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.

CHAP. XIX. To the Right Worshipfull Master IOHN WOSTENHOLME Esquire, one of the chiefe Aduenturers for the discouerie of a passage to the North-west.

WOrthy Sir; there neede no filling a Iournall or short Discourse with preamble, comple∣ment, or circumstance, and therefore I will onely tell you, I am proud of any Remem∣brance, [ 10] when I expose your Worth to my Conceit, and glad of any good fortune, when I can auoid the imputation of ingratitude, by acknowledging your many fauours: and seeing it is not vnknowne (to your Worship) in what estate the businesse concerning the North-west hath beene heretofore, and how the onely hope was in searching of Fretum Dauis, which if your selfe had not beene the more forward, the action had well nigh beene left off: Now it remayneth for your Worship to know, what hath beene performed this yeere: wherefore I entreat you to admit of my custome, and pardon me if I take the plaine highway in relating the particulars, without vsing any refi∣ned phrases and eloquent speeches.

Therefore briefly, and as it were in the forefront, I intend to shew you the whole proceeding of the voy∣age in a word: as namely, there is no passage, nor hope of passage in the North of Dauis Streights, wee [ 20] hauing coasted all or neere all the Circumference thereof, and finde it to be no other then a great Bay, as the Map here placed doth truly shew: wherefore I cannot but much admire the worke of the Almightie, when I consider how vaine the best and chiefest hopes of man are in things vncertaine.* 1.1 And to speake of no other matter, then of the hopefull passage to the North-west; How many of the best sort of men haue set their whole indeuours to proue a passage that wayes, and not onely in Conference, but also in Writing and publishing to the World, yea what great summes of money hath beene spent about that action, as your Worship hath costly experience off. Neither would the vaine-glorious Spaniard haue scattered abroad so many false Maps and Iournals, if they had not beene confident of a passage this way, that if it had pleased God, a passage had beene found, they might haue eclipsed the worthy praise of the Aduenturers and true Discouerers; and for my owne part, I would hardly haue beleeued the contrarie, vntill mine eyes became [ 30] witnesse of that I desired not to haue found, still taking occasion of hope on euery little likelihood, till such time as we had almost coasted the Circumference of this great Bay. Neither was Master Dauis to be blamed in his report and great hopes, if he had anchored about Hope Sanderson, to haue taken notice of the Tydes: for to that place which is in 72. degrees 12. minutes the Sea is open, of an vnsearchable depth, and of a good colour, onely the Tydes keepe no certaine course, nor rise but a small height, as eight or nine foote, and the flood commeth from the Southward, and in all the Bay beyond that place the Tyde is so small, and not much to be regarded, yet by reason of snow melting on the Land, the Ebbe is stronger then the Flood, by meanes whereof, and the windes holding Northerly the fore-part of the yeere, the great Iles of Ice are set to the Southward, some into Fretum Hudson, and others towards New found Land, for in all the Channell where the Sea is open are great quantities of them driuing vp and downe, and till this [ 40] yeere not well knowne where they were bred.

Now that the worst is knowne (concerning the passage) it is necessarie and requisite, your Worship should vnderstand what probabilitie or hope of profit might here be made hereafter, if the voyage bee at∣tempted by fitting men. And first for the killing of Whales, certaine it is that in this Bay are great numbers of them, which the Biscainers call the Grand Baye Whales, of the same kinde which are killed at Greenland, and as it seemeth to me easie to be strooke, because they are not vsed to bee chased or bea∣ten, for we being but one day in Whale Sound (so called for the number of Whales that wee saw there) sleeping and lying aloft on the water, not fearing our ship or ought else;* 1.2 that if wee had beene fitted with men and things necessarie, it had beene no hard matter to haue strooke more then would haue made three ships a sauing voyage, and that it is of that sort of Whale there is no feare. I being twise at Greenland,* 1.3 [ 50] tooke sufficient notice to know them againe; beside a dead Whale wee found at Sea, hauing all her finnes (or rather all the rough of her mouth) of which with much labour, we got one hundred and sixtie the same euening we found her; and if that foule weather, and a storme the next day had not followed, wee had no doubt, but to haue had all or the most part of them, but the winde and Sea arising shee broke from vs, and we were forced to leaue her. Neither are they onely to be looked for in Whale Sound, but also in Sir Tho. Smiths Sound, Wostenholme Sound, and diuers other places.

For the killing of Sea Morse, I can giue no certaintie, but onely this, that our Boat being but once a∣shoare in all the North part of this Bay, which was in the entrance of Alderman Iones Sound,* 1.4 at the re∣turne, our men told vs, they saw many Morses along by the shoare on the Ice; but our ship being vnder saile, and the winde comming faire, they presently came aboord without further search, besides the people [ 60] inhabiting about 74. degrees, told vs by diuers signes, that toward the North were many of those beasts, hauing two long teeth, and shewed vs diuers pieces of the same.

As for the Sea Vnicorne, it being a great fish, hauing a long horne or bone, growing forth of his fore∣head or nostrill (such as Sir Martin Frobisher in his second voyage found one) in diuers places we saw of them, which if the horne be of any good value, no doubt but many of them may be killed.

And concerning what the Shoare will yeeld, as Beach finnes, Morse teeth, and such like, I can little say, because we came not on shoare in any of the places where hope was of finding them.

But here some may obiect and aske, why we sought that Coast no better: to this I answere, that while we were thereabout, the weather was so exceeding foule wee could not, for first wee anchored in Wosten∣holme Sound, where presently our ship droue with two anchors a head, then were we forced to stand forth with a low saile. The next day in Whale Sound, we lost an Anchor and Cable, and could fetch the place no more; then we came to anchor neere a small Iland, lying between Sir Tho. Smiths Sound, and Whale Sound, but the winde came more outward, that we were forced to weigh againe: neuerthelesse if wee had beene in a good harbour, hauing but our Ships Boat, we durst not send her farre from the ship, hauing so few men (as seuenteene in all) and some of them very weake; but the chiefe cause wee spent so little time [ 10] to seeke a Harbour, was our great desire to performe the Discouerie, hauing the Sea open in all that part, and still likelihood of a passage: but when we had coasted the Land so farre to the Southward, that hope of passage was none, then the yeere was too farre spent, and many of our men very weake, and withall we ha∣uing some beliefe that ships the next yeere would be sent for the killing of Whales, which might better doe it then wee.

And seeing I haue briefly set downe, what hope there is of making a profitable voyage, it is not vnfit your Worship should know what let or hinderance might be to the same. The chiefest and greatest cause is, that some yeere it may happen by reason of the Ice, lying betweene 72. degrees and a halfe, and 76. degrees no minutes, that the ships cannot come into those places, till toward the middest of Iuly, so that want of time to stay in the Countrey may bee some let: yet they may well tarry till the last of August, in which space much businesse may be done, and good store of Oile made: neuerthelesse if store of Whales come in [ 20] (as no feare to the contrarie) what cannot bee made in Oile may bee brought home in Blubber, and the Finnes will arise to good profit. Another hinderance may bee, because the bottome of the Sounds will not be so soone cleere as would be wished, by meanes thereof now and then a Whale may be lost (the same case sometime chanceth in Greenland) yet I am perswaded those Sounds before named, will all be cleere before the twentieth of Iuly: for we this yeere were in Whale Sound the fourth day among many Whales, and might haue strooke them without let of Ice. Furthermore, there is little wood to bee expected, either for fire or other necessaries, therefore Coles and other such things must bee prouided at home, they will bee so much the readier there.

Thus much I thought good to certifie your Worship, wherein I trust you will conceiue, that much time hath not beene spent in vaine, or the businesse ouer carelesly neglected, and although wee haue not perfor∣med [ 30] what we desired (that is, to haue found the passage) yet what wee promised (as to bring certaintie and a true description) truth will make manifest, that I haue not much erred.

And I dare boldly say (without boasting) that more good discouerie hath not in shorter time (to my remembrance) beene done, since the action was attempted, considering how much Ice we haue passed, and the difficultie of sayling so neere the Pole (vpon a trauerse) and aboue all, the variation of the Compasse, whose wonderfull operation is such in this Bay,* 1.5 increasing and decreasing so suddenly and swift, being in some part (as in Wostenholme Sound, and in Sir Tho. Smiths Sound) varied aboue fiue Points or 56. degrees, a thing almost incredible and matchlesse in all the world beside, so that without great care, and good obseruations, a true description could not haue beene had. In fine, whatsoeuer my labours are or shall be, I esteeme them too little, to expresse my thankefull minde for your many fauours, wherein I shall be e∣uer [ 40] studious, to supply my other wants by my best endeuours, and euer rest at

Your Worships command, WILLIAM BAFFIN.

A briefe and true Relation or Iournall, contayning such accidents as happened in the fift voyage, for the discouerie of a passage to the North-west, set forth at the charges of the right Worshipfull Sir Tho. Smith Knight, Sir Dudly Digges [ 50] Knight, Master Iohn Wostenholme Esquire, Master Alder∣man Iones, with others, in the good ship called the Disco∣uerie of London; Robert Bileth Master, and my selfe Pilot, performed in the yeere of our Lord 1616.

IN the Name of God, Amen. The forenamed ship being in full readinesse vpon the twentie sixe of March,* 1.6 we set saile at Grauesend, being in number seuenteene persons, hauing very faire [ 60] weather, which continued till the second of April: by that time we were off Portland, then the winde comming Westward with foule weather, we kept Sea till the fourth day, then being not able to fetch Plimouth, bore roome for Dartmouth, where wee stayed eleuen dayes, in which time was much foule weather and westerly windes.

The fifteenth day of Aprill, being cleere of Dartmouth, we were forced the next day to put into Plimouth. The nineteenth day we set saile from thence, and the twentieth in the morning we past betweene the Lands end and Silly with a faire winde. Continuing our course, as in the briefe Table or Iournall is set downe, with euery particular from noone to noone, that here I need not make a tedious repetition, nothing worthy of note hapning, but that we had a good passage, and the first Land we saw was in Fretum Dauis, on the coast of Groinland in the latitude of 65. degrees 20. minutes. On the fourteenth of May in the forenoone,* 1.7 then sixe of the people being a fishing came to vs, to whom we gaue small pieces of Iron, they keeping vs companie being very ioyfull, supposing wee had intended to come to anchor: but when they saw vs stand off from [ 10] shoare they followed vs a while, and then went away discontented, to our seeming.

We prosecuting our Voyage, were loth to come to anchor as yet, although the winde was contrarie, but still plyed to the Northward, vntill we came into 70. degrees 20. minutes: then wee came to anchor in a faire Sound (neere the place Master Dauis called London Coast.) The twentieth of May at euening, the people espying vs fled away in their Boates, getting on Rocks wondring and gasing at vs, but after this night we saw them no more,* 1.8 leauing many Dogs run∣ning to and fro on the Iland.

At this place we stayed two dayes, in which time wee tooke in fresh water and other necessa∣ries: here we had some dislike of the passage, because the Tydes are so small as not arising aboue eight or nine foot, and keepe no certaine course, but the neerest time of high water on the change [ 20] day is at a quarter of an houre past nine, and the Flood commeth from the South.

The two and twentieth day at a North Sunne, wee set saile and plyed still Northward, the winde being right against vs as we stood off and on. Vpon the sixe and twentieth day in the af∣ternoone, we found a dead Whale, about sixe and twentie leagues from shoare,* 1.9 hauing all her finnes. Then making our ship fast, wee vsed the best meanes wee could to get them, and with much toile got a hundred and sixtie that euening. The next morning the Sea went very high and the winde arising, the Whale broke from vs, and we were forced to leaue her and set saile, and hauing not stood past three or foure leagues North-westward, came to the Ice, then wee tacked and stood to the shoare-ward, a sore storme ensued.

By the thirtieth day in the afternoone, wee came faire by Hope Sanderson,* 1.10 the farthest Land [ 30] Master Dauis was at, lying betweene 72. and 73. degrees; and that euening by a North Sunne we came to much Ice, which we put into, plying all the next day to get through it.

The first of Iune, we were cleere of the Ice before named, and not farre from shoare, the winde blowing very hard at North North-east, then we put in among diuers Ilands,* 1.11 the people see∣ing vs fled away in all haste leauing their Tents behinde, and vpon a small Rocke they hid two young Maides or Women. Our ship riding not farre off, we espyed them, to whom our Master with some other of our companie went in the Boate, they making signes to be carried to the Iland where their Tents were close adioyning. When they came thither, they found two old women more, the one very old, to our esteemation little lesse then fourescore, the other not so old. The next time we went on shoare, there was another Woman with a child at her back, who had hid [ 40] her selfe among the Rocks, till the other had told her how well wee had vsed them, in giuing them pieces of Iron and such like, which they highly esteeme, in change thereof they giue vs Seales skinnes, other riches they had none, saue dead Seales, and fat of Seales, some of which fat or blubber afterward we carried aboord, the poore women were very diligent to carry it to the water side to put into our caske, making shew that the men were ouer at the Mayne, and at an other small Iland something more Eastward. Then making signes to them that wee would shew them our ship and set them where the men were: the foure youngest came into our Boate; when they were aboord they much wondred to see our ship and furniture: we gaue them of our meat, which they tasting would not eate. Then two of them wee set on the Iland, where they suppo∣sed the men to be; the other two were carried to their Tents againe. Those that went to seeke the men could not finde them, but came as neere the ship as they could, and at euening wee set [ 50] them ouer to the other.

This place wee called Womens Ilands; it lyeth in the latitude of 72. degrees 45. minutes:* 1.12 here the Flood commeth from the Southward, at nep Tydes the water ariseth but sixe or seuen foote, and a South South-east Moone maketh a full Sea. The Inhabitants very poore, liuing chiefly on the flesh of Seales, dryed, which they eate raw, with the skinnes they cloathe themselues,* 1.13 and also make couerings for their Tents and Boats which they dresse very well. The Women in their apparell are different from the men, and are marked in the face with diuers blacke strokes or lines, the skin being rased with some sharpe instrument when they are young, and blacke colour put therein, that by no meanes it will be gotten forth.

[ 60] Concerning their Religion, I can little say:* 1.14 onely they haue a kinde of worship or adoration to the Sunne, which continually they will point vnto and strike their hand on their breast, cry∣ing Ily••nt; their dead they burie on the side of the Hils, where they liue (which is commonly on small Ilands) making a pile of stones ouer them, yet not so close but that wee might see the dead body, the aire being so piersing that it keepeth them from much stinking sauour.* 1.15 So likewise I haue seene their Dogs buried in the same manner.

Vpon the fourth day we set sayle from thence, hauing very faire weather, although the winde were contrary, and plyed to and fro betweene the Ice and the Land, being as it were a chan∣nell of seuen or eight leagues broad: then on the ninth day, being in the latitude of 74. degree 4. minutes, and much pestered with Ice, neere vnto three small Ilands, lying eight miles fromth shore, we came to anchor neere one of them.

These Ilands are vsed to be frequented with people in the latter part of the yeare, as it seemed by the houses and places where the tents had stood▪ but this yeare as yet they were not come: here the tides are very small, especially the floud, which ariseth not aboue fiue or six foot, yet the ebbe runneth with an indifferent streame, the cause thereof (in mine opinion) is the great abun∣dance of Snow, melting on the Land all this part of the yeare.

The tenth day wee set sayle from thence, and stood through much Ice to the Westward, to [ 10] try if that further from the shoare, wee might proceede; but this attempt was soone quailed, for the more Ice we went through, the thicker it was, till wee could see no place to put in the Ships head.

Seeing, that as yet we could not proceede, we determined to stand in for the shoare, there to abide some few dayes, till such time as the Ice were more wasted and gone (for we plainely saw that it consumed very fast) with this resolution we stood in, and came to anchor among many Ilands, in the latitude of 73. degrees 45. minutes. On the twelfth day at night here wee conti∣nued two dayes without shew or signe of any people, till on the fifteenth day in the morning, about one a clocke, then came two and fortie of the Inhabitants in their Boates or Canoas, and [ 20] gaue vs Seale skinnes,* 1.16 and many peeces of the bone or horne of the Sea Vnicorne, and shewed vs diuers peeces of Sea Mors teeth;* 1.17 making signes that to the Northward were many of them: in exchange thereof, we gaue them small peeces of Iron, Glasse Beads, and such like: at foure seue∣rall times the people came to vs, and at each time brought vs of the aforesaid commodities, by reason thereof we called this place Horne Sound.* 1.18

Here we stayed six dayes, and on the eighteenth day at night, we set sayle, hauing very little winde; and being at Sea, made the best way we could to the Northward, although the winde had beene contrary for the most part this moneth, but it was strange to see the Ice so much consu∣med in so little space, for now we might come to the three Ilands before named, and stand off to the Westward almost twenty leagues, without let of Ice, vntill we were more North (as to 74. [ 30] degrees 30. minutes) then we put among much scattered Ice, and plyed to and fro all this month, still in the sight of shoare, and many times fast in the Ice, yet euery day we got something on our way, nothing worthy of note happening, but that at diuers times we saw of the fishes with long hornes,* 1.19 many and often, which we call the Sea Vnicorne: and here to write particularly of the weather, it would be superfluous or needelesse, because it was so variable, few dayes with∣out Snow, and often freezing, in so much, that on Midsummer day, our shrowds roapes and sailes were so frozen,* 1.20 that we could scarse handle them; yet the cold is not so extreame, but it may well be endured.

The first of Iuly we were come into an open Sea, in the latitude of 75. degrees 40. minutes, which a new reuiued our hope of a passage, and because the winde was contrary, wee stood off [ 40] twenty leagues from the shoare, before we met the Ice: then standing in againe; when we were neere the Land, we let fall an anchor to see what tyde went, but in that we found small comfort. Shortly after the winde came to the South-east, and blew very hard, with foule weather, thicke, and foggie: then we set sayle, and ran along by the Land: this was on the second day at night. The next morning we past by a faire Cape, or head land, which wee called Sir Dudley Digges Cape,* 1.21 it is in the latitude of 76. degrees 35. minutes, and hath a small Iland close adioyning to it, the winde still increasing, we past by a faire Sound twelue leagues distant from the former Cape, hauing an Iland in the midst, which maketh two entrances. Vnder this Iland we came to anchor; and had not rid past two houres, but our Ship droue, although we had two anchors at the ground, then were we forced to set sayle, and stand forth: this Sound wee called Wostenholme Sound: [ 50] it hath many Inlets or smaller Sounds in it,* 1.22 and is a fit place fot the killing of Whales.

The fourth day at one a clocke in the morning, the storme began againe at West and by South, so vehement, that it blew away our forecourse, and being not able to beare any sayle, wee lay a drift till about eight a clocke, then it cleared vp a little, and we saw our selues imbayed in a great Sound: then we set sayle and stood ouer to the South-east side, where in a little Coue or Bay we let fall an anchor, which we lost with cable and all, the winde blowing so extreamely from the tops of the hils, that we could get no place to anchor in, but were forced to stand to and fro in the Sound, the bottome being all frozen ouer; toward two a clocke it began to be lesse winde, then we stood forth.

* 1.23In this Sound we saw great numbers of Whales, therefore we called it Whale Sound, and doubt∣lesse if we had beene prouided for killing of them, we might haue strooke very many. It lyeth [ 60] in the latitude of 77. degrees 30. minutes. All the fift day it was very faire weather, and wee kept along by the Land till eight a clock in the euening, by which time we were come to a great banke of Ice, it being backed with Land, which we seeing, determined to stand backe some eight

leagues, to an Iland we called Hackluits Ile, it lyeth betweene two great Sounds, the one Whale Sound, and the other Sir Thomas Smiths Sound: this last runneth to the North of seuenty eight degrees, and is admirable in one respect,* 1.24 because in it is the greatest variation of the Compasse of any part of the World known: for by diuers good Obseruations I found it to be aboue fiue points or fifty six degrees varied to the Westward, so that a North-east and by East, is true North, and so of the rest. Also this Sound seemeth to bee good for the killing of Whales,* 1.25 it being the greatest and largest in all this Bay. The cause wherefore we minded to stand to this Iland, was to see if we could find any finnes or such like on the shore, and so indeed this night wee came to anchor, but with such foule weather, that our Boat could not land. The next day wee were forced to set sayle, the Sea was growne so high, and the wind came more outward. Two dayes wee spent [ 10] and could get no good place to anchor in: then on the eight day it cleered vp, and wee seeing 〈◊〉〈◊〉 company of Ilands lye off from the shoare twelue or thirteene Leagues, wee minded to goe to them, to see if there we could Anchor. When wee were something neere, the winde tooke vs short; and being loth to spend more time, we tooke opportunitie of the wind▪ ••nd left the sear∣ching of these Ilands, which wee called Careyes Ilands, all which Sounds and Ilands the Map * 1.26 doth truly describe.

So we stood to the Westward in an open Sea, with a stiffe gale of wind, all the next day and till the tenth day at one or two a clocke in the morning, at which time it fell calme and very foggie, and wee neere the Land in the entrance of a faire Sound, which wee called Alderman [ 20] Iones Sound. This afternoone being faire and cleere, we sent our Boat to the shoare, the ship be∣ing vnder sayle, and assoone as they were on shoare, the wind began to blow; then they returned againe, declaring that they saw many Sea Morses by the shoare among the Ice, and as farre as they were, they saw no signe of people, nor any good place to anchor in along the shoare. Then hauing an easie gale of wind at East North-east, we ranne along by the shoare, which now tren∣deth much South, and beginneth to shew like a Bay.

On the twelfth day we were open of another great Sound, lying in the Latitude of 74. degrees 20. minutes, and we called it Sir Iames Lankasters Sound▪ here our hope of passage began to be lesse euery day then other, for from this Sound to the Southward, wee had a ledge of Ice be∣tweene the shoare and vs, but cleare to the Sea ward, we kept close by this ledge of Ice till the [ 30] foureteenth day in the afternoone, by which time wee were in the latitude of 71. degrees 16. minutes, and plainely perceiued the Land to the Southward of 70. degrees 30. minutes, then wee hauing so much Ice round about vs, were forced to stand more Eastward, supposing to haue beene soone cleare, and to haue kept on the off side of the Ice, vntill we had come into 70. degrees, then to haue stood in againe. But this proued quite contrary to our expectation: for wee were for∣ced to runne aboue threescore leagues through very much Ice, and many times so fast, that wee could goe no wayes, although we kept our course due East; and when wee had gotten into the open Sea, wee kept so neere the Ice, that many times we had much adoe to get cleare, yet could not come neere the Land, till we came about 68. degrees, where indeede we saw the shoare, but could not come to it by eight or nine leagues, for the great abundance of Ice. This was on the [ 40] foure and twentieth day of Iuly: then spent we three dayes more to see if conueniently wee could come to anchor, to make triall of the tides, but the Ice led vs into the latitude of 65. de∣grees 40. minutes. Then wee left off seeking to the West shoare, because wee were in the indraft of Cumberlands Iles, and should know no certaintie, and hope of passage could be none.

Now seeing that we had made an end of our discouery, and the yeare being too farre spent to goe for the bottome of the Bay, to search for drest Finnes; therefore wee determined to goe for the Coast of Groineland, to see if we could get some refreshing for our men: Master Hu∣bert and two more, hauing kept their Cabins aboue eight dayes (besides our Cooke▪ Richard Way∣nam, which died the day before, being the twenty six of Iuly) and diuers more of our company so weake, that they could doe but little labour. So the winde fauouring vs, we came to anchor in [ 50] the latitude of 65. degrees 45. minutes, at six a clocke in the euening, the eight and twentieth day, in a place called Caukin Sound.* 1.27

The next day going on shoare, on a little Iland we found great abundance of the herbe called Scuruie Grasse, which we boyled in Beere, and so dranke thereof, vsing it also in Sallets, with Sorrell and Orpen, which here groweth in abundance; by meanes hereof,* 1.28 and the blessing of God all our men within eight or nine dayes space were in perfect health, and so continued till our arriuall in England.

Wee rode in this place three dayes before any of the people came to vs; then on the first of August, six of the Inhabitants in their Canoas, brought vs Salmon Peale, and such like, which [ 60] was a great refreshment to our men: the next day following, the same six came againe,* 1.29 but af∣ter that we saw them no more vntill the sixt day, when we had wayed anchor, and were almost cleere of the harbour; then the same six and one more, brought vs of the like commodities, for which we gaue them Glasse Beads, Counters and small peeces of Iron, which they doe as much esteeme, as we Christians doe Gold and Siluer.

In this Sound we saw such great Scales of Salmon swimming to and fro, that it is much to be admired:* 1.30 here it floweth about eighteene foote water, and is at the highest on the change day at seuen a clocke: it is a very good harbour, and easie to be knowne, hauing three high round hils like Piramides close adioyning to the mouth of it, and that in the middest is lowest, and a∣long all this coast are many good harbours to be found, by reason that so many Ilands lye off from the maine.

The sixt of August, by three a clocke in the afternoone, wee were cleere of this place, hauing a North North North-west winde, and faire weather, and the Lord sent vs a speedy and good passage homeward as could be wished: for in nineteene dayes after, wee saw Land on the [ 10] coast of Ireland, it being on the fiue and twentieth day: the seuen and twentieth at noone we were two leagues from S••lly, and the thirtieth day, in the morning wee anchored at Douer in the roade, for the which and all other his blessings the Lord make vs thankfull.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Howsoeuer the passage this way was em∣bayed; yet that former disco∣uerie of Sir Tho. Button (then by him kept secret for some intent of his) is both more probable and to the most iudicious more then probable; and that by that Tyde ar∣gument from the West, as in Master Brigs his Map and notes appea∣reth.
• * 1.2

  Store of Grand Bay Whales.
• * 1.3

  Baffin twice at Greenland.
• * 1.4

  Morses. Sea Vnicorne· The horne is still kept in the Robes at Wind∣sore (where I haue seene it) neere seuen foot long and cressed, &c▪
• * 1.5

  Variation of the Compasse admirable.
• * 1.6

  March 26.
• * 1.7

  Groinland.
• * 1.8

  Men and dogs.
• * 1.9

  Dead Whale.
• * 1.10

  Hope Sanderson.
• * 1.11

  Tents, Men and Women.
• * 1.12

  Womens Ilands.
• * 1.13

  The people de∣scribed. Women.
• * 1.14

  Religion.
• * 1.15

  Buriall of Men and Dogs.
• * 1.16

  42. Inhabitants
• * 1.17

  Vnicornes hornes.
• * 1.18

  Horne Sound.
• * 1.19

  They see many Sea Vnicornes.
• * 1.20

  Sharp frost on Midsummer day.
• * 1.21

  Sir Dudly Digs his Cape.
• * 1.22

  Wostenholme Sound.
• * 1.23

  Whale Sound.
• * 1.24

  Sir Thomas Smiths Sound in 78. deg.
• * 1.25

  Variation of the compasse 56. degrees to the West. Which may make questio∣nable D. Gil∣berts rule. Tom. 1 l. 2. c. 1. that where more earth is, more attraction of the compasse happeneth by variation to∣ward it. Now the known con¦tinents of Asia, &c. must be vn∣speakably more then here there can be, and yet here is more variation then about Iapan or Brasil, Peru, &c. Caries Ilands.
• * 1.26

  This Map of the authour for this and the former Voyage with the Tables of his iournall and sayling, were somewhat troublesome and too costly to insert.

  Alderman Iones Sound.

  Sir Iames Lan∣casters Sound. They see Land and find them∣selues embaied Cumberlands Iles.
• * 1.27

  Cockin Sound.
• * 1.28

  Scuruy Grasse▪
• * 1.29

  Six men.
• * 1.30

  Plenty of Sal∣mon.