiued from good Intelligence, that the Ship comming aground at Digges Iland, in 62. degrees 44. minutes, a great flood came from the West and set them on floate: an argument of an open passage from the South Sea to that, and consequently to these Seas. The Weapons and

Arts which they saw, beyond those of other Sauages are arguments hereof. Hee which assaul∣ted Pricket in the Boate, had a weapon broad and sharpe indented of bright Steele (such they vse in Iaua) riueted into a handle of Morse tooth.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Orkney. Farre Iles. Island.

  The South-east part of Island.
• * 1.2

  Westmonie Iland.

  Mount Hecla casteth out fire. A mayne of Ice.
• * 1.3

  Or Diraford.
• * 1.4

  Lousie Bay. An hot Bath. The first of Iune.
• * 1.5

  Iland of Deso∣lation. Store of Whales.
• * 1.6

  Iland of Ice o∣uerturneth.
• * 1.7

  Danger by Ice.
• * 1.8

  Hudson entred 100. leagues further then any had been.
• * 1.9

  Discontents.
• * 1.10

  Desire prouokes.
• * 1.11

  Exercises of pleasure and profit on the Ice.

  Difference of Tydes and Bayes.

  Ice aboue 100. fathome.
• * 1.12

  A dangerous Rocke.
• * 1.13

  Iles of Gods Mercie.
• * 1.14

  Partridges.
• * 1.15

  Drift-wood.
• * 1.16

  Three Capes.
• * 1.17

  Prince Henries Cape.
• * 1.18

  King Iames his Cape.

  Queene Annes Cape.
• * 1.19

  Note.
• * 1.20

  Mount Charles.
• * 1.21

  Cape Salsburie.
• * 1.22

  Deepes Cape. Worsenhams Cape.
• * 1.23

  Deere.
• * 1.24

  Store of fowle and grasse. Sorell and Scuruy grasse.
• * 1.25

  Fowles han∣ged.
• * 1.26

  Discord: see Widhouse his Relations fol∣lowing.
• * 1.27

  Michaelmasse Day, and Bay.
• * 1.28

  Anchor lost.
• * 1.29

  Sea of two co∣lours.
• * 1.30

  Footing of a man.
• * 1.31

  Sticke on a Rocke.
• * 1.32

  Last of Octo∣ber.
• * 1.33

  Nouember the tenth frozen in.
• * 1.34

  Iohn Williams dyeth.
• * 1.35

  Henry Greenes bad conditions
• * 1.36

  Greenes con∣spiracie.
• * 1.37

  Their hand wintring.
• * 1.38

  Store of Par∣tridg••s.
• * 1.39

  Other Fowles succeeding in their seasons.
• * 1.40

  Miserable diet
• * 1.41

  Medicinable budde.
• * 1.42

  A Sauage.
• * 1.43

  Turke.
• * 1.44

  Fishing.
• * 1.45

  Belly straits.
• * 1.46

  Wilson & Green, their wicked∣nesse.
• * 1.47

  Robert Iuet. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Widhouses notes.
• * 1.48

  Oath abused.
• * 1.49

  The Carpen∣ter spared.
• * 1.50

  They bind the Master.
• * 1.51

  The Carpen∣ter let goe.
• * 1.52

  The names of the company exposed in the Shallop,
• * 1.53

  L••st sight of the Shallop.
• * 1.54

  Foure Ilands▪
• * 1.55

  The wicked flee where none pursueth
• * 1.56

  Cockle grasse.
• * 1.57

  A Rocke.
• * 1.58

  Note.
• * 1.59

  Iuly 27.
• * 1.60

  Sauages.
• * 1.61

  Sauages man∣ner of fowling.
• * 1.62

  Greenes confi∣dence.
• * 1.63

  Sauages dogges.
• * 1.64

  Sauages tre∣cherie.
• * 1.65

  Trecherie iust to vniust Tray∣tors.
• * 1.66

  Greene slaine.
• * 1.67

  Wicked and wretched end of wretched wicked men.
• * 1.68

  Miserie pursu∣eth the rest.
• * 1.69

  Poore Diet.
• * 1.70

  Robert Iuets death.
• * 1.71

  A sayle of Fowy Bere Hauen in Ireland.
• * 1.72

  They arriue at Plimouth.
• * 2.1

  Ilanders poore.
• * 2.2

  The cause of their stay as Island.