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 ACCOUNT 
 
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 Voyages and Difcoveries : 
 
 I. sir John Narbrough's Voyage 
 T O T H E 
 
 SOUTH-SEA 
 
 By the Command of King Charles the Second: 
 And his Inftru(ftions for Setling a Commerce in 
 thofe Parts. With a Defcript^on of the Capes, 
 Harbours, Rivers, Cuftom of the Inhabitants, 
 and Commodities in which they Trade. I 
 
 II. Captain J. Tafman's Difcoveries 
 
 on the Coafl: of the 
 
 South Terra Incognita. 
 
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 Difcover a North-Eaft Paflige to CHIMA. 
 
 IV. F, Martens Obfervations made in 
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 INTRODUCTION and SUPPLEMENT, 
 
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 NTRODUCTION. 
 
 HE Ad-vantages of keeping judtciotts nni 
 accurate 'Journals in Voydg^es and Itincram 
 riesj are Jo many and greats tn the b/u 
 jroi^fwc/i/- ^/Geography, Hydography, Aftro* 
 lomy, Natural and Moral Hiftory, Antiqui- 
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 John de Lact, Thevenot, c^c. have begun a very 
 commendable Deftgjty and their Works are like to be 
 ihva)S ufeful* 
 
 The Colleclion nortf publiflj^d containing fome f/y« 
 rioas Voyages^ and exact Journals bsth to the 
 louth and North, beyoftd and through the Ma- 
 ;el]an Streiglits ^ as alfo to Greenland or Spits- 
 )crg,Nova Zembia, and Groneland or Groyne- 
 land ; 'twill be neceffary to fremife in general^ 
 ^hat other Navigators have gone before to thoje 
 ^artSy and what Additional l\jwrv ledge may he 
 \r?ap'd from the enfuing Work ; in doing of which 
 he jballobjerve Order of Place and'Tme. 
 
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ii The Introdudion. 
 
 fjyjl oj fome Difcoverits nrtd Navigations to- 
 tvardsthe Southern Parts of the G/c?^^,South-\Vcll 
 and South- Eafl:. 
 
 A. D. 1519. Ferdinand Magalhanes, 4 Por 
 tuguefc Gtntkmai'^y uponjome dtjoufl taken at hi 
 MajierK^ng ¥^m2inULUappl/ed htm) elf to the Cour: 
 ^ Caliilc, offering to wake great Dtfcoveries c 
 the rtch Spice-lflands hy the HV/?, and to [.v: 
 round the Globe. He was ftirntfh'd with five Sh/fi 
 and 250 Men^ hj the Command of Charles V «,, , 
 They departed from Scvil Augull i o, 1 5 1 9. an. ^^^^J;^^/^ 
 after having in vain attempted to pafs thro by tk 
 great River of Plate, and having winter'^d //, 
 Port St. Juhan, they found out a Streight leadtfjn 
 into the South Sedy call d afterwards by the Difj- 
 verer'*s Name^ the Magellan Streight ; througi 
 which they were the frfi that pafs'djrom the At Ian- 
 tick tnto the Pacifick Ocean, and fo round tk 
 Globe home again by the MoluccoV and Cape ol 
 Good Hope, having fpent above three Tears !n 
 thi4 Circumnavigation, Jt the Entrance into tin 
 Streight they found on the Shore many Sepulchres or 
 Graves^ whither the Inhabitants rejorted in Sum- 
 mer to bury their Dead ; as alfo a great Wh&h 
 thrown up^ and many Bones. 
 
 A. D. 1525. Garcia de Loayfa a Spani- 
 ard, enter* d into Magellen's Streight, and gain 
 Names to fever at Places :^ as did aljo Simon dc 
 Alcazova in the Tear 1534. Afterwardj the Bipj 
 o/Placentia fitted out ^ Ships m the Tear i 535? 
 one of which got through the Streight s c^/Magd. 
 Ian to Anca in Peru. 
 
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 'ein(f the 
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 irillar, a 
 ^empt tht 
 fvd the a, 
 ^iceroy of 
 vasfatPdt 
 
 iiarmientc 
 \iirfue him 
 bgonia, e 
 Irafil. S 
 XrvadedVKx 
 tortife in 
 jreventana 
 fr Settieme 
 ^aris ; but 
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 )he Duke c 
 Sir Fra/ 
 Ul of the Pi 
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The Iiitrodii6lioti. iii 
 
 A. D 1577. ^Vr Francis Drake, n^iih five 
 Vups utid ^^Urks^ and 164 Men^ heyjinhisfa/mipts 
 ^ohtge round the Globe ^ faiih/g thro^ the afore^ 
 vcnttoaed St r eight oj Magellan to the Coajh of 
 >crii, New Spain, Mexico /r«^/ California ; rt^ 
 fuming to England by the Rail Indies and Cape 
 vfoood Hope. Lnpt. ]o\\n^\T\i^v was fefarated 
 frm Sir Francis upon their Entrance into theSuuih 
 >V\<, and by Storms was forced back again into th^ 
 Urtights ^/Magellan,//>rr/ which he repaffed home, 
 king the firfi that failed from the PaciHclc into 
 \he Atlantick Ocean through thefe Streights. La- 
 Irillar, a Spaniard, being fent jrom Cliile to at- 
 tempt this P^f[^ge^ was driven hack by Storms 
 !vd the approach of Winter Anno 1579. the 
 ^iceroy of Peru, thinking that Sir Francis Drake 
 M//4//V/or/;^xVl3geran Screiglits, eoiuipt Don 
 Jarmiento in the Por^c/Lima with two Ships to 
 iurjue him. This .Spaniard coaficd Chile and Pa- 
 tagonia, entrirrg the Streights» and fo paffed to 
 kafil. Sarniiento upon his return to Spain, /^r- 
 '4aW Philip U, to fend twoColonies to plant and 
 hrtife i» the Streights of Magellan, tn order to 
 \revent and obflru^ the NavigationSj Depredations^ 
 y Settlements of the Englifh ^77^ Dutch tn thofe 
 'arts ; but they a/I mi feat ried partly by Shipwrackj 
 partly by Famine^ and the Barbarities of the Fata- 
 ;ons. 1 his happen d in the Tears 1584, I'^^'yj 
 586. The Project was contrary to the Advice of 
 ^n Duke of Alva. 
 
 Sir Francis in /^^ Magellan Streighty^iv/fi^e- 
 Uiofthe Patagons,c>r Inhabitants^ tn their Canoes 
 \nd Huts ; their Boats were madr of the Barks of 
 
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iv The liitiocUi(5lion. 
 
 Trees dnd Sed ^/(:/;;.f, very .trtificull) t/itenvove/j, 
 the He<td whereof ivas /emi/u/ier, Thej piti/itcA 
 their l\ices eithtr with mi Earth or a l^egit.xhl,, 
 In their Hal- s^ wade of Uoii^hs and Skins of t'ijhts, 
 he fofind Sea- Wolves and hu^e Mufcles, jvho'^ 
 Shells they jbarpcn jo )vith ruhbin^r of Stones tki: 
 they cut t'jerj thi/i^^ wnh ihein. Ihcir frejh Ha- 
 ter WAS kept in i'ejjcls wade of the Barks ofTrces^ 
 and their Cloathing was chiejly made up of Skif.i 
 (?/ Penguins, Seals, and other Animals peculiar u 
 the CJimate, 
 
 A. D. 1586. Ihj third Circummvigatu 
 on of the Globe was undertaken and perform d k 
 Thomas Candilh £/^; who very profperoujly fi- 
 nijifd that in two Tears and two Months^ whic'i 
 took both Magellan and Sir Francis Drake thm 
 Tears in compajjing. 
 
 Anno 1593. ^^^ Richard Hawkins w4^^ hh 
 VoyAge into the South Sea by the fame Streight tL\: 
 the dforementiond Navigators did before htm, H 
 gives the mofl accurate Defcription of the Tree thi. 
 hears the famous Winter- bark, y^v his Obfervati. 
 onsinFoI.printed 1622. p.88. This Spicy Arc 
 matick Tree (Jays he) bears Leaves of a whitiil. 
 Green, not unlike the Jfpen-, and bears ib 
 Fruit in Clufters like the Hamhorn^ but that it 
 is green ; each Berry of the bigncfsof a Pep. 
 per corn, and every one of them containing 
 within 4 or 5 Graitis or Seeds, twice as big as 
 Muftard Seed, which broken arc whtewithifl 
 and bite like the good Pepper*, the Bark hatli 
 thcTalleofall forts of Spices, very Stomachid 
 and Medicinal. We found it in all Places of tk 
 
 Strciglits 
 
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 ^freights. 
 
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 iStrciglits wh-rc any Trees grew. Here arc 
 abundance of Muj'cles^ very refrefliing Diet 
 ^nd full oiPfArl', alfo Limpets^ and incredible 
 Js^ umbers oi Penguins and Seals, 
 . A D. 1598. i he fourth CircumnAvigntion of 
 fhe Globe was ferform d by Oliver Noort,^ Dutch- 
 liian, /;// chief Pilot being Laft, Melis an Engiifli 
 
 Snan, who had accampamed Mr, Candilli in his 
 ^oyAge, This Noort fleer d much the fame Courfe 
 0tth Magaliianes, Drakes and Candifli, havir/g 
 '{pe/'/t near three Tears in encompa/fing the Earth, 
 ^efa^v upon the Land of Patagonia f'ome Deer^ a 
 ^d k ^brt of Bufalo and Oftriches. 
 fly f. *^ lie may note here^ that in the Tear 1589, the 
 vh'ic> J)elight Briftol, one of the Conforts of John 
 thn', l^hidlcy Efq\ and Ah. Paul Wheel ^^^ into the 
 ^atghts ^'Magellan ; but meeting with Misfor^ 
 Innes^ was forctd back^ having reached only Cape 
 l^roward. Alfo /;? r/^f 7W 1598. Verhagcn'^ 
 ye?.% under Sir James Mahu, Simon dc Cordes, 
 cbald de Wert, &c, ivherem William Adams 
 vati. •I'^-^ thief Pilot, fufer'^d great Miferies in thefe 
 Arc M^^'^^ghts, This Scbald de Wert gave Clufuis a 
 nuil'^efcrtpuon of the Winter-bark'Tree growing up and 
 s lb 'mo^'^ Petagonia. They prefer v''d them fe Ives wtih 
 at \[ ^^i^(o>DuckSyVafl large Murcles,Penguins, Seals, 
 en, \»^"f. Returning out of the Straghi., and failing 
 ill' Southwards the dijcove/d Scbald's llles. 
 
 A. D. 1614. George Spilbcrgcn GrA/<rr4/^/.z 
 
 utch hleet of fix Ships, p.ifjed tljro the Str eights 
 
 Magellan and the South Sea to the Ealt hi- 
 
 ies, from whence he returned by the Cape of 
 
 ood Hope to the Tcxcl, having btfen out about 
 
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 three Tears, Ihis was the fifth CircumnatfigAtio 
 
 of the Globe. 
 
 A. D. 1609, 1610. Pedro Ferdinand Giros 
 A Portnguefc, and Capt» Ferdinand dc Q^ir, 4 
 Spaniard, do both affirm^ That the) failed atjtve- 
 ral times above 8co Leagues together on the Cojjl 
 of a Southern Continent, unttl they came to tk 
 height of 1 5 degrees of South Latitude, nhere th) 
 fofi^d a very frtittftil^ fleafant and populous Cou/j- 
 try, Giros bega^t to take hts Courfe tn the hei^Jn 
 of the Str eights of Magellan. This vaft Trait oj 
 Lafid perhaps may be one fide of^ or may belong D 
 janicn Tafman's Land, Vand Diemcn's Land 
 Zelandia Nova, Holhindia Nova, Carpenta. 
 ria, and New Guinea^ which the Dutch ^/iir- 
 wards coajledy and gave Names to many Baj!^ 
 Rivers and Capes^ in the Tears 16 1 9, 1622, 
 1^27, 1628, 1642, and 1644, from the Equi- 
 nodial to 44 deg South Lat, 
 
 The Hollanders have indeed made thegreatef, 
 Difcoveries towards the South Terra Incognita, 
 which they have not yet divulged. Dirk Rem 
 brantfe about i%or \6 Tears ago publijh'd in Low 
 Dutch, afbort Relation out of the "Journal ofCf 
 tain Abel Janfen Tdi^mTin upon his DiJ'coveriesc 
 the South Terra Incognita in theTenr 1642,' 
 the Southward 0} Nova Hollandia, Vandemam 
 Land, &c, '*Tis re?narkable that all the LircurKVA- 
 vigators of the Globe e/iter*d into the Halt Indies 
 either by the rhilippines or the Molutcos, beih 
 feradventure hi/jarcd jro?n p.iijwn round nun 
 Southwards by that vnfl long Chaut cf i..t/w.| 
 which Jeems to fir etch almoil from the Epuinod 
 
 a! to tin 
 
 generally 
 
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 A. D. 
 
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 A nepp P 
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 ^ ten Lane 
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 Tear 162 
 I the fame ( 
 
 |/f:j; Peop. 
 clad with 
 
 I ers like ^ 
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 way into 
 own Nani 
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 with Lan 
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 h.tve this 
 
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 a I to the 50 degree of South iM, Therefore they 
 
 generallj fleered ufo» the South Sea^ either for the 
 
 Ijles t)/" Salomon, tfr thofe called the Ladroncs. 
 A. D. 1615 Will. Cornelius Schouten of 
 
 Horn, And Jacob 1« Maire <?/Amfterdam, «;;- 
 * dertook the (ixth Circumnavigation of the Globe ^by 
 
 A new Paffage Southwards from the Str eights of 
 , Magellan in Terra del Fucgo, which they happily 
 
 difcoverd andfafs'dyfinding out Sebald's Jfles,Sta- 
 
 j ten Land, Maurice Land, Barnevelt Ifles andfo 
 
 % b) Cape Horn, in the 57 ^eg, of South Lat, they 
 
 ^ found out a new way into the South Sea^ called ever 
 
 fmce le Maire's Streight j in this Voyage they gave 
 
 I Names to fever al Iflands and Countries^ returning 
 
 i to Holland Lythe Eaft Indies, having been one two 
 
 , Tears and eighteen Days. Afterwards a SpaniiTi 
 
 ^ Fleets «/?^^r Bartoleme Garcia de Nodal. Anno 
 
 I J 6 1 8, fail d thro le Maire S Pajfage ; and in the 
 
 Tear 162^, part of Prince Maurice s Fleet fleered 
 I the fame Courfe^ dtfcoveringfome fmall Ijles. Nodal 
 Cfiw People near le Maire J Streight ^ all painted and 
 ^ clad with Bird's Skins ^ they fed upon yellow Ftow" 
 I ers like Marigolds. 
 
 I Anno 1643. Brewer or Qvo'WQV^went another 
 I way into the South Sea^ by a Pajfage calPd after his 
 ^ own Name^ which is Eaft of le Maire s Streight ; 
 
 but whether Brewer went through a new Streight 
 
 .,, with Land on each fide, or had a wide Sea on the Eafl 
 
 ' we cannot inform you, having never feen the Diary 
 
 •of his Voyage ; but moji Maps make it d new 
 
 ' Streight, t ho perhaps he might fiil under the fame 
 
 Courje which Capt, Sharp afterwards dfd', they who 
 
 h.ive this Voyage may foon determine this Doubt. 
 
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viii The Introduftion. 
 
 The Southern Fart <?/Tcrra Magellanica, conu 
 monl) cdlld Terra, del Fuego,/r jw the^rcat Fires 
 feenufot» it by the SAtlors^^eems^hy the Obfervathns 
 cfthelDntchy to be divided tnto many Ifles and 
 Strei^hts Ieadi/7f into both Sets The Countrv ap* 
 fears Mountai/wus^ nnthf.tir and green V allies^ 
 Springs^ Rivulets^ and much Herbage, The Creeks 
 Are fit for Shipping^Water and Wood being flentiftiL 
 The Air ii tempefitiom by reafon of the vajl quanti- 
 ty of Vapours from both Oceans, The Natives paint 
 the is Bodies^ and deck themf elves rvith Shtlls and 
 Skins. They make their Baskets and Nets of Rujhes^ 
 cut of which they twijt Lines, and h.wging Hool{S 
 made of ijtones and biiited rvith Afufcles^ they take 
 abundance of F^JJj* Their JQiives are made of\ 
 Jharpen^d Bones^ and a/I their Arron^s are arnii ' 
 with them, Th?ir Canoes are like the Venetian 
 Gondala's. Tor the Defer ipt ion of the Northern 
 Fart of Terra Magellanica, commonly called Pa- 
 tagonia, tve refer the Reader to Sir John Nar- 
 borough's Journalj^rinted at the beginning of this 
 Colledtion. 
 
 Anno 1669. His Majefty <?/ Great Britain, 
 His Royal Highnefs the Duke (?/ York, andja^' 
 veral others oftheNobiWty^defign'^d abetter Dfj co- 
 very c^Chile ; /;; order whereunto two Ships )ven 
 fentout under the Conduct of that great Navigator 
 and worthy Commander Sir John NarboroughJ 
 who return J June 1671, having been put above /nv 
 Tears^ faffing and repafj^ng the Str eights of Magel- 
 lan, andcoafting Patagonia and Chile. His O'A 
 fervations and Draughts^ are the mofi judtciom 
 Und exacl of any that ]vent before him. 
 
 • •••• . .. ■ ••'• • • Anncl 
 
 >i f. 
 
The Introdudion. ix 
 
 Anno 1680 and 1 6^1 ^Capt.Sh^rip made wany 
 hold Adventures on jeveral IJlands and Coafis tn 
 the South S ea, in his return^ he being qutte out of 
 all hopes of recovering the Str eights of Magellan^or 
 thofe of Ic Mai re (^r Brewer, was forced tofeekfor a 
 y {iff age farther South than by Cape Horn, he went 
 to about 60 deg, S, Lat, meeting with many I (lands 
 of Ice y SnorVy trofl, and Whales ; departing from a 
 fmall P/ace^ named by him the Duke of York's !• 
 [land, in the South Sea, he ffeered near 800 
 Leagues to the Raft war d^ and afterwards ^ as many 
 to the Weft)v.ird, The fir (I Land hefaw in thofe three 
 Months was the Illand of Barbadoes,/^ thxt Land 
 in the Streight of le Maire and tn Jirewer s Paf 
 fdge^ mufi be J/lands^ and not joined to any great 
 Southern Continent, as fuvfoid by fome. 
 
 Since thefe Attempts and ZJnderta'angs^ fever al 
 Englifli Ships havepafs^d into the South Sea both 
 ly thj Streight s of Magellan, and by the South of 
 Cape Horn ; but what Trade they manage in t ho fe 
 Part s^ or what Difcovertes they have made^ or what 
 Articles and Treaties they are engaged in with the 
 Spaniard, we cannot inform the Reader^ being no 
 Merchants our felves^nor having feen any journals 
 or l^oy ages of thofe Qjtarters oj the Worldy befides 
 thoje before mention d, 
 
 li^ thefe Navigations to theStreights <?^Magellan, 
 thro the 6outh Sea, and by the Eaft Indies home 
 iigain^ the common things noted in the fever all^'oy- 
 ages, (bt fides the Winds, Longitudes, Latitudes, 
 Variations of the Compafs^ Tydes, Soundings, 
 c^c.),:re Flying Fifties, Dolphins, Albacores, Bo- 
 nitos, Sharks, Tropick Birds ^ the Sea Weeds 
 ' called 
 
 
 I 
 
 V 
 
 ik 
 
 if > 
 1/ 
 
 !l!l 
 
 !<- 
 
X The Introdiicftion, 
 
 f4i5fWSargaffa/i/;^Tromba;r^^AromatickTree 
 hearing Winter's Spicy Bark ^ Cuanacos or Indi- 
 an Sheep, a Species of y^/W Camels ^ Infinite 
 jWumhers of Vi^ngninsj Seals, Mulclcs, Whales. 
 Oftriches, &c, ihejeohlarved in jailing to and 
 through the Streights of Mdu^dhn, hj thejeverat 
 Navigators aforementioned. 
 
 On the lilands in the So 'til Sea, Coco-tiecs, 
 Plantancs, Banana s, Puie Apples, Indian Figs, 
 Limes, Hogs mth Scent -hag s on their Backs ^ a 
 fort of Coney, Monkeys, Goats, Turtle, Al- 
 monds of four foftSy Sugar Canes, Oyfters on 
 
 Trees, &c. 
 
 Entring upon the Molucco's, Nutmeg Trees 
 with Mate, Clove Trees, iJirds of Paradife, and 
 great Heats. 
 
 On the Iflands of Java, Sumatra and Borneo, 
 the Faufel Palmc^r Arek, Pepper Shrubs, Betele 
 Shrubs Jacks, Mango's, Durions,Ca)ous, Jam- 
 bos, Papaios, Arbor Rays, Arbor Triftis, Bam- 
 bous. Ginger, Cardamums, Lacca Trees, Ben* 
 zoin Trees, Camphire I'recs, Tamarinds,Caf- 
 lia, Mirobolanes, Cubebs, Collus, Galanga, 
 Bangue,Dutroy, Snakewood, Calambac, Lig- 
 num Aloes, drc. 
 
 Tonards theGulphof Bcn^2L\, Elephants, Rlii- 
 nocerots, Lions, Tygcrs, Crocodiles, crc. Vpon 
 the Maldives and Ceylon, Maldivy Nuts float- 
 ing. Woods (?/ Cinamon Trees, Oranges, Li- 
 mons, Plantations of Rice, great Varieties oj 
 Palms, O'c, 
 
 Jt the Cape of Good Hope, Hippopotami. 
 Zebras,Gaz,ells, Jacalls, Flaramants, Penguins 
 
 Pelican, 
 
 Pelicai 
 Diver! 
 rteties 
 
 of LizJ 
 
 At 
 Moun 
 Euphc 
 
 &c. 
 
 But 
 aforem 
 f.trticu 
 uponfe 
 Eart ai 
 who ha' 
 red ric 
 mojl ^ 
 Navig 
 allcont 
 
 'Tif 
 
 give a 
 Navig 
 North 
 North 
 We(T 
 Engrc 
 A. 
 two ric 
 bralta 
 h) gre, 
 land 
 nhfch 
 chas. 
 

 The Introduftion. xi 
 
 Pelicans, Orichiches, Caflowares, vaft number of 
 Divers, Duckers, md, other Sea Birds, gre/it Va^ 
 rteties of Cruftaceous and Teftaceous Animals, 
 of Lizards, Serpents, &c. 
 
 At the Canary Iflands, feveral Burning 
 Mountains, Brimftone, the Rhodium Plant, 
 Euphorbium, Dates, Gum Dragon Trees, 
 
 But rve mufl note here^ th^t he fides and (ince the 
 Ajorementiond Navigators and Voyagers, more 
 particular and fuller Obfervations have been made 
 ujf on feveral ofthofe Parts of the H'^orld towards the 
 Eaft and Weft Indies, by Phyficians and Others, 
 who have refided long in thofe Regions,cr dfe recei^ 
 red rich ColIeftions/V(?w thence. But as to the 
 ntoft Northerly Counttries all we have ii from the 
 Navigators* The bcft of rvhofe Obfervations are 
 all contain'' din the Volume we here pub! /JIj. 
 
 ^Tis now high time to haflen te the North,^«^ to 
 give a jhort Chronological Account of the feveral 
 Navigitions and Difcoveries made towards the 
 North Eafl:/«;f^ North Weft,^'/c.Nova Zembia, 
 North Eaft Greenland or Spitsberg, and North 
 "Weft GvQQ[\\ifidfCornmonlj called Groneland and 
 Engronelandt 
 
 A. D. 1380. Nicolo and Antonio Zeni, 
 two rich Venetians, and Brothers^ failed from Gi- 
 braltar, inttndingfor Flanders ^W England,^//^ 
 by grea^. Storms were driven Northwards to Frife- 
 land Icelanf-I, Groneland or Engronlandt, for 
 which we refer the Reader to Hackluit and Pur- 
 thas. 
 
 Anno 
 
 ' 
 
 11 
 
 i 
 
 I 
 
 \y 
 
 I 
 
 '4i 
 
 '■i 
 
 
 
 MlJ 
 
 'i 
 
 J \ 
 
4 
 
 "^ ^1 
 
 I? 
 
 xii The Introdudion 
 
 A. D. 1497- John Cabot and Scbaflian 
 Caboi /j/ J 5(?^, Venetians, iverefent out 0^ Eng- 
 land by Henry VII. Thefe^ after their Returrj^ 
 gave an Account anti Draught ^'/^jw^ North Weft 
 P^rts of Amtncdiymd brought four of the Natives 
 back With them. 
 
 A, D. 1 55 J. Sir Hiigii Willoughby went 
 out to dtfcover a North Eaft P^ff^g^j andjail'd a- 
 hove 160 Le ague s^oi'i\\lB.2i^^\'\y from Seynam, 
 ivhich lies tn'jo deg. North Lat. 'Tis very proba- 
 ble he landed on Nova Zembla and GrecnlancI, 
 from whence the Cold and Ice forc\i htm to rctur n 
 more Southerly^ i i /I he came to Avzinay a River in 
 Lapland, ivhere the next Sfring that g^^eat Man 
 ivtth all his Company were found froz^en to Death in 
 theShpp, This Tear //;f RulTia Company ^^^ 4/; 
 to incorporate, 
 
 A. D. 1556. Stephen Burrows fearching 
 a Pallage/^y the North E:\{\.to the huXiQS^jail'd 
 to^o dep. 7 mm. and thence to Nova Zembla, ha- 
 ving been m all likelihood upon Greenland, by the 
 defolate Landy the blue Ice^ and great number of 
 various Fowls which he mentions. 
 
 About this time, the Ruflia Company wds efla- 
 bli[l} d, and fen t Tearly Ships and TaHors^ and pre- 
 fently after Ambajjadors from Queen Elizabeth, 
 
 A. D. 1576, 1577, *57S- ^^^ Martin 
 Foibiflier ma^e three fever al Voyages to find out a 
 North Weft Pafjageytn which he made fever al w w 
 Difcoveries of great StvcightSy Bays, lilands and 
 Capes, as jve//.t/Land on bothftdes^ to all which 
 he quve Names. His Men brought home 'jreat (lore 
 iij glittering\A.\xz\\'^'i\x.^%^\hizh the London Gold- 
 
 fmiths 
 
 J- 
 r. 
 
 
The Introduftion. xiii 
 
 fmitlis took to he Gold Oar, He met with hhabi- 
 tants on the Shore of the Streighc call'*d by his 
 JSIiirne ; f//f/r Canoes were m^M ^/ Seal-skins i«f 
 tcp, but wood Keells ; They exchanir^d Salmon and 
 other Fijby for lojs : In their Tents abundance 
 o/Red BQ3.ns were found like unto thofe c/ Guinea: 
 l^ut more (?/"Frobillicr's Obfervations inourSuf' 
 flement at the end of this Work, 
 
 A. D. i$So. Arthur Pet and Charles 
 Jackman y'^/i'^/ all over thefe Northern Seasj and 
 p.tfs'd tnto Weigats Streights, plying along the 
 Eajl part of Nova Zembla, jo far as the Ice 
 jvould give them leave ^ and findi?ig no poffibility of 
 P^jf^gp^ return d back the latter end of the Tear, 
 Anno 1583. Sir Humfrey GWh^i'tyhy the injll- 
 gatton of Secretary Walfmgham,//r/7<^ to New- 
 ioixn^lcxnt^^and the great River ofS, Lawrence /'// 
 Canada,ip/;/V// he took poffef/ion of in the Name of 
 fyrieenEliZdibQthyand fettled a Fifhing-Trade there, 
 A.D. 15S5, Mr John Davis was empUfd 
 to learch out the North VVei]:, beyond where For- 
 biOier went ; he made further Difcoveries in thofe- 
 PartSy which fee in lia.di\mt and ri\vch3.s. This 
 Davis made three Voyages to the North Weft.D;*- 
 ringhts flay at Cape Defolation he found many 
 pieces of tur and Wool^ltke to Beavcr,;?/^^ exchang- 
 ed Commodities with the Country People, Vpon th>j 
 Rocks and in theMofs^grcw a Shrub who^e fruit was 
 very f'weety full of red Juice like Currants^ perh.tps 
 \is the fame with the New England Cranberry, 
 or Bear-berry, (calPd fo from the Bears devcurr^g 
 It very greedily ;) withn'huh we make 1 arts. Vitis 
 Idsea paluftris li-uda njajore apud |ollelin, ds 
 
 Nova 
 
 % 
 
 n 
 
 f 
 
 ^ 
 
 ^' 
 
 V.'> 
 
 [ 
 
 1 > 
 
 
 
 '!f 
 
 1 •: 
 
 } I 
 
 » .1 
 
 ■I!' 
 
xiv The IntrodinSion. 
 
 Nova Anglia. The N.ttives often rep Atr'^d to him 
 tn their Canoes, hri^^gtng mth them Stag-sHns^ 
 white H^resjmall Cod, dr^Capltn ; Jeverai Coj/pey 
 Oars, Mufcles^ &c In hii return out oftnc Fretum 
 Davis {fee our Chart of the Northern Regiofis) he 
 found marvellous flare of Sea Fowl and Cod ^ Woods 
 of Fine-treeSj Spruce^ Elder ^ Ewe or Tew, Wtthj^ 
 Birchy Geefey Ducksj Black- Birds. Thrujh^ J^J^U 
 PartridgCy Pheajanty &C. (plack Pum/ce-flones^ and 
 Salt J kern d upon the RockSy white and glittering ; 
 Vnicorn and other Whales, See wore ^"D.ivis tn 
 our Supplement at the end of this l^olu?ne, 
 
 A. D. 1594, 1595, 159^^ William Bareness 
 Dutchman made ^ fever al Vojages to the North 
 Efl at the Charge of the \JmtQd Provinces,/^ the 
 lafi of which he was compelCd to winter in Neva 
 Zembla, about 75 deg, of North Lat, In thefe 
 i'^oyages they difcover^d Bear or Cherry liland, 
 and went upon Greenland. Thtfe Dutch Navi- 
 gations were wr 'ttenby Gerart de Veer, and con- 
 tain great variety of curious Obfervations^fo which 
 Mr Boyle owns himfelf much beholden^ in the coni- 
 poftng his Hiftory of told. They conversed with, 
 and def crib' d the Samoycds, coafiea Nova TL^m- 
 hhy giving Names to fever al Povits, Capes, Bays; 
 I/lands, &c. They dij cover' d the bcrnatle Goofc 
 or Chkh fttti/ig upon their EggSy under the %oth 
 deg. North Lat, They give good dejcriptions of 
 the IVhales, Morfes, Birds, S^q. and relate Vho^- 
 nomena of Cold (during thetr ryteUncholy Winter 
 Abode there) with Ingenuity and Judgment. 
 
 Ann. 
 
 it 
 
 
 A.: 
 
 Buttor 
 
 North 
 oloriou. 
 and lea' 
 200 Le 
 hove 80 
 titicnt, 
 r/juch m 
 Nelfon 
 hidufl) 
 buk agii 
 ed the 
 Many h 
 namd h 
 
 * 
 
 10 min 
 Winter^ 
 Partrid^ 
 reported 
 Bears 4; 
 Weill? 
 Scurvyi 
 the Grc 
 make th 
 
 In tl. 
 Hud for 
 much fi 
 Names 
 fen in j 
 of roya^ 
 
 The/ 
 his Net', 
 out Ship 
 
 i 
 
The Incrodudlion. xv 
 
 A. D. i6iiw That worthy Seaman Sir Thomas 
 Button, Strvant to Prince Henry, pur/u^d the 
 iXorth Wefi Dtfcoviries at the lnjh(ratijfi of that 
 >4orious young Prince He pafs'drludihns Sn'CiqJn 
 and leaving Hudfons Bay to the Scut h^'aiPd above 
 200 Leagues to the South We (I ward over a Sea a- 
 bove 80 Fathom deep, and difcovcr'd a great Con- 
 tinent, ca/Pd by hirn New Wales, where^ after 
 much miferj/ and fickncjs in his wintering at Port 
 Neiron,/»^ beat and fear cPd the ivholeBay with great 
 hiduflryy (call'd afterwards Button's Bay,j even 
 b.ick again almofi to Digg s I/Iand, He dijcoz 6" 
 ed the grett Land he call'd Gary s Swan's' nelh 
 Many Men were loflduri?:g his abode in that River 
 nam' d by ///wPortNelfon, in North L at, $7 deg, 
 I o min. tho he kept three Fires in his Ship all the 
 Winter, and was jupply d with g/eat Jlore ofvphite 
 Partridges and other Fowl^of which his Company is 
 reported to hive kilPd 1 Soo dozen^befidesfomeDeer, 
 Bears a^/d Foxes, On the Shores ofthofe North 
 Weft Bays grows abundance of Orpine, Sorrel and 
 Scurvy grals, very much Angelica, whofe Root 
 the Gronelanders eat. They kill Morfes, and 
 make their Cords or Ropes of Whalebone, 
 
 //; the Tears 1610, 1612, 1615, 1626. Mr. 
 Hudfon, James \\2i][,and Will. %2iSim, proceeded 
 much further in the North-Weft Parts, gj^^i^g 
 Names to their fever al Difcoveries ; which way be 
 fren in the Northern Mips, and in the Collection 
 of royages,as aljo in our Supplement at the end. 
 
 The l\Jng of Denmark obf'ervii'fg the progrefs of 
 his Neighbours in the Northern Stas^ beoan to (end 
 out Ships for making Di/coveries in the Te^trs 1005, 
 
 i6o5 
 
 1 
 
 M 
 
 :( 
 
 t;l I:] 
 
 ■1 
 111 
 
 w 
 
 ! . 'i 
 
 
 
xvi The Introdiidion. 
 
 1606, l6oyy but thtfe perform d little. At Lfl 
 irt the Tear 161 9 he equipped John Monk ivith2 
 S^'ips who truchig^iXh'A\tx AtjdH\xd^<jt\yCAmeta 
 the 6 1 dcg. 10 mitt where he xvasforcd to winter ^ 
 and c U'd it Miink's Hjrbour, and the Conntry 
 NwW Dtvm vk'^ttfcems to be »wr Diggs IflandJ 
 See Mun kb Voyage printed itt French 4^ Paris 5 
 affo our Src pie went at the end. 
 
 In 160,, Htnry Hudfon was fent out by the 
 Engl Ih Coaipany to difcover the North Pole ; he 
 proceeded to the 82 deg^ of Lat, as did alfo Tho, 
 Ma r mi d « ke <?/ H uU 1 6 2 .who faw divers IJlands 
 beyond that, and gave Nantes to fever a I Places in 
 Grtcniand. Uc went upon Nova Zembla in June 
 and July, andobfcrvd Deer feeding here and there 
 on green places^ tho at that verj time of the Year 
 it freezes in that Clinfate. 
 
 In the Tear 16 10, t he Qom^zxiy began to apply 
 themjelves to the killing ofyioi^cs^and to theWhab 
 fipyifjg^ which they found Mofi plentiful about 
 Cherry Ifland and Greenland ^ they began alfo to 
 fi.*rd thofc large Bones commonly tilled Unicorns 
 Horns. In the Tears 1611, \6i7, 1619, 1614, 
 1617, 1619, 1620, 1622, the Englilh Couipmy 
 finding thoje Northern Expeditions fe very profit a- 
 hhy encreas d the number of their Shipping to i^or 
 i^jicirly, under the Conducl of Yoole, Fother- 
 by, Edge, Hely, and others , who gave the Names 
 to fcvcral Sounds and Points, Cv. ' * 
 
 Tet ire find little worth reliting ^/Greenland //// 
 J 630, in which Tear fomc Englilh commanded by 
 iapt. Goodler/rtre forced to wander up and down 
 the Country^ and to Winter there. A full Relation 
 
 whereof 
 
 I 
 
The Fhtroduftion. 
 
 jereofhehg PtdUfhed hy Dr. W. Watts, tveJIja/Ue^ 
 
 the Reader therett^to. i 
 
 Some Englifh dfo vt>}nrerd hi GreenLmd In iht 
 
 Jar 163:5 and another Company in \6:^j[; the 
 
 all per iJJjd there. • .->» >^^. ; 1 » 
 
 In thefifcveralSavigathns ^(^Greertland ^ourMen 
 
 je Names to many places^ as Hacklnit'sHeadland, 
 
 rhale-Bay, Horn- Sound, fiow the lonj^Bohes 
 
 \IIed the Unicorns, Ice-Point, Bell-Point, Low^ 
 
 ifs Ifle, Black- Point, Cape-Cold, Ice-Sound, 
 
 lotty-Point, Deer-Sound, Smiths-Bay, Hope- 
 
 |and, Edges-Kland, Wyches-i(linc',Bear-ll]and, 
 
 larles- Illand. Afterwards the Dutch gave other 
 
 \antes of their own to thcje i^ laces ^ which huS bred 
 
 te confiijiott in Maps and Dool{s» 
 
 Our Men that winter d in GvQtnhnd^ 1650. lojt 
 
 light of the Sun Ottober 14. and fiw him ?:ot 
 
 \ain till Februiry :^. Thofc that (i.iid there in 
 
 ^^^,fay^ thatO^obcY 5 w,is thelajl day they per" 
 
 \vd the light of the Sun^ tho they had a twilight^ 
 
 ^ which they could rcaJ^ til/Oi^obA^v 17. On the 
 
 I. the Stars were plain to be fecn all the 24 hours^ 
 
 \d fo continud till ^Vintcr. Jan. 15. they per ceivd^ 
 
 6 or y hours about noon^ fo much light as to 
 id by it, Feb. 1 1. they fiw the Rays of the Surt 
 m the tops of the Mountains^ and the next day his 
 hie Body. Our Men that remain d in Greenland, 
 134. left in wriiino^ btfore they perijlfd, that the 
 [« difappeard Oci:ober 1 o. and was fecn agaift 
 lb. 14. The Dutch that winter d i?/ Nova Zem- 
 
 in 1596. loft the Snn on Noven!b. 4. but the 
 wn in her higheft degrees was fecn night and day, 
 I, 24. they faip the edge of the Sun above theHo- 
 
 kxt 
 
 ' I 
 
 ■•li 
 
 '^1 
 
 
 ^ 
 
 nzo^ 
 
*: 
 
 *xli The Introdufiioa 
 
 r/zoft. The difference ofthefe appearances^ doth 
 proceed from different Kefra&ions, but from the cii 
 ference ^/Latitude, in which the Englilh andDvu^ 
 winter d^ tho the cold in Nova Zernbla exceed 
 that felt in Greenland. In thefe Countries tk 
 is a continud Day jor jour or five months in ti 
 year^ as well as a perpetual Night for three montl 
 Jo for the Moft part there is either all Light ^ or & 
 Darknefs. 
 
 The Engliih that were necejjltated to winter 
 Crcenland, Vrodupon Venifon ( oj which there 
 great fiore, perhaps Uis of the Rhin-deer) upon Mc: 
 ies. Bears, Foxes, (^c. The Bears Fleflj was toi 
 rably pleafunt and wholfom^ but the Liver wade th 
 skins peel off'^ which was alfo ohjcrvd by the Dutc 
 that winter d in Nova ZcmbU. As the Sun ar. 
 Day-iight began to appear^ the Fowls and Foxt 
 crept abroad^ for which t icy fa Traps and Spring 
 undfo took '^^ift nnmbcrs : 1 he Foxes provd vrk 
 fowe Food^ fa by it the Duich were alfo rclievd ; 
 their Scurveys. In May they found great jhrc i 
 tggs laid by VVillocks. 7le cold had prodigies 
 Effetls on our Men in Greenland, and on theDuh 
 in Nova ZenjbU, as blijUring and ulcering tk 
 Llepj, fieezing their Sack and spirits, Jiopmgth 
 Clocks.frcezing every th'ir.g by the fire fide ^ allwh'i'> 
 Captain J^mi^sfufcrd in the Uland of Charletcr 
 tho only in the 5 i Dt^. of North Lat. whereas t\ 
 Englilh and Dutch winter d in 75 and 78 Deg. 
 North Lar. In the building ofhoufes^ Tcnts\ cm 
 Cabins, upon thefe meUntholy occajions, 'twas fow. 
 expedient to make them under ground, and to Ih 
 them with the skins of Bcafis, thereby to k^ep out ti 
 fijurp imprejfions of the air. An 
 
 I, 
 
The rnfrodii(?^ion. 
 
 Authors are <? little confuted In the Hiflory of 
 
 liales, fame reckon up I o Species, hut Wormius 
 
 d B irthoiinc, make the.// up 2 2.gw/»{r them va- 
 
 us Names from their differcftce in Colonrs^ in 
 
 ns^ in Teeth ^ in \\ halebonc^ in Spouts^ in Oyl^ 
 
 Sperma Ceti, &c. Rondelttius, Gefner, Bel- 
 
 nius, Schonvcld, Faber, Clufius, /iWTulpius, 
 
 m indeed to defer i be 6 or 7 XtfiinU forts of Whales^ 
 
 the Balaena Vulgiris, the BaUna Vera, the 
 
 ca or Balc'tna dentara, (perhaps ^//rCrampus,) the 
 
 yfcter^r Whirle-Pool, 1 he Cete or Pnt-Walfiih, 
 
 Monoceros or Unicorn IVhale. The Trumpa 
 
 ale orSpoutQT.mayperhjps he thePhy ktQr.and the 
 
 ermaCetiH7j^/e/^t'Pot-walfi(h,/^o //jtSpout and 
 
 erma Cety may he common to many of them. We 
 
 in the Philoibphical Tranfaftions,N«w. 205. 
 
 Account of Whales by Sir Thorns Sybbalds, 
 h(PS had opportunities of viewing them on the 
 
 s of Scotland, and therefore feems to be more 
 \a^ than other / f riters ; but vce having never read 
 
 Book,y mnfi be content to refer the Reader to it 3 
 e&'ing in the mean time more clear diflin^ions 
 them pom the Excellent Mr. Ray, in his in- 
 ded Synopfis of V\{^^%and Birds. 
 Anno Dom. 1655. The Ring of Denmark re- 
 vd to advance the Northern 7 rade and Difcove- 
 , and therefore equippd^ andfct out three Ships ^ 
 h Orders to take the mcfl exa§ account of all the 
 
 s and Places thc^ came at, and to report thent 
 \their return with all pofihle Curiofity, that there^ 
 
 e f^oyage might he every way hcr/eficiat. They 
 ^ed the Weygat vStreights, and found fome Tnha- 
 nts of Nova Zembla in their Canoes, or little 
 
 (b2) Fifiywg^ 
 
 xxm 
 
 ( i 
 
 1 I 
 
 ] 'I 
 
 i\ 
 
 I 
 
 
 Ji 
 
 n! 
 
xxiv 
 
 The Introdudion. 
 
 Fifiing'Boats : Thcfc people were very nimble on 
 
 Foot^ and cloathed with Garments of the Skjas o\ 
 
 great Birds, lik^c Penguins, and Pelicans, wU\. 
 
 the Feathers upon them. Their Boots were made o\ 
 
 the Hides of Morfes, or great Scales 5 they had Sb<i- 
 
 vers at their BacJ{i fnll of Arrow's, with a Hatchu 
 
 of FiJli'Bones -^ their Temper nntr arable and indocil^ 
 
 abhoring our Beer, Spirits, and Meats. Leav:n^ 
 
 Nova Zembla they fleer d to Greenland. Ths} 
 
 Countries afford no Trees, or Shrubs^ except a litiln 
 
 Juniper,^«^ a jew dwarf Virs-^ abundance ofMoii 
 
 Heath, a fort of Q'lhhdig^, Lettice, Scurvygral- 
 
 Sorrel,Snake weed, Harts-tongue,^ i^/W (//Straw 
 
 htxxy, diver sfpccies (7/l\anunculus,<iWHoureIeel{ 
 
 In the Holes unci Rocks infinite quantity of Fowl 
 
 Nells, whofe dung with the mofs wafi'd down makv. 
 
 a mould in the I alleys or (Clefts, which produce th. 
 
 aforementioned Plants', otherwife the Country ^ 
 
 generally made up of vafi heaps of Rocks, broke 
 
 Stones, and Ice heaped up from many Generations. 
 
 OfWater-Fowl there is incredible variety, and / 
 
 fo great abundance, that with their jlight they darkii 
 
 theSun, and cover the Sea. There are alfo great qiLin 
 
 l//ie/(?/ Dog-Fifties, Lobfters, Gernels, Star-FiO-, 
 
 Mackrel, Dolphins, dfc, a fort of Sea-Spici 
 
 found in Whales Stomachs, For all which fee th 
 
 French Relations of the Danifti Voyages, Priniu 
 
 at Paris both by M. Peyrere, and Martiniere. 
 
 AnnoDom. 1630. Captain Luke Fox was f», 
 
 out in His MijelVies Pinnace the Charles, P^ihm- 
 
 led for 18 Months, young Sir John WoUienholnit 
 
 bein^ Treaftirer, to parch out a North-WeflPaffagi 
 
 He traced Frobiftier, Hudfon, Davis, Baffin, am 
 
 Button 
 
 1 
 
The IntroduAion. 
 
 Itton ^ fnecting with Whales^ much fee, and Fon>h, 
 built a Pinnace in River Nelfon, where he found 
 >erd remains left there by Sir Thomas Button : 
 \e obfervd abundance of f mall fpruce Fir-Trees on 
 \th fides that River almoft .werd with ntofs^ and 
 jer forts of Trees ^ but J mall 5 the Valleys had good 
 \afs, Black: Berries, Straw-Berries J^etches^ Venifon^ 
 but no Natives or Inhabitants to be met with in 
 IS place, tho in other parts oftheje Seas he fawfe* 
 |r^/ Savages. Captain ]3LmQS departing from Eng- 
 id foon after Captain Fox, upon the fame deftgn^ 
 both met and carefs'd each other near Port Nel- 
 I, in the month of Aiiguft. Fox got home before 
 \fjtcr, but the other was fore d to f^ay till the 
 :t Summer, Of which more in the following Pa* 
 iraph, and in our Supplement at the end. 
 Anno 1 63 1 . The moH ingenious Captain Tho- 
 is James was imployJby the inquiJitiveMQrch^Lnts 
 [BriOol, to attempt and difcovcr a North -Weft 
 fiTage into the South-Sea, and was de/igndforfo 
 Icultaworliby King Charles the Fir ft 5 who was 
 \as'd to command him to publifh his Voyage in the 
 :ar 1633. wherein he gives a very accurate andju* 
 uous Accounts of the hardjh'ips both in going^win* 
 \in^^ returning ^ as alfo of the Streights, Capes, 
 [ys, Tyd(fb, Soundings, Variations of the Com- 
 fs, <W 6>///&^ Natural Rarities /»^/^ Philofophi" 
 l§Miwd Mathematical, together with a Plat or Card, 
 divers Tables. Out £;///;// Journal Mr. Boyle 
 )ffijfcs that he took many Pajfagcs and Ph^nomentt 
 Wed in /j/r Hiftory ot Cold. This excellent Na- 
 [ntorfeems to be of opinion, that there is nopaf^ 
 by the North- Wert to China, Japan, S^r. His 
 
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 Reafons ntfl\ he read at large in his Journal prinki 
 at London, ift Quarto, 163^. Tet in theya 
 1667. this deflgn vpus renewed, and undertaken^ 
 jeveralofthc Nobility t^/^England, and Merchani. 
 of London, who equipped and fcnt out Zacharh[ 
 Gillam Commander in the Nonluch Ketch : /jc/jih 
 fed through Hudlbn'j Streights, then into BafFM 
 Bay, to the Lititude ofy^. from thence Soutki^ 
 to theV.M. of fyi, or thereabouts^ in a River «4 
 calld Prince Ruperts River : He found hen i 
 friendly Correfpondence rrith //(fe Natives 5 built ; 
 Fort called Charles Fort :; rettfrnd with ^oi 
 fuccefs 5 and Lid the Foundation of an advanta^i^ 
 ous Trade in thofe parts. But in the year 1 687,| 
 this place rvasfcizd upon by the French. See md 
 of Captain James'/ Voyage and Difcoveries ino$ 
 S\jpil>ktD^r,t atthc end. 
 
 Anno 1 67 1. Fredrick Martens, an Harn'm 
 ger, undertook^the Greenland Voyage, itpon auii 
 Jire^ as may be fuppos*d^in great part tofatisjie tk 
 Curiofity and Enquiries of the Royal Society j whia 
 he performed in his admirable Dmy printed in Hi^| 
 Dutch in Qaarto, being ajfijied therein by thejS 
 »;^«jFogerms. '■ 
 
 Anno i6j6. The induflrious and mofiingcnm 
 Captain Wood, was again fent out by his Mijedtl 
 King Charles the Second, to make a more pcrfci 
 Difcovery of the North- Eaft Parts/^r a p^jfage 1 
 the Eafl-lndies ; He went no further ih^m the ji 
 Degree ofl^onh Lat. where he lofl hts Ship onm 
 Coafi of Nova Zembla. His opinion is, there ir 
 no failing this North-Eaft Way to China, Japan 
 C^r. Ihc like opinion Captain j^m^i hath given 
 
 1 
 
The fntroJiiSion. 
 
 ^North-Weft P^ffage^l/eiftg both per/waded there- 
 to by the ftretchingcf iheLind, by Mediftra- 
 ion and reverfion of hilf Tides, by /Ae motion 
 f the Ice, (Sc, befidcs the Fogr^ Snonp^ Frofts, vaft 
 mdf oflce^ and the Weather^ are infuprable. 
 Mr. Witfen in hit Letter to the R.oyal Society, 
 nno 1 69 1 . writes againfl the North- Eaft PafTage 
 Jrjpan : He tetrads his former Opinion of ntaking 
 ova Zttnhli join upon the Continent with Tar- 
 ry, having fince been better inform d. He thinks 
 e Tartarian Points ntay run very far Norths and 
 rhups reach to America. Captain VJood fancies^ 
 4^ Nova Zembia and Greenland are the fame 
 ontinent. Ifthefe Conje&urej of Captain James, 
 'aptain Wood, and Mr. Whitfen, concerning the 
 orth-Eaft, and North-Weft Paffages to the 
 aft- Indies y&(?«/^ not be true^ yet the difficulties of 
 ^ailing thofe ways would he invincible. 
 
 But now it Jeems convenient *o conte to the pre- 
 
 ent Work, and to give an account what is con* 
 
 aind therein. The Authors are Four., viz. Sir 
 
 ohn Nirborough, Gp*4/> JanfenTafman, Cap- 
 
 ain Wood, and Fredrick Marten. 
 
 I \. Sir John Narborough 7i y^ well known in 
 
 fenglind, and fo famous beyond the Seas ., that I 
 
 eed fay nothing of his great Abilities. His 
 
 "oyage into the South-Sea // mention d before. 
 
 II. Captiin Abel Janfen Tal'man's Voyage /r(?«r 
 
 atavia in the Ifland of Java, to the South Terra 
 
 ncognit;; is the more conjtderable, in that 'tis the 
 
 ere "pDifcovery of a New World, not yet kpown to the 
 
 ^F"' fEngliftj. 
 
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 The Introdudion. 
 
 'Tisprob^hlehy Abel JanienTafman's Navigati- 
 on^ that New Guinea, New Carpentaria, ani 
 New Holland, are a vafi prodigions Ijland, wLid 
 he fecms to have encompafs'd in his Voyage^ fetl'mi 
 out from Batavia to Maurice ///c, Enji of Mada- 
 gafcar '-^from whence bearing away Sonih to^() dc^ 
 c/South Lat. and then Eafl atd by North to Lat. 4:, 
 and 44, he fill upon thofe new Tracfj of Land culli^. 
 Van Diecnen's, and afterwards upon New Zealan(j| 
 ta the South EaU of Nqw Holland ^ returning ij^ 
 Batavia through part of the South Sea ( wherein k 
 Difcoverd new Ijlands ) and fo Northwards ^j 
 New Guinea to the Molucco's, and Java. [ 
 
 in. Captain Wood was a mofi excellent NavH 
 gaU>r: he, together with Sir Cloudfly Shovel, 
 accompany d Sir John Narborough to Chil, A\- 
 
 leland, a. 
 [aft, and 
 'Tis to 
 we not 
 fainters, 
 \ck. Stipe 
 id Frenc 
 their Ho 
 IV c iapac 
 equal 
 [a:cenate< 
 every th 
 )art ofhirj 
 ig great ^ 
 ig Arts a! 
 ihichfome 
 
 terxpards he wasfent by King Charles II. to Dif «pj way b 
 cover a North -Eaft Paffage to China and Japan pjisntalies 
 by NovaZemblarf^^iiTartary 5 of which jouhm igcs, covei 
 here an kbdr^Ct, ? > itresfhe be 
 
 IV. Fredrick Marten of Hamburgh PubliJJjd] fe great 
 his Obfervations made in Greenland in the High 
 Dutch, a Language little underfioood in England. 
 His Voyage being the lafi and befi was much dc-l ^ 
 fird here, it being full of Dnughts and curious Re-J^ 
 
 marks ^ the Copying and Tranflating of which, anl 
 
 perform d with all pojfible diligence. I 
 
 Thefefour make up the Volume, together with' , 
 many new Carts and Defigns, drawn upon the feve- 1 
 ral places, which do much illufirate the Work, ani 
 improve both Natural and Mathematical Science. 
 To thefe we thought fit to tack, a Supplement con- 
 taining fome Obfervations ^»Groneland, or Engro- 
 
 nelandi 
 
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Vigcitl 
 J) ani 
 
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 The Introduftion. 
 
 leland, as alfo upon/owe Northern Iflands, North- 
 
 'Tis to be lamented^ that the Engli(h Nation 
 vc not fent with their '^2i\\g2Xors^ fome skilfnl 
 ainters, Naturalifts, and Mechanifts, under pub- 
 kk. Stipends and Encouragement ^i- ^/je Dutch 
 i^d French havedone^ and ftill pra&ice dai:j^ much 
 k their Honour as well as Advantage. The Englifh 
 have Capacity^ Indufiry and Judgment in thefe Mat" 
 J|rj, equal to, if not beyond their Neighbours, Sint 
 cTcenates. W^e are apt to imitate a certain Prince 
 every thing, except in the moft glorious and bell 
 'art of him, viz. The Encouraging and Reward- 
 .ig great Men in all Profelfions, and the promot- 
 fcg Arts and Sciences with his Treafurc : A Secret 
 $hichJome Minifters thin^ not fit topra&ice, orper- 
 
 tjps may be infenjible ofy for want of penetration^ 
 bis maizes a great Figure in the prefent and future 
 Jigcs, covers many Spots and Deformities ^ andfi* 
 kres the beji Heads, and Hands to carry on^ and 
 iFecf great Defigns. 
 
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 CONTENTS 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 INTRODUCTION 
 
 ^'^Av/gafiofls towards the Sonth^ from page ^, 
 ^ to p. 15. As thofe (?/■ Magellan, Drak-?, 
 Candifb, Hawkins, Olivert Noort, Sebald de 
 Wert, Spilbergen, Fernandez Giros, Tafman, 
 Schouten, and Le Maire, Brewer, Sharp, ani 
 others. 
 
 Terra Magellanica Defcrikd, p. ij 
 
 General Occurrences in the Southern Navigdtl 
 ons, p. 13, 14, 15 
 
 Nav'rgailons trrvards the North from p. I 5, /<? 26. 
 As thofe r?/ Zen i, Cabot, Willoughby, Burrows, 
 Forbillier, Pet. Jackman, Gilbert, Davis, Si- 
 rents, and Gerut dc Veer, Button, Hudfon, 
 Hall, Baffin, Munck, Goodler's Wintering in 
 Greenland . Ohfervdtions on that Country^ from 
 p. 21. to 24. 
 
 Obfervations and Difcovcrics by Captain Fox, C//"- 
 tain James Gillam, and others ^ of the North- 
 Eafi, and North fVeJl Pajfages^ p. 26, 2; 
 
 Of New (juinea, Carpentaria, Hollandia No\ i, 
 Zelandia Nova. p. 28, 
 
 What wanted in onr EngWni Navigations^ p. 7j> 
 
 ii 
 
X V < 
 
 A T A B L E of the Principal Matters 
 contained in Sir John Narbrough's Voyage to 
 the Streights of Magellan 5 Captain Ty5»^»'s 
 Voyage tor a further Difcovery of Terra 
 Incognita Anjiralis ^ Captain Wood*% for find- 
 ing a North-Ea^ PaiTage to China and Japan 5 
 and Captain Plawes Journal from Nova Zem- 
 bla to England, 
 
 AKnniger,S/>John HMhxo\}^^sLieutenant, kindly 
 entertained^ cic. by the Captain oj Fort «S. Jigo, 
 p. p8. Goes to Fort St. Peter, and why ^ p. pp. Kept 
 Prifonerthere^ p. 100. His Letter to Captain Nar- 
 broogh,p. 1 01. Left behind, in 
 
 Anchors, there found beyond Caps Gregory, Efe. p.126 
 
 Bildavia harbour^ its Latitude, ii!fc. p. 8 j. the Trafick 
 thereof^ P- 9 3 • ^ ^'"^^ Rivers empty themjelves into it, 
 p. 106. A conjedure concerning it ^ p. 106, 107. The 
 Jackie for Ships in this place^ vahat^ Ibid. A dc" 
 fcription oft he Harbour and Country adjacent , p. 108, 
 
 109, &c. 
 
 Batchellour Pin/< attends upon Sir johnNithtou^h, her 
 Burthen^ hoto Mann'd, Vttiualled^ U.c. p. 2, 4. In- 
 jhuUions to the Mafier thereof^ and from whom^ p. 9, 
 10, II, 12. Lofes fight of the SwetpihkQS, and is 
 fccn no more, p. 23 
 
 Bt'zoar-ttone, whence taken^ p- 32, ;; 
 
 Cape Blanco, l^c fcription thereof, p. 21. Its Latitude, 
 
 p. 41 
 
 Cipe Froward,a defcription of it, p. 70. Its Latitude, 
 Longitude ajid Meridional Diftjnce, p* 71 
 
 Cape Ho\Und de/cribed, together with fever al other 
 Capes, Iflands, and Bays, Ibid.- 
 
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 Caps Quad ^<r/rr/7'fi,p. 76. The dijlance bet wee ni 
 and Cape-Munday, Ibii 
 
 C:pj Munday, its dcfcriptwn^ p, 76, 
 
 Cape Dwiiada defcribcdi its Latitude^ Lc>/?gi rude, an 
 meridional diftance^ p. ' 
 
 Cjpe Pillar, its Latitude Longitude and nieridionahi:, 
 
 fiance, p. 
 
 Cape G'llery defcribed p. ii:{' 
 
 ('hile, thj chief Place of America/;/* Gold^ p. ^i 
 Coos, ( Hugh) Trumpeter on board Sir J. Narbrougii 
 takrn Frifoner by the Spaniards jrBaldavia, ivjj 
 left behind^ p. 1 1 
 
 Dircclion 111 s, their number, where, • p, 11: 
 
 Don Ciiljsfet afhore in Neman's Hland, andwhy^ p. 84, 
 Never hi'ard of more^ P- 8 7 , o^, 
 
 iians of E 
 
 Elizabeth lilinds defcribed^ ip. 66,67. The diflanccht 
 tvoeen ir, and S. Jeronn'i River ^ P- 74- -^^^^ ^'O' ^' 
 River of this IJland defcribcd, p. 75. 12: 
 
 FlawesfO/v^//// William ) His Journal of a Voyage froin 
 Nova Z^cnhhto England in the year 1676 from p, 
 167, to p. 1 82. His opinion of the /aid Voyage, mil 
 a Relation of his tnijcarnage therein, and Jome 0) 
 fervations thereupon, p. 182. &c 
 
 Fonchiile, the chief Town in the Madera's ; its Lati 
 tude, p. ,:, 
 
 Fortc(bue(John) Gent, taken Frifoner by the Spaiii 
 ards at Baldavia, and left behind by Sir Joh;: 
 Narbrough, p. 'in 
 
 Frefhu'arer Bay. See Fliziheth lihnd. 
 
 Highway ( Thomas )L/;7/v///?,^/7 board S'w John N^r 
 brough, taken ?ri/oner by the Spaniard i in Baldavii. 
 there, p. 11: 
 
 S. James'i- Fort /Vz the hands of the Spaniards, p. 8'\ 
 Jheintercourfe there between Sir John Narbrough i 
 Lieutenant^ and the Captain of the Vort. p. %-j/lbcir 
 entertainment, p. 88, b^ 
 
 Indians of the Country about Fort S.Julian, their Habit 
 S:c.p. 4y, 5O3 J I. A further account ofthem,\i. r, 
 
 Indian: 
 
 ians of 
 zard in 
 
 dera, a 
 igdhn(th 
 \er end of 
 ,anick Str 
 'dpeWxg 
 ^ejl way to 
 Mair'j Ifi 
 [Maries/// 
 yo [fle^ a 
 cha l(lani 
 lullsts, 701 
 rbrough(. 
 mn Board t] 
 |p.2. Steet 
 let blood, a\ 
 iMayo he A 
 cft'helflan 
 Ifle, andvc 
 the Streigl 
 illr.Flemii 
 ing each ot 
 1^ p. 12,13. ■ 
 » vdtions^ p. 
 |C^//7rBlanc 
 h p. 2 ^ . Hii 
 about Seal: 
 p. 30. Tai 
 in the Cou 
 ^Hiils for . 
 \\itcs, p. i 
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 The Contents' 
 
 \msof LWzihQth Ijlurid their Cbatiu'Ier, p. ^3, 64,' 
 
 d5, 66, 70 
 
 p. 10; 
 
 p. 2 
 
 2. 
 
 ians^/ Chile (/<?/<:W/'^^ 
 zard ;;2 Engl, /rj Latitude 
 
 dera, <? Defcription thereof P- 2, 3 
 
 ^iA\dLX[{theStretghts of) not paffah/e for Ice at the lat- 
 er end of April, p. 45. -4 Defcription oj the Magel- 
 anick Streights^ p. 6 1 , Sic. Jhe length thereof from 
 'dpe Virgin Mary to Cape DtiTtada, p. 7 8 The fa- 
 'efl way to enter thefe St r eights p. 1 1 6, 1 1 7, Stc. 
 H2ii^s Jjlund defcTihcd^p. '^j. When fo named ibid. 
 [Maries IJle itsLat'itude^ p.95. ItsProduli and Air^i>.^6 
 yo J/Iey a Defcription thereof p. 4, j 
 
 cha I [land ^ its Defcription^ Latitude, gic. p- 95 
 lullsts, 700 caught iU a time p. 12 j 
 
 rbrough(S/r John) receives his Commi^ljion^^.i, Goes 
 l^w Board the Sweepllikcs, ibid. Arrives at Madera 
 .2. Steers for St. Jago, p. 4. Cau/es his Men to be 
 Iklct bloody and zohy^xhxA. and p. 14. Going a /bore at 
 iMayo he brings off fome Salt^ p. 5. Buys Frovifions 
 
 B'cfthe Iflanders^ ibid. Comes to Fort Fray a inSt.]2^o 
 [fie., and what happen'^d^ p. 6,7. Is ordered to Sail to 
 \the Str eights <?/ Magellan, p. 8. lUs Inflrutlions to 
 t illr.Fleming of theB ilchdioxPin^ for the better find- 
 ling each other after fe par at ion by Storm. or otherzvife^ 
 I p. 12,13. ^^ Order he kept on Board ^ andhisObfer- 
 . vdtions^ p. 14, 1 5". Defcription of the Country about 
 •4 C/prBlanco, p. 2 r . Lofes fight oj the BatchellorF/;?/:, 
 ! p. 2 15 . HisProjell to dif cover the People of theCountry 
 , about Seals Bay inrfjctlual, p. 29, 3 0. Kills 400 Seals 
 
 p. 30. Takes Fo(fejJ/on 0} Port Dcfier, and all theLand 
 ' m theCountry thereabout s for King Chirks 11. p. 40. 
 
 Sill Is for Port St. Julian, p. 42. He Eats Foxes and 
 s K'//f J, p. 49. ■ TtoeJve rf hii Men lame, the manner 
 f thereof^ p- 5 2- Returns to Port Defier, p. f 6. Enters 
 
 the Mouth oftheStre'tghis oJ Magella n,p.6o. Goes a- 
 Haln I (^^^^^^^ Elizabeth Ijlmd^ p. 6^. His conference with 
 
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 igl/td'ufjs/xhid. and6\^6%6(^. His Wdy of failw] 
 
 p. 85. Difcourfcs with the Spiniards nfSt. Jamd 
 
 Yort, p. 90, &tc. Sends Men nflwre in St, Mary U\ 
 
 and why ^ P- 9^i 91' tiis difcourfe to two Indian J 
 
 p. 102. HiiLetter coLicutcnant kxmxgQx^^, 104. m 
 
 turns from Baldavia, and what way, p. 1 12, 1 1 3, M 
 
 His Journal continued, and by whom^ p. 121. 5ti;l 
 
 fail from Fort Defier for Enghnd. Pafs Cape}^h\ 
 
 CO, Cape Virgin Mary, 5/. Michaels, p. 127, nsl 
 
 Futs into Angria in the Terceras, p. 128. WitlA 
 
 fight of Scilly IbiJ 
 
 Narhrough'f Ifland^ its Frodu^s andDe/cription^p.^iM 
 
 NomanV Ifljnd^ its Latitude and T>r.fcript ion p. 8jj 
 
 Nueftra Senora di Socoro, an Iflund, its MeridiA 
 
 and Longitude^ p. 80. Defcribed p« ^o, 8i| 
 
 Oi\tiche^,aboutSQdi\sBay, their fiape and colour p. 2 9, ::| 
 
 Penguin Iflanddefcribed^ p. 24,25. Its Latitude^ p. 41 
 
 A vafl numbers of Penguins here^ p- J^- -4 Feci 
 
 guin, what p. 58, jJ 
 
 Fort Da^'iQT defcrib'dy p. 25", 26. Its Latitude, p. 41,1 
 
 Sir John Narbrough returns thither p, i2]| 
 
 P^;'r Praya, a Defcription thereof p. 7, 
 
 Fort St. Julian, and the Country thereabout deftribd\ 
 
 p. 42, to p. 55. The diffance between it and the Flat 
 
 Ifland^ p. 43. Us Longitude, Latitude^ atid MeridionA 
 
 dijhnce, p. 44. Vafi quantities of Salt here p. 45 1 
 
 Fort Famen, Its Defer ipt ion and Latitude^ p. 67, 68,1 
 
 An account of the FroduSi of the Country and Riva\ 
 
 thereabout p. 69. 121 
 
 Seals, a defer ipt ion of them p. ijo, ]i 
 
 Seals Bay defcribed, and the Country thereabouts, p. 23, 
 
 24,2J,2(5, 27, 28, 2$ 
 
 Smelts ^/ tf;/ extraordinary bignefs p. 12; 
 
 SpaniaroSrf/ f^jr/ Sr. J:mes/;7Baldavia, their Policy, / 
 
 furprize 5/> JohnNarbrough, together with the Ships 
 
 Crew, p.89. Are kind to Lieutenant Armiger, 8cc. p.f^^ 
 
 Spiring'f Bay^ a Defcription thereof p. i\ 
 
 Sweep- 
 
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 The Contents. 
 
 fweepftakes, het Burthen^ how Mann'd^ ViElualPd^ 
 &c. p. I . Her Cargo^ p. 2. Crew reduced to eat 
 Ft'aje in lie ad of Bread P* S?* 
 
 faHan ( Abel Jjnftn ) Sails from Bitavia with two 
 Ships^ the Heemskirk Tatch^ and Seehane t/ySoat^ 
 towards the Terra incognira Auftralis, in which Voy- 
 age he fets down many things worth notice ; but his 
 Tra^ being but a fnort Journal of the fame de die in 
 diem, / refer the Reader to it, without drawing any 
 Contents thereof from p. 129 to 141 
 
 '^ejjels ( Spjnifh ) feveralforts of V/« p. 107, 108 
 food'f Bay^ why Jo caWd P- 71 
 
 Vood (' Captain John) his delightful and profitable Re- 
 lation of a Vtyage for difcovery of a North-Eatt l^af 
 fige to China and Japan, tronn p. 14, to p. 1^3. His 
 
 fournal thereof 
 
 Irom p. 1J5. to p. 167. 
 
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 Contents of Frcdr'u\ Martens Voyage inta 
 Spitzbergcn and Greenland. 
 
 ^ the Voyage from the Elbe to Spiizbcrgen Pag. i 
 Of their Voyage home again from Spiizbergcn ' r^ 
 the Elbe P- 1 5. 
 
 P/zA^' external late and appearance ^/Spitzbergen p. 1 8 
 'I the Sea and divers Storms and Tempefis P* 3 ^ 
 
 ^Jvu/l Mountains and lields of Iceland the great dif- 
 ficulty of Sailing p. 40 
 y the Air andwondcrful changes of the Weather p. 49 
 yfthe Plants ^/Spiizbergcn. Of a FLint with Aloe- 
 Leave s. Of f mall Hon flee L OJ Crow's hoot. Of Scurvy- 
 Grafs. Of an Hrrb like St one -crap. Of aSn^ikewecd, 
 of an herb like unto Moufc Ear. Of a Plant like 
 unto PeriwJrgle. Of an Herb like a Strawberry. Of 
 a Reck Plant f"ro;n p. 5S to p. 75- 
 the Animals but chiefly the Birds about Spirzbcigyn. 
 Of Bird 1 with Toes or divided Pee t. x.Ofa S/nte. 2. Of 
 the Snow Bird. \. Of the Ice Birds. Of the broad or 
 wehfooted Birds, Oj the Raihfljcr, Of the Pigeon. Of 
 
 the 
 
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 The Contents. 
 
 the Lumh. Of the MmdilledKutgc-gehef, Ojtl 
 Burgcmeifter. Of the Rotgis. Of the Struntjager . (. 
 \>ung-huntcr.) Of the diving Parrot. Of the mou) 
 tain Duck, Of the Kinnew. Of the M^allcmiich T': 
 K^i Geefe^ a Bird called John of Ghent, like a St 
 
 from p. 7 J to p. 1 
 
 Of four footed Beafls, Of the Hart and Deer. Of th 
 Fox.Ofthe vohiteBear. Of the Sea Dogs, called Rul}!i\ 
 andSeales. OftheSea-Horfe^orMor/e^ p. loytoni 
 
 OfCru^aneomfifh. Of the SeaCraro-Ji/h without a Tm. 
 or SeaSpider. OftheGarnelsor Prawns. Of the Irjjo 
 Game Is or Shrimps. Of the Louce of the Whale, OJ 
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 Of the Whales about Spitzbergen, and how they dip 
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 MAT IS* i66g. This day being .J(?^^>*- 
 day^ I received from the Honourable 
 Mr. Wren, Secretary to his Royal 
 Highnefs the Duke of Tork^my Com- 
 minTion to Command his Majedy's Ship thtSiveep- 
 Jakes ythe Ship being at Deptforelj in the River ci 
 Thames n&zx London, 
 
 Sunday ^Septehler 16. 166^. Setoiitat his Ma- 
 I Jelly's proper Co(l,orteof his own Ships nam'd the 
 Siveepflakesy Burthen 3 ooTuns,uith 3 6 great Ord- 
 inance, and all other Munition proportionable ; 
 manned with 80 Men and Boys, vicflualled for 
 fourteen Months, at whole allowance oi'all Provi- 
 ! fions both good and whoUbme, having Oat meal 
 for Fifli, and four Tuns and an half of Brandy irt 
 lieu of Bcer^flores of all forts compl eat for twelve 
 months, with provifion of Craft to take Filh and 
 Fowls, a iJeync Net, and hooks and lines, and fif- 
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 Tuns, with four great Ordnance, and all other 
 Munition proportionable ; mann'd with nineteen 
 Men, one Boy, vi'ituallcd for twelve months, at 
 whole allowance of all provridO!! good and whole- 
 fome, asthe Sweepfiakes had and llores proporti- 
 onable lor the time, and Craft to take Fiih and 
 Foul, (^c. 
 
 Having a fort of Goods to the value of three 
 hundred pounds, as followeth Knives Sijfers.Glaf. 
 fes^ Bea^Sy Hatchets, Bills, Hoes., Nails, NeeMeSy 
 Pifts^ Pipes. Bells Boxes, &c. Djtjfels Linnen^ 
 Cloth yO fen hrigs tohacco. and Pipes, 6ic. to trade 
 with the Natives at hisMajcily's Charge. 
 
 Wed^efday^ September 19. Hazy Weather, the 
 Wind to the North v\ efi and by Weft, a frelli gale: 
 Iftood to the South wc[h\ ard as near as T could; 
 diisday at 12 a Clock the Lizard bore North of | 
 me a little Eaflerly, diftance about 1 2 Leagues, 
 according to my account ; Latitude byaccount,is 
 49d. 3 5w. This day Tfpoke wxh a French Banker. 
 Lizard in E»g/aftd lies in the Lat, of 50^. lo m. 
 and in Longitude Eaft, from the Meridian of the 
 Weft part of S. Michael, one of the Tftands of the 
 Azores 1 8</. 3 w. From the Lizard! take my de- 
 parture, and keep my daily account of the difTe- 
 rence of my Longitude from that Meridian. 
 
 Ocioher 17. I made the Madera^ which lOafld 
 is high Land and irregular in Hiils, with Wood 
 on the top, and down the fides ; planted vi'ith 
 Vines ; there is fome Sugar made in the Tfland : 
 the Inliabitants PortHguezes, The City of Fonchiah 1 
 
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 to the Strei^hts of Magellan, ^ 
 
 is the Metropolis, and is I'tuatcJ in a Bay on the 
 ibutli Partoi riie iilandjcloic totljcSea-lkicwal- 
 Icd next the Sea, and well ibrcineJ with Ord- 
 Inancc ; frclh w arcr comes running into the Sea in 
 |rhi' middle ol the Bay, in a tair Rivulet iVoai un- 
 Ider an Arch m the U'all ; the I'lioar j'des are 
 
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 jgrcat l^ebble iloncs in tine Bay, and Rocks in the 
 fother places; the Road is foul ground to the Eall 
 part of it : the Ihips ride in Ihot of Ordnance of 
 he City .- this City is about an Ertglijl? mile in 
 tngth, and three quarters of a mile m breadth. 
 The Defarts are barren rocky liles of a good 
 eighth,andlieattheSouth-ea{l point of Maderay 
 bove a mile diftant from the iliore ; there is wa- 
 er enough between Maekra and the Delarts in the 
 idvvay, and no danger ; the Defarts trentto the 
 outh eaft. Foncbiale Bay in the Ille of Madera^ 
 ies in the Lat. of 32 ^ 10 w. North, and in Lon- 
 itude Weft from i\\t Lizard oi England icd. \m, 
 nd Meridian diflance 143 Leagues, r ■. - r <-» 
 Sunday being the 17th. fair Weather and little 
 ;ind at North- well, Courie by my Compafs 
 outh we/}, I make my true Courfe b}^ Fofi- 
 hiale Bay,till to day at noon South fouih- wefl:,di- 
 ance/ailed 34 miles fix tenths departureWell rj 
 ilesj Dif?i Lat.oc^. 31 m- Lat. by account 3 i d. 
 ]m. Meridian diilance iVom the Z./z.WWe(l, 
 47 leagues I mile ; Longitude from the Lizard 
 eft 10 ^. 17 m. Difference of Longitude from 
 'onchiale Weft ood. 16 m. To diy at noon 1 faw^ 
 th Bhe Ifland of Madera bearing N. b. E. the body of 
 d: liie Ifle diftant by cftimation 1 1 leagues j it makes 
 ^/{Ina bluff body at the Weft end^ and trents to the 
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 Eaft .-Courfc by tlie Compafi cliis afternoon S.W, 
 little wind tonif^ht; I li]apcd my ncarcfl Courfc 
 tor the THand oUSt. 7*///; witli all rlic fail 1 could 
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 me : (lift a 
 
 the Batcbelour Fink m Companv; I gavJ^f ?'^^^^ , 
 order to my Mailer to make the beft it hisuavf ' .1 ^ , 
 
 to St.J^go Illand, but not to leave the Ccinpan} 
 of the Batchclour. 
 
 S^tm^zyfidoler 13. Thewind atiV.b.^a gale: 
 this day in the forenoon I crolled the tropkk oi. .. ^ 
 
 Cancer, all my men in good health, I praife the All ) ^^ ^\^^^ 
 r God for it; many oF my men that haj , i^^ .^^^ ^'' 
 
 the Road 
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 pond a 1)0 
 
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 been with me in the /^^/^j formerly, were Ici 
 blood ; lor I take bleeding in thefe hot Climates 
 to bt^ a great preferver of health, diverting Ca 
 lentures ; I experienced it in two Voyages befors 
 to the Illaud of St. Helena^ and in one to the 
 Coaft of Guinea^ where feveral of my nocn undei 
 that diftemper, were preferved by bleeding ,• in a 
 thefe Voyages I was never fick one day, nor w 
 two years time in the Mediterranean Sea, nor ! 
 the Canaries ; for when I came near the Equ'm 
 Siial 1 always breathed a Vein. 
 
 Thurfday,0^(?^fr 28. the Wind at Eaft-Nortli 
 Eaft, a flifi gal« 5 this Morning I faw the Ille 
 Mayo bearing S. b. W. diftant by eftimation eigi 
 Leagues ; it makes a high Hill, and Craggy to tin 
 Eaft part, and low land towards the lliore- fide t 
 the North weft part of the Ifland; it lies from ^1 
 ttavifls.b. TV. diftant near 18 leagues. This da 
 at 1 1 a Clock I anchored in the Road in fevenfj 
 thorn water, fandy Ground, about a mile from t 
 fliore ; the Northernmoft point of the Road beai| 
 ing N.N.l^. half a point to the Weft, and the So 
 
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 f Mullets, wj 
 the IHander 
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 thcrn point of the Road hearing vSourli cad from 
 
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 crnggy Rocks to the South of the Road on the 
 
 jhore fide, hut to the Noith a low Tandy fliorc; 
 
 the Road is on tlic North well and by Weflpart 
 
 ofthe Ifland in r. linall Tandy J')ay,' there's thcSalc- 
 
 pond a how's Ihot from the Sea in the low hat 
 
 l.and ; frcfli water is vcr\' icarce licrc : J went a- 
 
 liiore prcfently after T Ind anchored, and found a 
 
 heap of Sail ol nhour 20 'J uns; ] |!.ot aboard a- 
 
 !giin immediately, and fent the Long boat alhore, 
 
 |v.h c!i brought ofTz 'J'uns and ]; theSulicj^mc in 
 
 ' fo much that no more could he got oft ; we jjailcd 
 
 the Seync here, and caught abundance of good 
 
 I Mullets, with fome CavaL'e and filver I'lfli ; one of 
 
 the IHanders a Negro came al)oard., w horn 1 fent 
 
 afliore to tell the People that if they brought 
 
 down (bmc Cattle I wr>uld buy fome of them ; I 
 
 rode here all Night; fair , Weather, tlie Wind Jia- 
 
 Iflerly. 'ihi-s fide of the Ifiand is dry Jand with- 
 
 'out wood; here are many Goats, and Guinea 
 
 I Hens. 
 
 Friday, 0^7f7(r 29. fair Weather, the wind at 
 M/T. a fine gale: this Morniagl fent my Boat a- 
 [jhore, and bought o[ tlie IHandcrs fome Goats at 
 1: a piece of Eight per Head, and 8 ("o^vs, excel ierit 
 Igood meat,at 6 pieces ot Iiight aCow, giving the 
 tkins again ; my men caught a great many Filh 
 Iwith the Seyne, winch this day we >plit, and laid 
 lin pickle four Hours, then dried them to keep, 
 Vhich.thcy will a Jong time in any Climate, as I 
 lave experienced in other Voyages and are very 
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 could to be gone for St. yj^^r^Tdard Ihis day in 
 the Ibrenoon, a fliip palled by to the Weftaard 
 on the loutb fide otthc Ille,and in the attcrnooii 
 \vc law fcveral Ihips coining Irorn tlie Nortli. 
 U'ard, whicli were the Port u:\iieze Fleet bound 
 for Brazil; they hailed mtoFort /'r^^jinthelllc 
 oF 6"/. 7^;?;/?, to Aater ; tins night I ^veighed, and 
 flood away at tvclve a Clock South louth vvcli 
 ior Fort Fray J, with the Pnk in company : j 
 tOLich'datti:: lilc of /llay for Silt, which I knew 
 would be a great help to get l/ruvifions in the 
 Voyage. 
 
 Siiturr/iiy, Oclohcr lo fair wind at North eafl and 
 by North, a h'clhg.ilc. This Morning Ifteercd 
 South well ior tlic louth fide oF St.Jago, whci*e 
 isthcRond of/V/ P/v7v^, lying near South ivtjl 
 from theRond ot the llle oFA/t/y, and dillant nine 
 Leagues- Ihis day at 1 1 a Clock I caft my bell 
 Jjoucr anchor in FortPraya Road, in ten fatiiom 
 rough Ground, the Eall Point bore Eaft oFme, 
 and the Well I'oint about Weft loutli-well, about 
 hair a mile off: J could not get into the bed of 
 the Road, tlic Portujueze Fleet of about thirty fix- 
 fail nding in \X. : the Great Padre /T /£■/-;;{?/. Admiral, 
 bound iiix Brazil, is a very great ihip, and well 
 built ; they fiy ihe is in burthen 1700 Tuns; flic 
 hath Ports for tliree Tier of Guns flufli, but now 
 ilie had but eighty, and poorly manned with Sea- 
 men, and fo v\ ere n'l the reft ; fix Frigots might 
 have taken moH: of tlie Fleet. At my coming in 
 to Anchor, the Admiral fainted me with 7 Guns, 
 I thnnked liim with as many ; Captain Francii 
 Wilkfieir in the Jcrufilort^ f.rcd fiye, T returned 
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 Jjim three ; fo did tlic Recr Admiral, and I re- 
 '? turn'd theCoinplcDiciu in the like numbcriicvcral 
 1 oUhe Meet fired three, v\ liom T anfwcr'd in con- 
 clufion witlitlirce lor all. I rnile O'l the broad 
 fide ot the Admiral, and faluted tlic Fort w itli five 
 Gunj, \yhic|i return'd three ^ then I lent my Lieu- 
 tenant afliorc to asklcaveof the Governor to wa- 
 ter, s\hich he granted lortliu irh ; my Coopers got 
 tlie Cask ready, and tliis tycningputone Doat'5 
 lading aboard. 
 
 Su'diy.Ochler \\. fair Weather, the wind at 
 Nortli eail, a fine gale. This morning DonCarolus 
 went alhorc to Fryam j with much ado I got off a 
 Boats lading of Water, for the P or t ugu eze ISons 
 were filling too. and a great many Soldiers at the 
 watering place fivatch'd Ibinc of our mens Hats 
 ofT, and run away; vsiiereforcX would not let my 
 Men go any more thii day lor Ix-ar of quarrelling. 
 This Bay of /V/ Praya, a> they call it. is no Port 
 hut a fine round I3ay, having high deep Cliffs on 
 the Eafl fidc^and in the bottom a ficcp H •' v\ In re 
 the Calllc is, that hath but four Guns aiKi is of 
 no force; there is a fmall Fort on the top of a "11 
 on the Eallfide, whicli hath three Guns. On u-t 
 North well part of the Bay the Ihore is gravelly 
 and Tandy, and there's a Grove ot Coco niir trees: 
 A frclh water Rivulet runs down into the Valley, 
 and thence thro' the Sand foaks into the 5ea : 
 this Water is in great quantity, very good, and 
 keeps well at Sea : to theWeft part ot this Bay lies 
 a fmall Iflandciofe on the ihore, which has Grafs 
 on it that may be cut ofTfor Cattle, which I did ; 
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 of War may take any Ship out of the Bay,without 
 receiving any damage from the Forts afliore, and 
 with Fire- Ships a vvhf le Fleet may be fpoiled at 
 pleafure ;for it's a frefli Gale every day, and there's 
 but two points of Land by which a man may fetch 
 into any part of the Bay ; alfo the Bay Ues open 
 to the Sea from the Eafl:, Southerly to the 
 W.S.W. I called for my Lieutenants and Mafter, 
 and acquainted them, that I had Orders to fail 
 from thence to the Coaft of America to the South- 
 ward of the River of Plate^ to the Streights of 
 M^^eUan^ through which we were to pafs into the 
 South 5eas, and that we mud fliape our Courfe to 
 inake the Hiortcil way of iu, and be careful to keep 
 Eadcrly enough ot it, to weather the flioals of 
 Brazil called the Alroholls^ tying in and about 
 eighttt-n degrees of Southerly Latitude^ for the 
 Wind blows tor the mod part thereabouts between 
 the Latitude of ten South, and the Latitude of 
 twenty South, at Eaft by South, and Eaft South- 
 eafl: fredi gales: whilfl: this pafs'd, in came the 
 Mader, and told me all things were flowed, and 
 the Wind at £.b.N. frelli ; I concluded with him 
 that our bed Courfe at prefent \yould be South and 
 by Eafl:, and as we got Southerly and the Wind 
 grew large, we migiit alter our Courfe when we 
 would : we (leered a Point or two from the Wind, 
 that; the fliip might have frefli way through the 
 Sea. I ordered my Mailer to (leer South and by 
 Eafl: by the Compafs, and my Lieutenant to call 
 all hands to Prayer, read Service, and beg'd of God 
 Almighty ■ a profperous Voyage, continuance in 
 ticaltb, and love to one another, undthatwt 
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 Inftrudions for Mr. Humphrey Flemings Com- 
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 Highnefs^ dated the twenty ninth day of Augufl 
 i659.tQme direded. 
 
 YOU are hereby required to fail with his Ma- 
 jeflies hired Pmk the Batchelour^ which you 
 are Commander of, and to keep Company with 
 his Majefties Ship the Sweepflakes to the Coaft of 
 America to the Southward of Rio de la Plata^ and 
 along the Coaft of America to the Southward, till 
 you come to the Streights oi Magellan ^ lying in 
 about 53 Degrees of South Latitude; through 
 which you are to pafs into the South-Sea, and fail 
 along the Weft Coaft of America Northerly, till 
 you come as high as BaUavia, which lies in about 
 40 Degrees of South lat. there you fliall receive 
 further Orders from me, or i.; my abfcnce, from 
 the Commander in Chief on board Iiis Majefties 
 Ship the Sweepflakes, in cafe you keep Company 
 with her, whofe Company you are not to depart 
 from or leav^ upon any occafion whatfoever,as you 
 will anfwer the contrary at your peril, unlefs you 
 have Order from me fo to do, or in my abfencc 
 from the Commander in Chief on board her ; You 
 are alfo to underftand, that you are to be employ*. 
 ed by me as I iliall fee occafton to employ you, to 
 difcover Lands, Bays, Havcns^P^ivers or Streights, 
 
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 The deilgn of this Voyage on u hich you are 
 employed, being to mike a Difcoverv both of the 
 Seas and Coafls of that part of the World, and if 
 polTible to lay the Foundation of a Trade there. 
 You are not to meddle with the Coaft oi America^ 
 nor fend on flipre, unlcfs in cafe of great necelli- 
 ty, till you get to the Southward of Rio de h 
 Plata; and you are not to do any injury to fuch 
 Spaniards ^s you fliall meet with, nor meddle with 
 any place where, they are planted : You are to 
 take Obfervations wit!i as much Accuracy as you 
 can and alfo tocaufe your Mate and Company to 
 do the like, to obferve all Headlrnds, IHands, 
 Eays, Havens, Roads, Mouths of Rivers, Rocks> 
 shoals, Soundings, Courles of Tides, flowings and 
 ff?ttings of Currents, where you come, both in the 
 Nordi and South Seas, ^c. and caufe Draughts 
 and Defigns to be made of them ; and alfo you 
 arc to take notice o^' all Trade Winds, ^c. you 
 meet with, and of the Weather, and cfpecially 
 to obi erve Harbours in theStreights o^ Magellan; 
 you are in all places where you Land, toobferve 
 tiic nature of the Soil, and what Fruits, Woods, 
 Grain, Fowls, and Beads it produces, and what 
 Stones and Minerals, and what Fifli the Rivers and 
 the Sea doth abound with ; You are to do your 
 utmoll to procure o( the Minerals tp carry to Eng- 
 iznd , and to deliver tliem do Flis Jloyal High- 
 ness 's Secretary. You are alfo to mark the Tem- 
 per and Tnchnations of tiie Indian Inhabitants, and 
 where you can gain any Correfpondencc with 
 tiiem, you are to make them ienfible of the great 
 
 Tower 
 
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to the Streighti of Magellan. 1 1 
 
 Tower and Wealth oF the Prince and Nation to 
 whom you belong, and that you are fent onpur- 
 pofe to let on foot a Xrade, and to make Fricnd- 
 Ihip with them ^but above all, for the Honour of 
 our Prince and Nation, you are to take care, that 
 vour Men do not by any rude Behaviour or In- 
 juries to tiicm, create an Averfion in them to the 
 'Enilif}^' Nation ; but that on the other fide they 
 endeavour to gain their Love by kind and civil 
 Ufage toward them, and x^'hofoeverihall ad other- 
 wife, you arc to corrcdl him or them for fo doing, 
 whicli you are to acquaint your Men with, that 
 tlif:^ be not ignorant. You are to be careful of 
 vour i roViri!)ns and Liquor, and to husband it to 
 the Lefl advan'joge, that there be no waftful Ex- 
 pcnce made of it, nor of your Ships Furniture, as 
 Sails, Anchors, Cables,. and Rigging, G^'c and that 
 you endeavour at ail places w here you come, to 
 get Provifions^Wood and f relh Water, fo as you do 
 not endanger your Ship and Men, which you are 
 to be very careful of, and in no caule to expofe 
 jany one of your Men to the hazard' of his Life, 
 but always be careful that they be well guarded, 
 and be w^atchful , for there have been many cut 
 m by their own negledl. You are to be careful 
 to keep a good Command aboard over your 
 Men, and in cafe any mutinous pradice happen 
 under your Command , you arc forthwith to 
 make it known to me. You are to be careful to 
 [have your Ship kept fvveet and clean for the pre- 
 servation of your Men's healths : And God prof. 
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 Given iindermy Hand on board Ins Majcfty's 
 Ship the Sweepflake^, riding at the Ifland ot Saint 
 Jago, in Port Fraya Road, H^vemher 5. 1 669. 
 
 y(?i» Narbrough. 
 
 To CuptatH Humphry Fleming, Cotyiman^er of tk 
 Batchelour-Pink, Theje, 
 
 Jnflrutiions for the letter finding each other .iffer 
 feparat'ton by Chance^ foul Wtather^or otherw/Je. 
 
 \TOlJ are hereby required to Sail with h's 
 Majefiies hired Ship the Batchelonr , under 
 your command, and to keep company with his 
 Majedies Ship the Sweep/lakes, along ttie Coaft of 
 America^to the Souths ard ot Rio de la Plata Xol^ort 
 St. Julian on that Coaft, which lies in about 
 49 rl. 10 m. South Latitude, which your Draughts 
 fnention. In cafe of frparation at Sea in this 
 Voyage from each other, you are to ufe all 
 means to endeavour to meet again, that is to fay, 
 by looking well abroad at Sea, and fo to obferve 
 the Order in your failing Inftrudipns, to know 
 each otiier at fight : the next Port of Rendezvouz 
 will be at Port St. Julian^ \y\\ic\\ is an the coaft 
 of America, as is faid before ; You are to make all 
 the haft that you can thither, and to ftay for the 
 Sweep/lakes tliere two whole Montlis, it you get 
 thither before her, and fhe fliail do the like lor 
 
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 To Captain 
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 Vou. In your way thither, after you have paf- 
 fedto the Southward of Hio tie la Plata, 'twill be 
 beftior you to fail along the Coaft of jtmerica^ to 
 fee iF you can fall with me, and to make Cape 
 Blanco which lies in about 17 ^. 10 w. South La- 
 titude, and fo to Port St. Julian^ where you arc 
 to ftay ; you may alfo enquire for me at PortDe- 
 fir, which lies in about 48 ^. South Lat. If I 
 ijiall come to any place,and be gone again before 
 you come thither, I will leave a piece of Board 
 nailed to a Pole or Tree , engraven, mentioning 
 the Ship : name, and the day of my Departure, 
 and the next Port I intend to go to j I defire you 
 would do the fame ; and at Port St. Julian I will 
 do likewife, and alfo leave an Order for you tied 
 to a Pole, being put in a Glafs Bottle ; the Pole? 
 ihall be placed on the Ifland which lies in the Har- 
 bour at the Weft End thereof, where I Ihall build 
 a Tent ; pray be careful to look for it, and I fliall 
 do the fame for you ; it may be I may have art 
 opportunity to touch on the Coafts as I fail a- 
 iong, if I can find any Trade with the Natives ; 
 you may be furc, where ever I come, to find thofc 
 Memorials oi my being there before you -.foGod 
 profper our Intentions. 
 
 Given under my Hand at Port Praya Road, on 
 Board the Sweepftakes riding there at the Ifland of 
 St. Jago^ Novemi. 5. 1669. 
 
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 T^Ecemher 4- Many flying Fifli fecn to day, and 
 Bonetto's, Sharkfiih, and Aiby cores, a Filh 
 larger than a Bonetto, but of that Mackrtl fvapc, 
 and feaverilh Dice, they live upon the 1j> .ng 
 Filh like the Bonetto's • to day we caught lome 
 of them with Hooks, and one Shark; our Men 
 eat them both, and account the Shark a good 
 Fi(h. 
 
 Decewher 7. To day the Cooper found two 
 Buts of Beer had leaked out: this day all ot us 
 drank Warcr only, ior it was ever my order tiiat 
 the meanefl: Boy in the Ship flionld have the fame 
 allowance with ray felt; ib that in general \\ e all 
 drank of the fame Cask, and eat one fort of Pro 
 vifion, as long as thc^; lat..ed : I never permitted 
 any Officer to have a befcr piece of Meat thaa 
 what tell to his Lot; but one blinded with a Clot 1 
 •ferv'd every Manas they were calfd to touch and 
 take, by which means we had never any Di.fer^ 
 cnce upon that fcore. ' •■ : ■ 
 
 ■ Satur/layyDecemher 18. All the Ship'^ Compa- 
 ny, God be praifed,in goodHealrh= modc/tnem 
 were let Blood after I had crofs'd tlie Trcpck of 
 Cancer^ and none troubled with the Calenture in 
 this Voyage. 
 
 Whilll 1 am in the hot Weather I allov a quart 
 of Vinegar to 6 Mcn/?=f/- Week, and dlfo to eat 
 with their frclh Fifh , which I divide equ-^lly a- 
 mong the whole Ship's Company, be it little or 
 much, or caught by whomfoever. 
 
 Friday^ December 14. I find great Difference 
 within this 48 hours between my dead Account, 
 
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 ^s we call it, which is kept by the Log, arid the 
 Ibfervarions I made thefe z days when the Sun 
 ras on the Meridian ; for I find I have gone more 
 Southerly by 1 2 Miles than the Log allows; I can't 
 ?rceive any variation, and the Log is well kept, 
 ri the half minute Glafs good ,- I judge the 
 uurrent fets to the Southward^ now the Winds arc 
 fcttheEaft, and the Moon near the full. ' 
 
 December 30. This Afternoon I took an Azt- 
 nth, and find (\^ degrees ten minutes variation 
 Elderly, my Obfervation being of a good one ; 
 [lir Weather to Night at 9 a Clock, Neveles major 
 m very vifibie in the Heaven, and fecms to be a 
 piece of the Milky- way broke from it ; the South- 
 (rnConilcllations appear which are near the Pole 
 ktarBkk, the Camelion, \.\\t Bird of Paradife,l\iQ 
 [ail of little Hydra^ and the Water Snake^ which 
 ^re all fmall Stars of the 5th and 6th Magnitude ; 
 iio Pole dar, nor any Star fit for Obfervation to 
 [lefeen within 15 degrees of the Pole, xht Cro- 
 h Stars oi the firft and fecond Magnitude are 
 bod for Obfervation. and are in this form when 
 [hey are on the Meridian above the Pole. 
 
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 SoraeFouIs flying to and fro,t kind of Seagulls 
 and Gannct a black Sea-Foul as big as a Pigeon 
 and fomc large ones of that kind, three Tropick 
 Birds flying over the fliip of a grey Colour, with 
 a long fpired Tail as big as Pigeons, 
 
 Some Bonetto's taken to day; A great broad 
 flit Fifh like a Scatc,followingthc Ship, called by 
 the Seamen a Sfriftg-Ray^ having a long Tail and 
 a (harp bow at the end of it, when it pricks a 
 Man it puts him to much pain ; they are called 
 by fortie Clokefijhes^ the lefler fort ar» good to| 
 cat. 
 
 January 5*. Variation of the Compafs by ani 
 Amplitude in the Morning 06 </. 46 w. Eafl: ; this 
 Afternoon I brought the Ship to, and founded 
 bne hundred and eighty four fathom right dowrij 
 ismd had no ground ; I being thwart of the Shoals 
 
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 Jim open c 
 Wounded to 
 pnd iorty fi 
 E'all, ail Ni 
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 ale ; at elei 
 
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 riving in th 
 brown cok 
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 'o^ Brazil caufed me to found, I thought the SeaBun-rinng bv - 
 look'd whiter than ufual, variation at Sun-fet, ^^iyjvfe^j^j^ ^^ 
 ^6 m. Eaft ; little Wind this Afternoon, at Eaftby" ^ » -»- - ■• 
 North; I made all the Sail I could, Stay- fails, 
 Steering fails, Boats fail and Bonad venture- mifen, 
 all fet to draw away Southerly, fome Fowls fly. 
 ing over the Ship, which we call Men of War '^ 
 they prey on flying Fifh, &c, 
 
 January 14. Few Fiilifceri ; now and thciiai 
 
 fmall Bonetto taken, fmall Sea-Fowls call'd 5k»ceds for /iii 
 iVi?^/w, fly ing to and fro, arid x Curlieus flyinglnving by th 
 to the Eaftward. Boon: many 
 
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 January 24. I judge a Current lets out of theBght young 
 ?r of Plate ; for I find nine miles niore td thcBjp 35 ^^ ° 
 
 River of 
 
 Southward than I expected; I have beencarcfuj 
 
 of my Courfe and Variation, which is but 18 ' 
 
 gas an ord 
 ^r» and wei 
 rnoon a frej 
 
to the Streights of Magellarir i ^ 
 
 \ioni. Ea.l, by an amplitude taken to Might; I 
 lam open of the mouth of the River oF ilatei 
 llounded to Night, but no ground at one hundred 
 land iorty five Fathom; Wind at North and by 
 Had, all Night clofe Weather. I itcered South- 
 wed and by South. 
 Monday, January 3 T. Calm this Morning ; at 8 
 Clock the Wind came to the North-weit a fine 
 ;alc ; at eleven a Clock the Wind went round the 
 ompals, and came to North; with muchthun- 
 ler, lightning and (bmc rain; very dark Clouds, 
 ;old hafey Weather; feveral ipots of Sea-weeds 
 Iriving in the Sea, and a great many Sea-fowls of 
 brown colour fwimming in it : (mooth Water, 
 ourfe {leered is South-well by my Compafs.This 
 lay one main fliroud and one fore fliroud broke, 
 ind to (Irope of the Main jeer block ; Variation of 
 iun-rifmgby an Amplitude is 19 ^. 43 w^Eaft ; ali 
 lyMen in good health, God be praifed. 
 byl All the Alby cores., Bonetto's, and flying Fifli 
 ilSjBiave quite left the Ship ; no Fifli to be leen but 
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 tuefiLiy, Felruary r. Cloudy foggy Weatheif 
 lis Morning, and little Wind at South-eafi:. I 
 bod to the South- weflward ; I faw abundance of 
 peafowl flying to and fro , flriking about the 
 ^'eeds for fmall Fidi, feveral beds of Sea- weeds 
 Iriving by the Ship; it fell ealna this After- 
 loon ; many fmall Shrimps about the Ship, and 
 iight young Seal-fidies clofe to it; they were as 
 |ig as an ordinary Spaniel-dog, of a black co- 
 3ar, and went away to the Weftward. This Af- 
 Ernoon a frella gale at South.fouth-eaft j I (leer'd 
 
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 away Southward and by Weil by my Coinpafs; 
 the Air as cold Iierc on a Hidden, as 'tis in £«^. 
 /jW in September . Thefc ^Seas are very much c% 
 pofed to fudden Gulls and variable Winds; for 
 the VVind has run round the Conipafs twice or 
 thrice a day thefc 3 days; the Sea water is dicng. 
 ed whiter than the ufual colour, whence I conje- 
 d:ure 1 muH: be in Soundings : alfo by my accoun:! 
 of Longitude, kept From the Lizard^ I am not 
 I d, -L^m, off from Land, according to Mercator\ 
 Draught. This Evening I founded , but had no 
 ground at 130 Fathom; Wind at South a fine 
 gale: I flecr'd in Well- fouth- weft; at t^a aClocl(| 
 to Night ; I oblcrved the W^ater to riple as if 
 were over a Ihoal , and had ground at fevcntyl 
 Fathom ; I caufed the Head- fails to be braced io| 
 the Maft, and founded ; fine red Sand inclining 
 to grey at 70 Fathom. 
 
 February 1. Meridian diftance from the Liz.ni\ 
 Weft: 839 Leagues, 2 Miles fo; Longriide ail 
 Noon from the Lizari Weft 49 ^e^ 43 w, littlfl 
 Wind this Afternoon, and fair Weather; wchyl 
 Ibmetimes one way, fometim.es another; Wind if 
 South- weft and by South, a fmall gale. I hoiileij 
 out my Boat, and founded, but no ground at 1. 
 l^athoms .• I tried the Current with my Boar, \A 
 found little or none worth notice : the Sea riplel 
 in many places ; I founded on them, but no ground 
 at 108 Fathom ; feveral Beds of Sea weed dnvinJ 
 to and fro in knots; thefe Weeds are five or lij 
 Fathom long, in ftritfgs , with broad Leaves o| 
 them of a brown colour; at the root hangs a Clc 
 or Rock of 2 or 3 pound weight; feveral Se^ 
 
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 Fowls (lying tnd r\vimniin[:!; near thcvShip; it be- 
 in(T cjuite calm, my Men kili'J tome of them with 
 their Birding-pieces , for they were very tame , 
 not moving at the report ot a Gun ; they arc 
 very like to >ea Gulls, and good meat ; fome Seals 
 an J Whales ken. 
 
 February f. Were fecn fcvcral beds of Rock- 
 weed and >ea Fowls, much hke Gannets; fome 
 [black, others uhite, pied, and grey; (mall Seal- 
 ifillies like to many 13ogs, for their Heads refemble 
 ,Bull dogs, which they'll keep above Water a long 
 Itime, and look at the Ship, they are very nimble 
 iat div.ng and skipping out of the Water. This 
 [Alternoon at feven a Clock T was in the Latitude 
 f 41 degrees South i and in Longitude, Wed 
 bin t\\t Lizard oi EngLuid^ 5*2 deg. and 5*0 min, 
 nd in Meridian dillancc from the Lizard 8 9 5; 
 eagues ; Meridian diftance from Port Pray a j 
 16 Leagues, Longitude from FortPr^vay WefV, 
 6//. 34 w. 
 
 This Night I advifed with Don Carolus where 
 it would be bed for us to hale m With the Land, 
 in what Latitude, or at what Cape or Harbour on 
 his Goad of America, being now to the 6'out!i- 
 ard of the River ol Vlate, and according to my 
 :nilru6tions, before tlie Coall to* be ddcover'd , 
 nd a Tfade fct on foot with the Natives ; Ht: 
 ounfcld me f n?iight do what! would, for he did not 
 ivinBindcrilanJ the Goad, nor where 'twas inhabited • 
 ir iiwvas his whole Difcourfe m the Vo\age, that 
 s olie had been here in a Galley, and knew all the 
 CloKoails from the River of Piate to the St r eights , 
 SeMnd thorow the Stre/ghts all along the Wed Goad 
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 to Balrlav/a ^nd Lhna ; being arrived here, as far 
 as I can perceive by him , he knows nothing of 
 the matter, nor any thing appertaining to Navi. 
 gacion; all I can fancy of him is, that he may 
 have liv'd with a Welt /•/<7/^« Govcrnour, whom 
 he has heard talk of thcfe Parrs. 
 
 February 8. At 7 a Clock this Afternoon the 
 Wind came to the Wcfl-fouth-uen:, a ftiffgale. I 
 (lood to the Southward ; much Rock- weed pafs'd 
 by the Ship to day, and feveral Sea Fowls fecn; 
 very cold for the Seafon, being Summer, which 
 Doft Carolus begali to complain of, and told me, 
 He did not think we flionld iiave come fo far 
 Southerly ; I iliew'd him by my Plates how far 
 we were to go through the Stre/ghts, and along 
 the WellCoaft; he faid, The Spaniards went to 
 Chile a nearer way ; I anfwcred, 'Twas into the 
 River of Flate^ and over Land, which we could 
 not do. 
 
 My Company are all in good Hcalth,but feme 
 of a puny Race grow weak in being fo long on 
 Ihipboard; I give them Vinegar once a Week 
 which is very good to prevent the Scurvy in their 
 Mouths ; alio I order'd every Man to wafli his 
 Mouth, Fuoc and Hands before he receive his 
 daily Allowance of Bread , and appointed onci 
 Man to fee it performed ; If any negleded it,thi 
 Steward kept their Allowance for one day; like 
 wife every Man is commanded to keep himfel 
 clean,and free from Liccupon forfeiture of his dii 
 ly Allowance to the Party accufing him; by thcfj 
 means the Ship is kept neat, fweet and clean, th 
 the dirty foggy Weather is a great Enemy toth 
 Difcipline, h 
 
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 uit.'i fome 
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 fov\ is flyii 
 ^'ea, fwimr 
 U\\Q Aftern< 
 gale and a \ 
 Iclofehaled i 
 toU'induar 
 now in blow 
 ^(t^rs along 
 the Sea run; 
 Montiay, j 
 M eight thj 
 U'cil of me 
 [founded, anc 
 )a[id ; dill I 
 and makes 
 •ea^cfe, but 
 looks reddilli 
 khicli wasCa 
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 and at the F, 
 The Land 
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 Hills and V 
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 February 19. T rounded oi'ren today, and liaJ 
 fifty and firty three Fathom^ dark black Sand, 
 uith fome briglit Zinc Sand in it ; fieds ot* Rock- 
 uecd, Seals, and Porpolfcs, fucli as arc in the 
 European Seas, fcen to diy ; three Whales, many 
 Fowls flying about , and fome Penguins in the 
 iiea, (Wimming near the Ships; at 2 a Clock in 
 the Alternoon the Wind was at £. b. S. a flout 
 gale and a great Sea ; I flood to the Southward , 
 dofe haled under my Courfes ,• the Pink halt a Mile 
 |to Windward oi me under her's; flie out fails us 
 Jnow it blows, and puts us pall ourTopfails, and 
 ljj|(lcers along with us with only her Main fail fet; 
 the Sea runs lofty. , 
 
 Monday^ February 1 1 . At a quarter of an hour 
 pad eight this Morning, I faw the Land bearing 
 iWcil; of me , and dillant about 4 Leagues : I 
 bunded, and had ii Fathom ; fmall Stones and 
 iaiid ; flill I flood in Wed by my Compafs. The 
 and makes but an ordinary heighth tov\ ards the 
 ea fide, but Farther up, round high Hills , and 
 g|^ looks reddiili ,* the Northermoll Land I (X)uld fee, 
 l^glvhich was Cape Blanco, bore North north weft of 
 l^jjine about two Leagues , and the Southcrmoft: 
 l^jjland at the Face ot tlie Cape. 
 onti ^^^^ Land trented away to the Southward of 
 ^|j{lie,Southwefl:erly,ol"an ordinary height by the VVa- 
 
 ikc*'' ^^^^' ^^^ "P ^" ^^^^ Land are Hills likeTables on 
 (ejlhe top,a little higher than the rell;the Land makes 
 jjiji Hills and Valleys all along, like Downs of an 
 l^jfMrdinary heighth ; at nine a Clock this Morning I 
 ^j^Jraced the Head-fails to the Malf, and lay Ip half 
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 roiigli ground, with (ome Imall ftones drawn up 
 
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 Rocks: Between nine and ten a Clock there was 
 
 a line clear by which T Taw the Land very plain- 
 
 Jy ,* It look d rcddi'-i like feared Grafs ; no VVoods 
 
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 as bare as the Gra^s-Downs in England: I durft 
 
 nor fend my boat a Ihore iorfear ot lolinghcrin 
 
 the ^'og, or being funk at the fnore, whereon the 
 
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 an i^y Eail, a iVclh gale blew almoft along the 
 
 iliore, and being out but 24 hours before, made 
 
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 South fouth welt, andNcrth north-cad, as faras 
 
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 to be feen upon the Land. ■ places the *: 
 
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 yePrrday Noon, till to day at nine a Clock, whenlcopiing up 
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 AVrit 6e/. 50 w Northerly diilance; failed fittyi runs here, b 
 m les feven tenths. Departure Well: , fo miles* ^ little more 
 diilerence o' Longitude Well i d Ff w.difFerenceio^the Main 
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 Leagues i mile, ytentlis, Longitude at 9 a Clockl'^ca ^owJs ,* 
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 1 concluded we Iiad fiiot pall Port Defter Har- 
 bour in the Fog • for the Iflands and Rocks vvliicb 
 ue favv. were /V;#^«/;/, and other lllcs lying about 
 it, which lies to the Southward of the Harbour of 
 Tort Drfien Many Seals, Pcnguins,pied Porpoifes, 
 and feveralSea Fowls, fe/c. iecn today. 
 
 Tburfrlay, FeLr. -L^. Ha fey Weather ; Wind at 
 Weft north- wed, a freih gale. I lent Men up to 
 the Top mad- head to look abroad,* this Morn- 
 ing no f'ght of the Pink, I judge Hie mud be in 
 fort Defier : I weighed about 8 a Clock this 
 Morning, and dood to the Northward with my 
 Ship ; I went in my Pinnace along the fliore to the 
 Northward, whild the Ship fail'd in the Offing, 
 about two Leagues from the fhore : The flior-s- 
 fide is in Beaches and fcatter'd Rocks ; in many 
 places the Tide of Flood was with us : At the 
 North end of Seals Bay, lies a fmall rocky Illand 
 copling up like a Haycock. It is cover'd with 
 grey colour'd Fowls Dung,- a ver> drong Tide 
 runs here, between the Ifland and tlie Main , 'ciK 
 a little more tlian a Cables length from the Point 
 |oithe Main; there s a great many broken Rocks 
 jabout it by the Sea-fide.; here the main Land is 
 low and landy, up the Country in large Downs 
 and Hills, without Wood or Ireili Water any 
 wliere. On thisldand are abundance of Seals, and 
 Sea ^ owls ; we gave it the namjt; of Tomabaiikel- 
 Hand, from an /;/^/jw Club lod here, called by the 
 kdrihhe-Imfians at Surhmn> a Tow.ihnnke ':> 'tis^all a 
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 is eight Leagues to the North north-eaft: diftant 
 from it to the North- weft of this Ifland, is a deep 
 rounding Bay call'd in the Charts Spirings Bay^ 
 wherein he three fmall Tflands oi an indilterent 
 height: the Land in the Country over this Ba}', 
 is large high Hills ; Rocks lie in the North part 
 oFtlie Bay ^ I crofs'd it in the Pinnance.and found- 
 ed as I went over , and had 11 Fathom, rough 
 ground in the mid-vay: 'tis {^vcn Miles broad, 
 and near 3 Leagues deep; it rounds with a turning 
 up to the North north vvellward, behind a Pome 
 jartherthan T faw ; upon which rounding Point 
 fiand black Rocks , which make like a ragged 
 i3uilding, and a7ower in it. At my coming in 
 with the Land, I faifd clofe under this fliore with 
 my Boat ; the ihore is lleep , black Rocks , and 
 low Bays, with Pebble Hones and fandy Beaches; 
 green Grafs on the Hills, no Wood nor frcdi \\ a- 
 tcr to be (een ; at the North eaft Point of this 
 Spirings Bay, the Land makes out full like a fore- 
 land ; a fair high Land in large plain HHls , with 
 fandy fmall Bays .• at the '-\ice of this Foreland 
 lie fix rocky Iflands ; oneisaMusket fliotoff the 
 Main, the reft farther off; the outwardmoft is the 
 biggcft, a Mile from the Point of the Main, and 
 is called PerigtuH Ifland; it is mdiflerent high at 
 the ends, und low in the middle ; 'tis near three 
 quarters of a Mile long , North north eaft and 
 South-fouth weft, and near half a Mile broad Eafl 
 and Weft; it is all craggy Rocks, except in the 
 loweft part of the middle,which is gravelly, and in 
 the Summer time has a little green Grafs ; the great 
 black G an nets lay their Eggs here, and the Pen- 
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 the topsot thehighed: Rocks, and in the middle 
 otit; the number of Seals, Penguins and Sea- 
 Fovvlupon thefe Idands, is ahnoft incredible to 
 them that never faw them ; tor the multitude of 
 each Creature thats there daily, is numberlefs: 
 tl>e fix THands are full of Seals, but the Penguins 
 frequent the biggeft mod. I put afliore at one of 
 ihera, and took into my Boat three hundred Pen- 
 puins, in lefs than half an hour, and could have 
 taken three thou fa nd in the time, if my Boat 
 would have carried 'em ; for 'tis but driving 'em 
 r, Hocks to the Ihorc, by the Boat fide, \^here 
 It vo or three Men knock them on the head with 
 jlhort Truncheons, and the reft heave them into 
 the Boat ; the Seals will run over a man, if he does 
 inot avoid em : mean time the Ship was ftanding 
 othe Northward : About 1 Leagues off many 
 roken Rocks and foul Ground lie amonrr thefe 
 Hands, and without the Point oi theoutermoft it 
 makes a great Ripling, which is the ftrcngth of 
 he Tidejeverfed jrom the lilandscigainft the o- 
 lier Tide : to the Northward of thefe Idands is 
 Bay, four Leagues long, and a League and half 
 leep; in theNorthweft thereof lies theHarbour of 
 ^rtDefier,\\\\\c\\ v\'e could fee WomPeM^umlJlayids^ 
 earing North north weft Irom Pen^Min Jjland^t^u 
 ft Bant about 3 Leagues.- About the middle of this 
 |he Bay are fteep white Cliffs, near two miles long; 
 inllie upper part of the Cliff has black ftreaks 
 atlo'Vna fourth part, caufed by the Water drain- 
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 craggy Rocks on the Main like great Walls ; near 
 the lea there's a Tandy Cove, to hale a Boat up 
 in foul weather: the Cove isjuft under thele 
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 that the Pink might fee ir (he came along; the 
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 the iliorc for the lame purpofe.- Cold wcatiier : 
 This morning at 7 a Clock I manned both my 
 Boats, and went into the Harbour ; the Ship rode 
 moored at the Harbour- mouth,within iheMufcle. 
 bank, in llx Karhom at low water; I fent my Men 
 upon the Hills on the North fliore to iook a- 
 broad for the Pink, and made a Fire in the dry 
 Grafs, that The might fee the fmoak if flie were 
 thereabouts, but they could not fee her. I found- 
 ed the Harbour in many places to day at low wa- 
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 to ride in, provided they have good Cables anJ 
 ilnchors. I fcarched the Ihore, but iou nd noi 
 Wood, and very little I'refh water. On the HiLvi 
 and large Downs, very few Bullies, but dry, long 
 Grafs growing in Tults and Knots. The Soil is 
 gravelly and dry, in fome Valleys well mixt\vitii| 
 black Mould : no People, fire or fmoke but uui 
 own, to be fecn. 1 law fcveral places where rhc)j 
 had lain, behind Bufliesupon Grafs, which the\j 
 had plucked up, and that they had made fmail 
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 jay Wooil, Feathers, bones of Beads, and fliivers 
 of Flints. 1 went to a Flag which I left on a Hill 
 ycftcrday with Lkads at it, but finding no body 
 had been at it, let it ftand. No Beads feen any 
 '.vhere. except two Hares running overthe Hills : 
 This day we were taken up with viewing theHar- 
 bour,ib that we did not advance above a mile and 
 a half into the land. In the Valleys between the 
 Rocks grow abundance of wild Peafe, which had 
 rve°n leaves and bluifh bloffoms, both tailing like 
 crrccnPcafe leaves in/t;7g/^W growing on vines and 
 tangled together ; alfovery fweet fmelling herbs 
 much like Tares, very green, and white and yel- 
 low flowers; likewifc green herbs much likeSage, 
 but grow in knots near the ground like Lettice ; 
 Thele Herbs with the Peafe leaves, make a good 
 Sallad to refrelh fuch as were inclining to the 
 Scurvy; for want of which freili Trade feveralof 
 my Men were tailing into it. Here are abundance 
 of very good Mufcles and Limpets on the Rocks, 
 and an Ifland frequented by many Seals, and 
 Fowls : In the River were pied Divers as big as 
 Ducks,foine of 'em grey and black iliags; Ducks 
 and other fea-Fowls breed on them amongft the 
 .Rocks and Buflies. To day I went upon one of 
 thefe Tflands, and caught as many young black 
 Shags in their nefts as loaded the Pinnace ; when 
 I hdve difcover'd better the particulars of the 
 Fowls and other things feen here, I will mention 
 them hereattcr: Night coming on, and it begin- 
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 Pink: this day all the Company eat of young 
 Seals, and Penguins , and commended them for 
 good Food : I judged this a very fit Harbour to 
 fit the Ship in, for the main Maft mud be un- 
 rig'd, and a new gang of ilirouds fitted, and Bal. 
 lall be had ; and it might be a means to fall in 
 with the Pink j for from the tops of the Hills 
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 fhe iliould come near the Coaft: , wc couM not 
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 Valley clofeby the Water fide, in a gully above 
 the Ship, half a mile up the River ; the other up 
 a Valley between the Rocks, jufl a-brefl where 
 the Ship rode, about half a mile from the River's 
 fide, right from Coopers-Bay in the fame Valley; 
 thcfe Springs are but finall.and the Waters a little 
 brackiih or faltifli ; for in the dry Valleys the 
 Earth is naturally faltilli ; the Groun-^. and Rocks 
 have a white rhime of Salt petrc hanging on them. 
 I went into the Land z miles North weft , and 
 faw the Country hilly , and dry Land withoui 
 Wood or Water ; fome craggy Rocks and Valleys, 
 low, but dry and of a Salt-petre nature ; here and 
 there fome Bu flies with prickly Branches , and 
 Leaves like White Thorn Bufties in Etiglancl ; the 
 leffer Buflies have fmall dry Gauls growing on I 
 them, with a fmall dry Seed as hot in the Mouth 
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 velly and Tandy generally, with tutrs of dry iear- 
 
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 but iaw nothing but gravelly Sand and Rocks ; 
 
 no forts of Metals or Minerals ; I looked alfo a- 
 
 mong the broken Rocks for Metals, but favv no 
 
 fign oi any ; From the tops of the Hills I could 
 
 fee a great way into the Land, which is all Hills 
 
 land Downs lik^ Cornwall : toilfom travelling to 
 
 jthofe that were not ufed to it ; I could travel as 
 
 far in an hour as many of my Men couW in two • 
 
 Itoday we iaw nine Beads iceding on the Grafs, 
 
 very like Deer, but larger, and had longer Necks, 
 
 (but no Horns; reddiili colour'd on the Back and 
 
 aloft , whitifli under their Beilies and up their 
 
 Flanks ; when we had got within a Furlong of 
 
 Jthem they fell a neighing like Horfes, one anfwcr- 
 
 ^P |ed another, and then all run away. 
 
 Tuefday, March i. Fair Weather this Morning, 
 
 Wind at North, a fine gale and a cold Air. This 
 
 Forenoon I filled the Casks out of the Spring, and 
 
 them deeper : I fet up a long Pole with a 
 
 white Cloth upon it, on a Hill near a mile into 
 
 he Land, where 'twas mod likely to be feen by 
 
 he Inhabitants ; with it I left Beads, a Looking- 
 
 lafs, a Knife, a Hook and an Hatchet, to invite 
 
 he People ot the Country tolhew thcmfclves, for 
 
 was willing to lee 'em, that I might difcover 
 
 hat they had ; but though I went about the 
 
 ills this Afternoon, I could fee neither People, 
 
 ire, nor Smoak. I faw tiiree Oftriches, but could 
 
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 loofc upon 'em, who gave chafe to one of tliem, 
 and at lad gave her a turn, which (he recovered, 
 took to the Hills, and fo efcaped .- they are grev 
 coloured, and larger than a great Turky-cockin 
 England; thcy can't fly, but have long legs, and 
 truit to their running. I fa^v two handfuls of 
 Wooli among the Grafs, where the Natives had 
 made a Fire ; it was Sfanijh red Wool I. which 
 they bring out of India^ and very fine; I brought 
 it away with me, and fet the Greyhound at ^ of 
 the large Beads like Deer,but they were too fwift 
 for him ; Night coming on, I returned on board;at 
 7 a Clock this night the wind came to the North, 
 a freHi gale, and hafey weather; no f ght ofl 
 the Pink to day : T could fee a long way on the] 
 Sea ; at lo a Clock it rain'd, and the wind came 
 to the South Eajl. 
 
 Friday^ March 4. Fair weatlier this Morning,! 
 the wind at Ead, a fine gale, I went afliore and 
 filled freOi water,the reJl of the feamcn fitted Rig- 
 ging. This. day at r 2 a Clock I went with both the | 
 Boats, and forty Men to Seal Ijljnd into the har- 
 bour, every Man with his Stafi and Club : Wei 
 landed, drove the Seals up together, befet them 
 round, and in halt an hours time killed 403 
 young and old ;• flriking them on the headl 
 kills them prefently. As foon as they were knocktl 
 down we cut their tliroats, that they mghtj 
 bleed well whihl they were hot ; the'i loading bot!i| 
 the iioits with them, 1 carry 'd them to the Baj 
 where the Tent was, landed, and laid th^^n upon 
 the Rocks ; to night the Boat t'etch't them all 
 the great Male Seals are as big as Calls, and rej 
 
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 [lenible a Lion in their fliaggy Necks, Heads and 
 
 |[acc8, as well as in their Roar ; the Females are 
 
 like Lioncdes before, only they are hairy all over 
 
 ike a Horfe, and fmooth, and the Male is Imooth 
 
 |all over his hind parts ; their Ihape is very deior- 
 
 |med, for their hind part tapers till it comes to a 
 
 point, where grow two Fins or Feet, two more 
 
 m'^ out of their Bread ; lb that they can go on 
 
 jnd a great pace, and climb Rocks and Hills of 
 
 good height : they delight mnrh to lie and flcep 
 
 lalhore ,• Tome arc very large, iipv\ ards of cigh- 
 
 leen Foot in length, and thicker al)out than a i3ut 
 
 [n the Bilge,and exceiiive fat : there arethoufands 
 
 prtecn foot long, the common fort are about 
 
 [ji'e foot,and all very fat ; thcy'l gape at you when 
 
 jou come to them, as if they wou'd devour you, 
 
 Ind 'tis labour enough for two men to kill one of 
 
 he great ones with a Hand-lpikc, which is tlic 
 
 yk Weapon for that purpofe. 
 
 Saturday^ March 5-. Fair Wcatlier, Wind at 
 
 foutli-wefl:, a fine gale. This morning we went a- 
 
 lore to flay feme ^eals,and cut thcBodies in good 
 
 indfome pieces, and faked it up well in Bulk on 
 
 Deal boards aliiore, that the Blood might drain 
 
 bin it : tlie Meat looks as v.ell and as white as 
 
 .?.mb, and is very good Vicl'dals now, but when 
 
 [isa little fait, it will cat much better : thofe we 
 
 Irels'd were all young .Seals, lor tlu:yfuck"d their 
 
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 killed and eat, were as big as a niidiing Dog; u- 
 cut the fat off the Great ones, and made Oil of 
 it for the Lamps, and otiicr ules in the Ship jthe 
 Oil oi the young ones we tried, and eat with our 
 Provifions; it is very lucct and good to fry any 
 Food with ; our Men will have it to be as ^ood as 
 Olive Oil; mod of my Men to day gather d oi 
 thofe green Peafe leaves and otlicr Herbs for .Sal- 
 lads, which fome eat raw, fonie boil'd; it is re 
 frelhing to their bodies. 
 
 Sunday^ March 6. Blowing U'caihcr, Wind at 
 Weft : This day, atter i'rayers, I went a lliorc on 
 the South fide of the River, and travell'd eight 
 miles into the Land, South well and by Well, ha- 
 ving twelve armed Men with me ,- my Licute. 
 nantwent up the River, in the Boat, nine or ten 
 miles, to fee for People thai way ; my other Lieu- 
 tenant went on the North fide with ten armed 
 Men, to fee for I'eople and view tlie Land : I 
 found in my Travels one of thofe great Beallsjike 
 a Deer , dead and whole, the Vermin had not 
 touched him ; all his Back had pretty long Wool 
 of the colour of dried Rofe leaves, and down his, 
 fides, his Belly white Wooll ; he was as big as a 
 fmall Colt, he had a long Neck , a Head l.kc ai 
 Sheep, fo wa«^ his Mouth and Ears ; his Legs very 
 long , and Cloven tooted like a Deer , a fliortl 
 bulliy Tail of a reddidi colour ; no Horns nor e- 
 ver had anv. it w as a Male : T believe thefe Bead: 
 are Peruvian Sheep , (Gukanacoes^ 1 had his PauncI 
 opened, and fearched ior the Bezoar ftoneinitj 
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 Indian Spaniards {ly^ that they have taken the 
 ^ezoar Hone of Guianacocs, and therefore open'^^^r 
 this, which 1 take to be the fame Be all. In rra- 
 veiling to day I faw fevcral Herds of them lotne- 
 dmes ten thirty or forty together : T could not 
 get near enough to flioot at tlicrn .- They ne gh 
 like young Horfes, and fo wander av\a\ . I liv 
 nine Ollnches, but they would nor {\['m r m^ to 
 come within fliot oi them ; I lf.t the Greyhound 
 at them, but they out- run h.mup the Fills. V^'e 
 faw a Fox, a wild Dog, ?,nA five or fix Hares, of 
 which the Greyhound kdled one ; they nre fliap'd 
 like £«^///^ Hares, and much larger, and m lead 
 of a Tail, have a little flub about an incti long, 
 without Hair on it; they have holes in the ground 
 like Coneys .• no Woods to be feen onl\ a lew 
 Bullies like White-Thorns. The Land i«- dry, of 
 ifendy gravelly Soil, in large rounding Hills, not 
 very high, but in Downs and Valleys, bearing 
 nothing but Grafs ; here and there are gullies of 
 frelh water in the Valleys, which is made in the 
 Winter-time when the Snowdiflblves. I law le- 
 veral places of fait water in the Land, which is 
 occafioned by the natural faltnefs of the Earth: 
 Here are no Fruits nor Herbs. When I was at the 
 fartlieft, and on a Hill, I could not fee any (ign 
 ortBof People, or Woods, but dill Hills and Valhes 
 r e-Hasfar as we could defcry ; no Birds to be feen but 
 Kites, which are like thofe in Europe, and fmall 
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 venomous Creature ; Cattle would live here very 
 well, fuch as Horfcs, Cows, Sheep, Goats,fe'f. 
 Evening growing upon us, I returned to the ihip .. 
 and 'twas within Night when we got aboard our 
 Boat, and ten a Clock when we cnter'd the Ship; 
 I found on Board my Lieutenant that went up the 
 River, but they which went on the North/ide 
 were not comeback : up the River they fawfive 
 fmall Illands, which had Sea Fowls on them and 
 Bulhes for fcwel : the River grows broader up- 
 ward9,and hasfeveral Rocks in it .• on the (hore 
 they iaw Guianacoes, Oflriches and Hares; no 
 People, Fire or Smoak: they faw where people 
 had been, and Fires made, and Mufclesand Lum- 
 pets roafted : No frefli water, nor Wood, nor any 
 Metal or Mineral ; the Land hilly with Grafs on 
 it. At li a Clock at Night thofe that went 
 on the North fide came aboard ; they had been 
 about 8 miles into the Land North- wed, and 
 faw no people, but found where people had been, 
 and made Fires in the Grafs, and Grafs laid to 
 fire the Buihcs ; alfo where fome had lain on open 
 places, and fet little Bulhes in Half Moons,to Mj 
 ter them from the Weather : on the top of a Hill| 
 they made a fire with Grafs, to fee if any vvouli 
 anfwerthem ; they fat down by it all day, bui 
 could fee none made any where elfe. The Lan 
 is in rounding large Hills, not very high,but lifc 
 Downs, astheCoafl: on^ork/hirezhoutBurlingtoH^ 
 no Woods nor Trees feen, nor Frefli Water 
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 Odriches, Hares and Kites ; feveral 1 rtlc Lrea 
 tures like Etts ^ no kind oF Fruit or I3crrv, Mi- 
 neral or Metal. I charged them asthty Lravellcd 
 in any Gullies where water had run to fr arcn 'or 
 Grains of Gold, or other Metal. <^c. tor Goh^ ii 
 found iri Grains in (uch Gullies and much Ciold 
 is found in the Land on the other fide, noc tAci 
 hundred Leagues diUant from u% ; much Salt- 
 Pf^rf hangs on the Earth where VVatfr lias been in 
 
 ^P" la kind ot Flower : the Plillies of water thev met 
 ore 
 
 Ifaw Smelts iiere eighteen inches long lymgd' ad 
 
 jon the lliore ; but hitherto have not fc^n one 
 
 pyftcr, or other Shell fifti, Crawfilli Lobier or 
 
 rab, though 'tis poflible the place may have 'em 
 
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 Seal chafed on fliore a Filh 2i< h'-ge as a Mackrcl 
 
 ,nd like a Mullet j one of the men took it up, and 
 
 refled it, when he came on Board 'twas excel- 
 
 nt good. Here mud be a great quantity of Fidi to 
 
 aintain all the Seals, Penguins,and of her Fowls 
 
 lat live upon nothing elle, and yet are all 
 
 trcam fat, and innumerable in mukitude; be- 
 
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 ve feen Seals in this Eiarbour fwimmirig with 
 
 cir Heads above Water, with large Fiilun their 
 
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 hnJay^ March i ;. Indifferent Weather, Wind 
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 there the River grows broader, near a mile from 
 the North flic re over to the South, and conti- 
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 comes narrower, and turns away to the South- 
 weft ; at this turning is an Ifland of a mean height, 
 and Rocky, bearing fome fmall Euflies and Grafs: 
 I went upon it, and faw a Poft of five foot long 
 fet up Tit had been the timber of a ShipJ with a 
 piece of Board about a foot (quarc nailed to it, at 
 the foot of it one of my Men took up a piece of I 
 Sheet- Lead, and gave it to me, it had this In.[ 
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 (which we found by a long Plug that fluck in 
 the Hole^ with a Iheet of written paper enclofed 
 in it, but fo eaten by the Ruft of the Box, that 
 H'as not to be read. I cut out with my knife up- 
 on a Board the Ship's name, and the Date of the 
 Year and Month, which I nailed to the Poft j and 
 brought away the Lead with me, and named the 
 place Le Mairs Jjland: We found on it feveral 
 pieces of Boards, of the Wrecks o\ feme fliip that 
 e ofl had been burned ,• they were drove up here by 
 In<| the Tide : The people of the Country can't get 
 upon this Ifland. From hence I went on the North 
 fide of the River two miles into the Land ,* no 
 Trees to be reen,but many Oftriches and Guiana* 
 coes in many places. The Soil is marly and good, 
 the Hills not very high, but plain large Downs, 
 with Grafs on them all over. Digging in two or 
 three places I found Tandy dry Ground near a foot 
 deep, then Marie. In my opinion it might be 
 made excellent Corn ground, being ready to till .• 
 Tisvery like the Land owNew Muket Hcath-no 
 People to be {qqw. I fearched the Gullies and bro- 
 ken Rocks, for Grains of Gold or Minerals, but 
 found neither. I return *d to the Boat again, row- 
 ed farther under the Hiore, landed, and mounted 
 alleep high Hill to view the Country. On the top 
 of this rocky Hill grow fmall Bufncs. I could fee 
 [the courfe of the River a long way furtlier,and the 
 
 and all Grafs ,• here and there a white fpoc of 
 |Marle on the fide ot a Hill ; no people to be feen 
 
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 Vail^'V, and went all hands up the Land 3 miles ; 
 we Ijivv many Guianncoes and Ollnches, but could 
 not come within iliot of them- J faw the Foot- 
 flcpsor fjve Men that had been upon the Oar; 
 I meafured my Foot with them, which waslargcr 
 and longer by hair an inch than any of them ; we 
 couIJ not fee any people : it being near Night we 
 pluckrup Grafs, and laid it to the bed advantage 
 for ilickcr Here we lay all Night, keeping 
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 MhrJAy March 1 4. Fair weather, but cold.This 
 ninrnircT by day 1 ght we turn'd out, and march'd 
 into the Land Four miles S. W. b, 5. We could 
 not find any freih water. We made Fire on 
 t!)c Grafs but faw no fign of any People : we 
 {\.\ Gn'iiwacocs. Hares, Foxes, wild Dogs pretty 
 large ?^^c^ a grey C at, like an iinglifh one,running 
 U'^ the Hills : to day we caught an Armadillo -, the 
 L)ogs put her to ground : they have holes like 
 ^ oneys; wc foon dug her out, Was as big as a 
 great Hcdg hcg and not much unlike one. The 
 Armnd'illo is cafed over the Body with a f]";ell, 
 fliutting one under another like fliellsof Arm.our: 
 the Dogs cou'd not hurt her. We faw Rats in 
 manv places, and a kindoi Polecat, with z white 
 fircaks on the Back,all the reft black : our Dogs 
 killed x.\\o of them : they flink much, feveral 
 Qllriche.s, fome Partridges and many Kites .- the 
 Land in fair ////// without W^ood or frcfh water .- 
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 Mineral or Metal fecn. This afternoon we return- 
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 miles loMg^ which is dry at Low IVnter, and not 
 more than thirty foDt broad. It makes a fair 
 Illand of a mean heighrh, plain on the Top, and 
 I Grafj. growing all over it, but no IVoo^ nor IVater 
 I upon it : the greatcft part of it is a fandy marly 
 Uoil: 'tis two miles long, and half a mile broad : 
 the Greyhound killed tu o Hares on it prefe>tfly, 
 and we faw above twenty. I call'd it Hare Ijland: 
 it is adjacent to the South Shore ; eight miles up 
 lilie River from the narro'.v, I went down thcRiver 
 land went aboard. This Evening cold Air, wind at 
 Iweil, a (lout gale : towards morning it came to 
 fs'orth. I cannot perceive the Indians have any 
 jnoas or other Boats here. 
 March 14. Blowing weatlier, wind at wed. 
 ^Tefetcht all our things oH the niorc,and got the 
 ip ready to fail. 1 went alliore on the South 
 Idcto the peeked Rock^ and lound it a natural 
 fock, {landing on a fmail round Hill, as if it had 
 een huilt there by Man. Ji li.uli a Cleft on the 
 )pofit as big in circumference as a But : 'tis 
 ear 40 foot high above the /////it ftandsonjabout 
 ;lie little lumps of Rocks. I fiiw nothing elfc 
 [orth notice, fo I returned to the Ship -, the b:g- 
 pft (lick growing in or near this Harbour, or m 
 |e Countries as tar as we went, which was ic 
 lib, wou'd not make a Helve for a Hatchet, but. 
 lere are Bulhes which will ferve for firing at Sea: 
 [fore night I had all things on board, and the 
 f/^ fitted with intet.t to fail next morning, and 
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 places lio -n vv hc^nce 1 fetched Water, are fmall 
 Springs on tht^ North fide, out ot which I filled 
 nearlorrv > uns: the f^rft Sphng is on the North 
 fide as yoa enter the Harbour, half a mile up a 
 Vdle\ , in a Gully ol Rocks: it bears N- N.If. 
 fnm the jOAcr Rock: That we called ?€cktt% 
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 01 the faltWater'tis in a Gully. The Land in ihefe 
 Valleys has very green and fwect Grafs, and 
 abundance oF wiid Peafe. fmall Nut-galls growing 
 on the Bu:hes, but in no great quantity, and butB^i d. 56 m. 
 few BuHks: Salt may be had here 5 for onthelz/zW, Weft 
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 io take mfice, that this Day I take pojfejfion omLtzard, Weft 
 tkh Flarhour and River of Port Defier, and « Penguin Ijl, 
 all the Layid in this Country on both Shores^ /^''■47 ^. 55" w. S 
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 Saturday, March x6. Wind at Weft, a floutii;^ 30W. 
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 at fix a Clock when the Sun appeared above thelatitude of 4 
 Ea(l Horizon, the Moon fetinthe Weft YioxiZo^Mntagonia, 
 being cclipfed at London at Eleven a Clock, teil Saturday^ 1 
 minutes in the forenoon, but here at fix a Clocmnd at Nor 
 thirty minutes paft, which gives iour hours forti Day light, 
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 Heavens being clouded ; 1 find Cape B anco^ by 
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 69 d. 16 w. to the Weltward of the Meridian of 
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 South , and in Longitude from the Lizard, Weft, 
 61 d, s6 m. and in Meridian dif.ance from the 
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 47</. 48 m. South, and in Longitude from thel,/. 
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 April I. The Sweep flakes off of Seal's Bay in the 
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 it Day light, and fteered away South fouth weft, 
 
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 a fmal! flat Ifland to the Weftward of me, about a 
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 48 </. 40 M. South ; the Land againd it is high, in 
 large Hills, and fome large copling tops ; two 
 Leagues more to the Southward, the Land is low, 
 in a great Plain, and a Beach by the Sea fide, but 
 the ihore againfl this Ifland is rocky. I was two 
 Leagues Eaft from the flatlflind,and had twenty 
 three Fathom black Sand ; I haled clofe in for the 
 fliore, and fail'd within five Miles of it. All along 
 from this Ifland to Port St, Julian, I founded as I 
 fail'd along, and had 18 or 20 fathom fine black 
 Sand i the Land is low in a Valley j the Sea-fliore 
 is a Beach, here and there a Rock j it is in a long 
 Beach for four Leagues. After you are to the 
 Southward of the Flat-Ifland one League, the fliore 
 lies South-fouth-wefl:, and North north-caft ; at 
 the South end of this Beach inland are high round 
 Hills, but at the Sea-fide is a fl:ecp white Cliff, of 
 en indifl^rent heighth, with a black flreak in it j 
 over the Clifl^the Hill rounds up to the top, ha- 
 ving fome fmall black Buflies growing on the fide^ 
 no Wood or Tree feen. 
 
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 Mouth is in the middle of the Bay,but you cannot 
 fee it without,for one Point fliutting in the other; 
 you mud fend your Boat in to difcover the Har- 
 bour at Low- water, and the Bar without, for 'tis a 
 barred Harbour .• the Land in the Country over 
 Fort St. Julian, on the Weft fide, is high copling 
 round Hills, like blunt Sugar loaves on the top; 
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 as far as we could fee at this time .• this Afternoon 
 it proved 1 Calm ; I anchored in the Bay before 
 $t. Julian, in twelve fathom Water, black oary 
 Land, the Harbour's mouth bearing Weft fouth- 
 ^eft of me, about two Leagues ofH I fent in my 
 oat to difccver the Harbour, and fee if the Pink 
 as there,which returned to Night at fix a Clock; 
 y Lieutenant told me there was a fafe Harbour, 
 nd Water enough for a bigger Ship, but no Pink, 
 or any fign of her having been there i now I de- 
 spaired of ever feeing her more, after my hopes 
 ere fruftrated here ; neverthelefs I doubted not 
 e fuccefs of my Voyage, though the Company 
 ought 'twould be dangerous being a lone Ship, 
 ftormy Sea to fail in, and unknown Coafts to 
 arch out , and if we fliould happen to run a- 
 ound any where, could expedt no Relief; thefe 
 fpicions I foon put out of their Heads,by telling 
 em of the great Riches of the Land, and that 
 i^tain Drakt went round the World in one Ship, 
 hen in thofedays there were but ordinary Na- 
 ^atorsj and was it for us toqueftion our good 
 rtune, who beyond Companion are better Sea- 
 len, if we would put our felves in Ad-ion ; and 
 ir me, I would expofe no Man to more danger 
 n my felf in the Attempt. Calm to Night .• I 
 e fad, a fmall Tide running where I rode,- the 
 ater ebb*d near three fathom perpendicular .• it 
 near nine Leagues from the Flat Jfland to Saint 
 /j», South-fouth-weft and North north- eaft as 
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 the Lizurd, Weft 1 030 Leagues ; by an Amplitudcl 
 liere, the Compafs has varied \6ti.iom, Eaft. 
 
 IVednefday, April 1 3. Fair weather, Wind at I 
 Weft, a fmall gale. Frofty and co!d Air, nofign 
 of the Pink : I went afliorc and haled the Seync 
 on the Eaft fide; at the firft of the Flood wcl 
 caught fivt hundred Fifties, as big as large Mul. 
 lets, and much hke them, grey, and full of ScaiesJ 
 fome as big as a Man's Leg; we caught them alll 
 in four hours time, returned abroad, and dividedl 
 them among the whole Ship's Company .- they catl 
 admirably well. Many good Mufcles lie on the 
 Rocks, and Oyftcr fliells on the Shore-fide, and 
 growing in Veins on the Rocks, but no Meat in 
 them : Wind at Weft to Night, a frefli gale. 
 
 Monday^ April 18. Wind at South- weft, a llil 
 gale, Cold Air and fome Snow this Morning ,• tid 
 Winter is come ftrong and ftormy, fo that 'twill 
 be impoflible to hold the Coaft into the Strcightsj 
 for the Wind blows altogether from the Weil oj 
 Weft-foutherly , and in fuch Gufts as will force 1 
 Ship offthe Coaft. This day I order'd my Purfej 
 to ferve the Company Brandy wine for their Af 
 lowance , at a Quart per Week a Man : I got 
 Boats lading of the Wood of the Country aboarj 
 for firing ; to Night it blew hard at South- wellj 
 all the Company eat fait Seal, and Penguins f([ 
 their Allowance : fwcet and very good Meat, aii| 
 keeps well and long in Salt. 
 
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 |gile,and cold Air. This Morning I went alhore on 
 Ithe North weft fide with twenty Men, to the Salt- 
 Ipond, which is rufted all over like a Pavement, 
 Ltli very white and good Salt, two Inches thick, 
 Ifor two miles long : in February here's Salt c- 
 jnough to fill a thouland Ships ; we filled two Bags 
 and laid up near two Tuns out of the Water, lor 
 
 lerc was Water over the Salt, which began to 
 decay with the Rain and Weather being on it : 
 at Night I returned aboard, we brought is much 
 Salt with us as filled a Punchion, very good white 
 
 tone- fait, whiter than Fremb-Mty and of a very 
 plcaftnt fmell ; I faw fome Guianacoes,and Oftn- 
 ches ; the Hills and Valleys dry Earth, and Grafs 
 on them : on the higher Hills liei Snow, no Peo- 
 ple, but many places were they had made Fires, 
 and lain under a Buih for ihelter; no Mineral or' 
 
 letal, Trie, or Fruit. 
 
 Wednefday^ April ij, Clofe Weather, and little 
 
 Find ; a cold Air, it freezes hard, the Ice bears 3 
 
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 Thnrfday, April xS, Wind at Weft and by 
 
 )uth, a fine gale, cold frofty Weather. We un- 
 [ig'd the Ship, and made all fnug, intending to 
 
 Winter in this Harbour ; the Ice will not fuffer us 
 bpafs the Streights ; the Windi are foftormy, and 
 perally, out of the Wcftcrn quarter ; the Nights 
 [0 long and cold , that the paflage is impoilible 
 bis Winter. The Port I found fafe to ride in, and 
 refreihmeat to be had of Fowls , as Ducks, 
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 hav^e the year before us, and the Sun in the Sou- 
 thern Signs, which will give long Days and fliort 
 Nights, and temperate Weather; Wind at North- 
 north eaft this Evening, and Rain: it blew a great 
 f^orm to Night, the Boat funk at the Ship s ftern, 
 and loft the Oars. Lefs Wind towards Night, and 
 vcared to the Weft. 
 
 Friilayy May 6. Wind at Weft north weft, a fine 
 gale. I went a-ftiore on the North weft fide with 
 thirty Men, and travelled feven or eight miles up 
 the Hill, fav/ no People : the Land is great Grafs- 
 Downs in moft places ; and on the tops of the 
 Hills, and in the Ground are very large Oyfter 
 fheils, they lie in Veins in the Earth. and in the firm 
 Rocks; and on the fides of Hills in the Country; 
 they are thebiggeftOyfteMhells that ever I faw; 
 fome fix, fome feven Inches broad, yet not one 
 Oyfter to be found in the Harbour ; whence I con- 
 clude, they were herG when the Earth was formJ 
 cd : no fign of Mine or Metal, no Woods or Tree, | 
 We found a good Spring of frcfh Water up in the 
 Hills, it drams into fait Water- fwaihes .• We faw| 
 feveral Salt-water Ponds fix mile: in the Land 
 made by the faltnefs of the Earth; we faw Oftri-I 
 ches, Guianacoes, and a Fox. I made a Fire on the 
 top of the higheft Hill, but could fee no anfwerJ 
 I returned aboard with my Company very weary; 
 fome ot my Men fctch'd Salt to day. Fair Wea- 1 
 ther to Night. 
 
 Fri//ay, May 13. Indifferent Weathet, Wind at I 
 Weft fouth-weft, a fine gale. This day wefetch'd 
 Salt ; A Gentleman ot my Company, Mr. Johnl 
 tVooJ, walking on the /JlanJ ofjuftke^ found three 
 
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 Ifmall pieces of Gold-wire in two Mufcle-iliells : 
 Lhich Shells were made together by a green Gut- 
 [firing: the Gold was to the value of two (hillings 
 |£»^///^. and had been hammered, the Wire as big 
 js a great Pin. 
 Monday, June 6. Cloudy cold weather, Wind at 
 South -weft, a frefh gale. This day I went a-fliore 
 ivirh fixteen Men , and trtivelled ten miles Weft 
 Into the Land ; the Hills there are cover'd with 
 Snow : 'tis very cold, we could not go any fur- 
 ther for Snow ; and the Air is fo cold that we 
 ^ould not endure to lie on the ground : on the 
 U\ that I was on, we could fee nothing but Hill 
 eyond Hill ; no Woods, nor Trees, nor Bufhcs , 
 Igrafs Downs: the Land is flat 01 the tops of 
 [he Hills ; frefli Water runs down in fevcral places, 
 lhich is melted Snow,an4 when the Water leaves 
 unning, there's no Snow. I faw many Guiana- 
 cs and Oftriches ; no People or fign of any : 
 [lofe by the water- fide we faw many places,where 
 hey had lain on open Hills in the Snow,ancl fome 
 Ikes where they had kill'd and eat Guianacoe s 
 y Oftriches ; they make but fmall Fires with 
 |ttle fticks ; I do not find they roaft their flefh at 
 dem, for we faw fome raw Flelh hanging to the 
 (ones, whicli they had gnawed with their Teeth : 
 neir Fires are only to warm their Children's Fin- 
 fers, as we imagine. I gather* d fome hand fu Is of 
 kanacoes Wool! that lay here : I am perfuadcd 
 pe People muft needs fee us travelling to and 
 every day, but won't come near or be feen by 
 s: they live like wild Beafts, or rather worfe, for 
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 Land is a dry gravelly Soil, with Sand, and in 
 many places a Marie two Toot below the Surface- 
 the Grafs, which is dry, grows in knots, not very 
 long but thick ; in the Valleys the Earth is of a 
 Petery or nitrous Nature; Oftriches feen ; nofign 
 of Metal or Mineral ; I and my Company havel 
 looked in moft places where we travdl'd for it \ 
 To Night we got down but very weary. 
 
 Tuejc/ay, June 7. Clofe dark Weather , Wind] 
 
 at North eaft and by Eafi:, a fair gale ; A ncv 
 
 Moon to day, fine Weather to Night, but cold; 
 
 the Stars near the Pole Antartick are very vifiblej 
 
 fome of the fmall Stars in the Conftellation of 
 
 little Hydra are near the Pole ; Here are man^ 
 
 good Stars riear the Pole, good for Obfervation 
 
 of the firlt and fecond Magnitude: the Star atthJ 
 
 South end of Ariadne, the Star at Hydras Hem 
 
 the Star in the Peacocks Eye , and the Star 
 
 Tucans Bill , and the Stars in tucans thigh (]iii 
 
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 foot of Centaur us and Crofters ; the other Stafi 
 
 are of the third , fourth and fifth Magnitude | 
 
 The two Clouds are feen very plainly, andi 
 
 fmall black Cloud , which the foot of the Cm 
 
 is in, is always very vifiblc when the Crofiej 
 
 are above the Horizon, as they are alway hcJ 
 
 in thefe Latitudes. The Heavens in this SoutI 
 
 Hemifphere are as the Heavens in the North Hj 
 
 mifphere ; but no Stars within eighteen degrej 
 
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 tor ftirring Men; I have not had my Finger ached 
 as yet ; ft Man hath in excciltnt (lomach here; I 
 can eat Foxes and Kites as favourily as if it were 
 Mutton ; every Fox and Kite as we kill, we eat, 
 which is ever now and then one killed. Nothing 
 comes amifs to our flomachs.; not one Man com- 
 plains oF cold in his Head, or of Coughs. Young 
 Men well grown, and of good ihape, are mod fit 
 for this Country, it being a dry and an hungry 
 Air, and Provifions to be got with pains. The 
 Oftriches are nothing fo big as the Oftriches in 
 hriaryy nor of the Colour nor Feather ; thefe are 
 grey on the Back, and ihaggy Feathers of no ufe, 
 and the Feathers on their Bellies are white ; they 
 have long Legs and fmall Wings ; they cannot 
 atthBfly; they have a long Neck, and a fmall Read , 
 ?^w«and beaked near like a Goofe ; they are much like 
 ar \mi great Turky-cock, and good lean dry Meat and 
 fweet. To Night I came aboard ; it blew frelli ac 
 W'eft. 
 
 Wednefilay , "June i^. Wind at Wefl-north- 
 weft , a (lout gale. This day J. went alliore ori 
 the Eaft-fide, faw no People. This day Mr, John 
 Waod went aihore on the Wefl ride,and three Men 
 li him ; they were armed ; they travelled into 
 he Land Weft and by North about four Miles ; 
 here they faw feven People of the Country on 
 Hill, itiaking a noife and wafting them to the 
 hip: Our Meri went up the rife of the Hill to 
 egre>hem ; three of the Indidn Men came to Mr. V/00^^ 
 ar, fcth their Bows ^nd Arrows in their Hands, and 
 in tlBloofe Skin about their Bodies, and a Furr-skin 
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 about their Heads,and pieces of Skins about their 
 Feet, and all the other parts of their Bodies na- 
 ked ; they were painted red and white on their 
 Faces; they would not come fo near as to let our 
 Men touch them , but (Icppcd back as you mo. 
 ved forward; they continuing their noife , and 
 wafting with their Hands towards the Ship, and 
 kept talking, but no Man could undcrlland 
 them : they repeated Ozfe, Ozfe^vQxy often. They 
 have an hardi Spcccii, and fpeak in the Throat; 
 they received any thing that you cad to them on 
 the ground. Mr. Wood gave them a Knife, and a b Sunday 7 
 Shafh, and a Neckcloth, and a Bottle of Brandy |B]-|jg Gumn 
 they would not drink; Mr. IVood could not per- Irs two h 
 ceiveany Bracelets they had, or any thing about tiYed alJ th 
 them fave their Skin. They are People of a middle tod Meat * 
 ifature, and well fliaped ; tawny Olive-colour'd, 
 black Hair, not very long: they feem to be of 3 
 rude Behaviour; for they returned nothing t(3f 
 what they received, nor took no notice ot any 
 thing ; the reft of their Company flayed at the 
 Hill: they can endure much cold; for their Legs, 
 Buttocks, and lower parts are naked. Mr. IVod 
 was taller than any of them^and he judged theeldie taken not 
 eft of the three to be upwards of Ibrty years oIcIM'q/j^'j-jj^. 
 the other thirty. They feemed to be very fearfulH,^e rottino- 
 they took their own time, and went away intotliMuii^gjj j^g^f'* 
 Land. Mr. JVood returned aboard and acquaintfcfi PeonJe' 
 ed mc with what he had (een. This Night wftrk and a* 
 iaw a Fire in tlie Hills. It blew hard to Night aftjp 'jj^^j , 
 Weft:. They have fmall Dogs with them ; themght. 
 would nor have come near our People, if they hail Suftdav 7 
 not fallen accidentally into the Hills and Valley* '^ ' -'^ 
 
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 with them. I have thought that they have heard 
 of the cruel dealings ot the Spaniards^ and dare 
 not trufl: us. . 
 
 Saturday^ July 1. Wind at Wed, a fine gale. I 
 went afliore on the Eaft-fide ,- we killed a great 
 Guianacoe with the Greyhound. I looked in his 
 Paunch for the Bezoar-ftone, but found nothing. 
 I travelled to and fro, but favv no People.* I faw 
 where People had made Earthen Pots , and had 
 glazed them, for there lay fome of their fluff run 
 together. At Night I went aboard. 
 Sunday^ July 3. Wind at South, clofe Weather. 
 ^YiBThe Guianacoe weighed, cleaved in his Quar- 
 ?er- Iters, two hundred an'd fifty Pounds neat. He 
 jferved all the Company for a days Fledi, and is 
 good Meat. 
 thurfday^ July ix, Clofe Weather, and little 
 ind at North and by Weft. I went up to the 
 sad of the Harbour, but faw no People: There 
 in the Fullers Earth ClifFs at the head of the 
 arbour, a Vein made like rotten Ifing-glafs 5 I 
 cg5*ook fome out , but cannot find it good tor any 
 ^rocMjiing .' I digged in the Cliff, but faw nothing to 
 2el(l«eraken notice of. I faw in two places pieces o[ 
 I'loor Timbers of a Ship; they have Iain a long; 
 be rotting. We faw that the biggell: of thele 
 julhes here, have been cut down by fome Chri- 
 liaa People. I faw wooden Plates, and a piece ot 
 ]ork, and apiece of an old Oar ^ fome Chnllian 
 liip had been here formerly. I lay alhorc ro 
 ight, 
 
 Sunday, July ?i. Fair Weather, Wird at South- 
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 in England in the height of Winter, and the Air 
 rather fliarper and dryer ; 1 hate now twelve Men 
 lame with the cold, and their Legs arid Thighs 
 are turned as black as a black Hit, in fpots, tlic 
 cold having chilled the Blood ', yet they ufe ba- 
 thing and fluping thofe places, and all that they 
 can to prevent, but it rather encrcufeth on them 
 than otherwife ; Thefe are fuch People as I could 
 not make llir by any means i they that ftir are as 
 well as any Men in the World can be. 
 
 TueJday^Auguft z. Clofe Weather, Wind atSoudi 
 wcfl, a gale and cold Air. We fall on fitting ofl 
 our Rigging and getting the Ship fit: HercareL , . 
 hundreds ot Guianacoes in companies near theB , "^ » 
 Water- fide; my Greyhound is lame ^ fo that Ican*^?^ ^ '' ^^'^ 
 not make her run ; aifo here arc many 0(lriche3M°lp°^^>"^"< 
 together with many green Plovers at the WaterB^^ ![1^^ "^^ 
 ride,and fome Swans but not full fo large asoursM^ ^ "Y""' ^ 
 They are white, favea Mack Head, and half tlil|''^.^}^y^cad 
 Neck and Legs black ; Here are fome white GeelB? n' f, ^^ 
 as European Gecfcj the Brant-Geefe are ^^mi^-^^^* 
 white, Ibme black and grey j The Mallards aolj^^^^^ ^^^ 
 Ducks are grey^ and the Teals are grey. m\^ couple 
 
 Tuefday, Auguft i. Clofe Weather, Wind Jf ^^ ^^^/^le 
 Weft and at North wefl, a fine gale. I fent tf ., S' and m 
 Boat for Water to a Swalli on the Eaft llde ; t J^^^^^e of 
 
 f'^ey were 
 
 of my Men faw two of the People of the Cod 
 
 try on the Eafl-fide behind a Bufh j my Men wMT^ ;*ye - 
 toward them ; they went away and left a bun(ll|°^^ •' ^^J,^y 
 of Skins under the Buflifmy Men made fignsf^.^'"^^ fo« 
 fpeak with them, but they would not ftay^ *^^°'_^ioin 
 Men did not go after them but fat down, till,, ^^day^ . 
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 ture :my Men brouglit the bundle aboard to fliew 
 it to me, and two mungrel Dogs, which were cou- 
 pled togetlier. I opened the Bundle and it was 
 fevcral bags of Skins, with red Earth and white 
 Earth, and Soot or Paint in a Bag; this is the 
 Trade they paint themfelves with ; they had 
 Flint Hones and Arrow heads in the Bundle. I 
 fearched the Bundle all over to fee for Grains of 
 Gold, but could not find any; There ware Brace- 
 lets of Shells, and bits ol ilicks, and braided 
 Thongs, and Arrows, and Mufcle-fliells, and Ar- 
 madillo ihells, and a fmall point of a Nail in a 
 Hick for a Bodkin .- Their Skins were pieces of 
 Seal-skins, and pieces of Guianacoe-skins, fewed 
 together with fmall Guts j all very old and full 
 [of holes,and fmelt of greafe : There were pieces 
 I of Flints made fad with a green Gut, in the fplit 
 of a Hick, which they hold fad to knock their 
 Arrow-heads into (liape : There were aifo pieces 
 of Sticks to get Fire with. This was all that was in 
 the Bundle J it was mide fart: with Leather thongs 
 braided round like Whip cord, and the Dogs 
 were coupicJ with fuch ftrings; the Mufcle- 
 fcls are their Knivcs. I pui all things up in the 
 [Bag, and made it fall:. Their Dogs are much of 
 ItheRace oiSpanifh Dogs; a good large mungicl 
 ICur, but very tame ; any Man might handle them; 
 Ithey were grey in colour, and painted red in 
 Ifpots : they were very lean ; there were two great 
 IStavcsof four foot long, which was tough (iane 
 |ia lliort joints : 1 carried them a-fliore next day. 
 
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 Weft into the Land ten or twenty miles farther: 
 The Land all dry, with Grafs, and Budies in fome 
 places like Thorns ; the Hills high, and many, 
 and Snow on the tops ; no Woods, nor Trees to 
 be fcen : Frefli- water comes running out of the 
 Hills in a fine Rivulet ; no Fruit j many fedgy 
 Bullies grow on the Brink, and brave green Grafs, 
 and a green Herb of a pretty flrong hot tafte j 
 fome Teal in the Water,and Water-birds. This is 
 all I faw about the Rivulet, Many large Ponds 
 in the Country , but fait Water in thofe Ponds. 
 Wc faw Fowls like Herons,but all red ; in the Val- 
 leys ive faw hundreds of Guianacocs in a compa- 
 ny, and twcnt}' Oftriches: fome Hares and fome 
 Partridges, greyer and bigger than ours ; fome 
 Snipes and fmall Birds; feveral Penne-wrens: we 
 iiw feveral Kites, and fmall Hawks, and Owls; 
 vv'c caught two Armadijloes : I faw two FoKes and 
 a wild Dog, and many Brant Geefe: the Land is 
 in Rills and Vallevs a^. far as we could fee, and 
 bad travelling on Foot ; the Soil is gravelly and 
 dry Sand, ot a Salt pcLre nature ; the Grafs in 
 fome places long and dry, and in fome places Ihort 
 and dry; the Hills are rounding aloft like large 
 Downs : We faw red Earth in fome places, fuch 
 as the huUans ufe ; v;e faw the Footfteps of Peo- 
 ple in many places in the Clay, and places where 
 they had been, and had killed Guianacoes, and 
 made a Fire there ; I gathered Guianacoes- Wooll, 
 ^ndi OHriches Feathers were fcatter'd about the 
 place, and Bones : there lay the Skulls of three 
 People, no ficfii on them ; they were very clean, 
 •;iud no larger than the Skulls of Ei^ropean Men; 
 
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 fmooth and even Teeth, dole fet ; one of thofc 
 Skulls was broken. Whether thefe People be 
 Man-eaters or not,l cannot tell ;Ijudge they have 
 Wars one with another , by realbn here are fo 
 lew People in this great hand, and Food enough 
 to live on, and the Land all clear and good Pa- 
 llurage tor Cattle, and no Mountains. In all the 
 Land there arc Plains and grafly Meadows: here 
 wants only Wood to build with ; if that were 
 here, it would be as good a Land .s any part of 
 America^ for the Country is very healthy. This 
 Afternoon it rained, and was very thick and fog- 
 gy, fo as we could not tell which way to go, al- 
 though we had a ('ompafs with us ,• for there h 
 no going into the Land without one, becaufe a 
 Man will mifiake his way, theCouiury is (b open 
 •n great Plains and Downs : We were very mucli 
 wet and cold ; JVe got to Bullies, and there made; 
 a Fire and dried our felves : we flayed here all 
 Night; we neither heard nor law any thing to 
 Night. 
 
 Tuefday^ Septemler i. 1670. Ciofc ha fey Wea- 
 Ither^he Wind at Nortii, a iinall gale, lb as I could 
 [not Sail this day; we tried for Filli , but cauglic 
 none, the Water is lb cold. I was on the Land, 
 [when I was at the farthefl, twenty five miles 
 Weft- north- weft from the Harbour- mouth ; and 
 jail things as I faw I have mentioned, excepting 
 Ifome fmall Creatures like Efts, which run in the 
 Grafs. No manner of Snake or venomous Crea- 
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 pen to receive any Inhabitants from forein Parts, 
 and large enough to fatisfie the Undertakers. 
 The Land would produce European Grain, if 
 planted here, and breed Cattle. 
 
 Septemler i6' I confidering my Men, being 
 very weak, thought it mod fit to go for Port De- 
 fer and there to refrefh the Men, for I knowing 
 there I could have what Penguins and Seals I 
 would have, which are good Provifionsj alfoldo 
 intend to fait up a quantity of each, to carry to 
 vSea with me to lengthen out my Provifions.Thi'; 
 Forenoon 1 (leered trom St. Juliaf? North- north- 
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 Defter : This Night it was a fmall gale, and vee- 
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 make my cafieSail in the Night, for fcarof run- 
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 light. 
 
 Weayiefefay^ September ri. Fair Weather to day, 
 the Wind veerable round the Compafs. This 
 Morning I had both the Boats laden with Seals, 
 and Penguins and Penguin-eggs j ten Men may 
 kill ten thoufand 'Penguins in lefs than an hours] 
 time; the Seals and Penguins are numberlefs;. 
 a Man cannot pafs on the Iflsnd for them. Thi 
 Fining I got on board and landed our lading a 
 fliore ; fair Weather to Night. '?^he Eggs an 
 very good Nourifliment, and the Fat fervcs tor 
 ^o the Lamps. 
 
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 Friday, September 30. 1 he Wind at North this 
 Morning; this forenoon it came to the South- 
 ead, and blew hard, and rained. This day I went 
 up the River about ten miles, and Don Caroh^s with 
 me, and ten Men to fee for People : we Jay out all 
 Night on the South- fide, but faw no People; this 
 Night the People ot the Country came to our little 
 Well, which is up in the Valley, and dole an Iron 
 j'ot, and three fuits of Cloaths of the Mens, that 
 kere laid there a drying , with fome other Lin- 
 nen; but did not meddle with the Beads, which 
 are hung up on a Pole on the Hills, and they will 
 not come near it nor meddle with it. The Peo- 
 ple of the Country have made in a Valley , the 
 Itorm of the Ship in Earth and Buflies, and fluck 
 lup pieces of Sticks for Ma(l«; , and rf:6dtd the 
 IBulhes all over with red Earth ; the Mode! I ima- 
 jlne is to record our Ship , for they cannot 
 have any Records but by imitation : This Fancy 
 le let alone untouched, only 1 laid a (Iring or two 
 of Beads on it, and came away .* Clofe Weather to 
 Jight. Tliefe People mud certainly have recei- 
 i^ed fome Injury in former times, from fome Peo- 
 ple that have been here in Shipping, otiierwife 
 [hey would come in fight of us ; or elie they have 
 prd of the cruel dealings of the Spam.^rds to- 
 ward th^ Indians^ where they lived near. I have 
 [fed all endeavours pollibly by fair means to have 
 Conference with them, but all is in vain. 
 
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 and are luRy and fat, thofc which had the Scurvy 
 are got very well with eating of IrelhMeat, and 
 fuch green Herbs as they can get on the fliore, as 
 green Peaie-leaves and fuch trade; they mince it, 
 fry it with Eggs and vSeal-oil ; and it hath raifed 
 every Man in as good health as they were at our 
 coming out oF F.ntjand. We fare very well, and 
 have great plenty of good Provifions. Here is 
 Frovifion enough of Seals and Pcnguini", il fal: 
 be plenty, to lade Ships. I can confidently iav 
 tliat on the IJlafjf/ of Pefiguirts there are more Seal: 
 and Penguins at this prefcnt, than three hundredj 
 Tuns ot Cask can hold , when drefs'd ^.nd lalt 
 edjicfidcs what are going off and coming on. Ii 
 i?.ny Men fliould have occafion fov Providonso 
 rieHi, if they have Salt, here they may furnill 
 themfelves with what quantity fliali feem fit fo: 
 them, and I can affure them it will lad four Month: 
 fweet, if not longer, if care be taken in bleeding, 
 and dreffing, and falting, as I have prefcrib'd b 
 tore ; the Salt may alfo be had at Saint Jidid. 
 Salt-pond in Summertime ; alfo I believe that Sail 
 may be had at Port Defter in the Summer-time/oi 
 here is fome dried Salt on the holes of the Rocks 
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 and let in Salt-water, and fo make Salt, as I hav 
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 and eating of Fifli,which he dives for, and is ver] 
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 figiin out of the Narrow as well as I could ; t!ie 
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 or this Narrow or Streight , rounds up to the 
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 there goes in a Harbour which hath four Fathom 
 in thcChaunel, at High-water ,• it is a flat round 
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 hur. When you are at the Weft- part of this Nar-I 
 row, you will (ee three Iflands come open, which! 
 ihew to be fteep up Cliffs: they lie Trianglc-\vife| 
 one of another ; they are four Leagues diflanij 
 from the Narrow, Weft-fouth-weft .- The fmalleil 
 and Eaftcrnmoft Ifle is call'd St. Bartholomews ; thg 
 biggeft. and Wefternmoft is call'd Ellzahetljs ; thd 
 middle- moft and Southernmoft is call'd St.George'si 
 and by fome Pengu'msJjle , and indeed there m 
 many Penguins on it. This Evening I got up id 
 Elizabeth's^ and anchored in eight Fathoms ad 
 an half fine black Sand, two miles off'the Ifland 
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 [rows, and their Skin-Coats, which are made of 
 im^^Guianacoes skins; I gave them a Hatchet and 
 fnlves, and Beads, and Toys, Trumps, ©c they 
 ^ein'd to be very well pleafed ; I lliew'd thetn 
 [old, which they would have had ; T made chcni 
 ^s, that if they had any , I vvoukl give them 
 iives and Beads, &c. for it, or it any where in 
 lie Land. I laid Gold and bright Copper into 
 lie Ground, and made as if I found it there, and 
 y to and fro on the Earth as if I looked for 
 Ich things ; they looked one on another and 
 Ue to each other Ibme words, but I couki nor 
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 prthat they knew Gold , or any other Metal; 
 key would gladly have had every thing they faw ; 
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 ones , and would have carried it away ; I let 
 km alone , and obferved their adions and be- 
 mour, which was very brutidi .- They catch'd 
 everything they could reach,althoughIcaurcd 
 [em to fit down, and I put itrings of Beads about 
 eir Necks ; ftill they .defired more .- My Lieu- 
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 Ifeveral of my Men did dance with them, and 
 rieall the ftiew of Friendih'^. as was pollibie: 
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 and redded all over their Bodies with red Eai 
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 ievved together, and fewfed foft • their Garment 
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 )r according to the largenefs of the Perfon ; this 
 [hey wrdp about their Bodies, as a Scotriflo Man 
 ioth his Pladd'mg : they have a Cap of the Skins of 
 "owls, with the Feathers on ; they have about 
 pieir Feet pieces of Skins tied to keep their Feet 
 rom the Ground : they are very hardy people to 
 [pdure cold, for they leldon' wear tliis loofe skiri 
 I'heii they arcftirring, but are al) naked of Body 
 rom Head to Feet,and do not fhrink for the wea- 
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 [airon their Bodies nor Faces, nor any thing to 
 [over their Privy Parts, excepting fome of the 
 I'omen which had a Skin before them ; other- 
 fife the Men and Women are cloathed alike ; 
 ily the Men have Caps and the Women none : 
 ^he Worhen wear Bracelets of Shells about their 
 fecks, the Men none : the Men are fomewhat 
 (rger than the Woinen in (lature, and more fu\\ 
 ic'dj the Men have a harfli Lanj^uage, and 
 :ak ratling in the Throat, and grofs, the Wo^ 
 bfhriller and lower : they pronounce the word 
 irfdy but what it means 1 could not underfland, 
 5r one word they fpake. If they did not like 
 ly thing, they would cry Ur, l/r, ratling irt 
 ;ir Throats : their food is what they can get, 
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 they had no refpedl to any one, nor under any 0- 
 
 bedience oF any in this Company ; neither did 
 
 they make any (liew of VVorfliipping any thing, 
 
 either Sun or Moon, but came dircdly to us at 
 
 our firft going on Land making a noife, and every 
 
 Man his Bow ready (trung,and two Arrows a Man 
 
 in their Hands. Their Bows are about an Ell long, 
 
 and their Arrows are near eighteen Inches long, 
 
 and neatly made ot Wood, and headed vvithTlint 
 
 flones, neatly made broad Arrow-lafhion , well 
 
 faflned to the Arrow ; and the other end is feather. 
 
 ed with two Feathers, and tied on with the Gut 
 
 of fome Bead, when it is green and moifl ; tlie^^g j.^ r • 
 
 Bow-firing is fome twilled Gut. Thefe People»Q^ y ^ 
 
 have very large mungrcl Dogs, much like the>racwQj.f|j^g/i ' 
 
 of Span'tjh Dogs, and are of leveral colours : I diiBy j^ j^ •' 
 
 not fee any other domeflick Creature they haveMj^y^ ^^ • 
 
 neither could I at this time fee their Boats; ^^arpcnters v 
 
 they lay at the other end of the liland, next tii»ter/ide sro 
 
 Main ; they waited on this Idand for an opportU'" •■ - ° 
 
 nity of fair Weather, to go to the other liland: 
 
 for Penguins, there being great numbers of iWi^ 
 
 Birds of the fouthermoft of the three Iflands, a: 
 
 many other white-breaftcd Divers. 
 
 ohoher 30. To Night I anchored in a fmal 
 Bay in eleven fathom Water, gravelly Ground 
 half a mile off the Shore ; no Tide runs here 
 to thwart up a Ship ,• the Water rifeth and fa 
 perpendicular ten Fecc. This Bay hath two 
 vulets of frefli W^ater in it , and good Timbei 
 trees of eighteen Inches through, and near fori 
 Feet long : the Wood is much like a Beech,- he 
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 he Woods are very thick and green , and m ich 
 Id Wood lies on the Ground, fo as there is t\6 
 ravelling into the Woods. I was alhore looking 
 and fro here three hours : I call'd this Frefl?- 
 'iter Bay ; thiisis near nine Leagues to the South- 
 ard of Sweep/lakes Bay. Sand-point is a mead 
 w Point, lies out more than the other Points of 
 e Shore, and few Trees grow on it. 
 It is fix Leagues from Frejh- water Bay^ to Port 
 m South and North from the one to the point 
 the other: that neareft Port Famen cannot be 
 n, as you come from the Northward, till you 
 me to bring the Point S. Anne up on the North- 
 left of you, for the Bay lies up in a little hook 
 lorth weft, and the Land on the Weft fide of the 
 y is low in a Point, and Tandy, and fome Graf^ 
 ows on it, and much drift- Wood lies on it like 
 arpcnters-yard .* a little within Land trom the 
 aterfide grow brave green Woods,and up in the 
 Keys, large Timber-trees, two foot throughout 
 id fome upwards of 40 Feet long ; much like our 
 ch timber in England., the Leaves of the Trees 
 like green Birch-tree Leaves, curioufly fwcet ; 
 Wood Ihews in many places is if there wxre 
 ntatioris : for there are feveral clear places in 
 Woods, and Grafs growing like fenc'd Fields 
 ngland ; the Woods being focven by the fides 
 and on Point Saint Anne as you come 
 from the Northward , you will lie good 
 es and tall Trees grow on the very point of it : 
 s Point is rocky on the Shore-fide, but no dan- 
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 Here is good Wooding and Watering, and l^y 7imb( 
 good catching of Filhwith the Seyne or Net. !■ ' ^^j.^ 
 haled above ^roo large Fiflies aihorc at oncB. ^jjg pp. 
 Hale, much like a Mullet, all icaly Fiihcs. HereK-QQj jj^, . 
 are many large Smelts of lo Inches long, andftjech! Hei 
 many Anchovies, and fome fmall ^cates-lg ^-^^^ • ; 
 Here is great plenty of Filh, fo much as we ^eedtjf fi^^Q^^' 
 wholly on it, and fait up much of the MltM^^rr . there 
 and Anchovies. Here grow many Trees of goodBj^ouid not 
 large Timber forty inches through: the LeavAjmy ^\^^^ 
 are green and large, much like Bay- tree Leaves i*,,, .^j ^^ 
 England^ the Rind is grey on the outfidc aniefome He 
 pretty thick fined. This Rind or Bark ot thelMQ^ (j^jj^j-jj^ 
 Trees, if you chew it in your mouth, is hottcM(jpj.gfty ^,^ 
 tnan Pepper, and quicker. It is of a fpicy/w/ftj of a era' 
 when it is dry. I cut of the Bark and made uftg^j brown 
 of it in my Peafe, and other provifionsinfteadoBroQjj s^^^ 
 Spice, and found it very wholeiomc and goodl-QQ^j^ ^ 
 wc (Iccpcd it in our water, and drank it, andiBj^^j jjjj ^i 
 gave the water a pretty flavour. There grow oB^^^ Famen 
 thefe Trees in the Woods^ in many places in d 
 Str eight on both Ihores, and on tlie Coafts 
 both fides of Patagotita^ before you enter thei 
 This may be the Winter-Bark of the fliops, whi 
 has an Aromatick pepper like or fpicy tafte. 
 
 Port Fanten lies in the Lat of 5:3 ^/. 5 5 w. Sout 
 and in Longitude Weft from the Lizard 6"^ d. 9 
 and Meridian diftance 1092 Leagues Weft, as 
 Account is in my failing. This Voyage I give 
 credit to the plain Sailing : therefore ttiisi)/i?n^/i 
 diftance fignifies very little as to Navigation. 
 
 I travelled in many places, but could not 
 gny Fruit-trees, or Oak, or Aih, or Hafel, 
 
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 Ijnv Timber like ours in England : Here are but 
 t',vo forts ot* Timber in all thefc Woods, and one 
 i5 the Pepper rind Tree, which is indifferent 
 Wood, and the other is the Timber much lilfc 
 Beech. Here arc the bed and biggeft Trees in all 
 the Streights ; here are Trees ot two foot and an 
 lialf through, and between thirty and forty feet 
 long ; there may be great Planks cut out of em. 
 jl could not fee any Grains of Metal or Mineral 
 any place, and 1 looked very carefully in Gul- 
 [lies,and places where Water had guttered. Here 
 re feme Herbs to be plucked up, as we boiled 
 orSalleting.and green Grafs with it, which relilh- 
 dpretty well. The Land in the Woods is dry, 
 od of a gravelly and fandy Soil, and fome places 
 ic u»ood brown Earth ; it is bad travelling in the 
 eadoi\voocls for old Trees and Under- Woods .• The 
 ,Voods trentall upon the fides of the Hills,* the 
 and all about on the North- weft and We(^ of 
 'art Fawe»y trents up to very high Hills, and 
 he In land is very high Hills ; for we can fee the 
 ops of them all barren and ragged, peeping over 
 hofc Mountains next to the ^hore-fide ; much 
 now lies continually on them. The Land on 
 he South' Ihore is very high and peaked. 
 I faw niany Ducks and Brant Geefe on the 
 liore- fides, and in the frelh Waters,together with 
 be Whales fpoutingin the Main Channel. 
 I do verily believe that in thefe Mountains, 
 there is fome Metal, either Gold or Copper ,• for 
 lie Man that went aboard, pointed up to the 
 ountains, and fpake to me when 1 iliewed him 
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 which was carried to them , and grcafed thciia. 
 felves all over with the Oil,and grealed their Skin- 
 Coats with it : I made ilgns to them to go and 
 get fome Gold and bring it to mc .- fome ot them 
 went away to their Boats, the reft fat ftill on the 
 Grafs , talking one to another , and pointing to 
 the Ship. Their Language is much in the Throat, 
 and not very fluent, but uttered with good deli- 
 beration: I could not perceive but only the 
 younger were obedient to the elder, and the Wo- 
 men were in obedience to the Men ,• for I took 
 the Mens Coats and put about the Women, but the 
 Men would not fuffer them to keep the Coats long, 
 and themielves to be naked, but took the Coats 
 from the Women, and put them about themfelves: 
 I proffer'd them to exchange one of my Lads for | 
 one of theirs, and they laughed ; but the MUn 
 Lad would not go with me , but hung back: l| 
 gave to the Men Knives and FiOi-hooks, and to j 
 the Lads Jews-trumps and Pipes, and to the Wo- 
 men Looking glafles and Beads. I did this to I 
 gain their Loves, and in hopes to have Trading I 
 with them for the future ; for they refus'dl 
 Brandy. 
 
 Cape Frownrt! IS the fouthernmoft Land of the | 
 great Continent of America^ and it is very high 
 Land on the back-fide of it ; the Face is fte^pup, 
 of a Cliff of Rocks, and it is blackilh grey, of 
 a good height, and deep Water very near it. I 
 founded with my Boat to clofe to it, and had forty 
 Fathom ; A Man may lay a Shipclofe tothe face 
 of the Cape ^ for there is Water enough.- there 
 is no Ground in the Channel at two hundred Fa- 
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 thorns, and but little ^\^z , or any ripling as I 
 la\v,but a fair Cliannel to fail througliout ; oi tlirec 
 Leagues broad Irorn the North- ll)orc to the South - 
 lliore. It is bed tor a Ship to keep nearer tlie 
 Xortli-fliore than the South-lhorci for the Winds 
 are more generally of the Wcllcrn Quarter. 
 
 Qapehrowiird, in MtigeUan Stre/ghts, lies in the 
 I Latitude of ^}<^. 52W. South. 
 
 And in Longitude Weft, Irom tlie Lizard^ in 
 England 6Sd.^zr». Well. 
 
 And in Meridian diftance in Leagues 1099, 
 land two Miles Weft. 
 
 The Compafs hath fixteen degrees of Variati- 
 lon Eafterly at Cape Frowarr/. As to the Firli- 
 ning Points I cannot fay any thing; I wanted a 
 I Needle. 
 
 Novewher .'^. 1670. I was in VVoo(fs Ray^ call'd 
 
 fobymy Mate's Name. November ^. 1 was a- 
 
 breft of Cape Holland y near which lies Cape Co- 
 
 mutry and j4ndrews Bay, alfo Cordes and Fojtcues 
 
 %, Cape and Port Gallant : V>ut lor a more :xa(^ 
 
 ISituation of the feveral Promonrone^Bays.Portf, 
 
 IRivulets, Soundings, fe'c. I refer the Reader to 
 
 Itlie large Draught of the Magellan Streights, drawn 
 
 |by my own Hand on the place. 
 
 A-breft of the Bay, two Leagues off^ is the Jfland 
 rvliich I caird Charles' sljlandznd Monmoutlfs Jjland-^ 
 |more to the Weftward is James s Ifljind, and Ru- 
 fsrt's Ifland, and the Lord Arl/mjons fjland, and 
 peEarl o{ Sandwklis Ijland, and Secretary Wren'-. 
 mud: this Reach I call'd Englifh Reach ; a 
 League more to the Weftward of FoJhnes Bay. v: 
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 The Strciglit flicws riovv, as it' tlicre were no 
 farther pafTaRc to tlic Weflward .• tor the South 
 Land rounds up ib much to the Nortli-weftward, 
 that it fliuts againd the North Land to a Man's 
 {ight. At this diftancc I faw two large Openings I 
 into the South Land, one oppofite to CharhA 
 Ifliwd, the other more to tlie Weftward, up of 
 the round South liite. There I iaw many Whales! 
 fpouting, that place I called Whale Bay. I fawi 
 icveral Brant-gecfe and Ducks here ; I left in the 
 hdiafis Hpufes Beads and Knives, in hopes of fur- 
 ther Commerce: I faw on the South fide a Fiicl 
 made on the Grafs by the Natives. 
 
 From the Pitch of Cape Froiv.a^, to the Pitch! 
 o^ Cape Holland^ the Streight lies in the Channell 
 A\'efl: and by North, neareft, and is diftant full five| 
 Leagues J and from the pitch of Cj^^ //o//W, tc 
 the pitch of Cape Gallant^ the Streight lies in the 
 Channel Weft and by North, a little NortherlyJ 
 and is diftant eight Leagues. From the Pitch ot| 
 Cape Gallant., to a low Point three Leagues to the 
 Weftward, the StrcishtlicsintheChannel North] 
 weft and by U'cft, a little Northerly. Thii 
 Reach is not more than two miles broad, fron 
 the North- fliore to the Ifltnds, which 1 called 
 The Royal Ijles : When I was a-brcaft of the WeilJ 
 ermoft Ifland, which I called Rupert's Ifland, 
 being on the middle of the Channel with theShi[ 
 fhot ofTone of my Sakers with a lliot, and thj 
 iliot lodg d clofe to the Iftands fide. This loJ 
 Point, a breaft of Rnpert's Jjland, on the Nort| 
 fhore, I called Point-Fajfage. This Evening at 
 of the Clock, I was iliot paft Foint-Fajfage, hail 
 
to the Str eights of Magellan. 7 } 
 
 I mile to the Wcdward oF it j having a fine Ea- 
 lllerly gale. 
 
 Monday^ t^o-vemher 7. Cloudy gufts, foggy 
 heather^ the Wind at VVcfl: , and iometimcs at; 
 IXorthweft: I rode fad all day clofc aboard the 
 kore. This Afternoon I went in my Boat over 
 Lthc South- fide, oppodte to E/izahth's Bay, at 
 [he Point call'd kf%i/€ Pointy for the many Whales 
 [pouting thereby. I travell'd up the Hills two 
 rtilcs, but could not fee any Gold or Metal ; the 
 Land very irregular and Rocky, with mofly kind 
 II Grafs growing on it, and very boggy and rot- 
 lea j ibr I thrull down a Lance of fiicteen Feet 
 ong, into the Ground, with one hand very eafily. 
 kre grow many Juniper Trees, fome of a foot 
 iroughoutjthe Wood not very fwcet. Here I favv 
 oany Brant-Geefe and Ducks, much Snow on the 
 nland Mountains , fo as I could not travel any 
 arther : I returned down to the Boat again : I 
 \\v where the Natives had been by the evening 
 |fthe Grafs, but I could not have a fight of any. 
 lere are many good Mufcles on the Rocks of five 
 dies long , and good Fiih in them, and many 
 ted Pearls in every Mufcle: Here are alfo large 
 [impets, and Sea-eggs among the Rocks. 
 
 All the Ripling is not worth the taking notice 
 |f, for it is but an hours time on both Tides Ebb 
 nd Fioud, when the Tide runs flroiig i neither 
 ^e the Tides any thing prejudicial to the Navi- 
 ^tion of theStreight, but rather advantagious to 
 flp to turn from Road to Road either way : For 
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 noon ; I went afliore after I had done Soundin" Bit at high ^ 
 but law no People, nor any Metal ; the Wood;, Bor nine ^ee 
 very thick, and feveral Trees of the hot Bark, [\\Msmhelors 
 other Trees much hke Beech-timber: fome DucksBin the ^/re-; 
 and Brant-Gcefe fccn on the Shore fide. Borten, or t 
 
 TheStreight in this Reach between £//24^f/M8 fair birth 
 Bay and St. Jeroms River is about two Leagues,B(linary, and 
 broad and high Land on the South fide ; whichBard, and t 
 hath feveral brave Coves on it like theWet DocMms Chann 
 at DeptfortfjZnd fafe to lay Ships in them from eiBjomes along 
 thcr much Wind or any Sea. This Bay I call'tBliis Road t 
 Mufcle Bay, for in it there are many and great plenM^^.* This 
 ty of good Mufcles. The Shore-fides arc rockyBcrly Winds 
 iteep too in mofl places; no Ground in the maiiBeither ihall 
 Channel at an hundred Fathom ; alfo in theBavBive way, he 
 .on the South- fide it is deep Water, and fmalBavvay ; for 
 IHands lie in the Bays, and clofc along the Southfcnds that b 
 iliore lie fmall Iflands. Here are many WhaleBoop to thefe 
 and 1 faw many Penguins, and fome Seals. Tlilnd the Wefl 
 Shores are woody on both fides, but ragged Timlen, are mac 
 ber and boggy Ground ; the tops ot the HillBe Mountain 
 bare Rocks and irregular. Several flreams m Winds feic 
 Snow-water run down in the Cliffs of the HillBve obfervec 
 two Leagues to thcWeftward of Elizakif/s BMthQEaf^y t 
 On the North fiiore the Land is low and woodBe, and the] 
 near the Water-fidc, and up of a Valley in thBees are ftre 
 Low-land: In this Valley there runs a frcfhwBills, but or 
 ter-River; I went into it with my Boat: ItBeesare mu< 
 but fliallow at low Water, hardly AVater enoiigl|ppIed, and 
 for my Boat ; Here I faw feveral Arbours of tBge the Wat( 
 hdians making, but no People. This River lAt Cape Qui 
 a very convenient place to lay Shallops, », as if th 
 fuch like fmail Vcfleis in it,- they may go iilBimake nca 
 
to the Streighti of Magellan. 7 5 
 
 lit at high Water, for the Tide rifeth here eight 
 
 or nine feet : this River I call'd by the Name of 
 
 mcbeiors River. Before the mouth of this River, 
 
 pthQStre/ghts^ there is good anchoring, in nine, 
 
 |cr ten, or twelve Fathom Water, Tandy Ground ; 
 
 la fair birth off the Shore : the Tide runs but or- 
 
 linary, and theFloud-tide comes from theWeft- 
 
 lard, and the Tide that comes out of St. jF^- 
 
 ►#'s Channei,makes a ripHng with the Tide that 
 
 [omes along the dream of the Streight : I call'd 
 
 iis Road that is before Batchelors River , Tork- 
 
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 ockyjlcrly Winds, for here cannot go any great Sea ; 
 
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 away ; for the Weflerly Winds are the greatcll 
 inds that blow here by the Trees, for they all 
 oop to thefe Winds , and lean to the Eaftward ; 
 d the Weft-fide of all the Trees that (land o- 
 n, are made flat with the Winds : the tops of 
 e Hilllie Mountains look to the Eaftward ,• the Eafter- 
 ims A Winds feldom blow ftrong here as to what I 
 Hi»e obferved. By the Shore fide which lies open 
 /;£<:■ the Eaft, the Grafs grows down to the Water- 
 woodBe, and they are the greener Shores , and the 
 in thftees are ftreight and tall on the Eaft-fide of the 
 fhwlills, but on the Wcftfliores, the Grafs and 
 : ItMees are mucli weather-beaten, worn away, and 
 lenouBppied, and the Shore fides much tewed with the 
 of tBge the Waters. 
 
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 more and more, as the Streight rounds there more 
 to the Northw-ard again. Cape. Quad is on the 
 North-fliore i and it is a deep upGr/>^,of a rocky 
 greyifhFace, of a good height before one comes 
 at it: it iliews like a great building of a Caftk; 
 for it points off with a Race from the other 
 Mountains, fo much into the Channel of the 
 Streight , that it makes ihutting in againft the 
 South- land, and makethan Elbow in the Streight. I 
 The Streight is not paft four miles broad here, 
 from fliore to fiiore,* and the Land is deep too 
 on both fides, and rocky ; the Mountains high 
 on both Shores, and craggy barren Rocks .• fome 
 Trees and Bullies growing here, and much Snow 
 on the Mountains on both fides. Oppofite to CtM 
 Quad on the South fide, there is a fine large Bay, 
 Mi^hich is caird Rider s Bay : I did not go into it;} 
 if there be Anchoring in it, it is a fair Road fori 
 any Winds .• the Water is very deep here in the| 
 Channel, no Ground at one hundred Fathom; 
 this part of the Streights , from Point Pajfave ro 
 Cape Quad , is the mod crooked part of all the 
 Strc ght ; therefore I call'd this Crooked Read\ 
 Here are two fmalllflands in the North fliore, to 
 the Eaflward of Cape Quad. 
 
 November 14. This Morning 1 was a-breft 
 Cape Munday ; fo I call'd it , it beiiig a Cape oil 
 the South- fide, and is diftant from Cape de Q3\ 
 about thirteen Leagues : the Streight here is 
 bout four miles broad, and the North-lhore make 
 into the Land with great founds and brokenlllandj 
 the Land on both Shores is high rocky Hills, ar 
 barren , very little Wood or Grafs growing 
 
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 Itlictn: Here at Cape Mun Jay y the Streight grows 
 broader and broader to the Weft ward, but keeps 
 alloneCourfe, North- weft and by Weft to Cape 
 \l] fright ; which is a fteep upright CHfF on the 
 South fide, and it is diftant from Cape Munday 
 four Leagues. Here the Streight indines to the 
 Weftward near half a Point : the Streight lies 
 trom Cape Munday Weft north- weft , half a Point 
 Kortherly right out into the South Sea , if you 
 be in the middle of the Channel , or nigh the 
 K'orth-fliore j I find little or no Tide to run here, 
 or Current : no Ground in the Channel at two 
 hundred Fathom, a Musket fliot off the Shore, 
 on either fide. Here run into the South-fliore 
 many Sounds and Coves ; I have fail'd fair along 
 by the South-fliorc all this day; for the North- 
 llliorc makes in broken Iflands and Sounds : Here 
 [lie all along the South- lliore feveral Imall Iflands, 
 |but no danger , for they are all fteep too : the 
 Streight is a very fair Channel to fail throughout. 
 (This day at Noon, I was a-brcaft of an Ifland , 
 Ivhich lies on the North Ade of the Streight, I cal- 
 led it Wefiminjler IJland; there lie a great many 
 IHands between that and the North fliore, and to 
 peEartward and Weftward, and alio fome broken 
 jround, and Rocks lie about it ; Thefe Iflands I 
 d the Lawyers , and this Ifland whichlcaird 
 kjimKjier Jjland, is an high rocky Ifland Ihewing 
 Ike Weflminfler-Hall ; the Streight is five Leagues 
 bad, between IVefimhJlar Ifland and the South- 
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 The Straight lies from Cape Mutiday to Qaf( 
 Dejfeada^ Welt- north- well,and Eaft fouth ealt, half 
 a point Northerly , and half a point Southerly, 
 neareft , and they are diftant from one another 
 near fifteen Leagues : From Cape Quad to Capt 
 Dejfeada^ it is about twenty eight Leagues ,• and 
 the Streight lies near North- weft, and by Weft 
 from Cape Quad into the South-Sea, and near in 
 one Reach, which 1 c^XYdLon^ Reach: and fome 
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 may properly be call'd the Streights ; for it is 
 high Land all the way on both Shores, and bar- 
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 Cape Dejfeada liea in the Latitude of 53 </. iow.| 
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 In Longitude Weft from the Lizard of En^- 
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 And in Meridian diftance 1 149. 
 
 The Compafshath 14^. 10 m. Variation Ea- 
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 Cape Pillar lies in the Latitude of 53 ^. ^^m. 
 
 In Longitude Weft from the Lizard oi England 
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 with every Reach and turning , to be one hunj 
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 lie face of Cafe DeJ[feada for to come out of the 
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 y lie in Eafl and Weil at the firft, till you come 
 ibrdl of Cape Pillar ; then the Courfe is South- 
 all and by Eaft nearefl. Be careful to keep the 
 outh-lhore in fair view ; for the North-lhore is 
 jioken Iflands and Sounds, tliat a Man may mi- 
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 mouth of the Streight, m the South-Sea ; they 
 pretty near together ,- the Eailermoft (lands 
 gly by it felf, and is round copling up of a fair 
 fight like an Hay-cock, or Sugar-loaf: the other 
 are flattifh ; they lie from Cape Pillar North- 
 |)rth-we(l, by the true Compals of 6 Leagues off; 
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 agues South-weft ; I calf d them The Ijlands of 
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 low lying in the tops of the higheft Hill. At 
 \k of the Clock I made the Kland of Nuejira 
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 Ifland there ftand two peaked copling Rocks clofef 
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 Meridian diltanee, at Noon, from Cape Ptkri 
 Eail 10 ^/. o w. 4 ten. 
 
 Longitude at Noon fromCape Pi//ar, Eaft i, 
 19 fn. 
 
 Longitude at Noon , from the Lizard^ Wel| 
 7 1 </ 41 w. 
 
 Meridian diftance, at Noon, from the L'rnr^ 
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 The Ifland Nnefira Senora d't Socoro^ lies in tli 
 Latitude of forty ^vz degrees South, and in Loij 
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 Minutes ; Meridian diftance from Cape Pi liar ^h 
 2.0 leag. o win. 4 ten. 
 
 Meridian diftance from the Lizard, Weft in 
 ^eg* 1 min. 9 ten. 
 
 Longitude from the Meridian of the Lizdr\ 
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 Eafterly here. 
 
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 which I had them laden with prefently ; for here 
 freih Water enough, and very good .- I learcli 
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 Arbour of t\\tlHf!ia>is making, and icvcral (licks 
 that were cut, but all oki done. I could not fee 
 anyfign of People on the Iflnnd now; I believe 
 the People come rambling tothis Jfland Jrom the 
 Main in the beft feafon ot" the Year to get young 
 I Fowls : Tor I do not fee any thing elfe in the ffland 
 for the fuflenance of Man's Lile ; I could not fee 
 any kind of Mineral or Metal: the Soil is a Tandy 
 black Earth, and fomc Banks of Rocks : the Tfland 
 is irregular , and grown all oVcr with impene- 
 trable thick Woods, fo as I could not fee the in- 
 Kvard part of it : the Woods are ordinary Tim- 
 jber, none that T faw was fit to make Planks of; 
 nature ot the Wood is miich like Beech and 
 |Bircli,and a fort of heavy Wood good for little but 
 [the fire, it is white ; no Fruit or Herbs ; very little 
 Jrafs, the Woods are fo thick ; much kind of long 
 ledgy Grafs ; no wild Bea't to be feen ; feveral 
 Ifmall Birds in the Woods like Sparrows .- there 
 ftrefeveral Fowls like Kites in the Woods, feveral 
 black and white Brant Geefe and pied Shags, and 
 khcr fuch Sea Fowls, as Pinks and Sea mews: 
 that elfe the Idand affords I cannot tell. I made 
 
 Fire on the Shore , in hopes to have fome an- 
 \m of It on the Main, but had not. At Noon 
 luent abbard, and fent my Boats alliore again 
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 ertnitted landing. 
 
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 in it, and tbui GrounJ, fo as I durfl; not venture 
 the Ship in it. This Iflaiid lliewetl as iF it had 
 been the Main. , till I went to it with the Boat; 
 being about tour Leagues long from the North- 
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 League broad. 1 he Kland is of a mean height, 
 and in fome places two Leagues broad, and grown 
 all over with Woods very thick; the Timber is 
 fuch like as is on the Ifle of Socoro. I could noti 
 fee any kind of Mineral or Metal in it ; the Shore 
 fide Tandy in many places, and rocky in others 
 the Earth on this liland is of a Tandy black foil 
 but very wet with the continual Rains that an 
 liere. Not finding this noted in my Draughts, 
 cali'd it after my own Name NarhrougU s IJland'^ 
 took polIefTion of it for his Majefty and his Heirs 
 I could not lee any People, or any Tign of thei 
 here. 
 
 South eaft {"romNarlrough's Iflaftii on the Mail 
 diflant about three Leagues , there runs into tl 
 Land a River or Sound, and Tome broken grou 
 lies before it. The Shore- Tide is rocky, and tlBlliis Tlland 
 Hills arc high in the Land on both Tides of pat the So 
 This opening lies in Eaft and Weft ; I take it 
 that place which in the Draughts is cali'd Sitl 
 Domingo. This place lies in the Latitude of fo 
 Tour Degrees, fifty Minutes Souths and more 
 the Southward thereof lie many round copli 
 high Iflands grown over with Woods : all aloKght Coad 
 the Coafts as far as I could Tee, there lie IflaiMldown vcr 
 adjacent to the Main , and they are of a gr* many l[] 
 height. Ptherly, in 
 
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 this Day all the Bread in the Ship iscxpcnd- 
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 ;any other, eat Peafe in lieu of Bread ; my Com- 
 iny are all indifferent well in healtli , I thank 
 ■ for it, being feventy two in Company : no 
 lilh to be taken with Hooks.-many Porpufles {^t^^ 
 fome Whales: fevcral Sea Fowls feen fwim- 
 Lg to day .• much Wind to Night at North- 
 ed: I ride fall:, but doubtiul of ray Cable. 
 ^Ho-Mans Jjlattd lies in the Latitude of forty 
 Jrec Degrees , forty feviJli Minutes South , and 
 I Longitude Weft, from the Lizard in England 
 mty one degrees, thirty two minutes. And in 
 feridian diftance from the Lizard of England y 
 he thoufand one hundred and twenf y fix Leagues 
 kd one Mile ; and in Meridian diflance from. 
 w Pillar Eaft, twenty two Leagues, two Miles, 
 hdtwo tenths ,• and in Longitude Eaft from Cape 
 pr, one degree, twenty nme minutes t-. The 
 Iriation of the Compals is ttn degrees Eafterly 
 |re. 
 
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 Mouth of the going in of that Channel, wlLch 
 |between Cajlro and the Main ^ the Draughts 
 falfe in laying down of this Coaft ; for they 
 not make any mention of the le vera! Iflands 
 ^tlie on it, but lay it down. all along to be a 
 fight Coaft : the Latitude of molt places are 
 Idown very near as what I have found. Here 
 many Iflands adjacent on the Coails more 
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 Decemher if. Don Carlos was put afliore, and 
 carried with him a Sword, and a Cafe of Piftols, 
 and Iiis bed Apparel, and a Bag with his Beads 
 and Knives ; together , with Sciflars, Looking.! 
 glafTes, Combs, Rings, Pipes, Jews harps, BeJls] 
 and Tobacco ; all which things he had ot mc ti 
 give to the Natives. At feven oi the Clock Sigm 
 Carlos was fet alliore, on the bouth (ide ot tin 
 Harbour of BaUavia without the Mouth of it 
 Mile, in a fmall Tandy Bay, about two Miles witl 
 in Point Gallere^ between the Point and the Mout| 
 of the Harbour. When he was alliore, he tool 
 his leave of my Lieutenant, and bad him ^o 
 board and look out lor the Fire in the Night. 
 went from the Boat along the Sea fide in thepai 
 toward the Harbour's Mouth : the Men in tl 
 Boat faw him go along for the diftance of a qui 
 ter of a Mile , till he turned behind a point 
 Rocks out of fight. The Shore- fide is lowai 
 fandy , and fome fcattered Rocks lie in it; t| 
 Land rifeth trcnting to large Hills : the Land 
 all woody and very thick , that there is no ti 
 veiling but by the Water-fide. My Lieutem 
 went afliore to the edge of the Woods, and 
 thered feveral green Apples olTthe Trees : fortli| 
 grow Apple-trees on the Shore fide , much 
 our EuropeanW'mttv Fruit; the Apples arcbigj 
 than Walnuts with their fliells on ; whether tl 
 Trees arc planted by the Spaniards^ or grow 
 tnrally ni tke Country, I cannot cell. 
 
 I do not find any Current or Tide to fct 
 this Goad, that is any way prejudicial to Nav J'^ ^on^e in 
 tion;; aeiihcr do I find the Winds to blowTr*^^'^© Erro 
 
to the Streights of Magelian. 8 f 
 
 I but they arc vcerable, and are given to blow hard 
 lontheVVellern Quarter, and rain much. 
 
 The Mouth of the Harbour of Balrlavia on the 
 ICoaftof C/^//f, in the South Sea, lietli in theLa- 
 [itude of 39 <^. 56 m. South. 
 
 And in Longitude Weft , from the Lizard of 
 
 And in Longitude Eaft, from Cape Tillar 2 d. 
 
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 And in Meridian , diftance from Cape Pi/Iar , 
 aft, 4 1 leag. 2 mil, t-. 
 
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 leridian of the Lizard ^ according to my daily 
 
 Recount of m»y Ships way. I do not make any 
 
 Iccount of plain Sailing to be fit for vSeamen to 
 
 Ibferve ; but the beft Navigation is by Mercator, 
 
 filing according to the Circle of the Globe, 
 
 fhidi I ever fail'd by, and keep ray Account of 
 
 ailing and Wefting by Lorigitude,\Nh[c\\ is the belt 
 
 ni moft certain Sailing,to give the true defcripti- 
 
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 (liance I made daily, whereby fuch Navigators 
 
 jii Seamen as know better , may have that to 
 
 p them the knowledge of the diftances of 
 
 laces, according to their Undenlanding. Moll 
 
 four Navigators in this Age fail by the Plain 
 
 hart, and keep their Accounts of tlie Ships way 
 
 rordingiy, although they fail near the Poles ; 
 
 lich is the greateft: Errour that can be commit- 
 
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 be again , by reafon of tlicir miftake ; as I 
 
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 Miles of Longitude, in the feveral Latitudes, 
 could vvilh all Seamen would give over failing ty. 
 the falfe plain Chart, and fail by Mercators ChanJ 
 which is according to the truth of NavigationI 
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 Navigators, froni their Method ot failing by tM 
 Plain Chart; (hew mod of them the Globe,yet th?| 
 will talk in their wonted Road. 
 
 At eight of the Clock in the Forenoon, mJ 
 Boat put from me, and rowed to the Shore witij 
 in Voiwz-Gallery, to the place where Don Car/os \\i 
 landed ; I laid off and on with the Ship beforj 
 the Port ; the Boat rowed all along the Shore bj 
 the place where Den Carlos was landed, and alon 
 the Shore in the Harbour. At the Points on tlil 
 South- fide of the Harbour (lands a fmall Fort( 
 feven Guns, call'd St.Jamess Fort : l'\y Boat camj 
 fuddenly on it , and before they ceivcd ittj 
 be a Fort, they were within fliot or it. The5;j[ 
 »iWj flood on the ihore ; and wafted with 
 white Flag, and call'd to them; My Lieutenaij 
 rou cd to them, and asked of them what Coun 
 try they were? they anfwered, oi Spain : Thej 
 asked my Lieutenant of what Country he was] 
 He anfwered, of England; they asked him 
 come alhorc, which he did, in hopes to have feci 
 Don Carlos there ; for that Path that Don Cm 
 w^ent in when he was landed, led diredtly to thj 
 Fort by the Sea- fide, and it was not a Mile fio| 
 the Fort to the place where he was landed, fo 
 he mud go to this Fort, and be upon it before 
 was aware of it, unlefs he knew it before. Til 
 
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 path went all along between the WooJs and liie 
 ',Sa In the Woods there is no travelling , they 
 arc {0 thick , and grow on the fide of an Hill ; 
 |tlie lort (lands juft by the Wood fide on a race of 
 |the Bank, of /ive yards afcent Irom the >Sea, with 
 
 Bank of Karth cafl: up before the Ordnance, and 
 'ight Pallifadocs plac'd in an Half Moon, lour 
 
 ards diflant from the Guns to the Southu ard ; 
 ivliich l'"'al!iradocs arc to keep the Natives Irom 
 unning violently on the Ordnance .- lb thefe 
 
 marfls guard themfelvcs with long Lances a- 
 3ii)(l the Natives in the I ort. The Spaniards 
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 ry ordinary ones, and they are as lilly in ufing 
 Iicin. 
 
 Ax my Lieutenant's landing, about twenty Spa- 
 Inds and Indians came to the Watcr-flde in Arms, 
 nd received him and his Compniy adiore, and 
 arried him fome twenty yards irom the Water- 
 ide up the race of the Bank, under a great Tree, 
 |\vhcre the Captain of thp I'orr, and two other ^z*;?- 
 T/^Gcntlemenjreceived him under the ihade with 
 reat Courtefie , after the Sp.-jniar^^ Ceremony ; 
 hey fat them on Chairs and Benches placed about 
 |a Table , uAder the lliade; for the Sun ihone 
 ery warm, it being a very fair Day. The Spa- 
 '//^Captain call'd Tor Wine, which was brought 
 ohim in a great vSilver Bowl ,* He drank to my 
 ieutenant, and bid him welcome afliore , an^j 
 aufed five of his Ordnance to be fired , beina 
 
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 him for his Entertainment, he defired my Gentle- 
 men to fit down, and hedifcourfed withthem,3n 
 ask'd Irom whence they came, and for what wav 
 they came into this Sea, and what their Captain's 
 Name was, and if there were Wars in E^ghd. 
 My Lieutenant anf^ered him to his demanjs 
 My Lieutenant asked him, if they were inPe:ci 
 with the hdivis^ He anfvvered, that they wen 
 at Wars with them round about, wafting his Hiiii 
 around the Harbour, and that they were valiiii 
 People and very barbarous, and fought on Horfe- 
 bact and did them much fpoil • and that two day! 
 before, the W/j^y came out of the Woods ani 
 kiU'd a Captain, as he flood ?t his Duty by t;i 
 fide of the Fort, and cut off his Head, and carr;» 
 ic way, (licking on their Lance. He iliewed m 
 Lieutenant the place where the Indians came ot 
 of the Woods, and the place where theManuii 
 kill'd. They feem to be very fearful of the/»| 
 dians , for th^y will not flir any way, but tiie 
 will have their Piece or their Lance with theni 
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 Indians: alfothcy have no more ground thaaihi 
 Fort ; neither do they clear any of the Wood? 01 
 this fide of the Harbour^ nor walk at 9 Mr^.j^e 
 iliot diftance from the Pallifadoes , along tin 
 Woods fide. The ^^iW/^r^A fay that t lie ham 
 have much Gold, and that their Armour for tiicj 
 Breft is fine beaten Gold, ^c. 
 
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 the Fort to the Tent, where they were, and placej 
 Qn i\vi Tabb; The firfl Courfc was Soppas, thej 
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 )lIcos, then Pullets, then frefli Fifli, all drefled 
 
 th hot Sauce, and very good Diet it was ; the 
 
 ftCourfewas Sweet meats .- every Courle was 
 
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 filler, and the Pois and Stew-pors, and all the 
 
 cnlils belonging to the drefTing of the Provifi- 
 
 is ,verc Silver ; th*? (3arQn wherein they brought 
 
 ':ter to walh their Hands was in like manner 
 
 ot Silver, very large, and the Hilts of the 
 
 liJicrs Swords were Silver, but the Hilts of the 
 
 icers Swords were Gold of good value: More- 
 
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 ifquetoons was of the fame Metal, and the 
 
 loe that the Rod runs in was Silver; as alfo the 
 
 oltheGun ft:ick,and their Tobacco Boxcs.and 
 
 lafBoxeSjand tiieStaves which they walk with 
 
 re headed and ierrclled with Silver, and fer- 
 
 lled on the joynts with Silver. Indeed they 
 
 Mailers of niuch Silver and Gold, and it 
 
 but little efteemed among tlicm. Their 
 
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 tour Spanijh Gentlemen dc fired to go aboard 
 [hmy Lieutenant, and fee the Ship, and Pilot 
 [into the Harbour, if I would come in, which 
 [y did not queition but I would, as I under- 
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 ne, who revealed to me their whole Defign, 
 snhey intended to furprife the Ship, which I 
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 cherous dealings with Captain Havokins at Sainj 
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 I had much Difcourfc with the SpaniJhQtwxV 
 men this day concerning Baldavia^ andtheCouni 
 try o^ Chile. They tell me they have much Goll 
 here at BaUavia, and that the Natives do muca 
 hinder their getting of it ,• for they are at crre 
 Wars with 'em, and will not permit em to plaoi 
 any thing near liereabout, nor at Baldavhx^ biil 
 they come and deftroy it with Fire. And thattJ 
 Natives are very cruel and barbarous. If thej 
 take any SpaKiarei^thty c\it ofrhisHead,andca| 
 ry it aw ay on their Lances end. Thefe Span'mi 
 tell me,that they live here as the Spaniards ^o\ 
 Matnora in Barhary^ having their Enemies rouJ 
 about them. Thefe Spaniards fay, that the/WJ 
 ans are tall Men, and of a Gigantic Stature, an 
 cxtreamly vaHant, and that they fight on HorfJ 
 back, eight and ten thoufand Men in Arms, aii 
 vv ell difciphn'd. The Indians have mucli Goll 
 and iheir Weapons are long Lances, and BoJ 
 and Arrows, and Swords, and fome MufqueJ 
 which they have taken from the Spaniarrls^ aJ 
 know how toufe them in Service j taking a| 
 Ammunition, &c. The Indians are very pop 
 lous in the Land about Baldavia^ and at 
 and on- the Ifland of Cajho , and at Chile , a| 
 that they have much Gold on thefe parts aba 
 Orfone and Chilue, and that they trade with 
 Spaniards^ and give them Gold. 
 
 This Captain faid, that they have fix grj 
 Ships going yearly from Lima to the Philip 
 lilands, to the Port of Mannelos^ and that th 
 
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 hi'e a great Trade wicli the Chinefes ^ and that 
 
 itliefe Sliips fail troin the Callsp that is the P ort of 
 
 U0^ in the Month ot January , and their paflage 
 
 jtut little more than two Months, from Lima 
 
 Ltie port of M^nnelos^ and they fail it withia 
 
 [heTropicks, and have much Eaflerly Winds,* 
 
 y diey return back by the Northwards, to gain 
 
 L Weflerly Winds, which brings them to Cali- 
 
 Xmliy and to the Port of Aqaapulco, which lieth 
 
 L the Weft Co2L^o{NovaEfpana,'3Lm\ from thence 
 
 [hey come to Fjt/^wj, and then to the Port of 
 
 \im. They bring rich Lading, much Silks and 
 
 )thcrrich Commodities,and Spices and Callicoes. 
 
 Mliannelloes have a greatTrade \v\\.\\t\\^'j:afone- 
 
 [(nndChftefes, whicii is very beneficial to them. 
 
 |"he Captain demanded of me whither I was 
 
 ound ? I anfwer'd him, I u as bound for Chifiay 
 
 ad that I had rich Lading for that Country; and 
 
 liat I only touch'd in at this place, knowing here 
 
 lere Settlements of the King of Spahis Subjed:s, 
 
 loping here to have Wood and frcih Water, and 
 
 tfrelhing for my Men, whereby I might tlie bet- 
 
 fcr proceed on my Voyage. He faid, I fliould 
 
 avcwhat the Country would afford, and that 
 
 lie Captain of the Fort had fent for Provifions 
 
 brme, and that I might have Water on the 
 
 pte-fide, pointing his hand to the Place which 
 
 [as near by; the Captain faid it v/as Aqua dd 
 
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 lying caus'd me to laugh; then he faid, it came 
 
 Ling from the Hills wlicrc they find Gold, and 
 
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 the Earth which is in the Mountains, and y 
 the Gold in the Bowl or Tray when the Earchij 
 walhed out. And they buy much Gold of tlil 
 InciianSy which they gather in the Gullies of thj 
 HillSjWhich is waflied in thereby the Rains, an] 
 fnow diflblved, which defcend from high Moun 
 tains, which they fay arc very high and barrel 
 Rocksjthirty Leagues Inland from the Sea-fliorj 
 The Land between thofe barren Hills and tli 
 Sea-lhore, is mighty good Land, and the Count 
 very fruitful, abounding in many Plains, an 
 much Cattle that the Indians have^ as HorfeSjan 
 Cows,and Goats and Sheep, which tliey havetj 
 ken from the Spaniards^ fince they came into tli 
 Country. The Spaniards call the high rocI( 
 Mountains the Andes^ and fay that thofe Am 
 run all along the Land from Magellan Streigli 
 in a row to S. Martha, which is in terra firma^ nj 
 far from Cartegean. 
 
 Tiie mod Gold in the Land of America is I 
 Chile, as what is known at this time. But I lij 
 the Spaniards have but little knowledge of t| 
 Land all along to the Southward, from BaliA 
 to the Streights Moutli , as far as I can undf 
 Hand by them, excepting at the Ifland ot Cam 
 There they have a Settlement, and ontheMJ 
 againfl Caflro at a place called Orfono : At thj 
 two places they have good (lore of GoId,j 
 there are many Indians; but farther Southej 
 than Cajiro^ they know nothing of the Counif 
 orof theSea-Coafl:. Caflro lieth in the Latitj 
 of 43 d. 30 w, the South-end of the Ifland, 1 
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 flfu.lt is a fine Ifland, and near the Main, there 
 vvs good Wheat on it. The Spaniards are but 
 n' in number there, but there are many Indians 
 idthofe too vahantand of a large llature ; but 
 It Giants as I underftand : Thefe Indians have 
 lirs with the Spaniards^ and will not fuffer them 
 fearch the Country for Wealth. 
 A Ship brought from Lima Provifions for the 
 ity of Baldavia and the Forts, and Cloths, and 
 munition, and Wines, and Tobacco, and Su- 
 it; and (lie lades away from Baldavia Gold and 
 oar Stone, and red Wool, fe*c. and Indian 
 yes that the Spaniards take here in thefc parts; 
 ley carry them to Feru, and make perpetual 
 laves of them there; and the Indians o^ Peru they 
 ing hither, and make Soldiers of them againft 
 tChiie- Indians y of which Soldiers there arema- 
 hereabout, whom my Men faw when they 
 re at the Fort. There were about thirty Indi- 
 and Mifftejes Soldiers there, and fome fixtecni 
 ite Men who were Officers. Moreover, the 
 miards make ufe of the Peru-Indians to Trade 
 th the Chile-Indians for Gold, although they 
 at Wars. For they of Chile without doubt are 
 firous of Trade, whereby they may furniHi 
 leMftn^felves with Knives, and Sciflers, and Combs, 
 \t thm which are wanting among them; as alfo witii 
 o^^'Wmsthat many times by Health are fold to them, 
 ^^^^•o' they be prohibited. Traders will be dealing 
 'O^flas they can get benefit, they do not confidcr 
 '^^^m future danger by its means, provided it mils 
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 I ask'd them how tar it was to BaUavia ? the 
 anfweredme, three Leagues, and that the Boatj 
 could go up to it, and that it was fituateclbytl 
 fide of the River and the Plains, and that the 
 were five great Ordnances in a Fort to commam 
 the City , and that there were one thoufand I 
 habitants in the City oF all forts of Men, Womei 
 and Children. I ask'd him , if there were an 
 paiTage by Land from BaUavia to the other pari 
 of Chile'i they faid there was, and they lent cv 
 ry Week, but they went with good Guards to 
 fccure from the Indians. Then I ask'd them 
 diey built Shipping here ? they faid No , but 
 '^elparrazeo the}' did build great Ships. I ask! 
 'lieni who liv'd in the Illand of Mocba? they fail 
 IndidnSy many Men and Women, and that thi 
 vere Poco Amigos to them ; in EnqVifhy they wei 
 but fmall Friends to the Spaniards. There aBid is t\i^ \\ 
 many Sheep, Goats, Hogs and Hens, which tBth fide of li 
 Indians will fell for Hatchets, Knives and BeaBfome broke 
 As tQ the Illand of St. M7ry, the Spaniards are Jeered from 
 Hers of it, and have a Fort on it with five GuMfie Anchor 
 but few Spaniards live there; it is plentiful B.Vorth- fide 
 Provifions, as Hogs, and Sheep, and Corn, aBeFathom \V 
 Potatoes : and thc-y faid there is fome Gold, tBiVorth-nor 
 the Indians have on thelOand q{ Mocha., buttWtliat Road, 
 will not part' from it.The Spaniards did notcareBoth the Ifla 
 luifwcring rae to fuch things as I would glaBsare butm 
 have heard of thefe parts ; tor I laid the Draufc from the 
 of all that Coall: on the Table before them, JntfcetWatc 
 ask'd them who liv'd at this Port, and wholjfie Iflandof 
 at that : at fome places they would fay the ■South. 
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 but little acquainted on the Coafts to the 
 hward o^BaUavia ; they fay, they have Spa^ 
 h Hving on the Ifland oF Caflro, and thac 
 Corn grows there, more efpecially Euro, 
 I, Wheat ; and that on the Main there are Spd, 
 'k living at a place called Orfom, which is a- 
 i Caflro, and that there they have Gold, and 
 are many Indians. I asked him if Shipping 
 d go in between Cajlro and the Main ? they 
 lid not tell me, or would not ; but they faid 
 e Ships went thither, whicli come from Lima 
 Furniture for the People. 
 le Anchoring at the Kland of Mocha is on 
 JJorth-tiorth caft pare of it, in x ("andy Bay in 
 itFathom Water near the Sliorc ; a North eafl 
 id is the worft Wind for tlie Road. On the 
 ch tBth fide of Mcchu there lies a ledge of Rocks\ 
 Beajfbnie broken Rocks on that part of the Ifland 
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 he Anchoring at the Tlland of St. Mary is on 
 N'orth fide in a fine fandy Bay, in eight or 
 Fathom Water, a fine Birth from the Shore ; 
 Xortlvnortli-weft Wind is the word Wind 
 lat Road. There is Wood and frefli Water 
 tli the Iflands, as the Spaniards report. The 
 sare but mean on the Coaft, and the Flood 
 lesfrom the Southward, and rifes about eight 
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 They have Apples, and Plums, and Pears, aij 
 Olives, Apricocks, Peaches, Quinces, Orangcsj 
 Lemons, and many other Fruits. There are all 
 Musk-Melons, and Water-Melons, &c. tlicf, 
 Spaniards report it to be the finefl: Country int,^ 
 whole World, and that the People live with t!ij 
 grcateft Luxury oF any en the Earth ; they cnjJ 
 their Health with ib much delight, and have 
 much Wealth and Felicity, that they comparct^ 
 Land to Paradife^ abounding above other Con 
 tries with all Delights lor Mankind. 
 
 I fawa good Tcftimony of the hcalthincfij 
 the Country , for thele lour Men who arei 
 Board, are as wcll-complexioned Men as evej 
 faw in my days : and the People alhorc, bo 
 Men and Women ol the Spaniards are wcH-col 
 plexioned People, of a ruddy colour, and feer 
 be mighty Healthy. .Some of the Men are vc 
 corpulent, and look as if they came from av 
 plentiful Country, where there is great ilorel 
 Provifions , and abundance of Gold 
 Silver. 
 
 Decemler 17. 1(^70. There went a-iliorj 
 the Boat eighteen of my bcfl: Men I had ini 
 Ship, and Men of good obfervation to infj 
 into matters of this Concern, which I had 
 quainted them with ; as touching the mannej 
 the Harbour and the Fortifications the j 
 niards have, and the difpofitlon of the Pcoj 
 and that it was my whole defire to have Co| 
 cr^ce with the Nat'ves of the Country thai 
 at Wars with the Spaniards^ if by any means 
 fible it may be obtained ; for it is ray whol/ 
 
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 , (ire to lay the Foundation of a Trade there for 
 I the Englid.^ Nation for the future i for I fee 
 pliiinly this Country is loft for want of the 
 liiuc Knowledge of it. 
 
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 i\\y\ the FortiHcations, and took good notice of 
 jthc People. The Spaniards bough c R-veral things 
 pi" my Boats Crew : and paid for what things they 
 \)^\x%\\t in good Pillar Pieces of Eight,- they would 
 not part from any Gold, altliough my Men were 
 dcliious to have Ibme rather than Silver for their 
 joods; neither would they part from any Bread 
 payment, pretending that tiicy ihould have 
 iitad to morrow from Baldavia. The things 
 liich they bought of my Men at this time, were 
 oFov/ling-pieces, which coft mE}i<jland about 
 enty Shillings apiece, and the Spaniards gave 
 ;tc;n Pieces of Eight apiece for them ; and 
 kies or Knives of three Shillings the piece in 
 t rcorcfc.T/^;/^^ the Spaniards gave Hve i^icces of Eight 
 old Br them i and for fmgle ten-penny Wires,- they 
 ive a Piece of Eight a-piece for them j and for 
 (linary Leather-gloves, of ten pence the pair, 
 tey gave a Piece of Eight a pair ; for Broad- 
 oath-Coats of the Seamen's, v.'hicli coft ftxteen 
 llings in En^Jand^ they gave nine Pieces of 
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 great Silk-fcarf with Gold Lace on the ends of 
 
 it, that was crofs over their Shoulders ; a Ihort 
 
 Cravat ot Linnen about their Necks, and a CaiiL 
 
 in their Hand headed with Silver; their SIioocs, 
 
 and Scockings, and Breeches afcer the Spn^i'':. 
 
 Falluon. They were very kind to my Lieutenant 
 
 and Men, and treat:d them very coiirrcoiillv. 
 
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 but were entertained in a I'ent by the Fon. 
 
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 into the EnyJilJj Boat, and lit down on tic 
 
 Benches, to lay diat they had been inaBfi:| 
 
 which came from Europe. Thcfe were very \)u 
 
 per white Women, born in the Kingdom of Peru] 
 
 of Spa?iiJJ.} Parents; they never had been !•: 
 
 Europe, The Spaniards have fome Indian V\ ( ■ 
 
 men to their Wives; The Women were all \^'cl: 
 
 apparelled in Silks afcer the Spaniih Fafliion, audi 
 
 about their Necks great Gold C'lains, and Pen. 
 
 dants at their Ears of Sapphyr Stones, &c. 
 
 The Captain of St. Ja^os Fort prefented n:\j 
 Lieutenant with a Silver Tobacco-box, and a SiJ 
 vcr-headed Cane, and a Plume of Oftricli'j 
 Feathers, which he wore on his Hat at die lanel 
 time : The Feather of the Plume is but fmall 
 nothing fo good as the Barhar)-¥Q.z.i\\^v : Thij 
 Plume was of red, and white, and blue Featheni 
 dyed in the Country. I faw another Pliini) 
 which a SpanUh Gentleman gave to Mr. Wd 
 which was black and large, and a very fair oiii 
 made of the Oftriches Feather of the Cound 
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 the red Wool, whereof Hits are made in Enfr- 
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 Ki.ii^dom of Pern and Chile, •'' 
 
 My )^eo;.^lc could not by any Means come to 
 convcifc with the Natives who arc at Wars with 
 the Spnfiinrds^ and have the Gold, without vio- 
 lating rite SpaHiards ?ov!iY; for on the Shore 
 widiin the Hnrbour, t\\<z Indians made a Fire by 
 the Woods Side, and hung out a white F ag on 
 a lon^^ P(4e, and kept wafting of it a long time. 
 My Lieut jnant would haxc gone in his Boat to 
 ih:m, but the Spaniards would not permit him, 
 md faid that they were dieir ov7n People who 
 lived there. 
 
 My Seamen, which came aboard in my Boat,' 
 L^me to me, and told me, that the Lieutenant 
 h.id been at Fort St. j^a'io^ and had deliver'd my 
 MdKige there to tiic Capt.iin, but he had no 
 Older for my fetching of Water, and diat he 
 \^ iihed my Lieutenant to go to Fort St. Peter ; 
 wiiicli he did, and a Fryed' and two Spa7iiards' 
 ujiit over with him in the l^oat, the Flag of 
 Truce ilyiug in the Boat, and the Trumpeter 
 loimding, acc^n-ding to my Order, all the time, 
 u!l they landed at the Fort. At their Landing, 
 the Lieutenant was received very courteouily by 
 Icveral Spnni'h Gentlemen, and delired to walk 
 up to tlie Governour ,• Vvhich my Lieutenant did 
 I to 1 Tent whei-e the Governour was ; the Go- 
 vernour received the Lieutenant very kindly, 
 and defired liim to lit down. My Lieutenant 
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 which I fent to him, and acquainted him, that 
 1 fent him, to defire to know iF he would be 
 pleafed to permit my Boat to water to day, for 
 my Boats lay ready, and had the Cask in them, 
 and I waited his Anfwer. The Governour 
 caufcd my Lieutenant and Mr. Forte fcue to lit 
 down, and drank to them in a Silver Bowl with 
 Chile Wine : He gave no Anfwer to the Lieute- 
 nant at prefcnt, but fent an Officer and Soldiers 
 and feized on my Boat ; My Lieutenant deiired 
 to know what the meaning was that PoffelTion 
 was taken of the Boat ? The Governour anfwer- 
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 Captain General of Chile^ to keep them till the 
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 MT ftlf and Mr, Fortefcue are kept 
 here as Prijoners^ but for what 
 mfe I cannot tell; but they ftill pretend 
 much Friendjhip^ and fiy^ that if you will 
 bring the Ship into the Harbour^ you Jhall 
 have all the Accommodation that may be, 
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 John Fortefcue. 
 
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 Boat from the Lieutenant, and they related to 
 me the whole Matter, and they believed that the 
 Spaniard f had a defign to betray the Ship, but 
 jthcy could not agree among themfelves : Italk- 
 jed with the two Indians that came aboard, they 
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 Spaniard : They would needs know of nic wlicrc 
 my Country is, and if I would conic iU^ain ? 
 I made them anlwcr, that my Country is a litrL 
 Way off, on the other Side of the Sia, and di.it 
 I would come a^ijain, and bring Kuivcs\ ilatclicts 
 Beads, Gljlles, &c\ -d-VKl live in the Country with 
 them, and that they ihould fee nty Country, 
 and that my King would give them many 
 Things, and they ihould hvewitli us; and ihat 
 my King is the grcateft King in the World, and 
 r:omm...vnds all other Kings, and that our Name > 
 are Englid? ; the hidians laughed, and feemai 
 to be very glad : 1 bad them acquaint the Indi- 
 ana of the Mountanis, or In-lands, that I canic 
 to foeak with them , and that I was their Tricnd 
 and v7ould sive them many Hatchets, and Knives 
 and Swords, CJ'c. if they would come to me, and 
 tli.it I cam.' purpofely to fpeak with *h.cm,- and 
 tliat my Majlev^ the Great Kiug of Eji'ilaud^ 
 fiath fcnr tlicm. many Things, and would wi! 
 lingly lee them. 
 
 A!-ter tliefe People iiad heard all that I faid to 
 them, th/y fit for a time mute, and conlidcriii^ 
 oF the Kindneilcs they received from me and \w\ 
 Company, and that they nuift go a-ihore again 
 under the Com^iand of the cruel Spaniardy^ they 
 weeped extrcamly, and uttered thefe Wordi, 
 Numbra Spnnalos mucho Diablo^ &c. In £"«g//;i' 
 it is, 'Ihe Spaniih Men are much De-vih^ &'c. 1 
 verily believe that thefe poor innocent Creaturo 
 Ipeak Truth, for they are great Devils in abuling 
 thele poor Souls ib unmercifully as diey do. In 
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 v;oulcl ftrikc an Indian on the Head as he talk- 
 ed with him, and beat him all along, ibr no 
 caufc at all; but this they do to fliew their 
 Grcatneis and Imperionl'ncfs. The bcft Name 
 the Spaniards cm afford to call an Indian by, is 
 Dog, and Devil, and fuch like Names. 
 
 Thefc Indians fay, tliac there is much Gold in 
 the Land, and that the Spaniards have much Oro ; 
 I gave to cica (>!" uhelj Ind'ans a Knile, and a 
 Inuiii Looking-glafs, and lome Beads: They 
 ucrc very thankful, and I put them in mind 
 again to fpeak to the Indians of the In-l;ind, 
 that I would give them Knives and Glalfes, if 
 rhcy v/ould come to mc. I was m great hopes 
 dlthis time, that I iliould have the C)pporrunity 
 to fpeak with my Golden Fi'iends, by the means 
 of thefc People; for they feemed to be glad of 
 the MelTagc, or of tlie Tilings \,'\\\c\\ I gave 
 thcni to do it. 
 
 Thcfe People aic of a middle Stature, Wrongly 
 fee and well-!lellied ; they are rawny coloured, 
 ;md have lon^ black {\:\a^y H;ur ; their Features 
 tolerable, ot a iomcwhat nielanclioly Counte- 
 nance; they are very active in Body, :\wA hardy 
 ill enduring of Weather or Diet : Tluy wear 
 jliiull Caps on their Heads like to Mounreer ., 
 land their Garment is a long Mantle; but molt 
 lof their Garments arc a fquarc piece or AVool- 
 len Cloth, like a Carpet, of their own weaving 
 bi- the Wool of Giiianacoes : They cut a hole 
 in the middle of this Carpet, through which 
 lihcy put their Head, and it liangs upon their 
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 have thefc Cloaks fo long, as it reacheth down 
 to their middle Leg, and fome to the Knee; 
 fome wear Half-Stockings on their Legs, but 
 no Shooes nor Shirts : Some have Breeches after 
 the Spanifjj Falliion, but clofc to their Thighs 
 and Knees. 
 
 A NOTE which I fent to I .ieut. Armlm, 
 enclofed m a Letter. 
 
 leutenant^ take what notice you can of 
 ^|_ , the Fortification of the Fort^ and what 
 Strcnnh they have of Feeble in it^ and xvhetbj 
 they are able to ivithfiand a Ship ; and what 
 gjjantity of Frovifions they have in it ; ani 
 whether Don Carlos be there \ fend me an 
 Account thereof by John Wilkins ; Iwillufi 
 all Endeavours to have you ojf^ when I under^ 
 fiand the Strength of the Place, 
 
 I remain your lovin^ Friend^ 
 John Narbrough. 
 
 Burn all the Letters you receive from r,u\\ 
 and in caie of Examination 
 
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to the Streights of Magellan. 105 
 
 J)ecember 1^. 1670. This Evening I took the 
 Sun's Amplitude with my Compafs, and I had a 
 cood Obfervation. I find the Variation of the 
 Compali to be eight Degrees ten Minutes Ea~ 
 
 Ik-rly. 
 
 I do much reafon with myfelf as to the Vari- 
 ation, that it differs fo much in the fame Latitude, 
 I between the Eaft and Weft-lide of the Land of 
 \ America ; for on the Eaft-iide, as I failed in the 
 Latitude of forty Degrees, I found the Compafs 
 to have twenty Degrees Variation Eaftcrly, by 
 ievenii good Obfervations, which I took with the 
 \{mr: Inftrument as I now do ufe, which is a large 
 \j{zi>nuth Com pais ; and here I find but eight De- 
 Igrees and ten Minutes Variation ; and it is but 
 [eight Degrees of Longitude more Weflerly in the 
 |imc Parallel, differing between thefe Obferva- 
 ions, and the difference of Variation. 
 
 I find the Land to be but One hundred and 
 [wcnty five Leagues broad, from the Eafl-fide to 
 he Weft-fide, in the Latitude of forty Degrees 
 South of the Equinoctial i certainly the attra(5tive 
 quality of the Magnet muft be very powerful in 
 [tie Eaftern Part of the Land, more than in the 
 
 ^eftern, which caufeth the difference j yet I ad- 
 lire, being on both Sides of the Land, the Com- 
 fcfs Hiould always have the fame Variation 
 pitcrly. I was of the Opinion that the Varia- 
 |on would have been Wefterly on the Weft-fide, 
 
 being Eaftcrly on the Eaft-fide; but I find 
 be contrary by Experience ; therefore I believe 
 bt the attractive Quality is not much in thisf 
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 to the Eaftward than I was ; for if theattra^ivc 
 Quality liad been in this Land, and IfaiJin;-oa 
 both Sid s of it, the Variation muft have been 
 Eallcriy on the one Side, and Wefterly on the 
 other. This Difcourfe I leave to a bett:r Under- 
 ftanding j for I am not as yet fatisticd wijat oc- 
 cafioneth the Variation and the great Difference 
 of it, although I have been on fevcral Voyages 
 and have made great Benefit of the Undeifuind- 
 ing of the Variation of the Compafs, in direct- 
 ing of the true Courfe, &c. 
 
 In the Port of Balda-via there are thrccijirl 
 Rivers, which come out of the Country, iind 
 empty themldves into the Port with a brislv 
 Stream o*- fre''^ Water, which caufeth the Stream 
 always to let out oi^ the Harbour, a-nd the \V:r:crs 
 to be irelh jufr within the Harbour's-mouth : One 
 River runs up into the South-Eaft part oF thcl 
 Harbour into the Country ; another River nins| 
 into the Country to the Eaftward, on the backn 
 fide of St. Peter s Fort : The third River runs 
 into the Country, about the Norcii-Point orthJ 
 Harbour's-mouth, between the Point and ih| 
 North-End of St. Peter s Ifland : It runs up in 
 the North-Eaftward, and nine or ten MiJs ftan(| 
 upon the River from the Harbour's-mouth. Tli 
 City of Balda-via is fitu ted on the Bank ot'rlij 
 River, as the Spaniards tell me. 
 
 I judge this City of Baldavia is but a im:i 
 Place, and kept only as a Garrifon, and a Pbcj 
 for Trade with the Indians for Gold, Bezoaif 
 Stones, Guianacoe s-'Wool^ &c. The 6)vi;ii/nl 
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 |v.ac but five great Guns in it, and three hundred 
 Ij^lcn. I know that they fpeak of the moft of 
 Ivcry Thing in the Matters, as concerning their 
 Isrrcngth, and Number of Men. 
 
 I bi'iievc that thefe Rivers may run into the 
 ICountry a long way, and the Spaniard!^ to have 
 \x little Knowledge in the inward Parrs of this 
 Jmiitry; for the Ind'>ans will not iiiffcr th.c 
 Iriniards to fcarch into the In-hmds. 1 believe 
 ;io, tliat thefe Rivers are not Navigable for Sbiip- 
 Dingi for the Bark which was there would cer- 
 [jinly have gone up the River to the City of Bal- 
 kvin^ and delivered her Goods there, and not 
 lioublcd thcmfelves to carry the Goods up in 
 Roats, and fmall flat-bottom'd Barges, which they 
 |iave there for the purpoie : The Barges are built 
 iiuch like our Welt -Country Barges, and fmallcr 
 by much. Thefe Boats, or Barges, will carry 
 [bout ten or twelve Tons : They fleer with a Rud- 
 Icr, and have one Maft and Sail as our Bar^^es 
 Lvc J the Sail is made of- Cotton-cloth, and the 
 lopes are made of the Rind of Mani^ro-ve Tree? ; 
 ndinftead of Anchors, they have wooden Crab- 
 laws, or Kellocks. Anchors of Iron and Grap- 
 t\s are fcarce in thefe Countries : Ropes and Ca- 
 lles of Hemp arc alfo fcarce there, and good Fir- 
 \ifts much wanted in all thefe Countries for 
 peir Ships. The Mafts for their Ships are made 
 fwhite Cedar, and fuch like Wood ,• they are 
 try heavy and iliort-grained,and will break Ihort. 
 [krc are not any Fir-trees growing in all the 
 iind: Good Workmen, for the building of 
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 The fnuller Boats which they have here arjl 
 Canoas, being cut out of the Body of a lar^e 
 Tree, and Ihaped fomewhat like a Shallop at the 
 ends : Some are thirty feet long, and built one 
 Streak of Board upon them, to raife them hightr 
 on their Sides ; they will carry near twenty Men! 
 a-piece : Some arc rowed with Oars, and fonii;! 
 are Jefs, and rowed with Paddles ; thofc whiclK^^'^^pQ^^.j 
 
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 not any one of them fit to row in any Sea-gate, 
 
 or for any Service, or to carry any Perlon of Qua 
 
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 row them to and fro, and to do all manner oi 
 
 Labour 5 for the Spaniards will not lay their Han(l«'J^*'^y"'J.^''-!, 
 
 to any thing in that nature, accounting it beneatj^ f^^^^ ^^ 
 
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 fcorn to be Servants one to another, let the oni 
 
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 The Land about the Harbour ot Balda^via is 
 a good height, and in Land it rifcth in lar. 
 Hills: It is low by the Water-fide, and ^heShot"^^^"/ 
 is Tandy in fome Bays, and broken fliatty hits SqIj^j^j. ^.^ ^, ^ 
 gliitcring Rocks, like Gold, lie ihatter'd along 
 the Shore-fidc, All the whole Country is ov 
 grown with green Woods, as what 1 could 
 of it, and by the Rivers Sides : There is no tri 
 yelling in the Woods, they are fo thick wi| 
 Und'::f-bru{h, old rotten Trees, and Leaves, ai 
 ifuch Trafb. 
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 The Harbour is near a Mile and an half broad^ 
 nd the Guns cannot command from one Side to 
 lie other : St. Peter's Fort is near two Miles from 
 ilieHarbour's-mouth j any Ship may come inancl 
 eit them from their Guns, in St. Ja^o Fort, and 
 St. Andre7v's Sconce, which are on the South- 
 eft-fide of the Harbour. After you are in, Saint 
 ff^r's Fort can do very little or no hurt at all to 
 our Ship, excepting it be accidental dropping 
 or. The Sfaniaras have no Plantation on this 
 louth-weft Side j they only keep the Forts for 
 rfelTion, that no foreign Ship may come and 
 lave the Port free to ride in, and trade with the 
 atives. The Harbour is like a Sound, after one is 
 ithin the Mouth of it toward the South Pan. 
 Here grow many good Canes on the Shore- 
 e, fuch as arc brought from the Eaft-Indies^ 
 hich are called Bamboas i thefe are very ftiff 
 icks, firm and heavy ; they grow among the 
 ices on the Sides of the Woods like Vines, and 
 ^2 Bind about the Trees : Some are above twenty 
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 All Commodities which come from Europe ^xz 
 ry dear here, and fcarce ; lor they have none 
 ought to them, but by the way of Panama^ and 
 ihe River of Plata^ which pais through feveral 
 isrchants Hands before they conic into thefe 
 ts, and the tranfporting of them from place to 
 ,cc, is very chargeable. Many alfo are but of 
 le Efteem, here being fuch plenty of them : 
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 Rates. 
 
 Gun -powder for Fowling-pieces, is worthj 
 Piece of Eight per pound ; and Bird-^hot is won 
 two Ryals of Plate a })Ound, and a Ryal and 
 half a pound. All Commodities of Enmci 
 Workmanlhip are of great worth here, :i s I imde 
 Hand ; and believe, that more Northerly, on :\ 
 Conil of ChiL\ about Vale Parazo^ and Coquinl 
 and Areca^ wiiere there are more Inhabitanj 
 ConinKuiities would bear a nuich greater Pri] 
 than what i mention, and there v/oiild vent "rcat 
 Quantities ^ for Silver is more plentiful by mii] 
 in thefe Parts than at Balda-via^ they hd 
 nearer t!ie Mines of the Potofea; for the Sikj 
 of Potofea comes down to the Port of Areca^ aif 
 from thence it is carried to Lijna by Sea. 
 
 I am of Opinion, that die mod advanragaJ 
 Trade in the World might be made in thefe Par 
 if it v/ere but followed, and that leave v/erc \-i 
 ed by the King of Spain tor the EngUfh to ti\ii 
 freely in all their Ports and Coafts ; for diciVj 
 pie wliich inhabit there are very defirous o 
 Trade ; but the Governours durft not permir 
 without Orders, unlefs fuch Ships of Force v'l 
 to go thither, and trade -per force, and noti 
 notice of the Governours ,• which might be ca 
 performed by four Ships, of twenty and tlii^ . 
 Pieces of Ordnance a Ship ; and I believe ti"^^^' Cooe 
 the Natives in the Southern Parts of Chile^ '^^m^b '^"^ ^^ 
 Caftro. and Or [one ^ and at Baldaina^ woiildl ^^'"^'^^^j" H 
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 \0 to be acquainted with thofe that ftiould be 
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 n civilly at the firft, and gain their Loves ; 
 \i:^ may be ealily done, by giving them Knives^ 
 fci lOrs, GlalTco, Beads, Combs, Hatchets, and 
 p: like Commodities, and treat them kindly. 
 L what I underftand by the Indians^ who were 
 toard of me, they are Mailers of the Golden 
 pi of the Country. 
 
 My Intent being, if Weatlicr permit me, to 
 |il all along, tlie Coaft from Balda-via to the 
 louthward, till I come to the Streights-Mouth at 
 pc Defiads^ I came in great hopes to meet 
 ndi the Indians in fome Part of the Coafts, and 
 lo trade with them for Gold, and to lind good 
 
 arbours. I refolve alfo to fee in at the Illands 
 \[C(^ftyo and Orfono^ and try what I can find 
 [niong thofe Spaniards who are fettled there, and 
 riiethcr they live accordingly as the Spaniard 
 litbrmcd me here. 
 
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 whom the Spa?iiardy detained at Baldavia^ and 
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 ^dhorn in Norfolk, •• ' • 
 John Fortefcue Gentleman, aged twenty fcvcn 
 lejrs, and born in Kent, 
 Hugh Cooe Trumpeter, aged twenty eight 
 :ars, and born in lVappin{{, 
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 Thomas Highway is \CTawny-Moor i he fpuh 
 the Spaniflj Tongue very clear, for he had lived 
 tbrmeriy at Cadif::, witli an Englilb Merchant. 
 
 All. thefe four were very heaitliy ibund Men 
 and of good Prefcnce and Spirit i which give; 
 me great hopes that they will live to give an Ac 
 count of that Country, and of their Traveh. 
 
 Cape Gallery^ which is the oucermofl: Point (11 
 die South-fidc of the Harbour of Balda-vin^ licrii 
 in the Latitude of 39 degrees, 57 minute, 
 South of the Equinodcial ; as aifo in Longimdc 
 to the Weftward of the Meridian of the Liza)', 
 of England^ 70 degrees, 20 minutes, according; 
 to my Account j and in Meridian diftanc- 
 One thoufand one hundred and eight Leagued 
 Weft i and in Longitude, Eaft from the Wd- 
 Mouth of Magellan Streiglits and Cape-Pilkl 
 two degrees and 40 riiinutes,* and in Meridian 
 diftance 42 Leagues neareft, according to ml 
 reckoning. 
 
 Thurfaay^ December 22. This Morning 
 prov'd very fair W eather ; at Day-Hght, theWiiull 
 was at South-weft, a frefti gale i the Sea indilfeiciiti 
 fmooth: I plied to the Windward along tk| 
 Coafts, and was about three Leagues olf ik 
 Shore, fomewliat to the Southward of Cape-Gi 
 lery^ out of light of the People of Baldaviu; k\ 
 the Cape was fiiut in with the Land to the Nordi 
 ward of the Harbour. At twelve of the Clocil 
 I had a good Obfervation of the Sun with mi 
 Quadrant i and I found myfelf in the Latitiidj 
 of 49 degrees 3 minutes South : 1 was then threJ 
 
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 December 31. This Afternoon it blev; hard at 
 ^.W' i^nd rained j I (leered S, IV, and by S. 
 bvmy Compafs, this Afternoon and to Night. 
 Here arc fcvcral vSorts of Porpus-Filhes in thefe 
 })-is, unHke ours in Europe: Some pied white 
 laiid blick, and fome grey and large ones. Rainy 
 Weather to Night, and no Obfervation to be 
 iiudc of the Shore. 
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 Sunday^ January i . Raw, cold, cloudy \V ca* 
 her ; Rain and fome Hail, the Wind at N. Wl 
 (lout Gale, and a great Sea : I was much afraid 
 ;hat I fliould lofc my Main-maft, it f jtched fucli 
 iVay, and broke the Spikes that faftncd the 
 'etches with working. I fleered S. S. JVl to eafe 
 kShip from rolling what I could. After feveral 
 ourfcs made from Satrrday Noon till to Day 
 oon, I make tkc true Courfe to be South 39^. 
 0;//. Wefterly, and diftancc, fliiled 105 Miles, 
 d departure Weil 66 Miles, and difiPerence of 
 ongitude loi d. 37 ?n, 4 tenths; difference of 
 atitude 1 d, 2 2 in. 3 tenths ; Latitude, by Ac- 
 unt, 47 d» 47 in. South. 
 Wedncfday^ January 4. Indifferent fair Wea- 
 er, the Wind at North-well, and fometimes at 
 \N.W\-i fine Gale : I kept on my Courfe South. 
 me Porpus Fiihes feen to day, and fome Whales 
 d Sea-Fowl ; many little Peterels. TliisMorn- 
 gl took the Sun's Amplitude, and I find the 
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 My Courfc, made true from Tnefday Noon till 
 to Day Nooii, is South ; diftance iailcd g. 
 Miles, and the difference of Latitude is i d. 2. 
 ;;/. 8 tent. Lat. by good Obfervation of the Sir, 
 on the Meridian 51 <:/. 3 1 ?//. South. Meridian d J 
 (lance from Point Gallery^ Weft 70 leag, i mi\\ 
 5 tent^ Longitude at Noon from Point G alien 
 \VeO 4^i. 48 ?n, 4 A^«. Longitude at Noonfronii 
 the Lizard, Weft 75 d.%m, /i^.ten, McridiarJ 
 diftance from the Lizard^ Weft 1178 League?. 
 1 Mile, 5 Tenths. 
 
 Friday, Jamw.ry 5. Hafcy, foggy Wcatlid 
 this Morning, the Wind at WlS. W, a ftout Gain 
 1 ftcered in for to make the four Iflands, which 
 called the Ijles of Direction, or to make Cape]j\ 
 fiade : My Courfe was £. N, E. by my ConipalJ 
 the Nights being but ftiort, and lights for tli 
 Moon was at the full, fo that I could fee at loiiJ 
 
 time a League before us. 
 
 At four of the Clock this Morning, it bcinl 
 fair day-light, I caufed the Lead to be caft tbn| 
 but could not get ground at eighty Fathom 
 reckon myfelf about ten Leagues from Cape D 
 fiade, and on the Latitude of 5 2 ^. 53 7;/. Soiiil 
 A little paft four of the Clock, it cleared up 
 the Eaft txonzon ; we looked well abroad, 2 
 faw the four Hies, called The Directions, which 1 
 at the Mouth of the Streights TV. A^. Ji^, fi omGij 
 Defiade, diftance from thence about 8 Lcaguf 
 Thefe Iftands made in four Ho?n?naccoei\ ! 
 Hay-cocks, when I faw them ; they bear A'.i 
 of me, diftant about 4 Leagues; they lie int| 
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 ilic Iflaiuis bore North of mc, diOant 3 Leagues 
 of; I founded, but could not get ground at 70 
 Fjtlioms : I fiw Cape Defiade i it cleared up, tor 
 the Fog was much on the Hi.lsi the Ca'e was 
 l.S. £. of me, diftant n-jar eight Leagues ^ the 
 tops of the ragged Hills, or rocky Spires, were 
 clouded with the flying Fog, lo as I could not fee 
 I the Cape fooncr ; for in clear VV^eathjr, the Land 
 hiCdpe-Pillar and Ca^^e Defiade may be ken i j 
 I or 16 Leagues, it is fo high and ragged. 
 
 I fleered by Cape-Pillar E. and by S, the Wind 
 
 latjr. ^S". IVI a freih Gale; a great humming Sea 
 
 rill here, which came out of th'! S. W, I (ivs 
 
 the Sea break upon broken Ground, which heth 
 
 at k\ifl four Leagues from tlie Point of Cape 
 
 made Weft into the Sea, and many Rocks tliac 
 
 kere funk, and Prints of Rocks above VVater, 
 
 pidi ilie Sea breaketh terribly : Thefe lie off 
 
 \Ciife Defiade about two Leagues, and a League, 
 
 and lome not half a Mile off, very dangerous. 
 
 As I came nearer theStreights-mouth, 1 raifed 
 
 he Land on theNorth-lide by Cape Vi^iory^ and 
 
 he broken Iflands within the Streights, which I 
 
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 nake ragged in Hillocks at the lirll iight. Ac 
 
 incoFthe Clock Cape- Pillar hove South of me, 
 
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 52 r/. 5 T w. South ; but formerly my Account of 
 the Latitude of this Place, was South 5 2 ^. 5 8 ;/;. 
 
 Meridian diftance at 9 of the Clock, tiom 
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 Longitude at 9 of the Clock, from Point QaU 
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 Sea of Mare del Ziir; for 1 am but 3 min. of 
 Longitude out of my Account, in failing beiwccn| 
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 At any time, if you have a defirc to enter thcl 
 
 Streights of Magellan at tl^e Weft-mouth, it wiii 
 
 be lafeft in my Opinion, '.0 bear in for the LuikIJ 
 
 in the Latitude of 52^. and 5 o 7//. South ; an(i| 
 
 then you will fee the four Iftes of Diredion^ 
 
 which lie before the Mouth of the Streights, 
 
 fomewhat toward the North-fide: They licl 
 
 A^. N. ]V* from Cape-Pillar^ near 8 Leagues 
 
 diftant. Thefe Iflands may be known ; for thcrJ 
 
 are but four of them, and they be but cf an in- 
 
 different hciglit, and but fmall, and bcariird 
 
 guhir Rocks, and they be near together: Thcl 
 
 HaQcrmoft lilc is near a Mile diftant from tin 
 
 other three, and it h peeked up like a Sugar-lcitJ 
 
 t!\<? Sea breaks mucli on thefe Illes with VVcftcrij 
 
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 Wcfterly Point, for it falleth off from Cape-pillar 
 near S. W, and they arc diftant about 2 Leagues 
 one tVom another, which is the Face of the Lands 
 between thefc two Capes ; for at the Point of 
 OjJ)^ Defiadc\ the Land on the South-fide of the 
 Cape trentsotf to the South-fouth-Eaftward, all 
 high ragged rocky Mountains: What I law of 
 it, at the pitch of Capj Defiade^ there lie many 
 jluttcr'd Rocks which arc above water, and Ihew 
 like the Ruins of old Houfes^ and there are 
 Ledges of Rocks that arc funk, which lie near 4 
 Leagues off of the Cape Weft ; the S':a breaks 
 jinucii on them, and they ure dangerous ; they lie 
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 Lire near i o Leagues diftant S* and by W* from 
 the Ijles of Diretlion^ fo broad is the firft open- 
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 fcetiie Land, to make it, there is no danger ; but 
 a Stranger that Ihould pafs out of the South-fea, 
 and had not palled the Streights before, will find 
 jit very difficult to pafs the Streights from the Weft 
 ItotheEafti for at the firft cutting into it out of 
 Ithc South-fea, as we call it, there are many 
 Openings and Sounds on the North-fide, which 
 |tcin fliirer for a Palfagc than the Streight itfelf 
 Idoth j therefore it is beft to keep the South-lide, 
 Tfar aboard all along from Cape-pillar^ which is 
 the point at the Entrance: The Courfe will be 
 :.:md by .S'. for a Mile or tv/o, and then ii\ S, E, 
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 The North-fide of the Streights ffom Cape Vl 
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 is all a ragged, rocky, mountainous, defo] cc 
 Country; many high rocky Iiiands, and fm:l| 
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 1 5 Leagues in diitance inio the Streights to th:: 
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 P.iffage more than the Stre'ights doth. There \ 
 no Safety for a Ship to keep the North-fhore;;J 
 board in this Part ; for here lie fo many IHandl 
 and Pvocks, f6 that if the Weather provj foj^<;l 
 and thick, a Man may miftake the right ChuiJ 
 nd, and fleer in among the brok n Ifiands anM 
 Rocks, fo far as to endanger his Ship, if tfiB^'^^-^^' ^ 
 Wind be Wcfterly, and it is for the moft partoB^l'-''^'^* ^^^'^ 
 the AV inter there, very thick and foggy. W^ ^-i- hare 
 
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 North-Hde, between Caie Victory and Cafe 0?/ J^"^ Sou/id 
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 1 wanted a Sloop, or fomeotlicrfmall V((rd,|| (^^^%ht 
 d fcover thofe Sounds ; and many other Pi.iccs^^^'^*^^*^* ^^^c 
 the Streights, which I would gladly have fccnff'^^^^^'^^^"^ ^V^a 
 
 January 6. In TuefdiVj-lmy and Ijland-^jl^^'^^^'^^om 
 there grows thick llirubby Buihcs on tliclo^ ^ 
 
 Land, which have manv Berries hke Hurts [jroi 
 ing on them': theie Buihes grow in a mofly loj 
 Earth, which lieth 4 or 5 Feet thick on tlic Roc 
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 long fcdgy Grafs very thick j many Gccfc 
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 people now, but Ibmc have been there j for I faw 
 ^'lierc they had made Fires, and an Arbour. Here 
 arc Mufcles and Limpets on the Rocks j biic as for 
 other Tillies I faw none. I rowed two Miles up th;? 
 Sound, and could have gone .arthcr, but itraiicd 
 lomnch, and blew fohard, as I durft not bcab- 
 icnt from the Ship ; the Water is mighty deep in 
 the Sound. At Night I got aboard, my Seamen 
 w.'rejoytii] to fee me; for they were afraid that 
 thcSbip would have broke loofc in the time of my 
 abfence. Much Rain to Night, and Fogs, the 
 Wind itW, S.W, a Ihort^aleat Nidit: I rode 
 Ifjilon the fmooth Water, having the Poiiv: on 
 rhc iV. W. of me : Here is a great deal of frelh 
 hVarcr comes running in Streams down the Sides 
 of the bare rocky Mountains into the Salt Water, 
 nuny Whales (pouting to and fro inthefeBays 
 andSounds, and fome Seals on the Rocks : This 
 |Pai't is very defolatc, and a meer Chaos, &c. 
 
 At eiiiht of the Clock this Evcnins;, I anchored 
 jbcfore the Place called Batchelors River, in nine 
 IFathom Water, clear landy Ground, two Cables 
 i.ngth from the Shore. Here is very good clear 
 Siiidy Ground before the River, and good Anclio- 
 ringinilx, or feven, or eight, or nine, or ten, or 
 kvcn Fathom : a fine barthof iliore^and o;ood Ri- 
 ling with Wefterly Winds, and Northerly -, the 
 writ Wind is a S. Wind, for it blows vmM on 
 tiiis Reach ; but there cannot go much Sea 
 [icrc,- for the Streight in this Reach is but two 
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 Leagues to the Eaftward of Cape Omde^ and two 
 Leagues to the Eaftward of St. ^erom's Channel,- 
 on the North-lide of k, the Tide runs of an in- 
 different Strength in this Place, both Ebb and 
 Flood ; it fets in and out of St. Jerom's Channel 
 rifing and falling about eight or nine Feet per- 
 pendicular i here is not above t?n Foot Water at 
 a High-water, at the going in of Batchelors River. 
 This Paver is a good Harbour for Barks and 
 Sloops, or the like. This River lieth in a Valley^ 
 and a tine Grove of green Trees grows on the Weft 
 Point : At the Entrance here is a very good freft 
 Water, and a good Place to wood at. The bi^ 
 dian People or Natives frequent this Place often; 
 for here are many. Arbours, which are their 
 Floufcs : Calm W eather to Night, and foggy ; 
 I rode fad, the Ship being moored. 
 
 Sunday^ January 8. Calm Weather, and a fine 
 warm Sun-aiine: This Morning at Day-light, I 
 went in my Boat with twenty Men into Batchelon 
 River, and rowed four Mites up the Creek, or 
 River, which was as f^r as the Boat could go, the 
 Water being high: The River ends inafmallj 
 Creek, comins^ out of a Lakeof freih Water, in 
 a Valley amongft the Hills; we made the Boat 
 fafl, and marched all into the Land 5 or 6 Miiesj 
 bsing ftop'd from going furdier, by Hills rilind 
 very lleep, and Mountains^ and impenetrable 
 Woods : We made fcveral Fires, but could not lie 
 any fign of them lb far in the Land. No Be\i(t 
 or other Creature to be feen ; many Imall Streams 
 of freih Water come running from the fnowyl 
 MouutainsjWich great falls from the (l-ecp RocV^sJ 
 
 
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 ^rc looked in many Places of the Earth, and in the 
 
 Streams of Water for Gold, &c, but found none, 
 
 nor any other Metal or Mineral : Here grow on 
 
 the Bulhes many fmall red Berries, much like 
 
 Hurts, very good to eat j the Grafs-Land is very 
 
 •oolc and boggy : The Rocks arc a kind of white 
 
 Marble i the Trees like thole at Port Famen; 
 
 here arc fmall Pepper-trees. To Night I got on 
 
 Board ; calm Weather : I rode fall with the Ship. 
 
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 [jwiunal, which we fhall continue home to E?ig-' 
 
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 i ingenious Lieutenant. Nathanael Fecket, 
 
 Wednefday^ January it. Fair Weather, Wind 
 
 jviriablc, from S. E, to S. JV* This Morning we 
 
 made the beft of our way to get into Fort Fa- 
 
 mn : Here we had Fiihes from the Shore to fiih 
 
 our Main-maft j at 1 2 a Clock we anchored i^ 
 
 Ininc Fathom Water. This Place afforded what 
 
 i^^c wanted, as very good large Trees for Fiihes ; 
 
 b od Water, good wild Fowl, good Fiih, like 
 
 liillet, and large Smelts. Here we fitted our 
 
 hip's Mafts, and Rigging, as well as we could ; 
 
 ucen'd her, and filled our Casks with good 
 
 rclli Water, and took as much Wood aboard, 
 
 s we thought fit. 
 
 "^January 16. Fair Weather, and little Wind, 
 ockeBVefterly. This Morning the Lieutenant was or- 
 Beaililcrcd to go up with the Boat in Segan River, as 
 rcamiBi^h as he could with convenience, and to fee for 
 ho\vy»i/a«j-; FIc went up about nine Miles, but could 
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 I landed, and went up two Miles by Land to fee 
 for Indians; but I could not iec any, nor any 
 thing worth the Obfervation. How tar the Rivd- 
 runs up, I know not, for I faw not the end of it; 
 fo I returned a-board again, 
 
 January 29. Fair Weather, and little Wind 
 at .9. W^ This Morning the Captain went over 
 with the Pinnace to the South-lhore, to fee for 
 Indians^ and if there were an Harbour for Ship- 
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 dian to the Point o^Port Famen^ and made a [irc; 
 and I went a-fliore to fee what he had ; but he 
 had neither Bow, nor Arrow, nor any thing eUe,to 
 the value of a Farthing : I would have had him 
 come a-board with me, but he would not ; as tar 
 as I underflood by the Signs he made to mc, he 
 had been a Slave to fome other Indians^ and had 
 run away from them, and was travelling home. 
 
 Tiiefday^ January 31. Fair Weather, Windv: 
 riable. This Evening the Captain came a-boardj 
 again, having been over on the South-ihorc, tol 
 fee for an Harbour, but could find none, nor fo 
 any Indians. 
 
 Saturday^ February 4. Fair Weather, Wind ai 
 W. by N> This Morning, at four a Clock, v 
 fet Sail for Fort Famen^ and at eleven a Cloc! 
 we were fhort of Frejhwater Bay , and at fix 
 Clock in the Evening, wc anchored in tv;clv 
 Fathom Water, in a fine fandy Bay, about to 
 Leagues to the Northward o't Fre'LwatcrBiv. 
 
 February 5. Fair Weather, but very muq 
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 Feb) nary 7. Fair Weather, Wind Northerly. 
 Thii Morning the Capt ^in ordered me to talic 
 the Pinnace, and to i^o along the North-Hiore, 
 and between Elizabeth's Illand and the Shore, to 
 fee for Indians. In the Afternoon, it blew hard 
 North -rly, that we could not t'ow a head; fo I 
 put hck into a umdy Bay, and went a-iliore, and 
 hf-i\ there all Night; and in this Bay wc haled 
 th i.une, and got a great ir.any good and large 
 SiiJrs; Smelts of 20 Inches long, and eigiit 
 l!.:h.s about. 
 
 irsinefday^ February 8, Fair Weather, Wind 
 V. S. W, This Morning, at four a Clock, I ran 
 down the Streights with the Pinnice, keeping 
 the >orth-J]iore a-board, and ran betwixt it and 
 Elizabeth's Ifland, but law no Indians ; yet faw 
 fevcral Places, where they had been very lately, 
 and where they had built their Canoas. From 
 Cufe Defiade to Elizabeth' sldind^ there is Wood 
 and Frcih Water plenty ,• but from Elizabeth's 
 lllanJ, to Caf:!e Virgin-Mary^ Wood and freih 
 W'atcr is very ibarce to come by. This Afternoon 
 atthreeaClock, I gota-^board again, and at four 
 a Ciock we came to an Anchor in eight Fathom 
 Water, black Sand ; we rid within a Mile of the 
 North-lhore : St. Georges^ and St. Bartholomew's 
 Idand were both Ihut in one,and they bore S. S, £. 
 of me; and E//2^^^r//sIiland bore S. and by E. 
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 February 9. Fair Weather, Wind Wcdcrly. 
 This Morning the Captain fcnt me to fee for /;;. 
 diam^ but I could fee none ; yet I Rll with a good 
 Harbour for fniall VelTcls, on the North-lidc, and 
 at the South-End of a great deep Bay, thwart of i 
 Ulizabeth's liland ; the Entrance of this Harbour I 
 is not a Bow-fhot from Sido. to Side : I founded it 
 and there was 1 2 Foot Water at a low Water ,• but| 
 within, there was 3 Fathom Water at low \Va. 
 ter : From the Entrance of this Harbour, to the I 
 Upper-end of it, is about feven Miles. Here is| 
 in this Harbour great Store of Geefe and Ducks ; 
 and a-fliorc there is great Store of Heath-berries 
 and Hidts, and fmall Black-berries, good and 
 well-tafted ^ but I faw no Jndiam^ fo I rcturncdl 
 a-board again ; the Captain went into anothcrj 
 Harbour, a Mile to the Southward of the fecondj 
 Narrow on the North-lhore, and founded, and) 
 had four Fathom Water in it ; it is very broail 
 within, and there is great Store of Sea-Crabs. 
 
 Saturday ^February II, Fair Weather, Wine 
 variable. This Day the Captain ordered me to gc 
 with the Pinnace, and difcover the North-lhon,] 
 and if I could with convenience difcover foinc 
 Part of the South ; and to go to the firft Narrov 
 and there to ftay for the Ship ; fo I went tlirougH 
 the fecond, and landed on the South -fde, in alin^ 
 fandy Bay, or Cove, expcding to fall wiih hiiii\ 
 ans^ for I faw many Fires up in the Land ^ I wen 
 up about five or iix Miles, but could fee no i//J 
 dians. Then the Night coming on, I returncj 
 again to the Boat, and there we pitcheci a Tcnj 
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 (licic it flood until low Water ; then we haled 
 |tlic Pond all over, and haled a-ihore about 700 
 aood and large Filli like Mullets. This Land is 
 lay dry, barren Land, and nothing to be feen 
 lia it worth the Obfervation. 
 
 febntary 12. Fair Weather, Wind Northerly. 
 JThis Morning I went over to the North -ftiore, 
 jnd there I fell with a fine Sandy Bay ,• I found- 
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 above half a Mile from the Shore. This Bay is 
 lictwccn the fecond Narrow and Cape Gregory^ 
 ciofc under Cafe Gregory j this Cape is about five 
 orlix Miles to the Eaftwardof the fecond Nar- 
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 la frcih Gale, and haled the Boat up dry, and 
 Kvntup into the Country to fee for Indians^ but 
 Ifiw none, and I returned to the Boat again, where 
 [v'c pitched our Tent, and lay all Night. 
 
 February 1 3 . Fair Weather, and a frefh Gale 
 Dt Wind Wefterly. This Morn ing I ran all along 
 ^lie North-iliore from Cape Gregory^ to the firft 
 vurow i and I was no fooner entrcd into the firft 
 kiirow, but I faw three Anchors, which lay up 
 fWe High-water Murh^ in a ihiall Sandy Cove j 
 flkrc 1 landed, and lialed up the Boat, and fcarch- 
 
 abour, to fee if we could tall with any Guns, 
 pr other Trade. One of the Men found an Iron 
 a)mmander for fome Ship's Poop : One of thofc 
 liichors were twelve Foot long in the Shank, 
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 "Tuefday^Februory \^., Clofe, hafey Weather, 
 withfome Rain, and very much Wind ^V^'ft'-rlv.Bpw^^^^ 
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 Strcights ; and after llie was through the ^^^^ro^'jBif.pj. ^. T^ 
 they brought her to, and I got a-board i andw" ' ' ^ 
 made all the Sail we could, and by Night Wi 
 got clear of the Str eights into the North-fea , an 
 at 3 a Clock Cape Virgin-Mary bore iV. W, lul 
 a Point Northerly, diftance 4 Leagues. 
 
 T'fmrfday^ February 23. Fair Weather, th 
 Wind variable, from the N* N. IV to th 
 TV N,W, This Evening, at nine a Clock, wi 
 came to an Anchor in 2 2 Fathom Water, Sand 
 G/ound on the South-part of America^ in the La 
 of 47 ^. 1 5 m. South ; and then Cafe-BlnnA 
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 i;to ?ort Dcfire for frelli Water, but could not 
 fllabove five or fix Puncheons ; for there wj.s no 
 0[C to be liad thcrc,and all they brou^^^ht a-board 
 v'ii brackilh : Riir Weather, Wind variable. 
 Sunday ^ Febmary 26. Fair Weather, and a frefh 
 Wipd at S, S, W, This Morninc wefet .'^ail from 
 f^tf Dcfire^ to go for Eiiglanci] and at twelve 
 ^ Clock, 1 was in the Latitude of 47 ^. i o ;//. S. 
 \nd then Cape Blancbo bore N. W. of mc, but 
 potby the C- iinpafs i for here is a Point and half 
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 allthe Coaft along, from this Cape to Cape Vir- 
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 Wednefday^ May 17. The Weather fair. This 
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 Puntelegada^ to enquire News from Englantl 
 whether we had War, or Peace with an', other 
 Nation, or not; and I was informed by Mr. R;. 
 chard Neuchenfon^ that we had War witli none 
 but the Argea-}AiLn. So I returned a-board again' 
 and we made all the Sail we could for England. 
 
 Tuefday^ May 23. Fair Weather, and much 
 Wind at N, E. our Provifions being almoft done 
 and but litte Water in the Ship j we bore up to 
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 May 24. Clofe, hafey Weather, and a frdi 
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 Friday^ May 26, Fair Weather, and litrlc 
 Wind at A/. E. This Forenoon we fet Sail out 01 
 Angria-Rode^ to go for E?igland. 
 
 Saturday ^ '^une 10. 1671. It was hafey, dirty 
 Weather, Wind at S. W. This Morning 1 fav 
 Scilly^ at feven a Clock ^ it bore N. E, by N. ot] 
 me, diftant about 5 Leagues ; and at fix a Clod 
 in the Afternoon the Lizard bore North otnic 
 diftant about 3 Leagues. Now, I make my dif< 
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 ^Relation of a Voyage made towards the South 
 Terra Incognita ; eztra&ed from the Jour-' 
 ml of Captain Abel Janfen Tafman, by 
 which not only a new Pajfage by Sea to the 
 Southward of Nova Hollandia, Vande- 
 mens Land^ &c. is difcovered^ andavaft 
 [face cf Land and Sea incompaffed and faiU 
 d round^ but many confiderable and infiru^ 
 B'lve Objervations concerning the Variation 
 of the Magnetical Needle in Parts of the 
 World almofi Antipodes to us ; and feveral 
 other curious Remarks^ concerning thofe 
 Places and People^ are fet forth. Not long 
 fince pubUJhed in the Low Dutch by Dirk 
 Rembrantle, and now in Engliih from 
 Dr. HookV Colleilions. 
 
 N the Year 1641. Aug. 14. He fet Sail with 
 two Ships from Batavia^ to wit, the Yacht 
 Hee?mhrk^ and the Fly-boat Seahaen i and 
 the 5 th. of September came to an Anchor 
 It the liland Mauritius 20 d. South Latitude, and 
 )>fl. 48 ;;/. Longit. They found this Illand 50 
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 8th. of Odoher they departed from thence, and 
 
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 they were in South Latitude A5 ^/. 47 ;;;. Longi'. 
 
 85? d. 44 in, Var. N,W» 26 a, The 6th of AV 
 
 'vember they were in South Latitude 49 ^. ^ ;„, 
 
 Long it. 1 14^. $6fn. N. JV.yiir. 26 d. with much 
 
 dirty,mifty, windy, and gufty Weather, and 
 
 with hollow Waves out of the S. W. and S. lo 
 
 that we could not conceive there could be anv' 
 
 Land very near upon thefe Points. Noxember \\, 
 
 Latitude S. 44^. 3 ;//. Longitude 140 d, 32 ^.i 
 
 jV. W^> var. 1 8 ^. 3 o ;;/. which decreafed apaer, 
 
 fo thc.^ on the 21ft. being in 158 rf. Longit. th 
 
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 the next day, their Compafs would not ftand fe 
 
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 here fome Mines of Load-ftone, for that thei 
 
 Compafs flood not ftill upon any of the ci^f 
 
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 42 <r^^ 25 in. and their middle Longit. of 165 
 
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 7m^:: hand. Here the Compafs ftood right 
 
 this Lund in the Longitude of 1 63 rf. 5 o vu Thi 
 
 iiaci much Ilormy bad Weather, fo they ve 
 
 away S. by £\ along the Coaft to ^/\. d, of Sou! 
 
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 ^ccetnber they named Frederick He^idricb Bay : 
 Xhcy heard, as they thought, thcnoiie of Men/ 
 but law none ; they faw alfo two Treej> abotic 
 t\ro, or two and a half Fathom thick, and 60, or 
 ^5 Foot high below the Briinches -, the Bark of 
 thefc Trees was cut with Flint, peeled off in form 
 of Steps, to help the Inhabitants to climb them^ 
 and twike the Birds Nefts thereon ,• thefe Steps 
 were about 5 Foot afunder, fo that we muft ei- 
 ther conclude thefe People \'ery great, or elfe 
 that they have fome unknown Trid<: to make ufe 
 of the faid Steps for climbing thefe Trees., In 
 the one Tree the Steps fcemcd fo frcili and green, 
 as if it had not been four days fmce they were 
 cut J the noife of Men, and the Play which they 
 heard, was much like that of a JeWf-Ti-u?np^ or 
 kikGom, which was not far off j but they faw 
 nobody. They faw the footing of wild Beafts^ 
 having Claws like a Tyger^ and of other Beafts t 
 They found alfb Gum of the Trees, and Gum-* 
 Lac of the Ground. The Ebb and Flood was 
 Iherc about three Foot. The Trees flood not 
 thick, nor incumbred with thick Buihes, or Un- 
 [derwood ; they faw likewife in feveral Places the 
 Smoak of Fire. Here they did nothing but only 
 [ct up a Stake with the Companies Mark, and a 
 rmccs Flag thereon ; there was here 3 d. N» £♦ 
 biation. December 5. S, Lat. 41 d, 34 in. Long. 
 pp d, they went away £. from Anthony "van Di^ 
 mn Lan'd^ with purpofe to run away £. to the 
 Loiigit. of 195 d» to find the Iflands of Solomon* 
 kmber 9. withi'. Lat. 42 d, 37 m. Long. 176 
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 December 13. Latitude S* /\.2 d. 10 ;//. Longi- 
 tude 188 d, 28 ;//. N» E, var. 7 /^. 30 ;;/. thi*y 
 had Land in lii^ht, which was very hi^h and hillyj 
 and whi h in the Charts is now called New Zea- 
 land i they went N. Eaft wards along the Land as 
 the Chart lliewed it, till they anchored in a Bav, 
 in S. Latitude 40 d, 50. m* Longitude 191 ^. ^i 
 vi» N' £. variation 9 d, and that on die iSthof 
 December 16^2. Thefe Inhabitants were rough 
 of voice, thick and grofs made, they came not 
 within a Stones caft on Board of us, and blew 
 feveral times on an Liftrument, which made a 
 noife like a 'Moorijh Trumpet -, in anlwer thereto 
 we blew ours. Their Colour was between Brown 
 and Yellow ; diey had black Hair, bound fad and 
 tight upon die Crown of their Head, in the 
 i'amc manner as the Japanners have theirs be- 
 hind their Head, and near -^s long and thicket 
 Hair, upon wiiich flood a great thick \i'hitc 
 Feather ; rheir Clothes were of Mats, others of 
 Cotton, biit their Upper-parts were naked. 
 
 December 19. Thefe Antipodes began to U 
 fomewhat bolder, and more free j io that they 
 endeavoured to begin a Truck or Merchandize 
 widi die Yacht, and began to come on Board, 
 the Commander feeing this began to fear, ltd 
 they might befallen upon, and fent his Boatoif 
 Pro\7 with feven Men to advcrtifc them, thai 
 t'ley ihoiild not truft thefe People too much j thi 
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 three or four of them were killed, and the reft * 
 faved thcmfclvcs by fwimming : This they en- 
 deavoured to revenge, hut the Water goin^ l^ig^S 
 they were hindred ; this Bay was by them, for 
 this rcalbn, named Murderen' Bay^ as it i :•> marked 
 in the Charts. From this Bay they went on E. 
 and found the Land all round about them: It 
 fccnis a very good Land, fruitFul, and well fitu- 
 aicd, but by reafon of the bad Weather, and 
 Weft Wind, they hid a great deal of Trouble to 
 get out. The 24th of December^ becaufe the Wind 
 would not well fuffer tliem to go to the North- 
 ward, they not knowin^^ if they lliould find any 
 PalTage to tlie North, and the Flood coming out 
 of the V?. E. they concluded to go back ag in in- 
 to the Bay, and there feck a PaHage ; but t'lc 
 :6tli the Wind better ferving, they went away 
 Northerly fomewhat to the Weft. Jafinnry 4. 
 1545. in S, Latitude 3 4 <:/. 35 ;//. Longit. 191 ci. 
 9;//. TV. E. variation 8 d, 40 ?n. they came to the 
 iV. U"^. Cape of this Land, and had hollow Waves 
 out of the iV. E. and therefore doubted not there 
 muft be a great Sea in the N, E. whereupon 
 I they were glad, as having now gotten aPalTige. 
 Here lay an Iftand which they named three Kings 
 ftW, to which they went to refrefli thenifelves, 
 and being come near, they faw upon the Hi 11 
 [thirty or thirty five Men, being of tall Stature 
 |(as well as might be difcerned from far) with 
 bricks or Clubs, who called to them with harlh 
 Dr loud Voices, but they could not undcrftand 
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 faw little or no cultivated Land, but only found 
 a frcfh River, where our People intended to get 
 frcfh Water, but by fome unlucky Accident were 
 prevented ; whereupon it was refolved to go with 
 an Eaftern Courfe to the Longitude of 2 20 ^. and 
 then Northward to the South Lat. of 17 ^. and 
 from thence Weftward to die Cocoa and Horm 
 ip.ands\ firft difcovercd by William Sc.:uten -, and 
 then, if not fooncr, to recruit; for they had in- 
 dc.-'d been upon Anthony "van Dicmem Land^ but 
 hud met with nothing j and upon New Zcakid 
 they had not lo much as once been a-fhorc. 
 
 ^an, 8. In S, Latitude 30^. 25 ;/;. Longitude 
 ipid, 20 7A'. A^. E. variation 9 d. they had great 
 Waves out of the S. £. fo that upon that Point 
 no Land can be hoped. January 12, South Lati- 
 tude $0 d. ■) m> Longitude 195 ^. 27 ;//. N.E. 
 variation 9 i-i d, they had hollow Waves out of | 
 the S. E. and S, W> 'January 16. in S, Latitude 
 26 d. 29 m. Longitude 199 d. 3 2 ;;;. A" E, va-l 
 riation 8 d. 
 
 The 19. Li S, Latitude 21 d, I'yin. Longitiic'c 
 'z 04 d, 1 5 ;;/. A/. E. variation 7 1-2 d. they f iw anl 
 liland about two or three Miles round, hislij 
 fleep, and barren in appearance ; they wouMl 
 willingly liave come nearer to it, but could notJ 
 bccaule of the S, E* and S. S. E. Wind ; they gavi; 
 it the name ot Piiiflrcctf Jjlands\ becaufe of tlii] 
 multitude of thofe I'owls j the next day tk) 
 law again two Illands. Tlie 2ih o^ Jannurjii 
 S. Lat. 21 d. 20 ;;/. Longitude 205 d. 29 ;/fl 
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 tlicrmoft Ifland, which was the biggeft, and not 
 high; they gave it the Nsliwc o^ Amfterdam^ and 
 the other Middlebw Jo, On this Amfi^Ydam they 
 aot many Hogs, Hens, and all forts of Fruits ; 
 diehihabitants were friendly, had no Weapons, 
 iiid appeared to know no Hvil, exc-pting that 
 they take the Liberty to fteal j there the Current 
 is not great, the Ebb runs near N. E. and the 
 Flood S.U^. AS,JV. Moon makes high Water, 
 and it flows 7 or 8 Foot at leafl:,- the Wind is 
 continually S, E. and S. S» E. wherewith the 
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 thclfland, yet took in no Water, which here was 
 not cafie to couie by. Janua^j 25. in S, Lat. 
 10 L 1% in. Longitude 206 d, \9 m, N, E, var. 
 6 1-3 d. After having feen feveral little Ifands, 
 they came to the Ifland Rotterdam^ as you fee it 
 in the Chart. The People were Iricndly, and 
 without Arms as the former, but likewile very 
 thcevilh : Here they got frem Water, and other 
 RcFrcOiment ; they went through this Ifland, and 
 found the Cocos^ or Clappus Trees in great plen- 
 ty, planted orderly one by another, and Gardens 
 whofc Beds were made fquare, and very hand- 
 fume, and fet with all forts of Fruit Trees, which 
 in almofl: all Places were planted in a right Line ; 
 lo that it was a pleafure to behold them, on all 
 Ifidcs giving a fragrant and delightful Smell. 
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 lliw fome other Iflands which you fee in the 
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 February 6. In South Latitude 17 ^. 29 m. 
 Longitude 201 d, 35 ;//. they were intricatcd 
 among about 18 or 20 Illands, which were all 
 encompaifed with Sands, Shoals,. Banks and 
 Rocks, which Iflands are marked in the Charts 
 by the Name of Prince Williavis IJlandf^ and 
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 February 8. In S. Latitude 15 ^. 29 fn. Longi- 
 tude 199 <i. 3 1 ;/;. they had a great deal of Rain, 
 and hard Wind out of the N. E. and N. N. E. 
 with hafey and dark Weather, and fearing left 
 they might be more Weftwardjy than by their 
 Reckoning, that they might not fall to the South- 
 wards of Nova Guinea^ or on unknown Coaftsj 
 alfo by reafon of the windy dark Weather, they 
 concluded to go on N. or iV. N*W. to 4, %^ or 
 6 d, of S. Latitude, and then away W* to No^ca 
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 February 14. In South Latitude 16 d, 30 ;//. 
 Longitude 195 d. 35 ;//. till this time they had 
 every day Rain with Storms, but now 'twas m(jrc 
 Calm j they haled the Ship Seahaen^ and found 
 their Reckonings to agree. 
 
 Feb. 20. In S. Lat. 13 d, 45 in. Long. 193 i 
 3 5 m, they had dill thick, dark, mifty and rainy 
 Weather, the Sea coming out of all Quarters, and 
 the W'ind variable. Feb, 16, Lat. ,9. 9 d, 48 w. 
 Long. 193 d, 43 ;;/. the Wind was conftanriy 
 iV. W^, They had not had one dry day in twenty 
 one. March 2. Lat. S, g d» 11 jn, Longit. 192 1\ 
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 variable. March 8. Latitude vSouth 7 d, 46 ;//• 
 Longitude 190 d, 47 ?n, "\Vcatherand Wind as 
 before. March 14. South Latitude 10 d. 12 ;;;, 
 Longitude 1 86 rf. 1 4 m, TV. £. variation 8 d. 45 w. 
 Before this, for twelve days time, they could get 
 no Obfervation, becaufe every day it was thick, 
 dark, and dirty Weather, with much Rain. 
 Miirch 20. South Latitude 5 rf. 1 5 ///. Longitude 
 181 d, \6 m, N. E. variation 9 d, the Weather 
 grew better. March 22. South Latitude 5 ^. 2 ;//. 
 Longitude 178^. 32;/;. Good W^eather with 
 Eaftcrly Trade Wind i they got fight of Land 
 four Miles IVi from them : It was a number of 
 fmall Ulands, about twenty in all, named in the 
 Charts Onthong Java^ which lye about ninety 
 Miles from the Coaft of Noi:a Guinea, March 2 5 . 
 j*. Latitude 4 rf. 35 7n. Longitude 175 ^. 10 ;//• 
 variation 9 r/. 3 o ;//. they were up with the 
 I lllands of Mir^, all found by William Scoiitcn 
 and '^ohn le Mair^ being fourteen or fifteen in 
 number : The Natives are Savage, and have their 
 black Hair tyed up like the Rogues of Murderers 
 % in No'-ca Zealandia, March 29, they palfed 
 by Green IJland j the 3 oth by St. 'Joh?is IJland, 
 \Afril I. in South Latitude 4 <i. 3 o w. Longitude 
 [71 d. 1 in, variation 8 d, 45 ;//. they reached 
 fbe Coaft o^New Guinea a'", a Cape, called by the 
 laniards Cabo St. Maria ^ and went along the 
 Coaft, which lies about N, W, to Anthony Caem 
 fmd^ Garden rf JJland and FiJJjers Ifland^ to the 
 promontory, called Striiis Hook^ where the Land 
 "ills away i". and S, Eaftwardly which they fol- 
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 tudc 167 (L 00 ;;/. TV. E. variation 10 d. Here 
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 were i'^(i aj-L*ep < imc up out oF their C.bhins 
 very much aifighud, imag niiig that the Ship 
 had (truck upon Rock, but cilUng the Lead, 
 found no Gror.na ; they had afterwards icvcral 
 Shakes of tlie Earthquake, but never fo viokm 
 as the lirft ; they were then within the Stniu 
 Hool^ (landing into the Bight Bay of Good 
 Hope. Aprd 14. South Latitude >) d, 2j m. Here 
 they faw the Land from the £. iV. E. into the 
 S, and fo on to the S. S, W. they intended to 
 find a Paffagc between both, but found this to I 
 be all one Land even into the Weft, wherefore 
 tliey turned their Courfe Weftward along the 
 Coaft, and had much Cahns. April 20. \\\U 
 Lat. 5 ^. 4 m. Longitude 1 64 J, 27 vu N» £. var. 
 8 <i. 3 o ;//. By Night they came by the Bimibm 
 Jfland^ and faw a great Fire come out of the top 
 of the Hill ; of which alfo William Scouten writcs:| 
 They went between this Ifland ind the Main, 
 and faw many Fires clofe by the Water, as 
 towards the middle of the high Hill ; whcnc; 
 they argued this to be a populous and well in- 
 habited Ifland i they had along this Coaft oi 
 No'va Guinea much Calms, and faw frcquend] 
 drift Wood, as fmall Trees, Bainboes, and othcl 
 filth, from the Land that came out from the Ki 
 vers, which made them conclude that there arl 
 many Rivers, and that it muft be a good Lm 
 
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 "flic next day they pafsM the BiirningMountain^ 
 jndwcnt along the Shore W, N, W, April 27. in 
 South Latitude 2 d, 10 in. Longitude 1 5 6(L 47 m. 
 they thought they were at the 111 md Moa^ but 
 \:y^is Ja?na^ a little more Hafterly t\un Mon ; 
 licrc they got many Cow-Nuts and other things: 
 The People were wholly black, and what tliey 
 heard our People fpeak they could very perfectly 
 repeat, which is a certain Sign that their Lan- 
 £uage is very copious in Words, and dilTicult to 
 be pronouncM, becaufe they ul'e nuich the Let- 
 ter /^. and fometimes two or thr.e times in a 
 Word. The next day they came before Moa^ 
 \rherc likewife they got much Refreflinicnt ; 
 hire, by rcafon of contrary Winds, they flay'd 
 till the 6th of May^ fo that they truck'd tor near 
 6000 Co6'<?-Nuts, and 100 Bundles of Pyfanghs ; 
 al^out the Beginning of their TrafTick on the 
 llland Moa^ whether malicioufly or otherwife, 
 cue of our Company was hurt with an Arrow 
 lliot by one of the Inhabitants : Whilft this pafs*d 
 they were getting their Ships nearer to the Land, 
 vherewith this People were fo frighted, that 
 of their own accorcl they brought aboard liim 
 that had fiiot the Arrow, for us to do with 
 'lim what we pleafed, and from that time they 
 LTC better to be fpoken withal, whether it 
 crc in their Traffick or otherwiie, fo that our 
 People took Pieces of Iron Hoops and littcd them 
 into Hafts, and made them fomewhat brieht and 
 ftiarp, and fo put them ofl: for Knives. L is pro- 
 felc they fliJl rcmejnber wliat befel them with 
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 not once peep out j but at length they grew vcrvl 
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 Long. 153 ri. 17 ;«. N. E. Variation 6 d. ^0 m, 
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 Wand ; it feems that the People are nimble, and 
 that the Ifland is well inhabited, and is about 18 
 or 19 Miles long. May 18. S. Lat. o d, 26 w. 
 Long. 147 rf. 55 ??u ]SL E, Variation 5 d, 30 ;/J 
 they had pafsM the Cape of Good Hope and come 
 to the Weft end of New-Guinea^ a broken Point 
 of Land. They had much variable Calm and con- 
 trary Winds with Rain ; From hence they went 
 Southward for Seravi^ and came on the Noitlj 
 fide thereof. On the 27th o( May they went or 
 through the Streights to the North of Bonrc • 
 Bouton^ and fo for Batavia where they arriv' 
 June 1 5, in South Latitude 6 d, 12 ;//. and Loii 
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 \lRdation of a Voyage for the Vijcovery of a 
 Pafage by the North-Eajl^ to Japan and 
 China ; Perforrnd in his Majejiys Shi^ 
 the Speed wel, and Profperous Pinky 
 Anno Domini 1676. Where is Jlotvp'd 
 the Reajons and Grounds of the Probability 
 of a Pajfage before the Attempt^ with fome 
 Hod Obfervations made in thefaid Voyage^ 
 by Captain John Wood. 
 
 rO write a full Relation of all thofc 
 Navigators that have attempted to 
 find a Paifage by the iV. E. to China 
 and Jafan^'AV be ncedicfs, fince their 
 ;irratives have pafVd moft Hands^ they being 
 ccorded in Hdcklnit and Purchafe ; but my In- 
 entis, to flicw wherein thofe faiPd that have 
 irmcrly undertaken it, and then to ihcw the 
 lobable Reafons that induc'd me to undertake 
 he laid Voyage, with the Event ther of. 
 TiiL' fir ft that ever attempted the laid Voyage^ 
 .isSir H:/^'.' Wdbnghh'j in the Year 155*3, with 
 ICC Sail of Ships, and he faii'd to the North 
 uipc of Fihfiiar ke^^ind then into the Lat. of 72, 
 icic he fays he law Land ; but to this day ic 
 innot be fi i;nd again, and I am of Opinion 
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 my Return home, I ran over the lame place vrhcic 
 our Chart-makers lay down that Land ; but cer- 
 tain it was, that by foul Weather he was forc\i 
 into a Harbour in Lapland^ cill'd Arzena^ where 
 by the Continuance of bad Weather, he could 
 never return out, but was there frozen to Death 
 with all his Ship's Company ; fb that of this 
 Voyage there was no Light given to find a Paf- 
 fagc that way. 
 
 The fccond that attempted, was one Captain 
 Stephm Burrorigh.f^-d'^tQrviiird Comptroller of the 
 Navy to Qui^tn Eliza^jeth. In the Year 1555, 
 he fet forward, and pafs'd the North Cape, and 
 failing farther Eafterly, difcover'd the Waygates. 
 that is the Streight that runneth between thcJnVec! on th 
 South Part of Nova Zemhla^ and the Saimno)dM^hh ^he 
 Country, where he entered, and believing thaiB^'^" Shore ti 
 S'mm^ or Bay, thcEaflward of the Streights, i 
 be a free and open Sea, he returned with Hop 
 of PafTage that way to China and Japan, 
 
 The third that attempted, was Captain A/feiB^ll en durec 
 fett^ :ind Co.m.un Charles Jachnan^ in thcYeailwr Morta 
 1 5 Sojbeing fent out by Queen Elizabeth to folio 
 the Track of Burroughs ; fo, letting forwards the 
 came to the Waygates, and paffed the Streight: 
 and came into the Sea to the Eaftward, where the 
 met with fuch a vafl Quantity of Ice and ba 
 Weather, that they with great Hazard, Peril, am 
 Labour, were forc'd to return, but by foul\Ve;]Bn fhe Year 
 ther loft one the other, and Pett was never hearB'^ Voyage 
 of fmce ; fo the Pallage through the Waygat J So the Th 
 was in England laid by, as thought not poiTibw'is wholly 
 that way, and then tjie Hollanders undertook m^^^ or two 
 
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 The fourth that attempted it was William Bar" 
 fW, a well Experienced Navigator and Artift, 
 l^nt out of Holland by Prince Maurice in the 
 Vcar 1606. He failed into the Waygatcs, but 
 Ring cntred, he found the fame Incumbrance 
 irith Ice that Pen and Jachnan had done before ; 
 fo rafting of the Water, and finding of it frcfh, 
 vhich neither Burroughs ^?ett^ nor Jachnan^ had 
 obferved ; he returned without any hope or pro- 
 bability of a Paflage that way ; but this not dif- 
 couragiAg him, he refolvcd a ilcond Adventure 
 j (0 the Northward of No'va Zemhla^ to fee what 
 might be performed that way. 
 
 So in the Year 1607, he let forward, and ar- 
 rived on the Coaft o^ Nova Zembla^ in the Lat* 
 ot73, where he met with Ice^ and fo coafted 
 the Shore till he came to the Lat. of 76, where he 
 could get no farther, and by the Ice was there 
 driven on Shore, and his Ship broke in pieces by 
 
 it, and he confined to winter there, wh:re they 
 [ill endured the greateft Extremity of Cold that 
 lever Mortals did j the Winter being paft, they 
 [with difficulty, in two Boats, got to Cola in Lap-^ 
 
 diid; but before their Arrival there, William 
 )^mans dyed^ to the great grief of all his Com- 
 
 iny. 
 
 The next that attempted it, was that famous 
 
 iifcovcrer of our own Nation Mr. Vlenry H'ldlo?!^ 
 the Year i6to. but he being difl^.eartncd by 
 
 [tie Voyage o^ Barram^ attempted but little. 
 So the Thought of a Pallaj^^je by the North-Fafl 
 
 us wholly laid alide, till of late wiiiiin this 
 
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 the Opinion of the North-Eaft was received In 
 fome, and fomething relating thereunto was 
 printed in thcTranfa^^fiom of the Royal Socieiy. 
 
 Now will I come to the Reafons that in- 
 duced me to believe there was a Probability of a 
 Paflage and then the caufe of my undertaking 
 of the laid Voyage. 
 
 My firft Reafon was grounded on the Opinion 
 of Willia?n Barra?is before Ipoke of j which was 
 that Nova Zembla and Greenland being 200 
 Leagues diftance between one and the other 
 that if he had fleered away North-Eaft fronuhe 
 North Cape, which would have brought him in 
 the mid-way betwixt the two Lands, that then 
 he might have probably found an open Sea, free I 
 from Ice, and lb confequently a Palfage,- and in 
 that Opinion he remained to his dying day ^ for 
 he did verily believe that the Ice was not to be| 
 met off of cither Shore more than 20 Leagues 
 and the reft to be free and open, and that hisl 
 being too near the Shore of Nova Zembla^ was 
 the caufe of his meeting fo much Ice, which was 
 the Overthrow of his Voyage j and if he hadl 
 lived, he had purpofely intended another VoyageJ 
 and to have failed the mid-way. 
 
 The fecond Reafon that made me believe ai 
 PafTagc, was a Letter fent out of Holland ; whiclil 
 ispublilhed in the Ti-anfa^fiomohhc Royal Socim 
 which affirmeth, the Grand Czar of Mufcovia had) 
 Caufed a particular Survey of the Land of Ak/i 
 Zemhla^ and that they had found it to be no 
 Ifland, but to join to the main Land of T(ivu\ 
 ria^ and that to the Northward of it was a frcfl 
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 The third, was a Journal printed in Holland^ 
 Qf I Voyage from Eatavid to Jnpin^ wherein 
 i\x Ship was Cad away upon Corea^ a PeninfuLi 
 oiClM-, where by the Natives they were made 
 5: ves. The Relater having been there 16 Years, 
 at'uft cfcaped to Japnn^ and writ this Journal, 
 therein, amongft other Obfervations, he rc- 
 latts tb.is, That in a Bay on the Coaft oF Corea^ 
 there doth ar levcral Times drive in dead \\'halej> 
 vith En^lijh and Dutch Harping Irons in them, 
 vhidi, if true, had been, a great Argument of 
 aPaffagc/ 
 
 , Thc'tburth, was a Relation of Mr. Jofepb 
 
 M^w/r, who being in Hollani above 20 Years 
 
 nee, heard a Dutchman relate , (as he did be- 
 
 eve the real Matter of Fad) that he had beenf 
 
 nder the Pole itfelf j and that it was as warm 
 
 Sicrc as it was at Amfterdam in Summer time. 
 
 The fifth, was a Relation of one Captain 
 
 'An who had made above thirty Voyages to 
 
 'nmland^ and this he did relate to his Majefty, 
 
 iiat being at Greenland fome tv/enty Years ago,' 
 
 was in Comp:.ny with two Hollanders to the 
 
 ftward of Edges llland, and that the Whales 
 
 t appearing on the Shore, the two Hollanders 
 
 ;re rcfolv'd to go farther Northerly, and to 
 
 " among the Ice; fo they departed from him 
 
 i went to the Northward, and in a Fortiiidit's 
 
 ne rcturn'd to him agaul, and gave it out^ 
 
 I they had fail'd itlto the Lat. of 80, that 
 
 s witjiin one Degree of the Pole, a!id that 
 
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 like that of the Bay of Bifcay, Mr. Gouldm be- 
 ing not fatisfy'd with the bare Relation, they pro. 
 duc'd him ibur Journals out of the two Ships 
 v/hich tcftify'd the fame, and that they all agreed | 
 within 4 viin, one of the other. 
 
 The iixth Inducement that made me believel 
 there was a Pafftge, was a Relation from the 
 fame Captain Gormen^ which was. That all tlie| 
 Drift-Wood that they found at Greenland^ n 
 eaten with a Sea-Wormto the very Heart, whichj 
 if fo, it muft of NecelTity come out of a he 
 Clip.iate ; for^Experience iheweth, that the Worm 
 bitcth in no cold Country, therefore it coiil(| 
 not be fupposM that it came from any otlie 
 C^ountry than Jadzo^ J^f^^t or fome Land 
 thereabout. 
 
 Thefevcnth Argument was another Narrarioj 
 printed in the Tra?il ad ions o^ two Ships, of lac 
 that had attempted the PafTage, fail'd 301 
 Leagues to the Eaftwrrd of Nr/va Zembla^ anj 
 had after profccuted tiie Voyage, had there nif 
 a Difference arofe betwixt the Undertakers ii 
 I he Eaft-hidia Company, againft whofe Intcrd 
 it was to futfcr it to be found out ; fo ihcy bj 
 ing a Body, and more powerful than the otlia 
 iuppreis'd it. 
 
 Theic Icven were the main Arguments, tliol 
 liad many more, that converted me into thcO{[ 
 nion of there being a PoiTibility of a Palfage 
 the Northward of Norva Zembla^ to China a| 
 Jupan i thefe being, as i iuppos'd, or as any 
 would have done, if he had well confider'd thcj 
 to be Matter of Fadt^ and no Fables. 
 
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 Befides thefe Arguments, 1 had fomc grounded 
 upon Reafori and Nature, which fecm'd to be 
 alTiftant in the Dcfign of the Attempt, fuppofing 
 the aforeiaid Arguments to be true, and there 
 being no Land nor lee in the way as an Obftack 
 to hinder it. ' " 
 
 The firft was. That being near the North-Pole 
 in the Summer time, it might be as warm as un- 
 der the ArtiC^i or Antartkk Circle, or warmer 
 than with us in the Winter time^ for under the 
 Pole itfelf, in JtinCj the Sun being 2 3 Degrees 
 , and having no Depreflfiori towards the Ho- 
 rizon, but always fwimining about at the fame 
 Height, might illuminate that Part of the Hemi- 
 ere with more Heat than it does ours in Win- 
 ir, when he is no more than 15 Degrees high, 
 hen he is at the higheft, that is on the Meri- 
 dian, and riot more than eigiit Hours above the 
 lorizon ; or that it might be as hot as any Place 
 br cither Polar Circle, becaufe there the Suit 
 lath a Declination towards the Horizon ,• and fo 
 le Atmofphere hath almoll as much time to cool^' 
 it hath to heat, which, under the Pole,fliould 
 lave no Intermiirian. And one Argument to fa- 
 Dur this Opinion, was the Relation of moft 
 kenland Tnid^rs^ who affirm. That the fiirther 
 korth they go on the Coaft of that Land,^ 
 iey meet with more green Herbs and Grafs, 
 [an they do to the Southward, and confcqucnt- 
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 Fog i fo that if it ftiould fo happen, on j might 
 lie by, or make little way till Wind came, that 
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 The th'rd was the Solution of a Doubt, that 
 moft Men had fancy'd, which was^ That if one 
 came near the Pole, the Septentrial Declination 
 of the Needle of the Compafs Ihould be quite 
 taken away, which would of neceflity follow, if j 
 the Pole of the World, and the Pole of the 
 Magnet were all one, which, I am certain, is not, 
 but is placed fo far off, that one might go under j 
 the Pole of the World, if Land or Ice did not 
 hinder j with this Suppofition, that one muft 
 know where the Pole Magnetical is, to allow thc| 
 Variation that will there happen. 
 
 Having confider'd all thefe Arguments andl 
 Reafons, with many more 1 met with, whichi 
 wiil be too tedious to relate, and the Polfibilityl 
 of a Pa(fagc being now imprinted in my Mindl 
 and Inclination, 1 do intend to fliew the Rcaibnsj 
 in iliorr, that induc'd me to undertake the faid] 
 .Voyage. 
 
 The firfl was. That the King, whom God prej 
 ferve, fhould reap the Honour and Glory there] 
 of, and his Subjeds the Profit. 
 
 Secondly, There being no Actions within rlij 
 Hemifphere of his Majefty's Dominions whcrciij 
 any Vacancy was, but all being fupply'd, I choiej 
 rather than to be idle, to apply myfelf to Hil 
 Majefty for the Profecution of the Defign ; m 
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 Mcrclunts of the City of Ljondon ; where, after 
 divers ConfuJtations with them, and the Rea- 
 fons and Arguments before-mention'd being de- 
 bated, it was by many thought Practicable, and 
 by more thought Profitable to the Nation : The 
 Particulars to relate, would fwell into a confide- 
 nblc Volume. 
 
 The third Reafon was peculiar to myfelf, tho' 
 when known^ to the Ufe and Benefit of all Man- 
 kind; which was. That having for fome Years 
 paft fram'd an Hypothefis of the ivlotion of the 
 iw Magnetical Poles, for two fuch there be ; 
 and by the Obfervations of all, or mofc that 
 writ of that Subjed, with my own Obfervation, 
 and coflly Experiment upon a great many Plac js 
 0:' the Sltperticies of the Terrcftrial C.-lobe; I 
 having found out their Motion very near, and 
 I thereby the Inclination of the Migm^tical Ncctlle 
 under the Horizon, in all Latitudes, and all 
 Longitudes ; and Variation of the Compafs mxy 
 be found in any Place in the World, Vv'ithout 
 AfTiftance of any other Luminary. But not be- 
 ing fo fully fatiiify'd as I might be, if I could 
 |come fo near the Pole as was fuppos'd, it prom- 
 pted my Inclination, as fiu* as any other Ar^^u- 
 p;nr whatever, to atternpt this Voyage. 
 
 So, havinsf all thefe Reafons that there \rxs a 
 ?allage, and Reafons for me to undertake it, I 
 idvanc'd. The firft Step to it was, I drew a PoLir 
 Vmght, wherein I trac'd all thofe Navigarors 
 felt had attempted the North- eafl-, v/hich I pre- 
 [cnted to his Majefty, and Royal Hii^hncis, and 
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 faid; which, after their Royal Confideration 
 and Confult with many Merchants and Seamen 
 that had ufed to fail Northward, and if thought 
 by all feazible, His Majefty was gracioufly 
 plcas'd to grant me the Sfeedwel Fregat, to be 
 manned and vidualled at his Royal Charge, 
 with all other Appurtenances thereunto belong- 
 ing. 
 
 But becaufe in all Attempts of this Nature it 
 
 was not convenient to venture one Ship alone, 
 for the many Accidents that are incident to a I 
 finglc Ship in an Entcrprizc of this Nature ; 
 
 Therefore, his Royal Highnefs the Duke ot| 
 TorL 
 The Honourable John Lord Barllct. 
 Sir Jofepb IVillianifon, 
 Sir John Banker. 
 Mr. Samuel Peeps. 
 Captain Herbert. 
 Mr. Dnpey. 
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 Thefe Eight Honourable Perfons, at their ovn 
 proper Charge, bought a Pink, calFd the Prui 
 fperops^ of the Burden of a hundred and twcntyl 
 Tuns, fitted her to Sea, Men, Ammunition, Proj 
 vifion, and Merchandize, which was iiicli as| 
 was rcafonably propos'd to vend on the Coall 
 of Tartar ia^ or at Japan^ if a Prffage had beeii 
 found. 
 
 Now the Ships being fitted out, the Speek\ 
 (It Deptford in the King's Yard, where the Builder! 
 
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 Mr. John Siflj^took no ordinary Care in Strcngtli- 
 ning Jier, and in her Sheathing, which was as 
 well pcrform'd as in any Ship that ever fail'd on 
 the Sea. Thus being fitted, 1 was to fatisfie niol^ 
 People of the Advantage to our Nation, that 
 would accrue if there was a PafTage. 
 
 The tirft Advantage that I purposed, was, that 
 on the Coaft of Tartaria^ it being a cold Cli- 
 mate, we might vend our EngUfh Cloth, which 
 now is grown a Drug j and certain it is, that they 
 wear Cloth which is fent them from Rnjjia an^i 
 Mofcovia^ which, before it arrive at their Hands, 
 muft needs be very dear in the Prize; fo if one 
 could come on their Coaft, one might vend a 
 great deal morc^ and abundance cheaper. 
 
 The fecond Advantage, as would have bc?ii, 
 that in fix Weeks one might have lail'd to Japan^ 
 which in the other Way is nine Months ; and 
 the Paflage that Way being as hazardous and 
 pcrillous as this would have been, if th?rc had 
 k'cn any Pafllige by the North-E.ift ,- for by the 
 South way, all the way betwixt Sr?;/m/// and 'Ja- 
 Piware an innumerableCompany of Saads,Shoals, 
 and Iflands, where many Ships arc yearly loft, and 
 all that way one muft turn up to the Windward, 
 be in perpetual Fear of the Hollander s\ whom if 
 we meet, they do their utmoft Endeavours to dc- 
 ftroy us. 
 
 Then if there had been a North-Eaft Paifagc, 
 and that one might fail in fuch a ftiort time to 
 ypn^ the King might fend out ^ .en ot War to 
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 Now, after all thefe Arguments and Ueafons, 
 the Time of the Year growing on for us to be 
 gone, we made our Ships ready for the Sea, be 
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 bound for the Difcovery of a Pajfu^e to the 
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 about Nova Zembia, and Tartary, and 
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 Qllnday^ May 28. the Wind at .9. ?^ Sailed 
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 Monday^ May ig. The Wind at .9. W. and 
 
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 Wediefday^ May 3 1 . From Yefterday N(^on to 
 this Day ISoon, the Winds variable with Calnw 
 and Rains. Coiirfes/)^r Traveric; true Couiic 
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 42 Miles, departure Weft 40 Miles, Lat. fu 
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 Land between New-Caftle and Benvick bore W. 
 about 8 or 9 Leagues : Meridian diftancc Cur- 
 rent from the bearing of the Land, and the Lit. 
 is 88 Miles, 50 Fathom Water; law two Ships 
 ^landing to the Southward, but would not ihow 
 their Colours. 
 
 Thnrfday^ ^luic i . From Yefterday Noon to 
 this Day Noon, a frefh Gale from the JV. by S. 
 to the S. JV, Courib per Compafs between the 
 N. and the N. W- diftance failed by the Log 76 
 Miles, true Courfe protracl:ed is iV. 16 d. Well 
 Lat, by a good Obfeivation 56^/. 41 in, depar- 
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 At nine in the Morning we give Chafe tea 
 Scotch FiHierman, and at Noon came up wit'ii 
 her, and bought fonic Fifh of him; at Noon a 
 iiard Gale fteered away North, being about 
 feven or eight Leagues from the Land, betwaii 
 MoHtrofs and Edenburgh: We fteered ulon^ 
 the Courfe N. by E. till eight a Clock. 
 
 Friday^ June 2. From Yefterday Noon to tin: 
 Day Noon, the Winds variable with lair "\V ' -I 
 iher. Courfe _p^r Compafs jV. diftancc failed Iv; 
 
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 the Log I' 1 7 Miles, but by a good Obfervation 
 120 Miles, Lat. 58 ^. 41 ;//, Winds from the 
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 At two a Clocjc a great guft of Wind at N. IV 
 with Rain ; we hand our Top-fails, and at three 
 it blew a Storm of Wind , we lay a Try under 
 a Main-fail till ten a Clock, then lent our Fore- 
 
 lail. 
 
 Saturday^ June ^. From Ycftcrday Noon to 
 this Day Noon, trueCourfe protraded Leeward 
 way, and all Impediments allowed, is North 1-2 
 hi\ 42 Miles, Lat. by a good Obfervation is 
 5^9^. 23 ?n. Meridian diftance from the A/ia^e 
 Land is 1 00 Miles ; at Noon faw a fmall llland, 
 called Foril^ lying to the South of Shetland^ bear-^ 
 ing JVl N. W. about four Leagues i in the After^ 
 noon little W ind. 
 
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 Weftward than expeded, being caufed by a va- 
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 Sunday^ June 4. This Forenoon little Wind, 
 with Calms till about 1 2 at Noon, at which time 
 fpiung up a Gale JVi N»Wl blowing very hard , 
 we ply to Windward, and turned into Brace- 
 Sound, and anchored in nine Fathom Water, 
 right againft the Town called Lerzvick ; here is 
 the Remains of a Fort that was built in the time 
 of War with Holland^ but upon the Peace with 
 the Hollanders it was demolilhcd, for fear any 
 other Nation might come and take it, and fo 
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 Simday^ June i t. At four in the Mornin^^ uvz,'/ 
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 of Lat. 135 Miles, departure haft 56 Mi:es, Lit. 
 by Judgment 63 d. 42 ?;?. Meridian diftance, E, 
 86 Milcfe j thick cloudy Weather, at Noon link 
 Wind. 
 
 Tuefday^ ^une i^. From Yefterday Noon to 
 this Day little Wind, and variable, with Calms 
 from the N. IV, to N.N.E, we ply to Wind- 
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 allowed, i.s N, N, E. 23 Miles, difference of 
 Lat. 2 1 Miles North, departure Eaft 8 Miles, 
 Lat. by Judgment 64 d. 03 ?n. Meridian dillancc 
 <?4 Miles^ Lat. by a good Obfervation 64 d. 03 w. 
 
 Wednefday^ June 1 4. From the 1 3 th at Noon' 
 to this Day Noon the Winds variable, Vsni\\ hdli 
 Gales, Rains, and little Winds. Courfe p. ^>Ti->j 
 vcrfe between the7V.E. and the N, diftance fiiii 
 by the Log 9 2 Milcs^ true Courfe protrc.aed, 
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 Inipcdimcnts allowed, is North 18 d, difference 
 ot Lat. 81 Miles, departure Eaft 3oMileSj Mc- 
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 7}wfduy^ ^une 15. From the 14th at Noon 
 to this Day Noon the W inds variable,with Calms 
 from the W* to the S, Wl Courfe per Compars 
 A^. A^. E. diAanc<: faikd by the Log 67 Miles ; 
 true Courfe protradcd, with allowance, is iV. 
 ^2 1-2 d. E. difference of Lat. 62 Miles, dc- 
 parturc Eaft 26 Miles, Lat. ^fr Judgment 66 d. 
 26;«. Meridian diftance 15.0 Miles Haft. At 
 Noon broke our Main Topfail - Yard, being, 
 rotten in the Slings; thick hafey Weather. 
 
 Fridity^ June 16. From the 15th at Noon tcr 
 this Day Noon, a frefli Gale atW.N.Wi and 
 W. S- IV • with Rains and thick Weather. Courfe 
 p Compafs N. N. E. and iV. £. by N. di- 
 ibnce failed per Log 126 Miles; true Courfe. 
 protracted, \s North -^c d. Eaft, difference of 
 Lit. 1 08 Miles, departure Eaft 63 Miles, Lat. 
 ft/- Judgment 6% d. i^pk Meridian diftrance 
 '223 Miles. 
 
 SutHrday^ jfwie 17. From the i6zh at Noon 
 to this Day Noon, a freihCale at W.N. W. and 
 W, with Rain and cloudy Weather. Courfe ^^r 
 Compafs N. E. diftance failed by the Log 1 27 
 Miles, diftcrcncc of Lat. 90 Miles, departure 
 Micjo Mii^s, Lat. per Judgment 69 d. 48 ;//. 
 iMciidiaii ciiftanrc 303 Miles, but by a good 
 Obfcrvaiion at Noon Lat. 69 a. 53 ;//. difference 
 or' Lac. between the Dead ^^eckoning and Ob- 
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 Sunday^ June 18. From the 17th at Noon to 
 this Day Noon, tlic Wind from W. N, IF, to 
 the IV/S.W. fair Weather. Courfe per Coni- 
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 47 Miles, by good Obfervation, departure 66 
 Miles, Lat. by a good Obfei-vation 70 ^. 30 ;//. 
 Meridian diftance 367 Miles Eaft# Yefterday 
 and this Day We faw many Whiiles. 
 
 Monday^ June 19. From the 18th at Noon to 
 this Day Noon, a frejh Gale at W. by S, thick 
 hafey Weather with Rains j at feven a Clock in 
 the Forenoon faw many Sea Fowls, more than 
 at any time yet, with many Jubarteffes -, at ten 
 a Clock fliw the Land, beLig the Iflands that lie 
 about 20 Leagues to the Weft ward of the North 
 Cape ; true Courfe allowed for Variation is K 
 N. E. diftance failed by the Log 135 Miles, dif- 
 ference of Lat. 50 Miles, departure Eaft 30 
 Miles, Lat. per Judgment ji d, 20 ?n. Meridian 
 diftance 497 Miles. At Noon the Ifland Sufiden 
 bore S. by £. about 8 or 9 Leagues off this 
 llland is a high craggy Land, with fome Snow' 
 on the Land. 
 
 Tucfday^ June 20. From the 19th at Noon to' 
 this Day Noon, Courfe per Compafs bcrtwee 
 the E. A/". E. and the N. E. diftance fliiled b 
 rhe Log 128 Miles, true Courfe allowed fo 
 the Variation, is North 43 d. Eaft diffcrenc 
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 the firft 12 Hours a frefh Gale at S. W. but the 
 laft 1 2 Hours much Wind, with fmall Rains and 
 areat Fogs ; faw many Sea Fowls. 
 
 Wednesday ^Juve 21- From the 20th to the 
 2 1 ft at Noon, a ftiff Gale with Gufts, and fmall 
 Rains. Courfe per Compafs iV. £. diftance fail'd 
 m Log 3 5 Miles, true Courfe allowed by Va- 
 riation, is N> 40 d» Eaft difference of Lat. 103, 
 Miles, departure Eaft 86 Miles, Lat. ^^r Judg- 
 ment 74 J. 34 w. Meridian diftance 671 Miles; 
 thick cloudy Weather, f iw many Sea Fowls. 
 
 Thiirfday^ JiPie 22. From the 21ft to the 2 2d 
 at Noon, Courfe per Compafs N. E. diftance 
 failed per Log 1 1 6 Miles, true Courfe allowed 
 by Variation, and Leeward way^ is North 43 d, 
 Eaft difference of Lat. 85 Miles, departure Eaft 
 ig Miles, h:\t. per Judgment 75 d. 59 ;//- Me- 
 ridian diftance 750 Miles Eaft ^ the Wind at 
 ]\[. ^ a freih Gale, Weather variable, ibme - 
 times cloudy, and fometimes fair, but very cold. 
 At Noon we faw Ice right a Head about ar 
 league oflr, we failed clofe to it, and found ic 
 to lie away E. S. E. and JK iV. IVi we bore 
 away E. S. E. along the Ice : In the Afternoon 
 ^'chad fome fmall Snow, and very cold VV eathcr. 
 Friday^ June 2 3 . From Ycfterday Noon to 
 tliisDay Noonweftecred along the Icc\ finding 
 it to nave many Openings, which we lailcd in-^ 
 to, but found them to be Bays ; our true Courfe 
 liilcd along the Ice, the Variation allowed, WJ5? 
 Eaft 14 d. Suutli 77 ?;/. Lat. jvr juJ.gnicnt 75 d. 
 
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 At Noon we founded, and had 158 Fathom 
 foft green Oar, and found the Current to let 
 S. S, £. we have found very fmooth to Leeward 
 of this Ice, and in fome Places found Pieces 
 of the Ice driving oiT a Mile, fomctimes more 
 or lefs from the main Body of the Ice, finding 
 it to be in feveral ftrange Shapes, refcmbiin^r. 
 Trees, Beafts, Fiihes, Fowls, &c. The main 
 Body of the Ice being low, but very cragj^y^ 
 being many Pieces lying clofe together, and iomc 
 a top of each other , and in fome Places wc law 
 high Hillocks of blue Colour j but all the r. ft or 
 the Ice very white, as though it were Snow, m 
 fome Places we faw drift Wood amongft the Ice, 
 we took up fome of the Ice, and melted it, and 
 the Water very freih and good : This Day \('e 
 found very cold and freezing. 
 
 Saturday^ Jwie 24. From Yefterday Noon to 
 this Day Noon, litt'e Wind at N. by W^, ve 
 fleered clofe aloiig the Ice, failing into every 
 Opening, but could not find any Pailage throngh, 
 neither could we fee over the Ice in anyPlac!| 
 from our Topmaft-Head , true Courfe protract- 
 ed, as wc failed along the Ice, is Haft 3j.(/. 
 South difference of Lat. 24 Miles ^S". dcparturcj 
 Eaft 34 Miles, Lat. per Judgment 75 d. 18///.I 
 but by a good Obfervation at Noon, the L;:u 
 74 <i. 50 ;//. the difference between the DcaJI 
 Lat. and the obfcrvcd Lat. is 28 Miles, vjhich 
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 luviiii^ fomc fmall Fogs, but Lift'.d not above half 
 ai Hour at a time. Mcridiim diflancc 858 Miles. 
 
 Sunday^ '^jnn: 25. From the 24Lh at Noon to 
 tliii D.iy Noon, Uttle Wind, with C ihus, and 
 the mc^ft part Foggy, ib that we durfl not V;:'nture 
 in the Ice, but lay by, and flood off ; true Courfe 
 protruded is Eaft 3 o d. South difference of Lat. 
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 lurd freezing Weather, our Rigging and Sails 
 Ifro/.cn ; for as fafl. as the Fog fell it free/.ed. 
 
 Monday^ Jtme 26, From the 25 th at Neon to 
 this Day Noon, little Wind from the N. W. to 
 jV. Courfe per Compafs between die JVi S, li^, 
 md the N. E. diftance failed by the Log 65 
 \iilcs, difference of Lat. 7 Miles North, depar- 
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 :aft 7 d, N^orrh Lat. per Judgment is 74 d» 40 w. 
 Meridian diftance 935 Miles. 
 
 At Noon we ftood in clofe with the Ice, and 
 
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 b-Horf es, or Morf:s, lying on the Ice, we fent 
 
 JurBoat to fee, and they found two Sea-Horfes 
 
 ponthe Ice ; thi?y fired leveral Shot at them, bur 
 
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 Land, the North I\irt of it bearing ii. and iIk 
 South Part S, £. being high, and covered with 
 Snow, about 15 Leaguc-s ofl-. Sounded, anj 
 had 1 2 5 Fathom. 
 
 T^tiefclay^ ^une 27. From Monda) 26 to Ti'/. 
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 v/iih Calms i we kept ciofe with the Ice, 'and 
 found it joyn to the Land of Ncrca Zembk; 
 true Courfe protrad:cd is E. by A^. 3 Mik-.s 
 dillerence of Lat. 16 Miles, departure £. 29 
 Miles, Lat. ]):r Judgment 74^. 46 ;;/. Meridian 
 diftance 964 Miles, at Noon 83 Fathom Water, 
 about 6 Leagues from the Shores we row.d in 
 towards the Shore, and found the Ice to lie aboit 
 5 Leagues from the Shore ; we went out of our 
 Boat on the Ice, and killed a young Sca-HorfeJ 
 or Mors, and law many more, but could notl 
 kill them with Muskets, notwithftanding vj 
 fir:d 7 Muskets into one of them, neither coul 
 we come to lame them ^ for they get into thej 
 Sea before you can come to them ; they kccp^ 
 ing Watch, and are very fliy, always lying on tliJ 
 brink of the Ice, ready to take the Sea. Wa 
 founded, and had 8 b Fathom Water green Oarl 
 at which time we faw the Ground plain,beingvcrJ 
 fmooth Water. Meridian didance from the Shil 
 to the Land 1 5 Miles, which maketh Meridiandil 
 ftance from the Land to this Place 980 Miiej 
 IVcdficjday, ^:ine 28. F.cm the 27th at Noo 
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 f„iind it to )oyn to the main Land i at Ni-ht 
 Itood off from the Ice. 
 
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 [iidgment 74 d, 40 ?/i. Meridian diftance 964 
 
 I'M'lcs. At Noon tlic Wind at Weft, and JJ\ and 
 
 W'S. a fine Gale, but very foggy Weather ^ wc 
 
 ftmci away South to get from the Ice, we being 
 
 iiixiycd in it. At 1 1 at Nii^,ht the Profperons Pink 
 
 lircd a Gun, and bore down upon us, cry in*: out, 
 
 llcj on the Weather-Bow, with that we ciap'd 
 
 Ithc Helm hard a Weather, veered out the Main- 
 
 mz'S to ware the Ship^ but before the Ship 
 
 Icould ware, and bring to upon the other Tack, 
 
 ".cftruck on a Ledge of Rocks which lay funk. 
 
 From T 2 at Noon to 1 1 a Night thick foggy 
 
 kVcathcr, the Wind from the TV". W» to the /r . 
 
 k^. Courfe/)i'rCompafs between the 6". W. and 
 
 jic S. by IV, clofe haul'd j but at Night the Fro^- 
 
 fym Pink faw the Sea break on the Weather - 
 
 ow, bearing down upon us, cryed out it was 
 
 lie Ice i with that we prefently bore up round 
 
 ) bring to upon the other Tack, but our Ship 
 
 ot wearing round, run on a Ledge of Rocks, 
 
 i re (hick taft ; but Captain Flawed Ship got 
 
 pr, wearing more rounder j we fired fcveral 
 
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 ifi^. A Voyage for the VifcoTery 
 
 Guns, to give Captain Flawe.f notice oi' our Di- 
 
 ftrcfs ; wc ufcd all means polTible to get her ot^^ 
 
 by carrying out a Haifer and Anchor, and ft.ivina 
 
 ot Water and Beer, and throwing Provilion over- 
 
 bo.trd, but could not get the Ship orf, for the 
 
 Water did Hbb, and the Ship Hied above 3 Foot ; 
 
 Vau when the Ilood came, it brought a great Sa 
 
 wi^h it, and the Ship beat very hard ; we ulld 
 
 all means to heave lier off, but could not, and 
 
 the Sliip making Water more than we could 
 
 pump ; with that we cut our Mafts by the Board, 
 
 and fent our Yaul unto the Shore to difcovcr 
 
 fonie Place to Land, at whofe Return aboard, 
 
 brought word that there was lariding; with that 
 
 -we got up Bread out of the Bread-Room, and 
 
 brought it up into the great Cabbin ; and the 
 
 Carpenter made ready to favc fome Tools, and 
 
 NeceiTaries to rebuild our Long-Boat to lave our 
 
 Lives, if fo necefifitated, that Captain Fluzvu 
 
 ihould not return to us. So about 1 2 at Noon 
 
 we got all our Men afnore, except two which 
 
 V .re droVN^ned in the Pinnace, by a Sea whicli 
 
 broke into her, juft as ihe put off from the Shipj 
 
 Side; having Bread, Powder, and Provinonsiii 
 
 her, and all loft with the Pinnace. Alfo, to 
 
 ov.r great Grief, having nothing but the Loni.- 
 
 Fxxit, to truftin, to lave our Lives, which coiilii| 
 
 not carry above 30 Men of 70. Wc uied ;i'i 
 
 means to fave Bread, but the Ship filling up to t!i; 
 
 upper Deck, we were forced to leave her, havinJ 
 
 Ltved but two Bags of Bread, with fome Picccsl 
 
 of Pork, and a little Checfe; this bein^T ^illcnl 
 
 Shore, v/c carried our Provifions^ andouicrKi 
 
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 no Firir 
 
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 much \V 
 Spars an 
 of which 
 Weather 
 l)wing v/e 
 as the I'o 
 
 Satiirdi 
 Gak', th< 
 much Wi 
 
 wccn dea 
 Trouble^ 
 
 and the \ 
 
 two Cask 
 
 rf Beer, ; 
 
 great kinc 
 
 1 1^- flour 
 I <-ak'js on 
 
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 cf a North-Ea^'fiifage. 1 C 5 
 
 cclfarics, upon a Hill, where came to vifit us one 
 of the N.itivcs, which was a prodigious great 
 \rhitc Bear, wiiich one oF our Men f]iv)t ar,antlas 
 wc fuppofed hither, which made her run awa\^ ; 
 \rith that we made all haPie to build us a Tenito 
 keep us from the Cold, and to keep our Provi- 
 lious dry, having {.\\C(\ Canvas for the pui pole, 
 which we laid over Oars and Srars, and threw 
 up a Trench of Earth round us, to prefv-rve vs 
 from wild Feails ; but all this time endured mueh 
 Cold, moll of our Men beins; wet, and having 
 no Firing ; thcrelore all our Hopes and Prayers 
 were, that God would fend us the Ship aihore. 
 
 Friday^ June 3 o. A frefli Gale, and very fog^.y, 
 vith a great Sea ; our Ship began to fplit, and 
 much Wreck came ailiore ,• fo that we got Oars, 
 Spars and Deals, to build us Tents, and Firing, 
 of which Vv'e laved as much as we could ; but the 
 Weather proved very foggy to our great Grief, 
 l)dng we could not expert Capt. Flazvey as long 
 as the Fog continued. The Wind at JV. N. W, 
 
 Saturday, July i. The Wind at N. JV, afrelh 
 Gale, the Ship brake in pieCwS; fo that we had 
 much Wreck came alhorc, and Provif ons, which 
 vc endeavoured to five with much Pains and 
 Trouble, the Sea breaking n-^uch on the Shore, 
 and the Weather very cold and foggy. We L\\'^6. 
 two Casks of Flour, fomc Brandy, and a Ikitt 
 of Beer, and a Cask of Oilj the Flour did i.s 
 iircatkindnefstofive our Bread, for we nud- of 
 the Flour, Pancakes, and Puddin:^, and baked 
 lak'json Ston;:s, to our grea: 11 ;freihinent. 
 
 S'lnday, Ji^y 2. The Wind iit ^Ve(l•, md very 
 |l(iggyi we faved more Flour, Butter, and a 
 
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 166 A Voyage for the Vifcovery 
 
 few pieces of Beef and Pork, the Cask l»citr 
 flavcd. The Gunner, as he wjs faving of Provi". 
 fion, there came a great white Jicar to hmi^ 
 which he lliot at, ana frlfd her down, hut Hvj 
 rofe again and at him ; with that there cinvj 
 more Men, and fired at her i flie was a very ^rcu 
 one, and very fat, and the rieili very good, and 
 luok'd delicate, and eat well. 
 
 Sninrduy, ^fnly 8. The Wind at IF, JSI. IF. .1 
 Vv.ry great 1 og, and all our M':n in great D.- 
 fnaii- of feein.^ Cayvcain Flawcn we beuinninc 
 
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 to C'-^iHlder our mou milerabie Condition^ .mj 
 coinnvin'^ liow to fave our Lives, tl:e Lc.n.,- 
 
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 heat not being able to carry above 30 M/ii, and 
 a D^'ck built on her, andherWafi railed; vitli 
 that we concluded tolengdien her 12 Foot, ::iiJ 
 to cany all our Men; but upon confiderativnot 
 w n:ing Materials, and the Carpenters l-ad Al- 
 iii'la-Kv?, the Men would not agree to have her 
 cut aiunder, f'v fearilie could not be length .n- 
 cd^but were willing to travel by Lund towards ihc| 
 Waygates, in hopes to ivnd fome Rnjjla Lod?j:i 
 Vs'ith that we began to raife her Wait", and builc 
 a Djck, the W ..iher coniinuing very ibgs;jyti!i 
 S.iturday Morning, at which tmie we elpyc^ 
 Captain Flaivcs^ 10 our great Joy ; wirh dnit v:i 
 made prefently a great Fire, and lent onr Yaul 
 to meet him, who immediately faw our Tire, andl 
 fleered into us, and fent his Boat to help to brin^ 
 off our Men; with that we broke up our m 
 Work, which was done to our Long-boat, r,n(l 
 lanch.ed Ijer ; and about Noon aot all on Ijod 
 Captain rlawc^^ in good HcviUh. 
 
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i67 
 
 journal on Board the Profj^crous, Captain 
 William Flawcs Commandtr^ from Nova 
 Zemblu to England. 1 676. 
 
 U^iday, ^idy 9. From the 8t1i 12 at Niglit to 
 V this 9th I 2 at Noon, the Winds variable, 
 ^^ with I'ogs and fnull Rain ; we ftand oif to 
 the Wcftward ; true Courfe protracted, with al- 
 lo'oncc for Variation, is Weft 8 r/. Soiuh, ditfe- 
 anccoF Lat. 8 Miles, departure 67 Miles, Lat. 
 pT Judgment 73 ^. 427;/. Meridian diftancc, 
 mwl^omi Statcn^ being the Weftennoft Land 
 4 of No-~oa Zembla^ and the Lift Land we 
 Liw, 67 Miles; very cold Weather. 
 
 Monday^ July 10. From the 9th at Noon to 
 this Day Noon, the Winds variable from the 
 i W, by IV, to the W, and lb to the N. and 
 A/. N, E. with ihiall Rain, great Fogs, and very 
 I cold Weather ; true Courfe protra^ited is Weft 
 K] Miles, Variation allowed 12 d. Weft; Me- 
 ridian diftance 102 Miles ; a great Sea from the 
 I Weft ward. 
 
 Tuefday^ July 11. From the lotii at Noon to 
 
 [this Day Noon, the Winds variable from the N, 
 
 IjV. E. CO the N. W, Courf- fcr Coinpifs IV, by 
 
 'i. diftance failed by the Log 102 Miles; true 
 
 Cmrfe allowed for Variation, is Weft 68 3-4 
 
 ^rnili; diftance of Lat. 34 Miles, departure 96 
 
 ^lilcSj Lat. per Judgment 7.3 d, 06 ///. Meridian 
 
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 ifS A Vo\j?c for the T)lfi'07'cry 
 
 k\\ihncc T9S Miles; thick doiulyWcMt'iciind 
 
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 UU\i^uUli\^ y-ff\' 12. rr»v,n tlu' I ii'i at N' 
 to this Pay N«M>n Jiitlc Wiiul aini v -i ia!>i^' w 
 
 
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 .tiul ihc W. hy S. inic C A)inio allowed, \rii'i.i![ 
 liupi\lniK'n:s, is Well, .u Nooti I, at. l>y() M). 
 
 vauon 7 
 
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 ;;/. V\ 
 
 liidi 
 
 \ IS ^1 MiUn :.u)rc .vm. 
 
 ihc'ily than v .p^ctwi; tiu- N'aiiaiion, 1 ''i 
 
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 :nK' iu>!n tlu' l.ar. wc dcpaitcd iVotn oti .v'' -v 
 
 
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 dtll 
 
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 convv'tcd i'' 12 2 
 
 Miles Weil , ar Nv)oii calm and lair Wejihji. 
 
 7 lyn-'iliy^ /f:ily \ ;. ^'l^>null ; i 2'h at Noon m 
 this n.iv Noon, the Wind wiri.iMe ir tni rhv- \V. 
 to ihe S. S. W. a 'Velh Ciale ; we ply lo ih ■ V 
 i<Me!iaul\i. ^ AHirl " j\'jy Co;np;il's Inr 
 
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 S. W. and the \V. N. \V. ti 
 
 lU 
 
 veai 
 
 ]uoj, iwted, all Inipediiuenrs allowed, is \\.h\ 
 N. 1 -• N. p9 Milc^ diiV\'r. iKcorL.u. 17 i\hlc<, 
 depi:>ure 5^; Miies; Lar. I' Judj,nu'nt y;,/. 
 s I ;/;. Meridi:in d'ilauce 279 Miles: CioIdcKiikiy 
 "Weather, with fnull Rains. 
 
 Fridiy, ^W.) 14. Iroiu the i;th at Kooii to 
 this Day Noon, the AVinds yariahlc iVom ilic 
 
 S. .S. 
 
 W, to \Vx W\N. W. a iVelli Cale, aiul 
 
 fonictiiues little Wind ; we ply to the Wellward, 
 lometinics on one Taek, 'A\\<\ I'onKtinies on ilu' 
 other i true Cotirfe protracted, all Impedinicnrs 
 allowed, IS W. S. W'. 1-2 S. dillVrence ol' I.ut. 
 9 Miles South, departure W^ 20 Miles. J at. f 
 
 Miics, 
 
 ua,:inent 
 
 -7 -> 
 
 d. 3 5//'/. Meridian diliance 2j.:9 B;<11) 
 
 i\at:i)ii\\ 
 
of a North- Eafi P^iffl'^^c, 1 69 
 
 SjfiriLn, .7,7/y IS- i TOMithc 14th arNooiim 
 t;,,sl),iy iMoon, ilic Wnrls iVclli, with Cndslioni 
 i!kN. '.V. ro ilie \V. wc ply to the Wdlv/inl^ 
 |,m;, tim s to I hi' Soiilliw.irti , ilifLiiur I lilrd hy 
 ilu 1 Oil '.) Miles ; tme ( "oiirfe protjVif'ted isS. W. 
 ;; /, ,|) v. ilillvr-iue o I ,at. 52 Miles^ dej>,ii line 
 \\ (I ; [ Miles, I..it. /', > J»Kl!.;in: lit y^,(L .|^ /,•/. 
 MndiMi dill. line ];; Mil's; cold.nul ( londy. 
 
 A'',"/,'/i'V, ^f/i'y 1 > '. I'Voni the 151!! at N^M)n to 
 t'ls Diy Noon, the Wind .it \V. S. \V. .iiid W. 
 IvS. 1 ir''h (j.il'- ; hiit iVoin S -U Ni-hi till ,S in 
 ;';• Moiiiin-.; "uieh Wmd, v/»' liy.itiy nndei a 
 Mi'i'-i,:!i ; ii-i[/ V ouiie pvotr.u'ted I.e. v/.ii-d v/ay^ 
 ap.!\'.ii.t'.,n yU)\'- d, isM. hy W. 1-4 W. ji 
 M;l,s; (h'.'rri. e <'!' I. .it. ., -> Miles, d •p.i.rlui'C 
 V !' . Mil.-s, l,;t. per )ude,nient 7 ; r/. ]] in. 
 MciidiJn dil'ajue 340 Miles; Ram, wi'.h vejy 
 tiiidN \\ e.u!) •!•. 
 
 Mnithn ^ J/d)' 17. Tr'-en the r^^tli ar Mo')?! to 
 till. Day inou^ htile ^Vind from the \V . by M. 
 toilic W. With Kains, l'o;s, and (;ihii,; v;e 
 ['Iv to tJK' Weflveard (Jofc upon a Wiiid; true 
 Coii;!": potiaCted, all Impediments all v/ d, is 
 ^V.hyS. 3-4 W. didjn.c-ofj.ar. 3 Mi! ■■., tir. 
 pimire 2 ^ iVii es, Laf. p.r Judgment 7^ r/. i o ;//. 
 Meridian diflanee 7,6u Miie-N; ac 1 i iti the r(;rc^ 
 noon the Wiiul eamc up at S. S. H. and lo^ij^y. 
 
 Tiu'fdtiy^ '[jnJj t8. l'ro!ii the 17th at Noon to 
 
 li^ Dav Noon, tiie Winds from the South to 
 
 I W. S. W. V7e ply to the Wcdwaid clofj 
 i.'iii"d, berv/een t!ie W. and V\. W. diilancc fail- 
 .'<! by the Loij -jc, Mi!cs ; tiue Courfe jifotradted 
 
 W. by N. 1-4 N. 1^0 Miles-, difhnce of Lat. 
 
 lb Mdes, 
 
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 170 A Voyage for the Difcovery 
 18 Miles, departure 77 M'lcs, lat. per Jiulo. 
 mcnt 73 <^. 28?//. Meridian dilhnc: 437 Miks. 
 thick foggy Weather. 
 
 Wednefday^ July 19. Troni the iSthatXor;] 
 to this Day Noon, the Wind at S. W. and S. S. 
 W. \rith very thick Fogs. Coiirfe per Coir.nii 
 W. N. W. and W. clofe haul'd i diftancc {ailed 
 l)Y the Log 74 Miles, true CotTtfe, Variatic;! 
 ci-id Leeward-way allowed, is W. N. W. i-:>v, 
 70 M ilcs, difference of Lat. 3 1 Miles, dep.irrur' 
 60 Miles, Lat. pjr Judgment 74^. Meridian di- 
 flance ^1.9 7 Miles, at Niglit much A\'ind^ v"j 
 hand our Top-fuls. 
 
 Thnrfday^ July 20. From the 19th at Noon lo 
 this D.iy Noon, for the moft part mi.ch Winds 
 at ^"\^ S. Vv^ and S. W. with great Fogs ; w- plv 
 clofe upon a Wind N. W.'^by W. "and Wcfi'- 
 nordi-weft ; diftance failed by the Log 6^^ Miles, 
 true Courfe, Variation and Lee-way alh)V7jcl, 
 isNordi-north-wcft 3-4 Weft, diftance (^f Lar-- 
 tude 55 Miles, departure 33 Miles, Latitude 
 fer Judp^ment 74 d, 55 ///. Meridian diilmc: 
 530 Miles. 
 
 Friday^ '/J-idy 20. From die 2otli at Noon to 
 this Day Noon, the Wind from die Sourh-TJlj 
 to the Weft. Comic per Compafs South by Wd! 
 upon one Tack, and Wcft-north-weft on th 
 iher, clofe hauFdi diftance failed by the Log 61 
 Miles ; true Coiirfe protraded, all ImpedimcntJi 
 allowed, is South by Weft 3 -4 Weft 48 MiLi 
 diftance of Lat. 45 Miles, departure 16 Miks 
 Lat. pi?r Judgment 74 ^. 12 ;//. very diiek, h*l:^y 
 and cold, till about Noon it cleared up. 
 
 Sati'Yild 
 
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of a North'-Eajl Taffa^e. 1 7 1 
 
 Silt itr day ^ July 11. From the 21ft at Noon to 
 th s day 4 in the Morning, the AVind at S. W, 
 [ly W. and ,9. W. with thick Fogs. Courfe W, 
 In iV. and N. N. W. 46 Miles, at which time it 
 VuS very foggy Weather; we faw many Wil- 
 locks and other Sca-Fowles more dian uAia], 
 v:hich made us think we were near the Land of 
 i;l:m'}-lihud ; we cift the Lead, and had 60 La- 
 tiioiu, a rough Sand j with tint, we tack'd and 
 f.ood off S. S- E. and S. E. by £. 9 Miles, till 
 Noon, at v/hich time we ibnndcd, and had 78 
 Ldiom i Lat. at 4 in the Morning, by Judgment 
 -^ d. 16 in. Meridian DiiKmce 589' Miles, at 
 viiicb time I was,by my Reckoning, 1 3 Leagues 
 Wdi: from C/'^r/j-Ifland, according to the Me- 
 ridian Dilhince I made from the Cape to No-va 
 Zi.n'jla^ and from Nouci ZcmhJa back here^ 
 Lit. at Noon, by Judgment, 74^. 20 ///. Meri- 
 dian Diftance 582 Miles. 
 
 Sunday^ July 23. From the 2 2d at Noon to 
 I this day Noon, the Winds variable, with great 
 FoL^s, from thei". i". £. to the W.N.JJ^^ Coarfe 
 pr Compals between the^S". IV. and W. Diftance 
 i.ii'd by die Log 91 Miles j true Courfe protra- 
 cted is S. W. by i". 87 Miles Diiference of Lar. 
 h5 Miles,' Departure 43 Miies, Lat. /^f> Judg- 
 ment 73 J. 08. 7/7. Meridian Diflance 625 Miies i 
 |.\t Noon, no Ground with 160 Fadioxu Lines. 
 
 Monday^ July 24. From the 23d at Noon to 
 Itiiis day >soon, little Winds and variable, with 
 ICalnis ; true Courfe allow'd, is S. S, IF. 3 -4 W, 
 p .Nhles, Diibncc of Lat. 10 Miles, Departure 
 
 II Miles, 
 
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 II Miles, Lat. f^r Judgment 7 2. d, 50 ;/;. Men- 
 dian Dilbnce 5g 6 Miles. 
 
 Tuefday^ July 25. From the 24th at Noon to 
 this day Noon, tlie AVind variable^ with i;c.'li 
 Gales from A^. by W, to E. with Fogs. Coiui; 
 between the W. S. W. and S, W. ; Diihincc faiJV] 
 by the Log 88 Miles; true Courle allow'd /'or 
 9 d. Variation is S.W, \-i Weftcrly, DiRancj 
 of Lat. 54 Miles, Departure 69 Miles, Lat.j:o 
 Judgment 71 ^/. 56 ;/z. Meridian DiitanCs: 7c^ 
 MiL-s. 
 
 Wednefday^ July 26. From the 25th at Kooi 
 to this day Noon, the Wind variable fiom t!i^ 
 E. by N. to the S, with th'ck Fogs. Di.lance 
 lail'd by the Log 73 Miles ; Courle /'i?;' Compaq 
 between the S. IV. by W. and JV. N. IF: True 
 Courfc protraded is U^. 1-2 .9. diflancc of L:t. 
 7 Miles, Departure 67 Miles. 
 
 Tb.'irfday^ Jul) 27. From the 26th at Kooii 
 to this day Noon, the Winds from the S. tol 
 the S. W. with great Fogs. Didance fiil\i byj 
 the Log 68 Miles -, true Couric allow'd W, i-': 
 S. Dilverence of Lat. 7 Miles, Departure 6: 
 Miles W, I 
 
 Friday^ July 28. From the 27th at Noon to 
 this day Noon, the Wind froin the S, S, W. tol 
 the S. E, Courfe per Compafs betV\^ecn i\v: /f 
 by A^. and the .9. JV, clofe upon a Wind 5 Di- 
 {i:mc<^ fail'd by the Log 8 5 Miles ; true Com k 
 protraded isS. W. by the JV 1-480 Miles, D.- 
 ftance of Lat. 46 Miles S. Departure 64 iMiici 
 
 W» Thick Fogs with fmall Rain. 
 
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 Sunday 
 
 this day . 
 
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 Morning , 
 
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 Monday 
 tills de.y > 
 Courle pet 
 Ibnce (liW 
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 this day N 
 
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 So MiJes, 
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 of a North- Eufi Pajfage, 17:^ 
 
 Sdtiiyddj^ ^july 29. From thc'zSth at Noon to 
 t'lis h) Noon, much Wind from the S, to the 
 jJ//[ Wc tried under a Main-Sail three Watches. 
 True Couric allowed is ^ 1 5 Miles. 
 
 kndd^t J^^h 30* From the 29th at Noon to 
 this il\Y ^^^^^5 ^^'^^ Wind variable from S. E. to 
 [\^cS. and fo to the N, JV. with fudden Guils^ 
 ^ith much R-iin, then little Wind j ^at 8 this 
 Morning much Wind at iV. JVi true Courfe pro-. 
 tractcd, all Impediments allow'd, is S. S, W,66 
 Miles, Diftance of Lat. 60 Miles, Departure 25 
 Miles. 
 
 Monday^ jtdj 3 1 . From the 3 oth at Noon to 
 tliis il\y Noon, much Wind at N. W. with Rain. 
 Couril' fer Compafs S, W. by .9. and S, W- Di- 
 ibnce fail'd by the Log 104 Miles j true Courfe 
 allowed for Lecward-way and Variation S, by 
 f. 1-2 J^. Diiterence of Lat. 103 Miles, De- 
 parture 1 1 Miles ; Lat. fer dead Reckoning 68 d. 
 \] in. but by Obfervation 68 d, 00 ?//. Depar- 
 Irurc accordingly correded 1 5 Miles -, Meridian 
 iDilbnce 953 Miles. 
 
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 Ithis day Noon, the Wind variable from the iV. 
 
 I^^to the S.JV.hyW. Diftance fail'd by the Log 
 
 80 Miles, we ply to Windward i true Courle 
 Iprotraded, Variation and Leeward-way alio w'd, 
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 Thiirfday^ Aug. ^. From the 2d at Noon to 
 this day Noon, the Wind from the JV. to the 
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 Friday^ Aug. 4. From 8 at Night to this day- 
 Noon, a Storm of Wind at S. and S' S. JV true 
 Courfe Drift, and all Impediments allow'd, isi 
 N. JV. by N. 1-4 W. Difference of Lat. 18 
 Miles, Departure 1 6 Miles. At Noon, lefs Wind, 
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 Saturday^ Aug. 5 . From the 4th at Noon to j 
 this day Noon, the Wind from the W. by S. to I 
 the iV. W. a very cold Storm j true Courfe al- 
 lowed is .9. by E. Diffa-cncc of Lat. 75 Miles, 
 Departure 15 Miles. In the Afternoon little | 
 Wind. 
 
 Smiday^ Aug. 6. From the 5 th at Noon roi 
 this d;iy Noon, frelh Gales, and little Wind froiTi 
 the W. A^. W. to the W. S. W. true CouiF: a:- 
 Icw'd S. 2-4 E. Diilance of Lat. 67 Milcs^ De- 
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 ]io}idiVi^ Aug, 7. Y'xom the 6th at Noon to 
 piMliy Noon, the Wind at .9. and S, W. fomc- 
 [ IK'S much Wind, and then cahn again; true 
 toiiiil' oWowWper Judgment, is W. iV. W. 1-4 
 V,^-^ Miles i Di(ference oFLat. 22 Miles, De- 
 r-r:urc W. 47 Miles ; at Nocn the Wind came 
 j':out to the W. N. W. much Wind, and at 8 it 
 yiCwaStorm at A/.W. 
 
 "tnclday Aug, S. From ycftcrday at Night to 
 tl^biiy Noon, a Storm of Wind at iV. W. we 
 run away with our Fore-Sail Reefr. Courie 
 ffi Compafs S, S. W. Diftancc lail'd by the Log 
 !!6 Miles ; true Courie allow'd is S, Diftance of 
 U107 Miles, Departure W. 5 Miles. 
 
 ifcdncfday^ Aug, 9. At 3 in the Morning a 
 A Gale, faw many Wiliocks and other Sea- 
 Fowls, and at 5 faw the Land E. S,E. from us, 
 being high Land, and making like Iflands, be- 
 in^the liles of Fcro, At Noon, Lat. by a good 
 Ohllrvation6i d, 45 lit, at which time the We- 
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 Departure 26 Miles; Latitude per Judgment 
 62 L 4 m. D'i^i.xncQ between the dead Latitude 
 and the obferved Lat. 2 o Miles ; fo that the 
 J)iiip is 1 o Miles more Southerly, and confcqucn- 
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 to get clear ot* the lilands in the Night; Dj, 
 fiance failed by the Log 102 Mihrsi true Couii;- 
 protraded is South-eaft by Eaft 1-4 South^ Dj, 
 ftancc of Lat. 58 Miles, Departure 76 Miks; 
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 L}'«-man come from the Ifland. 
 
 Friday^ Anguft 1 1 . From the i oth at Noon 
 to this day Noon, the Wind at North-iv rth- 
 weft. Courfe^cT Compafs South-eaft ly Ea(t; 
 Diftancc fail'd by the Log 83 Miles: At Noon' 
 the Ifland Foule bore North-eaft by Eaft about 
 Three Leagues ofr : The Wind came about at 
 South. 
 
 Saturday^ Aiigufl ii. From the nth at Noon 
 to this Day Noon, the Wind variable, v/iti 
 great Gufts and Rain : At Noon, the Ochit] 
 Iflands bore Weft about 4 Leagues -, the Ochu 
 Ifles are low, fuch as we faw at the Hime tim 
 we faw Fair Ifle, bring high Land, and abcij 
 6 Leagues oft' : Wc found the Tide of Floo 
 to fct in very ftrong between the Ochic) ani 
 Fair Ifles. 
 
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 and put us under a main Sail Reeft, at wh c 
 time Catnofe bore by Judgment about eiglii 
 Leagues off, Weft by South ; we try'd av: 
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 South -eaft 37 Miles, Latitude per Judgment 
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 l£ -y faw many Pitterals about the Ship : At 
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 Monday^ Aiiguft 14. From the 13 that Noon 
 to this day Noon, a frelli Gale. Courfe ^o* 
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 Wednefday^ Auguft t6. The Wind from the 
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 ^iith Caftle South-weft about 2 Leagues off ,• 
 eply to the Southward. 
 
 Tkirfday^ Auguft 17. From the i6th at Noon 
 I this day Noon, the Wind at Wcft-fouth- 
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 v/ard ; at 2 a Clock Flamborough Head Weft a- 
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 friday^ Aug. zS, The Wind at Weft-fouth, 
 ■weft. At Noon we anchorM a League to the 
 Northward of Cromer^ the Tide being fpcnt. 
 
 Saturday^ Augiift 19. At 6 in the Momin" 
 weigh'd with the Tide, and turn d up Yarimul\ 
 Roads, anchored right againfl the Town j at 8 at 
 Night weigh'd and turned up above the Pier and 
 anchored, the Tide being ipent,* the Wind at I 
 South -weft. 
 
 Sunday^ Augufl 20. At eight in the Mornind 
 weigh'd with the Tide of Hood, and turn'd to| 
 \V indward j at 4 in the Afternoon anchor'd ^vitil 
 the Tide of Ebb in Southwole-^o,y in 8 Fathoni| 
 Water, th^ Church bearing North-north-weft | 
 Winds frjom die South-fouth-weft to the SoutliJ 
 fouth-Ciift, a frefh Gale. 
 
 Monday^ Auguft 21. At 8 at Night weigli'J 
 with the Tide of Flood, and turn'd up into ij 
 borough Road, and anchor'd there : At Four tlij 
 next Morning Lieutenant Whitlock went alhorl 
 at Alboroiigh to take Horfe for London, 
 
 At 9 in the Morning weigh'd with the Tid 
 of Flood, the Wind at Weft-fouth-wcft, a frcl| 
 Gale, and turn'd up into the Sleeway, and an 
 chor'd there, about 5 in the Evening in 9 f:j 
 thorn Water, the Naze Land bearing Weft 
 North. 
 
 Tuefday^ Auguft 22. At 10 a Clock wcigh'j 
 the Wind at W eft-fouth-weft, and tiund 
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 to Windward, the Wind at Well by South, at 
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 Ifednefday^ Augufl 23. The Wind at Weft- 
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 chor, and turned up a Mile above the Buoy of 
 the mre^ and anchored upon the Ebb about 8 
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 ftecr dircdly North-E from the 
 North Cape, and to fall in the Mid- 
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 having made the Land to the Weftward of thcl 
 North-Cape, the ic?di day of Jiine^ I ftecr'dl 
 away North-eaft by Compafs, which was not lol 
 much by the true Coufc, becaufe of the VaruitiJ 
 on that is there Wefterly,- and the 2 2d dayiitl 
 Noon we faw the main Body of Ice, being iiil 
 the Lat, of 76 ^. and about 60 Leagues to tliel 
 Eaftward of Greenland, At the firft feeing or 
 Ice, I did imagine it had been the Ice that joind 
 to Greenland^ and that if I went more Eaftcrij 
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 two Glalfes, that is one hour, we could lee more 
 Ice a Hc-xd^ and then we were tbrc'd lo go out 
 the lame way we came in, and thus I coniinu'd 
 coafting the Ice, fomctimes with great Hopes of 
 a clear Sea, and then again diihearten'd by Tcc- 
 ing more Icc^ till at lall 1 had no Hopes at all, 
 which was when I fliw the Land of Nova Zembla^ 
 ancithclce join to it. So here the Opinion or 
 William Banam was confuted, and all the reft 
 of the Dutch Relations, which, certainly, arc all 
 forg'd abuilve Pamphlets, as alfo the Relations 
 of our own Countrymen. But certainly, if 
 Men did really confider the many individual 
 Dangers and Mifchiefs that c ines upon the 
 broacliingof fuch Untruths, they would never do 
 it; for I do now verily believe, that if there be no 
 Land to the Northward of the Lat. of 80 r/. that 
 the Sea that is there is all frozen, and always 
 wntinuet'i fo j for I that could get no farther 
 than 76 d, found it fo frozen without Intermilfi- 
 on ; and fome of the Ice that we faw, diat was 
 on the main Body of it, had been convey'd i o 
 Degrees more Southward^ would have taken 
 Ifonie Centuries of Years to thaw it : For the 
 loofc Ice that Jay about the Edges of the main 
 Body, was not more than a Foot thick in fome 
 jPicces above the Superficies of the Water, and 
 the reft of the Cake that was funk, was more 
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 having been an Obftacle in our way, as alii) the 
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 to us in the Lofs of our Ship, which was thiiiiJ 
 being amongft the Ice the 29th day of ijimc'm 
 the Morning, we had like to have been encl-s'jl 
 in it, it proving likcwife foggy Weather, l{loo(l| 
 out to the Southward, thinking to lie dicr: till 
 fairer Weather, or to fpcnd ibme time to tliJ 
 Southward, and dicn come up to the Ice again! 
 to fee if there might be any Alteration in it as d 
 its Removal either Eaft, Weft, North, or Soiitli 
 but all this day it prov'd foggy dirty Wcathcri 
 the Wind being at Weft ; fo we lay South-ioiuli 
 weft with the Stem, and, by our Judgment ani 
 Reckoning, the Weftermoft Land of Nova Zfiii 
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 untlcr our Lcc Bow. Butfucli was our Misfor- 
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 Clock Captain Flawcs being upon our Weather 
 Quarter, fir'd a Gun and bore to me, and call'd 
 out that dierc was Ice a Head i dien I looking; 
 out a Head, (liw fomething white juft under die 
 Bow, which prefently I perceiv'd to be a Breath, 
 and no Icc; now, if I had flay VI with die Ship, 
 Captain Flawes being to Windward, I ihould 
 have been on Board ot him, and then certainly 
 vc had been both K^ft, io I was Ibrc'd to bear 
 up with hope diat I might get clear oF it j but 
 the Ship being a great while wearing (Iruck on 
 the Rock, her Head lying to Scav/ard, which it' 
 it had not, but diat die Broadlide had been to 
 the Sea wc had ad pcrilh'd, widiout God's great 
 Mercy. Qdi^u'm Flawes'^ in the mean time (bc- 
 mij; a lliorter Ship) wore round, and c uiie dole 
 under our Stern, and with great Providencj c- 
 Icap d, and flood olf to Sea ; here v/e hiy beating 
 on the Rock in a moft cruel manner Ibr the Spacj 
 of 3 or 4 hours,uiing all polfible means to lave her, 
 but J II in vain, lor it blew To hard diat it was im- 
 polfible to carry out an Anchor capable to do us 
 any Service, tho' we had an Opportunity to car. y a 
 Imali Anchor, and warp to hall anotlier out by, 
 vhidiiignify'dbut httle, the Ship all this v/hiij 
 b\\ and at the end of 4 or 5 hours, we faw Land 
 cloic under our Stern, to the great Amazenienr of 
 all, which bL'forewe could not fee for d^e foii.^v 
 iV cither ; fo I commanded the Man to get out 
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 the Shore in the Pinnace, to lee if there was any 
 poiTibility of landing, which I much feared, be^ 
 caufe the Sea ran fo high. In half an hour he 
 returned with this Anfwcr, that it was impoffiblc 
 to fave a Man, the Sea ran fo high, and the Snow 
 being in high Clifts on Sliore was unaccclfible 
 which was but bad Tidings j fo then itwashich 
 time to think on the Safety of our Souls, and 
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 fmall Beach diredtly with the Stern of the Ship, 
 where I thought might be fome polfibility of 
 landing j fo 1 fent the Pinnace again with Ibmc 
 Men to be landed, but they durft not venture on 
 Shore i lo I feat the Long-boat with Ibme 2c 
 Men to Land, who attempted it, and got fafeon 
 Shore ; fo they in the Pinnace feeing that, iol- 
 lowed diem and their Men likcwife, and both 
 returned on Board again , now the Men on the 
 Shore fent to nie to delire fome Fire-Arn^s and 
 Ammunition,for there was many Bears on Shore; 
 fo I caufed to be put into the Pinnace two Bar- 
 rels of Powder that we had fived dry, before the 
 Ship was belged, and fome Imall Arms, and ionic 
 Proviiion, with my own Papers, and Money i 
 but as ilie put off from the Ship Side, a Sea over^ 
 let her, lo that all was loft, with the Life of one 
 Man., by Name "^ohn Bofmait^ being Cooper's 
 Mi'.te, and feveral others taken up for Azi(\; th.! 
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 jvicn and they hearing us call from aboard, 
 ( wiicn as then we could not f the Shore ) they 
 came on Board and favcd the Men, but the Pin- 
 nace was all broke to pieces, which was no fmall 
 Grief to us ; fo the Long-Boat being on Board, 
 and the Sea running prodigious high, the Boat- 
 fwain, and fome others, would compel me and 
 the Lieutenant to leave the Ship, faying that it 
 was impolfible for the Boat to live any longer in 
 that Sea, and that they had rather be drowned 
 than I ; but defiring me when I came on Shore 
 (if it were polTible j to fend the Boat again for 
 them ; fo I being half way on Shore, the Ship 
 ovcr-fct, fo I made al^ the hafte polTible to Land 
 them Men I had in the Boat i and having landed 
 them, I went off to the Ship again, to favc thofe 
 poor Men that had been fo kind to me before ; 
 fo with great hazard I got with the Boat to the 
 Quarter of the Ship, and they came down the 
 Ladder into the Boat, only one Man who was 
 left for dead, which was one that had been caft 
 away in the Pinnace, whofe Name was Alexajh 
 .'7 f razor ^ a very pretty Sailor : So I returned to 
 the Shore,and got fife to Land, though very wet 
 md cold j fo we hauled up the Boat on Shore, 
 and went up the Land about a flight llioot, where 
 our Men were making a Fire, and a Tent with 
 Canvas and Oars, which we had laved for that 
 purpofe i fo we lay all that Night very cold^ wet 
 and weary. The next Morning the Man that 
 v'c kft on Board recovered, and ept unto the 
 Mizen-Top ; for that Mafl v^c left (landing when 
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 The Ship laboured, and beat violently, hut it 
 blew fo hard, and the Sea ran fo high, that it 
 was impoflfiblc to fave him ; fo the Weather con- 
 tinuing blowing, with extreme Fogs, and with 
 Froft and Snow, and all the ill compadcd Wca- 
 dier that could be imagined together. \Vc built 
 more Tents to prcfcrve our felvcs, and the Ship 
 breaking in pieces came all afhore to the i'xwvc 
 Place where we landed, which ferved for flicker 
 and Firing ; befides there came to us fonic Hoa- 
 flieads of Flour, and Brandy good Store, which 
 was no little Comfort in our great Ext cmity. 
 Here we lay betwixt Hope and Dcfpair, hopina 
 for fair Weather, that Captain Flawcs might 
 find us, which was impolTible that ever he Ihould 
 do, if it continued foggy ; and fomc dcfpairing 
 of his being fafe, but that he might be loft as 
 well as we. But fuppoling we never was to fee 
 him again, I was refolvcd to try the utmoft to 
 fave as many as I could in the Long-Boat ; in or- 
 der thereunto we raifed her two Foot, and laid 
 a Deck upon her to keep the Sea out as much as 
 was polTiblc, and with this Boat and 3 o Men ( for 
 file would carry no more ) I intended to Row and 
 Sail to Rujfia ; but the Men not being fatisHcd 
 who fhould be the Men, began to be very un- 
 ruly in their mind and Behaviour ; every one 
 tiaving as much reafon to five himfelf as ano- 
 ther, fome holding Confultation to ftavc the 
 Boat, and all to run the like Fortune. But here 
 Brandy was our beft Friend, for it kept thcni al- 
 ways Fox'd ; fo that in all their Dciigns I could 
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 Iiad been pafllible, that is any going on the 
 Ground for Bogs, that they would have met with 
 Jlivcrs, that they knew not whither to go ,• fo 
 there being no probability of going by Land, 
 nor for any to attempt going in the Boat, with 
 40 Men having been firft deftroy'd. 1 will leave 
 it to the Co^ilideration of any, whether we were 
 not in a very miferablc Condition without Divine 
 Provi Jencc : To write my Thought I had at that 
 time, CO lave as many Men as I could, it is not 
 pcTLincnr x all to the Difcourfc, iince it cannot 
 but be imagined to be Tragical. The Weather 
 cr/iiinued (till very bad with Fogs, Snow, Rain^ 
 and I'roft, till the 9th Day of our being on Shore, 
 which was the 8th Day of Jnly^ when in the 
 Morning ic cleared up, and to our great Joy, one 
 of the Sailors cried out a Sail, which proved Cap- 
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 wc let fire to our Town, that he might fee where 
 wc was, which he prefently faw, fo came to us, 
 and lent his Boat to us j ( but before I went off) 
 I writ a brief Relation of the Intention of the 
 Voyage, with the Accidents that had befallen us^ 
 and put it into a Glals Bottle, and left it in the 
 Fortification I had tjiere built. So by twelve a 
 Clock we all got fife on Board, but left all on 
 Shore that we liad favcd from the Shii> : for we 
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 Ova Zemhla is fo called by the Rujfiam^ 
 which fignifieth New Land in their 
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 Ifland, or whether it joyneth to the Continent 
 of Tartaria^ would be a very hard Task, nor is 
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 kind of Mofs, which beareth a fniall blue and 
 •yellow Flower ; and this is all the Produdl oFthc 
 Earth of this Country. Under the Superficies 
 of this Earth, about two Foot deep, after wc had 
 dug fo low, we came to a firm Body of Icc; 
 which, as I think, v/as never heard of before ; I'o 
 thefe Men that did imagin, if they were forced 
 to winter to the Northward, would dig Caves in 
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 would 
 
A Voyage for the Vifcovery 189 
 
 ^ouU^ find here but very bad Lodging. The 
 jinow licth here contrary to what it doth in any 
 other Country ; for in all other Climates the 
 SnoW melteth iooneft away near the Sea Side ; 
 but here the Sea beatcth a-gainft the Snowy Clifts, 
 vfhich in fome Places are as high as either of the 
 rorelands in Ketit : The Sea has waflied under- 
 neath the Snow a prodigious Way, and the Snow 
 over hanging, nioft fearful to behold, and up 
 from the Water-lide, upon the firft Ridge o(f 
 Hills, the Snow was melted till you come to the 
 nm Ridge, which are Mountains, and they all 
 the way up are covered with Snow, which I be- 
 lieve hath lain there ever fincc the Creation ; but 
 after we had afcended this, which in fome Places 
 ms almoft Perpendicular, we came to the top 
 of all the Mountains, as we fuppofed, for we 
 could not fee far ; for we could hardly fee one 
 Ehe other, the Fog was fo thick, and remained fa' 
 all the time wc were in the Country ^ but on the 
 top of thefe Hills we found it bare from Snow, 
 and indifferent good walking. The beft that I 
 found in the Country were only Bears. 1 conti- 
 nued on the top of thofe Hills fome two Hoursy 
 and went as far as was convenient, that we miglic 
 hnd the way back again. Here I found the Track 
 of many large Deer ; alfo wc found an Horn of 
 Beam of Deer : Bcfidcs Deer, there be abun- 
 dance of large white Bears, and fome Foxes, and 
 a little Creature much like a Coney, but not fo 
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 is melted from Snow. Upon the Hills wc founj 
 abundance of Slate-ftone, which made it oQod 
 walking ; but at the Sea-fide, where the Rivu- 
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 Marble, with white Veins in it. 
 
 The Point where we loft our Ship I called 
 Point Specdill: The high Hills I called King 
 Charles's Snow Hills ^ and the next Point to the 
 Southward, which is the Weftcrmoft Point of 
 Nova Zembla^ I named Raines Foreland, and 
 the Point to the Northward, Tork Point. Point 
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 don 63 d. 00 nu The Variation of the Compals 
 is 13^. Weft^ and it is full Sea at South-Weft 
 Moon. The Tide rifeth 8 Foot, and fetteth di- 
 redlly upon the Shore, which is a certain Sign 
 that there is no Paffage to the Northward. The 
 Sea Water, about the Ice and Land, is very fait, 
 and much falter than any I ever yet taftcd, and 
 a great deal heavier, and I may certainly fay the 
 cleareft in the World,- for I could fee the 
 Ground very plain in 80 Fathom Water, which 1 
 is 480 Foot, there being few Steeples fo high as| 
 that was deep, and I could fee the Shells at the 
 bottom very plain. 
 
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 wiUing, have given a more full and nice Acconii: 
 of all the Experiments I had, and ihouid have 
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 the Voyage from the Elbe to 
 
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 about noon from the Elbe, The 
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 at night we came to the Ice, but failed from 
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 the Ship, and which was ftrange, they vvouli 
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 The 5th in the forenoon it was moderately 
 cold and Sun-iliine, but toward noon darkilh 
 and cloudy, with fnow and great froft, the 
 wind North- weft and by North. We faw dai- 
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 ved that as they pafTed by one another, they 
 haled one another, crying Holla^ and asked 
 each other how many fi(h they had caught , 
 biitrhey would not ftick fometimes to tell more 
 (hen they had. When it was windy, that they 
 could not hear one another, they waved their 
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 the Ice too fmall, wherefore we failed from it. 
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 ipointof the North-fore- land, we fuppofed it 
 the true Harbour. The Land appeared like a 
 dark Cloud, full of white ftreeks 5 we turned 
 to the Weft again, that is, according to the 
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 The 9th was the fame weather, and cold as 
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 On the 19th we had a dull Sun-ftiine, thj 
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 [was in the Eaft, and brought the Whak to 
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 |aft ^ the fame day we cut the Fat from it, 
 filled with it 70 Barrels (which they call 
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 the forenoon, and in the night we faw the 
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 whereupon followed mift and fnow, the wind 
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 In the morning, June the 4th, we were a 
 hunting again after a Whale^ and we came fo| 
 near unto one, that the Harponier wasjufta 
 going to fling his Harpoon into her, but (lie 
 funk down behind, and held her head outo 
 the water, and fo funk down like a ftone ( a 
 is to be feen by d on the cut A ) and we fa 
 her no more ^ it was very like that the greai 
 Ice-field was full of holes in the middle, f( 
 that the Whale could fetch breath undcrneat 
 the Ice. A great many more Ships lay abou 
 this fheet of Ice, one hunted the Whdcs to th 
 other, and fo they were frighted, and becam 
 very (by. So one gets as many fifhesastheo 
 ther, and fometimes they all get one. We wer 
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 On the 8th it was Foggy, and fnow'd all day, 
 wefaw that day very many (Sea- dogs or) Seales 
 on the Ice about the Sea-fide, fo we fet out a 
 fioat and killed i^ of them. 
 
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 at night Sun- (bine ^ he that takes not exaft 
 notice, knows no difference whether it be day 
 or night. 
 
 On the 15th in the afternoon it was windy 
 and foggy, we were in 77 degrees 5 we failed 
 along by the Ice fomewhat cafterly towards 
 Sfttzljergeft, as is to be feen in the Cut A at e. 
 That night we faw more than 20 Whalef that 
 run one after another towards the Ice ^ out of 
 |them we got our fecond Fi(h, which was a 
 Male one 5 and this Fi(h, when they wounded 
 with Lances, bled very much, fo that the 
 'ea was tinged by it where he fwam : we brought 
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 ut order, and miftake in the ufual feven week- 
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 irlt wc came to the Foreland thereof, then to 
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 On the 22 th we had very fair weather, and 
 pretty warm s, we were by Rebenfdt {Deersfm 
 where the Ice (tood firin .• we faw fix Wkli\ 
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 lill'd him alfo, while the other Boats were bu- 
 (ieinpur("uing or hunting after another Whale. 
 ThisFilh run to the Ice, and before he died, 
 beat aix>ut hiai with his tail ^ the Ice fetled a- 
 boQthim fo that the other Boats could not come 
 to this Boat to aflid; him, till the Ice feparated 
 again, that they might row, when they tied 
 one boat behind the other, and fo towed the 
 Wkle to the great Ship, where they cut him up 
 into the Veffels, and filled with him 45 Barrels. 
 This night the Sun (hiqcd very brightly. 
 
 On the 29th we had fair weather, Sun-(bine 
 and calm. On the fame day we failed before 
 the wide Harbour or Bay, where we found a 
 great quantity of the fat of a Whale^ three Vef- 
 fclsfulj, together with the Image of St. Nido- 
 las, which flood behind a Ship that was loti, 
 driving in the Sea. There was alfo here and 
 there flill much Ice. 
 
 On the I ft of July about noon, two Whalet 
 came near to our Ship 5 we faw that they had 
 a mind to couple together^ we fet our Boat 
 forthem, and the Harponier liit the Female, 
 '^hich when the other found, he did not flay 
 '^f all, but made away. The Female run all 
 along above the Water, flraight forward, beating 
 Uboutwich her tail and fins, fo that we durO: 
 not come near to lance her, yet one of our Har- 
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 in the other Boat, to (hew their valour alfo, 
 haften'ci to the Fi(h, which overturned their 
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 dive for it, and hide his head underneath the 
 water; the reft did the fame ^ they thought it 
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 In the fame morning a Whale appear'd near 
 our Ship before the wide Harbour, we put out 
 four Boats from our Ship after him, but two 
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 one of them fent out a Poat towards us 5 we 
 ufed great diligence and care to take him, but 
 the Fi(h came up jufi. before the Dntchmns 
 Boat, and was ftruck by him with a Harpoon. 
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 On the 2d of Jnly we had Sun-(hine all day 
 and night long, and it was pretty warm with- 
 all J about midnight we went a hunting, and 
 caught the fifth Filh, who was a Male^ we cut 
 the fat off, and flung it into the ForecaftleJ 
 This is done when they are very bufie \nWhdk\ 
 catching, that they may not lofe time, then! 
 they cut great pieces off of the Whak, thati 
 they may have done the fooner, for it doth 
 not harm the fat if it (hould lie fo for feveral 
 days; nay, lome reckon it to be the better 
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 from ir. 
 
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 jiight we got the fixth Fifli, a Male alfo, he held 
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 On the 3d and 4th day of July we faw more 
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 On the $th of Jnlji in the forenoon it was 
 bright Sun-(hine, and pretty warm, in the af- 
 ternoon it was foggy, at night Sun-ihine again, 
 which lafted all the night. We hunted alf that 
 day long, and in the morning we Ihuck a 
 IfM before the Weigatt -^ this Fi(b run round 
 about under the water, and fo faftned the Line 
 whereon our Harpoon was about a Rock, fo 
 that rhe Harpoon loft its hold, and that Fi(h got 
 away. This Whale did blow the water fo fierce- 
 ly, that one might hear it at a Leagues di- 
 ftance. 
 
 The fame day about noon, the wind fouth, 
 and Sun- (hi ne, we got the feventh Fi(b, which 
 was a Female, and had 4^ Kardels of fat 5 this 
 we cut aUc into the Hold, and fo we failed 
 from Weiiatt^ sl little toward the weft before 
 [kMkfcle-Harl/atir, where we dropt our An- 
 chor, we were employed with cutting the great 
 pieces of fat into lefler pieces, to fill our Kjr- 
 ddi with them 5 in the mean while the wind 
 turned to North-weft and weft, and the fingle 
 Anchor was dragg'd by the Ship, fo we drop'd 
 rother, and would have weigh'd up the for- 
 |nier, but our Cable broke, the Akichor being 
 jfadned to a Flock. 
 
 On the 6th we had the fame weather, and 
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 On the 8th the wind turned North-weft, with 
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 failed out of the SoHth-Haven^ we kept alwa 
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 Moon, and afterwards it was windy, with 
 bundance of Snow. 
 
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 the Da»jjh Harhour^ to gather fome Herbs fr 
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 Spitzbergcn. 
 
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 year^ but how far this Country is extended to 
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 Joats not, as that in the Sea doth, that there 
 iould be Land not far behind it. 
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 [Works, fo are thefe Countries naturally fur- 
 bounded with high Hills. 
 
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 lo not know, but it feemeth, fince we fee one 
 lill behind another, chat it is fo throughout 
 ^he whole Country. 
 
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 plainer and leveller Ground ^ and the farther 
 pe fail toward the Eaft, the Ground groweth 
 [he lower, yet it is all ftony, and with pro- 
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 if it could be inhabited by Men. 
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 ^eceiiity be lower and lower ^ for elfe w* fhould 
 it higher above the other, as we do the o- 
 b Mountains. 
 
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 believe they come over the Ice in the Spring, 
 ^henthelce ftands firm, into thefe Countries, 
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 jain, when the long nights begin. 
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 When on the i8th of June, on a Sunday m 
 the forenoon, wc firft came to the Foreland otl 
 Spiizbergen 5 the foot of thefc Mountains looW 
 like fire, and the tops of them were covered wiii 
 foggs^ the fnow was marbel'd, and look'd 
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 foraetitnes that the Land is begirt with Ice in ttil 
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 or in too great a quantity, then the Ships raafc 
 to the Harbours, Havens, Bays or Rivers, 
 they call them, that run up into the Country I 
 the wind ufeth to receive us fomething unkind] 
 ly, when we fail into them, roaring over [\\ 
 dry Hills with fmall Whirl- winds. The watfl 
 in thefe Rivers is fait. 
 
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 lets ^ nor did I ever fee a Spring there. 
 
 Of fome Rivers we know their beginning, 
 ethers it cannot be found out, becaufe of th 
 danger of the Ice, which they are never trej 
 from 5 fome becaufe of the hidden Rocbui 
 derneath the water, which are diicovered N 
 
to Spitzb^rgcn, 
 
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 juantity of white foam. 
 
 The Names of the Havens you find all in 
 jrder one after another in the Map of Spifz- 
 ier^etij as far as wc have been. 
 
 Thefe Havens rhey reckon to be the fafeft, 
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 larked with c and d. 
 
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 lore of them by and on the Land, then a- 
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 mh far-fetcht things, neither do they gather 
 Iny thing for them from Norway, Schctland^ or 
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 the melted Snow from the Rocks, and froi 
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 be the higheft in the Country^ indeed 
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 bright refledtion. They were covered with 
 Tciouds, (o that you could fcarcefee the tops of 
 ihem. 
 
 Some of thefe Rocks are but one ftone from 
 ihe bottom to the top, appearing like an old 
 decayed Wall 5 they fmell very fweet, as the 
 |reen Fields do in our Country in the Spring 
 when it rains. See ec in the Plate C 
 
 The (tones for the moft part are vein'd dif- 
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 On the foot of the Mountains, where no 
 counts of Ice ftand, lye great loofe Rocks, as 
 ^hey chance to be fall'n one upon the other, 
 mh Caves and Hoi*.^, fo that it is very tickliih 
 nlk'ng upon them ^ both great and fmall Stones 
 )r Hocks are mixed together : thefe Stones are 
 )f a grey colour, or grey with black veins, 
 they glifter like Silver-oar. Moft of the Rocks 
 |thar are at the bottom of the Mounts are like 
 the Pebles we pave our Streets withal. On 
 jthefe [locks grow all forts of Herbs, Graves, 
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 The Herbs grow thickeft where the water runsi 
 or falls down from the Hills, (and aliowhefj 
 they are defended from the North and Eai| 
 winds ) from whence always feme Duflf or Mod 
 is carried down with it, which after a long(ioit| 
 becomes Earth (yet it is rather Dung than 
 true Earth ) and the Birds do contribute by thtij 
 dung towards it. 
 
 Thtfc Mountains feem as if they were Earill 
 at top by reafon of the hei^,ht, but when m 
 are at the top of them, they are Hock as m 
 at the top as the bottom, which we alfo fej 
 when great pieces of them fall down. If Stontj 
 are flung down from thcfe Mountains, it foudj 
 as if it thundered with an Echo and Ratling kj 
 the Valleys, as if very great pieces were throw] 
 off from the top of them. 
 
 The Mountains alio are full of Cracks wheKJ 
 in the Birds make their NeQs j they all (ly dowl 
 from the Mountains to feek their Foud in m 
 water ^ fome eat the Carrion of Fifhcs, oth^n 
 eat fmall FiQies and Shrimps, as I (ball fay, wkj| 
 I treat of the Birds. 
 
 There are alfo White-Bears, Deer and Fod 
 in ihele Countries. The Bear liveth upon deail 
 Whales or dead Men ; the Fox feeds upon Birdi] 
 and their Eggs 5 and the Deer eat the Herb?. 
 
 One may conjeflure at the height of W 
 Mountains hy this, when the Skies are notveffl 
 clear, the Mountains ftand, to about the middij 
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 were a coming down every moment, as in the 
 Pbrc- D at /. 
 The reafon why the lowermoft Hills do not 
 alio whei: feein lo high, is became To very great ones (land 
 fitar them. A Ship with its Mart and Rig- 
 |ng , is no more to be compared with theie 
 iountains, than a fmall Houfe with a high 
 iteeple. The Miles feem aUb to be very Qiort, 
 ut whtn you go to walk them upon the Land, 
 ou Hnd it quite another thing, and you will 
 ion be tired 5 and alfo becaufe of the rou^h- 
 lefs and (harpnefs of the Rocks, and for want 
 f a Pat'i, you will foon get warm be it never 
 3 cold: a new pair of Shoes will not lall: one 
 [\% here. 
 
 We went in the night, when it was a very 
 ilear Siin-lliine, upon one of the Rocks near 
 ihe E//^////> Haven, about a Mile long, to look 
 ifter a lykale that had got away from us 5 in 
 the middle of this Harbour others were a row- 
 ing in their Long Boats, which we could hard- 
 ly (lifcern ; a great part fell down from one of 
 ihefe Mountains, which founded very loud. 
 he Mountains look'd black, (Irip'd with veins 
 f Snow. It was fo calm that we could hardly 
 rceive any breeze of wind, and not very cold. 
 he (hoar was very full of Sea-Horfes^ which 
 foired lo that we could hear them a great way 
 C as if fome Bulls had bellowed. 
 In the Country we travel thus ^ We take 
 ilong with us two or more Guns and Lances, 
 [orelid the Highway-men the Bears, but one 
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 (lones and the loofe Ice, whereon it is vem 
 troublefome to walk. 
 
 As many as I have ft en of thcfe Moiinta 
 are (ituated thus ^ The higheft are from tlij 
 Foreland to '.he Mufclc- Haven for SMle B/ifi 
 after the Foreland follow the feven Ire Mountl 
 which are very high Mountains ^ and they an 
 caled fo from the Ice- Hills that fill up the Valj 
 leys, or lye between the Rocks. Thefemouni 
 tainoijs Kocks are not fo (harp or pointed att 
 top as the two foremoft Rocks at the Havens 
 Magdalen are. Then cometh the Havoh 
 the Ham'onrgers^ MagdJen^ the Engliflj and l]\ 
 nijh Harbour, and at laft the South-Haven, 
 the Magdalen-Haven the Rocks lye in a rouij 
 or femi circle, at each i\(\^ by one anoty 
 (land two high Mountains that are hollow wi[|| 
 in, as if they were dug out : After the fiOik 
 of a Breaft-work, with points and cracki 
 the top, like Battlements 5 at the bottom will] 
 in the Hill, ftands a Snow hill that doth \4 
 to the very top of the Mountain, like 3 Trtj 
 with branches and twigj ^ the other Rockslo 
 fudely. 
 
 In this SoHth-Haven the Ships ride at AncliJi 
 between high Mountains 5 on the left as i 
 fail into it, is a Hill called the Beehive m 
 Cut C and D, marked withg^ called ToH 
 its refemblance of a Beehive: Clofe toitlietl 
 large and high Mount, Ciiled the Devils Hi((| 
 commonly covered with a fogg, and if the wii] 
 bloweth over it, it darkneth the Haven, 
 feemeth as if it fmoaked, filling the Havj 
 
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 te Hilh covered with Snow, in the Cut C 
 
 D, marked with kj two of them ftand 
 
 I to one another. In the middle of this 
 
 jiour is an Ifland in the Cut C marked with 
 
 (hich is called the Dead mans Jjlandybtc^iXJ^Q 
 
 i bury the dead men there after chis manner; 
 
 jy are put into a Coffin, and covered with 
 
 ap of large ftones, and norwithftanding 
 
 his, they are fometimes eaten by the white 
 
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 ihave feen no other fort of Ground but 
 
 |t (tones at Spitzbergen, fo that the froft can- 
 
 ipenetrate far into fuch Ground. I admi- 
 
 that the Snow was at that time all melted 
 
 jr, and in the Cliffs between the great Rocks 
 
 (no more Snow to be feen, although the 
 
 8 were very deep. I fancy that abundance 
 
 in had fallen in the Spring, and that the 
 
 jther had been tolerable, or elfe we muO: 
 
 (feen more Snow there. 
 
 there are alfo more fmall Iflands here and 
 
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 M thereupon the Eggs of Mountain Ducl^s 
 
 Ktrmenms, 
 
 'hen you come to Schmeremburg^ fo named 
 tiochmer, which fignifieth greafe ^ there are 
 Houfes ftanding, formerly built by the 
 t th, where they ufed to boil their Train-Oil. 
 ie Dutchmen once attempted to ftay there all 
 Winter, but they all peri (ht ; In the Cut C 
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 eafily rot or confume ^ for it has been found] 
 that a Man buried ten years before , IVill remaio] 
 ed in his perfeft (hape and drefs^ and theil 
 could fee by the Crofs that was ftuck uponliil 
 Grave, how long he had been buried. 
 
 Thefe Houfes are now from year to year i\ 
 ftroyed and burnt. 
 
 This year were yet (landing feveral Houfej 
 like a little Village, fome whereof were thai 
 burnt. 
 
 Over- again ft Schmerenburg were alfo feved 
 Houfes ftanding, and a Kettle or Boyler ^ m 
 call that place the Cookery of Harlem. This yeJ 
 four Houfes remained, whereof two weij 
 Ware-houtes, in the others they dwelt. Thfj 
 are built after this fa(hion, not very large ^ then 
 is a Stove before with a Ceiling at top, anj 
 behind a Chamber taking in the whole bread! 
 of the Houfe : The Ware-Houfes are fomethiol 
 larger , therein were ftill feveral Barrels 
 Kardels that were quite decayed^ the Ice ftadj 
 ing in the fame (hape the Veffels had been 
 An Anvile, Smith's Tongs, and other Tool 
 belonging to the Cookery^ were frozen up in tij 
 Ice. The Kettle was ftill ftanding as it w( 
 fet, and the wooden Troughs ftood by ii 
 From thence you may go to thtEtjgUfi Um\ 
 on the other lide is the place where the deiJ 
 are buried 5 this is fomething even, like eanlj 
 but it is levelled on purpofe. Behind thef! 
 Houfes are high Mountains 5 if one diraetlj 
 IJpoq thefe, as we do on others, and dotiinoj 
 
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to Spitzbergen. 
 
 lark every ftep with Chalk, one doth not 
 [now how to get down again. When you go 
 jn you think it to be very eafie to be done 5 
 hut when you are to defcend, it is very difficult 
 [nd dangerous, fo that many have fallen and 
 loft their lives. 
 The River there is called the Sonth Harbour, 
 )xhy-^ and if the Ships fufterany damage at 
 (ea, they refit there. 
 
 At the entry into the Sonth Harbour^ in the 
 /alley between the Mountains, is colleded 
 feat quantities of freOi Water from the Snow 
 [nd Rain, upon the fhoar ftand abundance of 
 [ardels or Barrels 5 we ufed this Water for our 
 ^iftuals, and other occafions : It is alfo found 
 itheCliftsof the Icy-hills on (hoar 5 but true 
 Iprings out of the Ground I never faw in %'/s- 
 ffgm. 
 
 The (hoar there is not very high, but the 
 fater is deep, there was no Ice at all to be feen 
 1 it, from whence I conclude that it had not 
 een a fevere Winter; for it is impoffible that 
 le Ice could have been melted in fo (hort a 
 |me, not only here, but alfo in the Engl/fi Ha- 
 moxBay^ where the Ice ftood firm ftill, and 
 irdly lay above half a Fathom under wa- 
 
 The Ice doth melt much fooner in Salt- 
 water than in frelh River- water, but yet it is 
 ipolTible that fo thick Ice could have melted 
 ifolhort a time. We faw alfo that the Snow 
 ielted on the tops of the high Flocks, and the 
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 the wind being North- we flr, when the RainfJ 
 below about a quarter of a League, yet above] 
 the Mountains were all covered with Snow, 
 in the ftreight Line, one not higher than 1 
 other, as if they had been levell'd. 
 
 In the Northern Haven or Bay^ lyeth a ve 
 large Mountain, flat at top 5 this Illand is q 
 led the Birds Song, from the great numbefj 
 them that build and hatch there , for whentb 
 fly up, they make fo great a noife, that one( 
 hardly hear his own words : This is marll 
 with ^ in the Cut D, 
 
 Befide thefe there are more T/lands named! 
 the Map, as the Gifted Rock^, and fuch other. 
 
 The Rehenfeld is a low Land, and it iscall| 
 fo from the Deer commonly feen there. 
 
 I was informed that it is all Slats, that h{ 
 up edgewife, fo that it is very troublefooie 
 go on, it is all over-grown with Mofs. Thtj 
 is a Hill upon it that looketh like fire. 
 
 Behind the Rehenfeld^xt highMountainsagaij 
 they are not pointed at top, they lye as it m 
 in a Line 5 by the Rehenfeld runs up a River i| 
 to the Country, and is called the Halfmon^ 
 from its fhape. On the other fide of the Rivj 
 is a Mountain, flat at the top, and full of cral 
 all filled up with Snow. Then cometh (11 
 Liefde-Bay (Bay of Love^ where two Hilj 
 ftand together very like unto Sfitzkr^tn 
 
to Spitzbergen. 
 
 SUdaUffs Bay, and thofe two Harbours are very 
 
 luch like one another. 
 Then we come to lower Ground behind the 
 
 Mujlk Harbour, where the Grafs was fo high, 
 
 [hat it covered our ankles, as far as we went. 
 Next is the Weihgatt^ or the Straits of Hinde* 
 
 bfetf. The Wethgatt is called fo from the Winds, 
 iorwdhen fignifieth blowing ) becaufe a very 
 
 Irong South- wind bloweth out of it. On the 
 
 hir-Haveft, upon the Land, are all red ftones. 
 Behind the Wetghatt followeth the South-mjh 
 
 jfid, which is alfo low ^ it feemeth as if it was 
 lorned with fmall Hills; Then follow the feven 
 Unds which we could fee. 
 We fsw no Ships go any farther, neither 
 )uld I underftand that ever any Ships did go 
 irther, nor can they go fo far every year to- 
 wrds the Eaft, becaufe of the. danger of the 
 
 Ice that fwimeth, and is brought from thence 
 
 |y the wind and Itream. 
 In Maji^nd jf//»eisthe beft fifhing in the Ice 
 ftween the I/lu»d of John Mayen and Sp'itz»- 
 trim. In July and AugH(h the Whales run Eaft- 
 ?ard by Spitzhergen, we faw at the latter end 
 lany Whales that run to the Wetghatt, It is un- 
 jown whether the Haven of this Wetghatt go- 
 ^h through the Country, or no. But this is 
 3t that Wetghatt whereof fo many things are 
 written. 
 
 More I do not know of this Country. Rocks 
 jid Snow and Ice-hills we ^nd in abundance 
 be, and the Creatures that lite upon them, I 
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 TH E Waves begin to raife themfelv 
 firfl: from a fmall breeze of wind, and 
 the increafe and continuance of the breeze tl 
 grow longer, higher and bigger. 
 
 The Sea is not immediately made rou 
 the beginning of high winds, but .the Wi 
 fwell by degrees and flowly, until they i 
 to be as big as Mountains 3 then they ex 
 and break themfelves, and fall over with i 
 ing and foaming, as you may fee by k, in 
 Cut D. 
 
 Then the following Wave from behind 
 eth it again, with much curled and foanj 
 Scum , neatly fpoted with the white Foi 
 looking like Marble. This breaking and 10; 
 ing of the Waves is fucceflively repeated. 
 
 So the fwelling Waves continually follow 
 another, moving before the Wind with a f 
 motion, but when thefe Waves are (hort, tl 
 daih over the Ship, and break much, fo 1 
 the Ship is hardly able to live. 
 
 In ftormy Weather little Waves curl on 
 top of the great ones, and klTer again ii| 
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 'he Ships ^o not feel thefefmaller Waves but 
 jy th^ i^reit ones, that are Cilled Sea-Moun- 
 js, which heave and mount the Ship with 
 but ncverthelefs fhe always keeps her 
 |it way through thele unpithed Waves, which 
 ^fjndertul to behold. 
 
 in a hard (lorm the froth of the Sea drives 
 
 duft, andlookech as when the wind driveth 
 
 iSnow along upon the Ice, or as the Duft of 
 
 Earth does in dry weather, and you fee the 
 
 every where to look like curled Ice, that 
 
 len it is a freezing is hind red from it by the 
 
 id, all covered with a white foam, and one 
 
 ive blows over the precedent, with a great 
 
 iring and noife, as if a Water-mill were a 
 
 |ng 5 and this fame noife the Ships make 
 
 wife when they cut through the Sea. 
 
 litis alfo 10 be obfervcd, that the Waves dalh 
 
 linft one another when the wind changeth, 
 
 crofs over through one another, with great 
 
 ling over the Ships, before they move all one 
 
 the fame way. 
 
 |I did not obfcrve here the Sea- water fo clear, 
 
 found it fo fait as near the Ice 5 it may be 
 
 reafon of the (hallow ground or bottom, 
 
 the many frefti Rivers that run into it 5 or 
 
 caufe the Froft cleareth the water more. 
 
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 fland change their Ways and Sails according 
 
 Ithey think fit. If there be a frelh Gale, they 
 
 ike life of all their Sails ^ if a dorm, with the 
 
 m lowermoft Sails, whereof they call the firi^ 
 
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 the Mizenfail half furled up^ this rhey 
 becaufe the Ship goeth the ftedier by real 
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 One man ftands always at the Helm to (li 
 the Ship, but in hard weather ten men can han 
 ly hold the Helm, wherefore they fatten itv 
 a Tackle, and fo let it go too and fro, as 
 Compafs direQs them. 
 
 In and after a ftorm we have ofrenti 
 ftrangers come to vifit us in our Ships, i 
 Blaclibirds^ Starlings^ and all forts of fmall Bii 
 that have loft their way in a ftorm from ihelani 
 and fly to the Ships to fave themfelves, a 
 prolong their lives, when others fly about t| 
 they are fpent, and then fall into the Sea, ai 
 are drowned. 
 
 The Ltmbs^ and other Water-fowl, comeni 
 near us ^ which I mention on purpofe to coi 
 fute the erroneons Opinion of fome, that b 
 lieve that the before- mentioned Birds coir? 
 the Ships as MefTengers, to bring the ill news 
 bad weather. 
 
 Yet notwithftanding, thefe following iigns 
 
 marks commonly fore- tell a ftorm or hard w 
 
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to Spitzbergen. 
 
 ler, when great Fifh come near fo the Ships 
 
 greit numbers, when they Play, Dance, rowl 
 Ibout, and leap out of the water, which is not 
 Iways playing in them, but rather their Bodies 
 re a ill "lifted with ibme pain or other. Wefaw 
 tveral l^/Wc/ intheSea, that threw themf^lves 
 )outas if they were Sick, or a Dyinp;. 
 
 When the Sea is tempeftuous, it is not to be 
 lought that it doth proceed from the Sea only. 
 It a hard and tempelluous f>orm and wind fol- 
 iweth upon it, that fendeih the Waves like 
 lelTengers before it, until it arriveth it feif with 
 temptfl 5 but this is not to be underftood of 
 le Nurthfea, but only of the Sea betwixt Hit- 
 lianJ Spitzbergen. 
 
 When the Air is fo difpofed, as the Stars do 
 )t only look bigger, but as if they were more 
 
 number alfo, it is a great Prognoftication, 
 idolten proveth true alfo 5 It isafignthat 
 le Air is full of MiO, which caufetb upon 
 langing of the Frort, great foggs, and a high 
 find follows fcon after. 
 
 At night, when the Sea daOieth very much, 
 
 (bines like fire, the Sea-men call it burning : 
 fhis (hining is a very bright glance, like unto 
 le lulbe of a Diamond. 
 
 But when the Sea (hines. vehemently in a dark 
 Sght, and burns 5 a South or Weft-wind follow- 
 }h airer it. 
 
 At the ftern of the (hip, were the water is cut 
 irough, vou fee at night very deep under water, 
 ibbles rife and break, then this (binning or 
 »ftre is not there. 
 
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 Hitherto we have difcourfed ot the North 
 fea, bin next of the Waves between Hitlandu]^ 
 SpUzbergen ^ near Hitland the ftream runnetl 
 very fwift toward the North, and it grows daily 
 colder. I 
 
 It is to beobferved, that here the Waves of| 
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 the narrow Channel between England anj 
 Francexa the Spanljh Sea, (and what hath 
 obferved heretofore of the rowling and toffini 
 of the Sea belongeth properly to this ) with 
 continual toiling of the Ships, which makethtlii 
 men Sea-fick. 
 
 The vomiting and iicknefs is attributed t 
 the Sea-water ^ but it really proceedeth fro 
 the great and continual motion of the Body 
 when oftentimes we are forced to creep on 
 four. 
 
 Neither Meat nor Drink tafts well, the he 
 akes and is giddy, and they are always reacli 
 ing to vomit. Coftivenefs of the Body doti 
 generally accompany this Diftemper, and i 
 Urine is highly tinged. I reckon it no moii 
 then if one is not ufed to ride in Coaches 
 Waggons ^ only that it is always accompanle 
 with a bad ftomach and reftlefnef^. 
 
 The beft Remedies for this Di temper I 
 lieve, are Aromaticks chewed in ones mouti 
 as Cinamon, Cloves, Gai^ngal, Ginger, Nut' 
 megs, and the like. Many think to drive ttii 
 Diftemper away with fafting, but they wif 
 find themfelves miftaken. Some drink St 
 water, and believe that will make them vi 
 
to Spitxbergcn. 
 
 it, which notsvith Handing is not occafioned 
 )y the Sea-water, but by the ioathibmnefs thcre- 
 
 To take away the ill tafte out of ones 
 louth, in my Opinion, the beft means is to 
 Lat and Drink Plentifully, it eafeth quickly 5 
 ^either ought one to Sleep too much, but keep 
 
 the Air, and look into the Wind, and to 
 ^alk up and down in the Ship is alfo very pro- 
 
 )er. 
 
 But no A' let us return to the Waves again, 
 ley Riie, although it be not Windy, as high 
 Mountains very Tmooth, and run away as far 
 one can difcern them, which is to be under- 
 wood when the Sea is turbulent, whereupon 
 lickly a hard Gale of Wind followeth. In a 
 [ormthe Waves run after the fame manner, as 
 ijufl; now faid, but with many curling and 
 iming whirls, as is defcribed in the (torm of 
 le North-fea. Thefe Waves run a great way, 
 that you may fee between them at a great 
 Iftance. 
 
 If any Ships be in your Company, oftentimes 
 3u cannot fee them. 
 
 Thefe Waves are a great deal larger then in 
 
 North-fea, and have alio greater power 
 
 len they fall over, but do not daOi fo cafily 
 
 [er the Ships as they do in the North-fea. 
 
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 ^r a ftorm, but the commotion of thefe laft- 
 
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 are driven againft the MaU, and have no M 
 refs from the Wind. If in a brisk GaleotI 
 full Wind the Sails are all full and Round, 
 Ship fails beft upon the Sea. 
 
 There is as great difference in Ships, an 
 Sailing, as there is in Horfes, concerning i] 
 (inefs and fwiftnefs 5 the motion of the it 
 is therefore different -^ the Hilnefs and f,j 
 ctnefs , when nothing is tumbled up anJ (io.| 
 in the Ship , furthereth alfo (ailing vsl 
 much. 
 
 The Ships fwim foraething higher in 
 Sea then they do in Frefh-water ^ for therel 
 almoft a foot difference in a Ship with the {i 
 loading;. Tis generally agreed upon, ihatcl 
 may fee a Ship in a calm Sea three, or m 
 and a half German Miles oil, and be) end A 
 diftance the Sea lofeth it felf in the Air, aj 
 the Air in the Sea. If a Ship faileth on 
 main Sea at one and half Gcrw^// Miles diftd 
 you hive loft the fight of half the Ship;[ 
 two Miles you fee only the uppermoft Mai 
 at three Miles diftance you fee only thePkj 
 and when it goeth farther, you have quite 
 
 it. 
 
 Land and Mountains may be feen atagril 
 diftance at Sea ^ we faw Spitzbergen at twelj 
 Miles diftance off at Sea^ the Country \m 
 like a black Cloud full of white ftroaks, as is 
 the Cut D marked with a^ b, c, g, h, /. Nq 
 the Ice of this Sea it is coldeft where the Wa? 
 
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 quitt^ anJ the Sea water is fo clear, that 
 twdve and more Fathoms deep you may (ee 
 |e bottom. There is no j];round to be found 
 }ar tlif Ice to drop an Anchor. 
 IcisaHo to be obferved, that according to 
 |e colour ot the Skies, the colour of the Sea 
 chan2;ed. U the Skies be clear, the Sea 
 )ks as blew :is a Saphir -^ if it is covered fome- 
 lat with Clouils^ the Sea is as green as an 
 leralJ; it' there be a foggy Sun-(hine, it look- 
 yello V ^ if it be quite dark, like unto the 
 lour of hctico ; in l^ormy and cloudy weather, 
 ce black Sope, or exactly like unto the colour 
 bhck Lead. 
 
 If the Wind be quire Calm, one may hear 
 [ating or knocking at a great diftance on the 
 fa, by which we alfo obfcrve the Whale 
 wrs, as Qiall be mentioned in its proper 
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 Among the Ice the ftream runs Southwards, 
 Ihich weobferved by our driving back a great 
 ay. At the Mnfcle-Haven the ftream ran North- 
 ards. Thofc that Sail Yearly to thofe places, 
 Innot give any certain information concerning 
 ping and flowing ^ only they have obferved 
 k water to be higher about the Land, when 
 |e winds have been higher then at other times. 
 p this I have alfo obferved, that if there was 
 orderly or continual ebbing and flowing, 
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 Of the ICE. 
 
 IN the Months of April and May the u: 
 Ice breaks, becaufe it lyeth Weft ward, vvhi 
 drives difperfcd in the Sea, by the Kland of ](( 
 Majieft, and reacheth to Spiizhergcff, where 
 that time it was firm flill, as youmayJcLini 
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 The ditl'ercncc between the Ice of SpHzUri 
 and tha.t oi our Country, is, that it is not lmo( 
 there, fo as to Hide upon it. 
 
 Neither is it fo clear nor traniparent, noni 
 (harp and cuitinc», but a great deal harder, and 
 not eafily broke or fplit : but it looketh likeftu; 
 to the Ground Ice ofthe Rivers in our Counnj 
 or like unto Loaf-fugar. 
 
 Where the Ice is fixed upon the Sea, youfi 
 afnow-white brightnefs in the Skies, as if 
 Sun (hired, for the Snow is refleded by theAii 
 juft as a File by Night is 5 but at a difrsrieyoi 
 lee the Air blew or blackilh : Where thert isn 
 ny fmall Ice-fields, that are as the Meadows ti 
 the Scales, you fee no luftre or brightnefs of tlii 
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 ^ The Sea dafheth againfl: thefe Ice-fields, which 
 Iccalioncth (everal fine Figures^ not that they 
 |re naturally framed fo, but juft as Ice flowers 
 
 00 our Glafs-windows, get all forts of figures; 
 for thefe are framed by the dalhing of the Sea, 
 pkeunto Mountains, Steeples, Tables, Chappels, 
 ind all forts of Beafts. 
 
 Thefe Ice-fields are a great deal deeper under 
 li^jter, then they are high above if, and arc of 
 ^ paler colour nnder Water than above ^ the top 
 ^f them might be called the Kernel and Marrow 
 j^f the Ice, becaufe the colour is much deeper 
 |ien that of the other. 
 
 1 The higheft colour is delicate Blew, of the 
 fme colour with the Bleweft Vitriol, fome- 
 fhatmore tranfparent, yet not fo clear as that in 
 [ur Country, which you may fee through, let 
 
 be never fo thick ^ it is as hard as a ftone, 
 i(i it is not eaiily fplit or cleav*d, becaufe it 
 
 rpungy, like unto a Pumice ftone. Among 
 lis Ice the Ships fail up and down, until they 
 )nie to bigger Ice- fields, for the fmall ones 
 
 :umber the Sea, that the Ships fail often a- 
 lalnlr iheni and perilh, for when the winds 
 [rile the Waves drive againft the Ice-fields, as 
 I it W.IS againft Rocks, and beat the Ships to 
 >ieu's. 
 
 When we are paffed by thefe fmail Ice- 
 
 leltls that fwim at a great diftance from one 
 
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 caufe in the Spring the Whales are in fireJ 
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 which muft be expected in the Spring, andt'f 
 fmiil (heets of Ice fwim up and down in [\\ 
 Sea, which the Skippers muft avoid, led theJ 
 lofe their Ships. 
 
 It may ieem fomething ftrange, that they fij 
 fo often to the Ice and back again, but therj 
 is the fame reafon for it as in hunting aiK| 
 Deer, if we do not find Whuks in one place, 
 we ranft feek them in others 5 for the foituc) 
 in ketching of Whaks is like the Chances 
 Gaming, and there is no great underftandinl 
 required to find them : fome fee and carchraorj 
 rhan they defire, and others but at half amikl 
 diftance from them, fee not one, which is veff 
 common. 
 
 When they go in amongft the Ice, t!ij 
 Men ftand ready with great Ice- hooks rokefj 
 them oft, that the Ship may not run agair 
 them. 
 
 The farther you fail into, • and amongft (i 
 Ice, the greater Ice-fields you (hall (ee, iothjl 
 you cannot look over them 5 for about liip xh( 
 Weft, as they call it, are larger Ice-fields to! 
 feen then d^hom SpHzbergen^ quite white at tlij 
 Top, covered with Snow, fo that there isbuj 
 
to Spit7bergen. 
 
 walking upon them, becaufe you fall deep 
 itothe Snow. (See A marked with /, and B 
 larked c. ) 
 
 The prints of the Bears footing we faw on 
 le (hoar of the Ice-fitlds, for they feek their 
 'rey in the water, which is the dead Carkafes 
 lfthel[7Wfj, the Foxes generally accompanv 
 |hem, for their choicer food of Birds is here 
 :arcer than at Spttzbergen^ for they flock not 
 )gether, but Hy fingly. 
 
 VVhen they fail fome Miles into the Ice, 
 ^here there is pretty large Ice-fields, they joyn 
 [heir Ships to them with great Ice-hooks, faft- 
 ^ed to flrong Cables, where they lie at Anchor, 
 jveral Ships about the fame Ice-field, but they 
 [ather chofe to be alone, becaufe they are an 
 kindrance to one another in /I7j.^/^- catching, 
 Ind the hunting of them from one to another 
 liketh them (hie. 
 
 Amongii: the Ice we find no great Waves, 
 )iitit is prcity fmooth, even when it is fome- 
 Am flormv. All the danger is from one Ice- 
 field leini? bifj'ger then the other, and the 
 |itt!e on-s (Wiming fafter than the great ones, 
 ^hlch often caufeth a ftopp?ge, fo that they 
 Iruwd upon one another, not without great 
 
 inger of the Ships, which are often catcht 
 Mween, and broken by them. See the Plate B 
 
 Tht Seamen hinder the prefiing on of the Ice 
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 )ut what fmall help this afFordeth them daily 
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 the mifchief is as foon done as in tempefluoi 
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 prevalent, cralhing and grinding againft eac! 
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 Thty fay that a dead IV hale tied to the Shi 
 is the belt defence againft the Ice. cWi 
 bang the Tails and Fins ?bout their Ship, wh 
 way is not to be rejerted, for it is of greatuij 
 to them to prevent the danger of the fqiieez' 
 of the Ice 5 they have examples, that in foc| 
 fqueezing of the Ice a dead IVhate h-ith prelerv 
 them. 
 
 The Ice rifes out of the Sea as high as 
 Mountain ^ the ftriking of them together raal 
 fo great a noife, that one can hardly hearl 
 own words ^ and from this joyning together 
 the Ice, the great Ice-hills are made, that dri 
 up and down in the Sea. 
 
 Other great Ice fields are not fo high asti 
 Ice hills, yet notwithftanding they are hard!] 
 ever quite plain, and without a Hill 5 you ff 
 the Ice under water as deep as you can fee. 
 is all of a blew colour, but the deeper you Icol 
 the purer blew you fee^ which beautiful colom 
 changes with the Air, for if it be rainy weathei 
 this colour growcth paler. I alfo have oftfi 
 feen the Ice underneath the water very gree 
 the occafion whereof was the troubled Aii 
 whence the Sea aiTumeth this colour. 
 
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 high Mountains are feen, as are feen where 
 Ice grinds and dafhes one againft the o- 
 
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 lirds the bottoms^ for one may Tee it fpungy 5 
 
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 nnning, it muft have reached the very 
 
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 have feen in Spitzbergen white Ice that 
 
 ^s frozen quite curled, it look'd juft like Su- 
 
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 [am even with the Seas furface. The Ships 
 
 not always in this danger of Squeezing, 
 
 oftentimes there is little or no Ice to be 
 
 there, although you are a great way in 
 
 place where it ufually is ^ but as foon as a 
 
 [ndarifes, you would admire from whence fo 
 
 fata quantity of Ice (hould come in lefs then 
 
 Ihours time. 
 
 It the greateft ke-fields of all, Ships do not 
 ^ays ride the fafeft 5 fince by reafon of the 
 knefsand the motion of the Sea, thefe Ice- 
 [ds break, not without danger. 
 
 tofuch Ice-fields break they part a fund er, 
 ^ich caufeth a Whirl pool in the Sea, where 
 
 the out-parts prefs to the Center, and by 
 kt means the pieces of the Ice-fields raife 
 Welves up, and dafh and grind againft each 
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 •■i/we faw the firft Ice, and fo we failed up 
 
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 and down by the Ice, until that Month m 
 fpent, for fo early in the Year no body daJ 
 venture himfelf into or amongft the Ice, 
 reafon of the ftormy winds 5 and fometim^ 
 the Ice is IHll fixed, and ftands firm, and thj 
 fore there is but a few Whales feen, for iindej 
 neath the Ice they cannot breathe. 
 
 Into the Ice we failed at 77 degrees and:j 
 minutes, and drove with that (heet of Iceiii 
 wards the South. In this Month, and alio 
 the following Month of May, are the irioi 
 Whales feen here, which run towards the Eaij 
 and we follow them all along by the Leij 
 Spitsbergen, 
 
 Near to the Land fmaller Ice-fields are fed 
 
 becaufe the Ice cannot give way by reafon i 
 
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 greater Ice-Mountains are feen there, that ftaoj 
 
 firm on the (hoar, and never melt at botton 
 
 but increafe every year higher and higher, 
 
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 then Rains that freezes, and then Snow agai| 
 
 alternately 5 and after this manner the Icy-hilf 
 
 increafe yearly, and are never melted by tlij 
 
 heat of the Sun at the Top. Thefc Le-Mounf 
 
 change their firft colour in time by the Air, 
 
 Rain and by the Clouds 5 and the taireli bleij 
 
 that can be,is feen in the cracks of thefe Ice hi 
 
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 great pieces, that fwim in the Sea, and is nior| 
 
 corapa<!i than the other Ice by far, I oiiceu^ 
 
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 thurch with arched Windows and Pillars, the 
 
 )oors and Windows hung full of Icikles, on 
 
 le incide thereof I faw the delicateft blew that 
 
 in be Imagined 5 it was bigger than our Ship, 
 
 id fomewhat higher than our ftern, but how 
 
 Ecp it was under water, I cannot exaftly tell, 
 
 lear i nto the Mufcle-Huven^ a great Ice-hill 
 
 ime ciriving towards our Ship, that was as 
 
 jigh <jS our Poop, and went fo deep under wa- 
 
 k that it took up our Anchor, which hy fif- 
 
 ^en Fathoms deep. I have alfo feen feveral 
 
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 )urfquare Tables, with round and blew Pil- 
 
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 )d white with the Snow 5 at the fides hung 
 
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 it a iringed Table-cloth 5 I believe that near 
 
 )rty Men might have fat about it. I have feen 
 
 thele Tables with one Foot, and with two 
 
 three Pillars, and abundance of Seales fwara 
 
 )ut ic. The Dirties that furnifhed this Table, 
 
 ^ere a piece of Ice like an Horfes Head, and a 
 
 m, I doubt they were but fait. You mud: 
 
 Jferve that this Ice becometh very fpungy by 
 
 JledafhitJg of the S^d^^ and from thence grows 
 
 [it, like Sea- water, and thence alfo changeth 
 
 colour, vi^L. from the Sea and Rain-water 
 
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 The other Ice, as far as it is above water 
 of a tafte like other Ice, but that below the sj 
 fait like the Sea-water. 
 
 When we arrived at Spitzhergcn^ the Ice 
 Rehenfeh was as yet ^x^d^ biu a tew days atte] 
 wards it was driven away by the Willis. 
 
 The Ice begirts thefe Countries on ill (iJej 
 as the Wind fcts either from the Ifland of 'ji 
 Mayeff^ Old Greenland^ stnd Nova Zc^hla. \| 
 found at this time that the Ice reached from tl 
 other fide of SpHzbergen^ and the Ships failj 
 between the Ice and the Land, as if it wereiil 
 River. 
 
 As foon as this Ics is drove thither bji 
 winds, the Ships muft give way, or go into! 
 Harbour, until the Winds have blown or driJ 
 the Ice away, or elfe they are loft 5 but if tJij 
 be other Ships that efcape, the Men are faveij 
 
 On this Ice I did not fee many Sea- Horn 
 but a great many Sea-Horfesy and many Bi| 
 and Fowl. 
 
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 but could go no farther. 
 
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 'HE Froft is unconftant in onr Country 
 
 but it is not To in Spitzhergeft, In the 
 
 3nth of April, at 7 1 degrees, ic was fo cold 
 
 at we could hardly kt^ep warmth within us. 
 
 ky fay that in this Month, as alfo in Majf^ 
 
 hardeft Frofts happen every year. 
 
 [All the R.!gging, by reafon of its being wet, 
 
 covered over with Ice, and ftifF. 
 
 [Theydo not fend th-^ir Ships To foon as they 
 
 a few years a[7,o, and yet they come time e- 
 
 [igh there, for if they arrive too early, there 
 
 ling for them to do, becaufe the Ice is 
 
 ;yetdi(lipated, and therefore but £qw Whales 
 
 feen. 
 
 In the two fiifl: Summer Months of Spjtzher- 
 \, their Teeth chatter in their Heads common- 
 and the Appetite is greater than in any other 
 Jntries. 
 
 The Sun fets no more after the third day 
 Mitji^ and we were about 71 degrees, 
 en we could fee as well by Night as by day. 
 annot fay much of conftancy of the wea- 
 in thefe two firlt Months^ for it chang- 
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 then there commonly follows a ftorrn. Wlia 
 ther the Moon doth prognofticatc fuch ftormj 
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 after we have feen the Moon, in a clear ^J 
 the Air has grown foggy, which happenetluj 
 ten, chiefly if the wind changes. WhcniJ 
 Hills fhow fiery, it is from Foggs, which m 
 fpread themfelves every where, and the Cull 
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 in lefs than half an hour the Sea is (o coveJ 
 with a thick Fogg, that you can hardly lee fe{ 
 one end of the Ship to the other. 
 
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 clear, and yet very cold 5 we could feei 
 Whales farther off in the Sea, then uluallyj 
 this time : We could not diQingui(h theiij 
 from the Sea, for it (hewed as if the Ships di! 
 ced in the Air like naked Trees or Poles. 
 
 After the fame manner Spltzbergen looks ^i| 
 diftance like a Cloud ^ the Mountains are foi 
 fleded by the Sea, that he that knows noti 
 Country very well, cannot eafily difcernitffc| 
 the Air^ andfo other Countries very oftenil 
 pear. The other three Months, Jnm^^JHljii 
 Afigftfi, were, very calm. j 
 
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 to the quality of the W'nds ^ fo North andl 
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 can hardly keep alive, efpecially if thetfiof 
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 Compafs, whatever names they have, are chan- 
 ged by the Clouds, (o that (omeiimes when the 
 wind WIS South weO and by South in one place, 
 at a few Miles diftance, there blows quite ano- 
 ther wind. 
 
 What heat the Sun oftentimes affords we faw 
 by onr Eyes watering, and the tears that ran 
 conrinu'liy down our Cheeks. Yet this fevere 
 Col J is not alvvays, as is already mentioned, 
 for if it were, how could any Herbs grow 
 there. 
 
 Neither is there every year a conftancy of 
 winds or weather ruled by the Moon, but an 
 alteration, as is in other places, fometimes a 
 milder, and fometimes a feverer Winter. 
 
 Skilful Shipmafbers and Harponeers, com- 
 Imend thofe years for Whale catching, that have 
 |notmany foggy and cloudy days. 
 
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 IMoons, the Spring- tydes happen, cannot be 
 [known. 
 
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 [Summers day, with pleafant curled Clouds, I 
 have not feen at Spitzbergen ^ but en the contra^ 
 fy, feveral dark and foggy ones. Rifing Thun- 
 Wer-clonds I have not feen, nor ever heard of 
 [any body that had (een them. 
 
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 warm, that the Tarr of the Ship between the 
 Scames, where the wind could not come at it 
 melted. 
 
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 Sun (hineth, it feemeth to one that rightly 
 confidereth it, as if it was only clear Moon- 
 light, fo that you may look upon the Sun, as 
 well as you can upon the Moon 5 fo that there- 
 by one may diftinguilh Night and Day from 
 each other. Increafe of Cold, and changing 
 of the Compafs, we did not obferve as farai 
 we went. 
 
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 not let a dead Body be confumed eafily in the 
 Ground, as is already obferved, in the Chapter 
 of the Defcription of Spitzkrgen. 
 
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 homeward, we obferved the Sun firft to fet. 
 
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 Air, I obferved that the Rime fell down in the 
 ftiape of fmall Needles of Snow into theSei, 
 and covered it as if it was fprinkled ailovei 
 with Duft : thefe fmall Needles increai^jd more 
 and more, and lay as they fell crofs one ovei 
 the other, and looked very like 3. Cobwebj 
 they are form'd by the cold of the Air, and 
 increafed to that degree, that the Sea leemed 
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 Ice, which hid the tafte of Fre(h-\7iiter j as 
 alio the Sea-water that is taken up into the high 
 Air is changed, and falleth down again in fweet 
 orfrelhRain. 
 
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 cold weather, and it falleth down as the Dew 
 doth with us at Night invifibly, in dull wea- 
 ther^ when the Sun doth not iliine, you can- 
 not fee this 1^ but you fee it plainly, if you look 
 v/hen the Sun (hines towards a (hady place 5 
 for then it fparkles as bright as Diamonds 5 
 (hews like the Atoms in Sun-(hine, all day long 
 it falleth in fo fmall Particles, that nothing 
 Ifticks or hangs on your Cloaths of it make them 
 wet. 
 
 At Noon when the Sun (liines very warm, 
 thefe fmall Needles melt in the Air, and fall 
 ^.down infenfibly like Dew. 
 
 Sometimes we fee in our Country, fome- 
 thinga little like thefe fmall Needles, which 
 th what we call Rime, and falleth from the 
 Trees in Atoms like Duft. This is fmall Snow, 
 pnd may be (een as well in the Shade as in tfie 
 !un. Thefe Needles are not the Exhalation or 
 
 apour that ufes in cold weather, to flick to 
 ihe Hair of Men and Beifts. I muft not forget, 
 
 lat we fee in thefe falling Needles a Bow like 
 
 Fvain-bow of two colours, white and a pale 
 'ellovv, like the Sun, reflected by the dark Sha- 
 
 lows of the Clouds. 
 
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 not in the great Waves, but in the Atmofphere 
 of the Sea-water, which the Wind blows up, 
 and which looks like a Fog. Commonly we kt 
 this before the Ship, and fome times alio be- 
 hind to the Lee- ward ( fo they call that fide of 
 the Ship towards the Sea ) over-againft the Sud, 
 where the Shadow of the Sail fallith. It is m\ 
 the Shadow of the Sail, but a Bow Qiewethii 
 felf in the Shadow of the Sail. We fee thii 
 pleafant reflexion, in the fmal I drops ut th; 
 Salt- water of feveral colours, like the Rain- 
 bows in the Skies, that are feen over-a«^ainfti[i{| 
 dark Clouds. 
 
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 nor, viz. that in the Clouds near the Sun, J 
 very bright Light is feen, like a Perelion o;| 
 Mock- Tun. Thefe Lights are called Weathsi 
 galls by the Sea men. 
 
 This bright Light we find in the loweMiiol| 
 Air, in the dark (liady Clouds, that are notur, 
 like to a Cloud of fVain, becaufe it is full 
 drops, wherein the Sun is reprefented, asihirgi 
 are in a Looking-glafs. 
 
 This clearnefs of the Sun caufeth a Heat, 
 which drives from it a R.ain-bow, figured 
 the Sun, which bow are the Drops that byitii 
 Heat of the Sun are changed into a Vapour 
 Fog, and this Vapour (hews like fmoak intlii 
 Air, when the Cold remits, wherein ihffeCo 
 lours are no more feen. 
 
 But in thefe raifed Drops, as aforefaid, tin 
 Suu reprefents it felf, and caufeth theieCo 
 lours, which are truly diftin^, and repreleci 
 
^(^Spitzbergcn. 
 
 lew, Yellow and Eled^ which are the three 
 rimary Colours of the Bow. 
 Concerning the bignefs thereof, ! did confi- 
 der and minded the Bow that f Taw in SpitZ" 
 irgtrt, and found that it moved about with the 
 un by Day and by Night, and that it appeared 
 much bigger in the Morning, Evening and at 
 Night, than in the Day-time. 
 
 I will not mention the Whirlwinds which 
 are unknown in thefe cold Countries ^ that 
 fed to take up the Water into the Air : But 
 et I will not omit the fmall Whirlwinds, 
 hat poceed from the hi^h Mountains, from 
 whence the Wind recoils, and fo turneth round 
 about. 
 
 We fee farther in SpUzhergen, that the Sea as 
 well as the other Waters., fends forth a Vapour, 
 when the Cold encreafes , which Vapour is 
 turned into Rain in the Air, or into Snow, and 
 it fmelleth like a Fog or fteaming Water. 
 
 It is likewife an Obfervation there, that 
 when we fee great Vapours or Fogs in the Air, 
 and that fuch a Vapour rifeth almoft every 
 moment in a clear Sun-lbiny Day, without 
 Wind or other Caufes, the cold Weather is a- 
 bout to remit: But when the Air is overbur- 
 dened by thefe Vapours, the Clouds are diffi- 
 pited, and they laft a great while with con* 
 (iant Wind. Such Vapours as we fee in the 
 Air, ftick to our Cloaths and Hair like 
 Sweat. 
 
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 Snow that falleth, when it is tolerable cold 
 
 and rainy withal, then it falls like unto (mall 
 
 Rofes, Needles and fmall Corns. When ths 
 
 cold Weather doth remit the Snow falleth lile 
 
 Stars, with many points like the Leaves ol 
 
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 Fog, and it fnoweth much, it looketh ns yoo 
 
 fee Numb. 3. If it is very cold and windy like 
 
to Spitzbergen. 
 
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 ly withal, the Snow falleth like unto the Stars 
 1 a clnfter, bccaufe the Wind cannot bIov7 
 lem afunder, like Numb, f . When the Wind 
 |as North'iVeli^ or the Skies were thick of 
 [icuds, and it was ftormy withal, there fell Hail 
 bt was round and oblong all over full of 
 rickels, and of the fame bignefs as you fee it 
 Number 6. 
 
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 feen, with more Points, and fome like unto 
 leart, but they are all generated after the fame 
 inner, by the Eaftern and Northern Winds. 
 le neediy Snow is generated by Wefterly 
 id Southerly Winds: If the Snow is not 
 tfperfed by the Wind, it falleth down in cluft- 
 
 is. 
 
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 only fall , every piece by it felf, like the 
 toms in the Sun. 
 
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 low, ?.r.dfind thatalfo when it is cold and a 
 |orth Wind blows, all forts of Snow, both 
 irry and of other (hapes, f -ill as well in thefe 
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 STirZ'BERGEN: 
 
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 Of the Plants of Spitsbergen. 
 
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 Life. All the Herbs and the MofL^s grow 
 |n the Grit and Sand of the Stones, where 
 
 Water hllLth down, and on that fiJe of the 
 
 which the Kalt and North Winds cannot 
 ly Lome at. The Plants owe much of thcii 
 Vthto the Dung of the Birds. 
 
 fkre wc^ie a great many final I Herbs, which 
 [want oi time I could not delineate, but I 
 
 )oietodoit hereafter, if God bleflfeth me 
 Life: and Health, when I make ray fecond 
 
 fage thither. 
 
 on/uted the white Poppy, whereof we ftuck 
 i Flowers in our Hats 5 ihe whole Plant was 
 
 about a Span long. 
 IJelidcs I have not mentionei' the Red Sorrel^ 
 
 im that which was (hewed to me at Bremen 
 the Dutch Gardener, which was of the fame 
 j, but the Leaves of that of Sp'nzbcrgen'dxt 
 
 dcdre the courteous Reader to accept at 
 jfent ot thefe for Sample, to fhew him that 
 ihefe rough, barren and cold Mountains, 
 k yet grow fome Plants, for the Nourifti- 
 \i both of Man and Beaft. The Herbs grow 
 [tieir perfection in a (hort time, for in jf««e, 
 tn we fir ft arrived at Spitzhergen^ we faw 
 
 very little Green, and yet in July moft of 
 a were in flower, and fome of them had 
 jr Seeds already ripe, whence we may ob- 
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 Leaves on their Stalks. 
 
 Then (hall follow thofe that have finJ 
 Leaves on their Stalks^ then thofe thar hj 
 pairs of Leaves or oppofite ones, atter J 
 thofe with three Leaves, and then conclude wij 
 the iroperfedl Plants. 
 
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 Of a Plant with Aloe-Learns, 
 
 IT is a very pretty Herb, and puts fo 
 thick, prickly and fad green Leaves lill 
 thofe of Aloes, a brown naked Stalk, a'ool 
 half the length of your Finger, whereon han 
 round Heads of Fle(h-coloured Flowers 
 Bunches, which are hardly to be difcernedtj 
 the naked Eye, one Flower clofe above anothfj 
 and near to one another Tab. G. marked 
 a. 
 
 Sometimes two Stalks (boot out ofonePy 
 one bigger than the other. Yet each Stalk hij 
 two of thefe Bunches of Flowers. 
 
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 The Rootconfiftsof many fmall Fibers. 
 
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 Jnly^ behind the Cookery of Harlem^ in iM 
 running Water. 
 
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 to Spit7bergen. 
 
 know not well, to what kind this may be 
 jfgfred. Cafp^r Bauhht maketh mention of an 
 [rb in his Vrodromus of his Amphitheater of 
 ints in the %tk Book and 1 5^^. Chapter, which 
 \a\\iLmom}im Maritimum^ which he defcri- 
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 bfe-leek, between which fpread forth fmall 
 ilks with pale red Flowers 5 but the Root 
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 like thofe of our Dalies, for which I (hould 
 taken it alfo, had it not been for the Flow- 
 jonly the Leaves are thicker and more juicy, 
 |e thole of Houfe-leek, or, as we call it, thofe 
 the leiTer Houfe-leek ; The Leaves grow 
 md about the Root, betwixt them is a fmall 
 Ilk of the length of your little Finger, which 
 round and hairy, and generally without 
 »ves, fave only where it divides into another 
 ^k, at which place is a fmall Leaf. 
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 Flowers of Stccchas ) are of a brown co- 
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 only the Flowers, for the Seed was not 
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 with many (Irong and thick Fibers from 
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 Of CrowS'foot. 
 
 SOmeof thefe Plants are figured in the Ij 
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 Thefe four following Plants are all Croij 
 feet, only diOinguifhed by their Leaves. 
 
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 their Leaves, whereof they have both 
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 cut, and the uppermoft fmaller and deeji 
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 rn fo. 
 
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 in great quantities ^ they flower in July. 
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 \m the two former, for although the lower- 
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 le up afier the lowermofV, are in two places 
 eper cut, Co that the firfl: part of the Leaf 
 jt ftands out before , is not very unlike 
 ^Tongue, but the two fides are but a lit- 
 
 indented in Table G it is marked with 
 
 [There is alfo a difference in the Leaves of 
 
 Is Plant, as well as in the two before raenti- 
 
 jed, for the Leaves that are neareft to the 
 
 ►wers are fnaall and deeply cut, and that 
 
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 with two incifions, and it burns the Tongci 
 The Flower is fmall, and hath fix and foj 
 times feven Leaves. The Seed-veflel is like 
 to the former, only it is lefs. The aoot] 
 like that of the firft, only it hath more Vm 
 there is alfo a kind of thick (heath that ^I 
 roundeth the Stalk, as is alfo to be ften in j 
 fourth. I found this Plant near the firft, 
 the Danjjh Haven the i6th. of JhI^. t| 
 third is yet fmaller, but fuller of Leaves, 
 ly they are lefs, and not fo deep cut, althoul 
 they have alfo four Incifions like thefeco| 
 in this I did not find that difference in 
 Leaves, between the lowermoft and ihoie tl] 
 are nearer the Flower, it is in the Tab. Hi 
 ked with r. The Flower is of ^vq white Leavi 
 its Seed- veffel I could not yet fee. Its Roots 
 fmall Fibers, I found it in the South Havm\ 
 the Sixteenth of July 5 it burns the Tongue, 
 Leaves are thick and juicy. 
 
 I found in the fame place another fa 
 Plant, exadily like to thefe, only the Flow] 
 thereof were of a purple Colour, and 
 Leaves not fo juicy 5 wherefore I did notdii 
 it. 
 
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to Sputbergen. 
 
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 CHAP. V. 
 
 Of Sctifvy-graff* 
 
 ^His Scurvy-graft fends forth a great many 
 Leaves from one Pcoot, that fpread them- 
 [ives round about it upon the Ground. The 
 pik grows out of the middle of thefe Leaves, 
 jhich is :i great deal lower than in our Coun- 
 ty, with a tew Leaves' underneath the Sprouts. 
 |he Flowers are of four white Leaves, they 
 row many on the fame Stalk one above the 
 ther, when one Flower facles, another cometh 
 its room when the Flower is pad: ^ the Seed 
 )pears in a longifh Box, as you may fee in 
 k Figure '^ when on the contrary in ours the 
 |!ed is found in a round one. The Root is 
 f)ite, (omewhat thick and ftreii^ht, with fome 
 lall Fibers below. 
 
 A great quantity of this Plant is found on 
 b Hoeks, where they are not much expofed 
 the E:ift and North Winds ^ I found it moft 
 the SoHth^ Ef/gl}fi, and Dati/fi Havens^ the 
 irth v/as quite covered with it in the Da- 
 ?'. 
 
 It was the firfl: Herb I found in SpHzhcrgeti^ 
 |hen we Landed the (irl> time, ir was fo fmall 
 iat ! could hardly difcern it to be Scurvy- 
 is, but afterwards vve found it in its full 
 
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 perfection, and it feeded in the Month of jJ 
 
 It is obfervable, that the Leaves of th's Hal 
 have but little iliarpnefs at SpUzhergcn^ andrheitl 
 fore it is much weaker than the Scurvy n;r.iis J 
 our Countries, Co that we eat it inftcad oi SjlaJ 
 in Sfitzbergen^ which we could not cio cj 
 Scurvy-grais. 
 
 My Figure is like that cut, given in 
 Third Book, and the ^^r/j. Chapter of the Gc] 
 ntan Herbal of Alauhiolns, See Tab. 11 at u, 
 
 CHAP. vr. 
 
 Of an Herb lihg St one- crap. 
 
 THisPlant is doubtlefs akind of a Stone crofj 
 but the Leaves are rough or hairy, not? 
 thick, nor fo juicy as ours are, neither (ioi" 
 burn or bite, like unto ours. 
 
 Before the Flower fully appears, it locks 
 unto that of Efula 5 but when it is quite blo«j 
 and opened, it is of a purple Colour, yndbi 
 fometimes ^vq^ fometitrr s fijc, and [qvm\^ 
 1 have feen nine Ltaves , the Stamiuaot 
 Flower I did not tell ^ neither did I ever He til 
 Seeds thereof. The Pvoot thereof ii ve;y 'm 
 and one Plant grovi?s clofe to i'(\^ oaur. % 
 found this Herb on the low Lands of the M 
 lifi Haven, Afterwards v/e found abundanij 
 
not 00 oa 
 
 y'lven in 
 
 r ot" the Gdl 
 
 b. 1/ at d. 
 
 ^gs W], to Spitzbergertt 
 
 mch of je.|p of it amongO: the MolTrs on the iSth of J//ve. 
 
 ^Inrhe Tab. F. it is marKcd with r, and in the 
 
 of this Hfi;^ Jab. /. with r?. 
 
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 CHAP. VIL 
 
 Of a Snah^-*weed, 
 
 THis is a fmall S?j,thtcccd,^x](S is found very 
 rarely in Spitzbergen -^ the undermoft 
 Leaves oi this Plant are the biggeft , but they 
 are not above the brcidth of ones Nail , they 
 grow (ingiy on the Stalk , yet not above three 
 of thum, except tne lovverrnoft : the nearer the 
 Flov/t^r , the [mailer they arc 5 they have with- 
 jin , not far from the edge many fmall knobs or 
 [fpots anrwering to the point 3 of the Leaves, 
 [wherein the Veins or Nerves are terminated, 
 beildes the Leaves are not quite plain , but 
 fomewhat rumpled at the bririS. Out of the 
 bRoot fproius torrh iomerimes lingle and fome- 
 ttimes double Stalks , as you may fee in the Cut, 
 and this by-ilalk is always foaie^^'hat lower 
 ithan the chief Stalk. 
 
 The Flower grows in a c'ofe Spike , with 
 taany fmall Fleili-coloured Flowers , it was fo 
 (fnall , that I forgot to tell the Leaves there-^ 
 |of : The Seeds were not then come to matu- 
 pity. 
 
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 crap. 
 
 f a Stone-cro| 
 hairv, noti 
 
 either doit 
 
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 is quite blo^' 
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 The Root flieweth of what kind the Plant 
 is , and wherefore it may be called Bifiorta or 
 Snake-weed ^ for it licth twiQeJ in the Ground 
 it is about the thicknels of your litilf Finger 
 where thickeft , hath fmall Fibers , is brown 
 without, and Flefh-coloured within , and ot 
 an aflringent Tafte. 
 
 1 found this Herb in the Danifh Harbour , on 
 the i^th. of J.ily. My Figure agrets moli 
 with that which Canter ar'ius hath given in the 
 Fourth Book and Third Chapter ot Matthiok^ 
 is marked with a in the Tab. /. 
 
 CHAR VIIL 
 Of an Herb like 'i^nto Moufe-ear. 
 
 THis Herb bringeth forth fmooth edgd 
 Leaves by pares , they are rough nndlili 
 Moufe-ear. 
 
 The Stalks are fmooth at their firft pnttiod 
 out , but afterwards they grow rough , whersl 
 the uppermoft Leaves grow , they are roundi 
 at the bottom. . 
 
 At the end of the Stalk groweth a whiu 
 Flower , out of its Pcrianthium, the laimberoi 
 
 * . r ^1*1 «■ lit ^irnul 
 
 llll< 
 
 its Leaves I did not tell , nor had I 
 enough to obferve the Seed. The Root is 
 round and flender , with fmall and tenJerf'- 
 bers. 
 
1 t 
 
 the Plant 
 
 Bijiortd 0! 
 le Ground, 
 tile Finge: 
 is brown 
 in , aridot 
 
 trhour , on 
 .grees moli 
 ^iven in ik\ 
 
 MaUfjiok 
 
 to Spitsbergen. 
 
 ft (eemeth , this Plant (hould belong unto 
 the hairy or rough Alfinc^ and perhaps it may 
 be the third or fourth kind of the hairy Aljine , 
 of Dodoncus in the Fifth Book and Tenth Chap- 
 ter of his firft Latin ticrhal^ if the Leaves of 
 his were not cut , as thefe are not. I gather- 
 ed this Plant in the Sonth Haven , on the i yth 
 of ?«//. See d in Tab. U. 
 
 
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 A^eth a wb 
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 The aooti^l 
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 Of a Plant lih^e unto Ferinfinhje. 
 
 THis Plant runneth upon the Ground, and 
 bringeth forth roundifh Leaves by pairs 
 on creeping Stalks. 
 
 The Leaves as I think are like thofe of Peri- 
 xomkk , but they are fomewhat rounder , and 
 the largeft of them are bent in before. The 
 Stalk is fomewhat knotty and vi^oody. 
 
 The Flower appeareth at firft, wrapt up 
 like a Leaf, but after it is grown out a little 
 more , one may fee it to be a Flower, it grows 
 out between the Leaves on the fame Stalk. 
 i The colour and fhape of thefe Flowers , I 
 ifould not at that time obferve , becaufe they 
 'Were not yet blown , much left could 1 gather 
 ^'eSeed. 
 
 The R^oot is long, llender, round , woody 
 |and knotty , it hath fmall branched Fibers at 
 
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 the bottom; I found it in the South i%, be- 
 hind the Cookery of fJarlem on the if^tl. of 
 jf///;c, the ijt/jof July, 
 
 Since I neither favv the Flower nor Seeds, 
 and in probability , it would have put M 
 more Leaves ^ I cannot determine, v^hetlK-rii 
 be the Pjirflla minima , whereof C7<i/////pjvtth 01 
 a Cut and Defcripiion in the Fifth rjook oi hii 
 rare Plants.in the 2c. Chapter^or wheihei itroai 
 be Pfettdochawx huxuf of the Hortus I'.'ic/jfietenjn^ 
 which is given by C7////W , in the 72//;. Chaptci 
 oi the before mentioned Book , by the Nam; 
 of AfJortyKVfls ColHtc£ Jhre , and accurately de- 
 f:ribed, and CnMerartus in his Hortus, givetlii; 
 us under the Name oi Anonymos Pcrvme fi\ 
 In the Tab. G. it is marked with L 
 
 CHAP. X. 
 
 Of an Herb Itl^e a Strawberry, 
 
 THis agreeth in its Leaves with the Stm- 
 berry , for it hath three cut Leaves (ntk 
 end of the Stalks, and its Flower hath coni' 
 monly five Leaves ((eldom but four) and iiptli 
 like a Strawberry Flower , the Stalks are rod 
 and rough, and To are the Leaves. 
 
 On the Stalks you fee two Leaves one agaioft 
 the other of a differing figure and bignefs , foi 
 
 one looketh like a Hand , and the other like 1 
 
 fingei) 
 
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 h ii/;, be. 
 
 ^^ i^tk. of 
 
 nor Steds, 
 : put torth 
 
 vthethi-rii 
 V/^pJvcthuj 
 
 fjook ot hii 
 
 htihevitniaj 
 i'lchfietenl'i!^ 
 2th. Chaptti 
 jy the Nami 
 ciirately de- 
 us, givethi 
 crv'mce fck 
 
 //? Spitsbergen. 
 
 finger , the fize nifo is ditfereiit, for Come have 
 but three Fingers, and others have more. 
 
 The t lowtr is yellow , the Leaves of the 
 Flowers arc round ilh , how many , I obferved 
 not : The Root is woody , romewhat thick 
 wirh Imall Fibers, a little Icalcy at the top, it 
 taft^s dry and afiringent like Tormentill. 
 
 In the Herbals I could find none liker it, 
 (Inii that which Lobdius calleth hragaria Syl- 
 vcjirh min':»ie rcfca five Jicr ilk , and in the uni- 
 Verlal IjerditmiJ/j Herbal , in the yoth. Chapter 
 of the 17//;. Bjok , by ihc Name of tragarU 
 mnfragifcravdnon vcfca , yet it differs in the 
 Jlower and Leat 5 lor the Leaves in my Plant 
 are cut deeper, and the Flower of his is white. 
 In Tab H. it is marked with b. 
 
 71 
 
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 vberry. 
 
 es one agaiotl 
 bignefs , foil 
 ; Other like 
 
 Of the Rock Pl^f^^' 
 
 Trlis Plant btlonj^eth to thofe called Wkr 
 by the Dutchmen, and Fmus in Latin. 
 Ithab a broad Hat Stalk like a Leaf, and yet 
 there IproLit out of it many cquilly broad 
 -tavts like it , as Twigs out of a Tree , at the 
 |op or the Stalks there are little narrow lon- 
 |gi(h Leaves , ibme have five , others feven of 
 thefe, of a yellow Colour , as the Herb is alfo, 
 md they are tranfparent like Glew, I know 
 
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 not whether one may take them for its FloivJ 
 ers. Clofe to thefe there grow other obloto 
 Leaves that are hollow , and as it wafj bio J 
 up , and fill'd with Wind , and many leffJ 
 Bladders round about ciofe to one another] 
 The Leaves that are blown up have nothing 
 them but Wind ^ for when I prefltd them toi 
 get her , they gave a little bounce , whetliJ 
 thel'e Imall Bladders have Seeds in them oimJ 
 i could notobferve. 
 
 The Seamen informed me. That from tJiJ 
 Seeds of that Plant, the fmall Sea Snails aij 
 produced , but I am not fatisfied, vhttherthq 
 proceeci from thefe Bladders , or from Eggs 
 our Snails do. 
 
 It may be after the fame manner, as we fd 
 on many I eaves in our Country, Bladders filkl 
 up with the S'^^d<; of Worms or Citerpillcnl 
 yet I dare not alfertit, becaufe I had no opj 
 portunity to fearch narrowly into the mirtefj 
 the Root groweth out ot the Flocks , wherJ 
 fore \ call it a Rock Plant , it hath fome Fil 
 bers, and is fometimes round , 1 found tiiii| 
 Herb in gre^t plenty , firft in the cSW/j B,ij 
 near the Cookery of Harlevi , where we takeuJ 
 the Water ; then in the Mupl Haven at Sfii\ 
 lergen ^ then at Cales in Spain, 
 
 When this Herb is dried , it looketh hrr 
 and blackifh , it gives and groweth wet agaiil 
 wLena Souih or Weft Wind blows, be.aufeol 
 the Salt that penetrates it 5 but when the Wioi] 
 is Eaft or North it is ftiff and dry. 
 
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jjiag^jiiiu-j 
 
 or its Howl 
 
 )ther oblon^l 
 it was blo'J 
 i many kffti| 
 )ne anotb; 
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 (td them to] 
 :e , whethd 
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 r, as we tic 
 
 Bladders tilkl 
 
 C>iterpillers| 
 
 had no opi 
 
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 )cks , whetil 
 
 lath fome fi| 
 
 I found t'nil 
 
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 )oketh browril 
 eth wet ^^ 
 
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to Spitsbergen. 
 
 J Among all the Figures that I have ften, I 
 fed none liktr than that given in the ^(^th. Book, 
 aid the 50//;. Ch;?pter of the IfHrdHmjJ) Herbal^ 
 £ the Name of Alga Manual VUtyceros porofa^ 
 iilv [hit this is porous or fpongy and white. 
 % the Tab. r. it is marked with b. 
 
 The Leaves of the great Rock Herb, are 
 -llry like unro a Man's Tongue, it is on each 
 II boih lides curled, but plain before and not 
 curled, through the middle of it run two black 
 feoiks or Nerves to the Stalk, and on the out- 
 fille ot them appear many black fpots, within 
 the black (Iroaks, on each fide, to the middle- 
 inoft plain llroak 5 the Herb is adorned with 
 hall curies-, in the middle it is quite fmooth to 
 tfc Stalk, on the end of the Leaf, next the 
 Stalk, are two white flroaks almoft to the 
 jniddle of the Leaf, bending round outwards, 
 
 they were quite clofed, they would make an 
 Dvai. 
 
 the Leaf is above fix Foot long, and yellow, 
 nd the Stalk yet longer 5 the Sralk is round 
 ind fmooth, of a yellow colour like unboiled 
 
 levv, near the Root it is thicker than at the 
 
 af, and it fmells of MufTels. 
 
 The Koot hath a great many Branches that 
 ire divided again, and ftick very clofe unto the 
 
 bck underneath the Water. The whole Plant 
 
 oweth under Water feveral Fathoms : When 
 
 c wayed our Anchor, we pulled it up in great 
 
 antity from the Ground. 
 
 H'ogether with this Herb we pulled up the 
 
 iry Plant that (lands by it, about fix Foot 
 
 long, 
 
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 long, and it is very like an Horft^s Tail oo!l 
 that htre and there it hath fome (mal! knoj 
 like nitty Hair, or fuch as are Iplir at the enc| 
 the whole Plane was browner of colour m 
 the former, and its Roots was fixed nnto tJ 
 former. 
 
 In thefe Phnts were fome redidi Worms m 
 or folded Up like CaterpillerSj with iFianyLfj 
 They are iig;ured Tab. P. at/. 
 
 The Herb was like Dodder, whereforeitsi 
 be caird Water or Rock Silk. Amonglh! 
 Icons that I have feen in printed Herbdis, 11 
 it comss neareft to that hairy Plant, which 
 tony Doftat^ in his Book of Planrs growio^j 
 bout Venice, calltth in his fecond Bock, ij 
 iirgenta/s Alar'wus^ /imlUs i'luwce^ only ihhm 
 as white as Silver, but rather yellow or browci] 
 
 Of thefe two Herbs we found great piirti 
 the South Haven on the 70th. and 2ifi, of M 
 
 There is another Sd Plant, which Kail 
 Sea-graf?, whereof there is plenty in the M 
 ■ Haven underneath the Water above eighr^i 
 long. The Leaves were about two (;r til 
 Fing^ers broad, of a yellow Colour likeC':! 
 and tianfparent, ending in a blunt point, it 
 top fmooih edged, v/ithout nicks or pridij 
 every where plain and even, the Leaves m 
 from the Root round about it, as it were oc:f 
 one hole in the Tab. /. it is marked with L 
 
 The End of the Third Part, 
 
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 OURTH PART 
 
 OF THE 
 
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 T O 
 
 STITZ'BERGEN: 
 
 O F T H E 
 NIMALS of SpiTZBERGEN. 
 
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 icP KEF AC Eo( the Animals, but 
 p chiefly of the Birds in general. 
 
 H E Animals of Spitzbergen here defcri- 
 Ud, are eitkr thofe with two or with four 
 
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The Fourth Part of the Voyj^e 
 
 About Spitzbergen alfo are fome Crentumi 
 live only in the Water, and have no Legs C J 
 one wohld take their Fins, that are amtt!^ 
 Breafl for Lcgs^ becaufe as hereafter JJ.^allkl)^ 
 their tins are jointed like Legs under nuth 
 S'kin.) Some live in the Water ^ and alio upA 
 Ice and Land^ and have either two or fom \h 
 
 We will begin with them that have two Lp. 
 with ihi Birds whereof the ntoji live npo^ tkWi 
 and but few of them Hpon the Ice or Lund. 
 
 CHAP. I. 
 Of Birdt with Toet or dimdid Fm 
 
 o 
 
 F Land-Birds I obfcrved but one 
 Viz. 
 
 I. Of a Snite. 
 
 This Snitc which is alfo cjIIcJ the SnJ 
 runner (becaufe it kecpeth about the Ard 
 is no bigger than a Lark. 
 
 Its Bill is narrow, thin, and corner'd Vtij 
 all. Our Snites Bills are at the tarther! 
 broader and roundifti, and cut in vvithci 
 notches like a Rafp to rafp Wood withal; 
 that the whole upper Jaw and Bill lookethJ 
 aftly like a Rafpe with its handle. Our Soil 
 are alfo bigger than thofe of Spitzbergen^ om 
 
to Spitsbergen; 
 
 ithcy are very like one another in Shape alnd 
 ur ^ this Bill both above and below is four* 
 
 re, of a browniOi colorr, and about two 
 
 cs long. The Head is roundiQi, and of 
 
 'ame thicknefs with the Neck. 
 
 heir Feet are made of three divided Claws 
 
 fre, and one behind which is very Ihort, 
 
 Legs are not very long. It is of the co- 
 
 of a Lark ^ but when the Sun (hines upon 
 
 fit ftews blewifti, very like thole two Colours 
 
 5rved on bur Ducks Necks when the Sun 
 ;s upon them. They feed upon the little 
 Worms and Shrimps. 
 
 ^^(hotfome of them in the South Harbour, 
 the Cookery of Harlem^ they had not the 
 ct Filh at all. See Tab. K, at a. 
 
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 II. Of the Snow-bird, 
 
 jf he Smvp'b'ird is no bigger than a Sparrow, 
 "^ like a Linnet in his Shape, Bill and Colour. 
 iTht^Bill is Ihort and pointed, its Head of 
 lamp thicknefs with its Neck. The Legs are 
 like the Linnets, their Feet are divided into 
 f;Ke (laws, with longilh crooked Nails, 
 linder Claw is fomewhat (horter, but hath 
 ig btfiided Spur, or Nail. The Legs are 
 ^illi. and not very long. 
 from their Head over all their Belly to the 
 ll th'-v are white like Snow, but all over their 
 Lsan i Winnrs they are gray. Some of thetn 
 ir^y all over, but thefe are little' ones* 
 
 
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 I can tell nothing of its Tinging, only J 
 whiireleth a little, as Birds ufe to do whem 
 are hungry. 
 
 When we failed near the Ice, iheycauKl 
 great flocks to nsin our Ship, near the lOanJ 
 John Maytn^ and were to tame, that you ca 
 take them up with your Hands. 
 
 They run upon the Ice where 1 onlv 
 them, and not upon the Land, which ii 
 reafon that they are called SnowbJrds, 
 
 They kept with our Ship till we atclid 
 firft Whak^ and after that the other Birds hii 
 ned them away. 
 
 We fed them with Oatmeal, but vvheni 
 Bellies were full, they would not fufFer t 
 felves to be taken up. We put fomeof 
 in a Cage, and hung them up in the Cabifl,| 
 they did not live long. 
 
 We eat fome of them, and they were 
 an unpleafjint tafte, but very lean. It 
 give my opinion, why the Birds flie ro thea 
 I believe that they are ftray'd from tht 
 and that fo the Hunger compels them 
 Ships for Food. Tab. jK. at b, 
 
 HI. Of the Ice-birds, 
 
 I faw alfo in the Englijh Hdven, a very: 
 tiful Ice-bird^ which was fo tame, that vven 
 have taken him upalmoft with our Hinds, J 
 we would not go too near him with our' 
 for fear that we (hould (hoot him all inpi«| 
 andfo fpoil his curious Feathers, fo wei 
 him, and he flew away. 
 
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 jar the lOaoJ 
 that you co( 
 
 Here 1 onlv 
 1, vvhichiil 
 birds, 
 
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 :her Birds tiii 
 
 but when I 
 not rufferi: 
 t Tome of 
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 they v;ereiwi 
 lean. It 
 is flie ro theji 
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 pels them 
 
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 rheScn (hincd at thu time upon him, which 
 je him look like Gold, lb as it dazlcd our 
 tsalmofr. He was as big as a fmall Pigeon. 
 [would willingly havedeline.ited him, it we 
 lid have catched him. I faw but this one of 
 [Kind. 
 
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 Of the Broad or Web-footed Birds^ 
 
 )IER.E are fevcral forts of thefe about 
 Spi!z»hergcff, Some of them have thin 
 itcd Bills, others have thick and broad ones. 
 'Some of the thick billed ones have them di- 
 ;d or parted as the MaHe Mucl^cn (mad Gnats 
 f^llfl^) others have undivided ones, as the 
 rfMo called. 
 
 IThere is alfo a confiderable difference in the 
 pis of thefe Birds, for fome cf th'-iu have 
 ris, iisthe Mountdin-dnck.^ Klrnjeii and Malk-' 
 iks- Others have them not at all, as the /?//r- 
 ici(ler^ Rathfjcr^ Strtmdjagcr^ Knty^gchfFar' 
 I, lumhe^ Pigeon^ and the Red Goofc 5 no Wa- 
 lids to their t eaihers no more than on the 
 fns and other Water Fowl, for it runs oft' 
 them, as if they were oiled all over. 
 )me are Birds of Prey, others not. There 
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 Some flie like unto a Partridge, .is thatal'. 
 the Pigeon, others like Swallows, asthi^Uj 
 and Red Geefe, others like the Mews, as 
 MiiUcMHckey RathJIjer and Str/mdJAn^cr, otfj 
 like the Storl{, as the Bttrt^crMciJitT. 
 
 The Birds of Prey arc, the Ihir^ermill 
 Rath^er^ Strundjager^Kutycgehf and MJuI 
 There is alfo a great ditfcrence in their Hij 
 the Birds of Prey are not fo good to eat as- 
 others, except you hang them up by fheirj 
 for fome days, that the Train Oil miy run 
 of them, and the Air blow through them, 
 then you do not talk the Train Oil lo (tro| 
 for elfe it would make you Vomit. 
 
 The Pigeons, Parrets, Red GeefcinJ Dj 
 are the moftflefhy, the old Lumbs hie u 
 tough and dry Flefti, not to difparage the RotJ 
 Kirmews and young Lumbs when boiltd, 
 the Fat taken away from them, anc ifcerwi 
 fryed in Butter ^ for then one may make ai 
 to eat them^ but if you fliould eat their Fit 
 woulu vomit and diforder the Stomich ii 
 much. Thefe Birds except the Sirndji 
 Kir mew and Mountain-duck., all mal^e their i 
 upon the high Rocks, where they nre fed 
 from the Foxes and Bears 5 but (owe ot d' 
 make their Nefts higher than others. 
 
 They fit in fo great Numbers or Flxksifl 
 the Rocks, chiefly at the time when they bj 
 their Young ones, which is about th • luterf 
 of Jiine^ and beginning of Julji, thu if 
 fly up when the Sun (hincth, they On i^j 
 
 Gro 
 
to Spit/bcrgen. 
 
 •ounci like a Clou. I, and make fo great a nolfe, 
 K one Man can hardly hear the other. 
 Til, Ktrwews and MoHtttain clucks^ and alfo 
 |e Stru fdjitgers ^ make their Nclh on low 
 rounds, (that one would think that the high 
 fater mull needs run ovtr thtm) on the Irnall 
 inds, where they are fecure from the Foxes, 
 not hom the white Bears, ior they fwim in 
 Water from one Ifland to the other. We 
 ik up great Oore of their Eggs. 
 Ilhc Nefts of thefe Birds are not all made 
 ;er the fame manner. For the Mount aln-dHcl^ 
 ikes its Neft of the Feathers of its own Belly, 
 kiiu» them with Mofs. 
 
 [The Feathers of thefe Nefts are not the Ed- 
 Down, brought us from Ifland, for that 
 leth from great Birds (that the Inhabitants 
 ire call Edder ) and cofteth when it is clean- 
 from the Mofs a Crown a Pound, as I have 
 !n informed ^ But the Feathers of the Mtf»»- 
 d'ickj of Sphzhcrgcn^ which they call Down, 
 Seaman put into their Pillows, and Straw- 
 is, which if they (hould be cleanfed would 
 Imore worth. 
 
 he Kirmcw layeth their Eggs upon Mofs, 
 ib do the Rotges, The Nefts of the reft of 
 Birds were too high for us, fo that we could 
 [dly, and not without great difficulty reach 
 . If it be never fo dark by reafon of a 
 yet every Bird knoweth how to find their 
 NlMI again, and flyeth direcUy to it. 
 bncerning the Names of the Birds I have 
 |dc: uieot thofe, that th? Seanien have given 
 
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 them formerly, according to their own Fancfi 
 that he that heareth them called by thefe NatnJ 
 may alfo know how to find them by theaiij 
 this Book. 
 
 Some of thefe Birds, as Lnmbs^ Strnndjipi 
 Maliemucks^ Khmevps^ and tho Mervs calif 
 Kutjiegehfen^ I have alfo feen about 1-^14 
 Scotland and Ireland \ and alio in the b^an 
 Seas, nay even upon the Elve by Httvflm^, 
 have heard the Kir mew and Kutyegchf cry, 
 there is a difference, as well between the M 
 asMen of other Gountnes. 
 
 1. Of 7he Rathfher. 
 
 Firft of the Rathjher ( or Alderman in H 
 lifl) ) for this is the firft of the thin billed Bi| 
 that have three Claws, and is called fo by! 
 Seamen, becaufe he is a very ftately and hai 
 fome Bird, but lefs than that which theyi 
 Burgcrmeifler ( or Major in Englijl . ) 
 
 This Bird hath a (harp, narrow and thinl 
 and hath only three Claws or Toes, thati 
 joined together by a black Skin, but he hathj 
 Claw behind. His Legs are not very long, 
 black, as the Eyes are alfo. 
 
 This Bird is whiter than the Snow, for wi 
 you fee him upon the Ice, you may diitingj 
 him from the Snow ^ he (hews very beaun 
 with his v^hite Body, his black Bill and Ej 
 black Legs and Feet, andbefides he is very 
 ihaped. 
 
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 y thefe Natni 
 
 em by them 
 
 Sirnndjiii^fi 
 
 10 Mervs call 
 about tngk\ 
 in the bfin 
 )y hUndmri, 
 tyegchf cry, 
 :tween the M 
 
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 thin billed Bii 
 [ called fo by 
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 : which they 
 
 row and thin 
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 ot very long, 
 
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 His Tail is 
 Lady's Fan. 
 His Cry is 
 
 io Spitzbergen. 8 3 
 
 pretty long and brod, like a 
 
 fomev/hat lovver than the little 
 kirmem, as if he did fay Kar^ when (be cries 
 Kir, he (preads his Winj^s and Tail out when 
 he flies, as the Strundjagcr or Crow doth. He 
 doth not willingly fwim in the Water as the 
 other Birds do, nor doth he much care for wet- 
 ting his Feet, but he ftays rather where it is 
 ry, yet he loves Fi(h mightily 5 and fo the 
 'roverb that we commonly fay of the Cats is 
 :rue of him 5 The Cat loves to eat Fijh^ but does 
 \ot love to wet her Feet. 
 1 hive feen him upon the Ice feed on the 
 ling of a Sea-horfe, upon whofe Body he will 
 ^eft while he is alive, as Grows will do in our 
 Countries. He flieth commonly alone by him- 
 [elf, but where there is a Prey they flock in 
 ;reat numbers. 
 
 T did delineate them in the (hallow Corner 
 
 called (hallow Point) in Spitzbergett^ on the 
 
 Qth. of July, when we fhot him, he was not 
 
 ild at all, fo that I could have knock'd him 
 
 fiown with the Gun. See Tab. L at a. 
 
 II. Of the FigeoH. 
 
 The Pigeon^ or rather the Vigeon-diDer^ is al- 
 foone of the beautifullefl: Birds of Spitzbergcfr, 
 It is of the bigneCsof a Duck, the Bill is foiTie- 
 I what long, thin and (harp pointed, at the point 
 the upper Bill is fomewhat crooked, about 
 two Inches long and hollow within. It hath 
 
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 but three red Toes on its Feet, with crooked 
 Claws 5 it hath (hort redifh Legs, and a ihortl 
 Tali. 
 
 Some of thefe Birds are black all their body I 
 over, and fo was that which I delineated; \ 
 bout their Wings, and in the middle they A 
 white pyed with black, but underneath dj 
 Wings they are quite white ^ others are in [\\ 
 middle of their Wings quite white , their Bill is 
 red within^ the Tongue is alfo red and holIowjB 
 they cry like young Pigeons, whence they havej 
 their Name, for they are in nothing elfe li!ij| 
 them. In their Crops 1 found Shrimps oi| 
 Prawns, and fmall Sand-ftones. 
 
 They do not flie high over the Sea, anjl 
 their flight is very like the Patriges: Theydol 
 not flie many together as the Lurabs, but m 
 ally by pares, and fometimes one alone by 
 felf. 
 
 They can keep a great while under Waterj 
 wherefore they may be called Diving Pigeooi 
 
 But chiefly when they are purfued by Nkiij 
 or if their Wings be hurt by a Shot, they wilj 
 dive and keep a great while under Watery ao| 
 fometimes they get underneath the Ice, and th^ii 
 they are fufFocated, they were as nimble jpJ 
 quick under Water (if their Wings or tceufj 
 not quite (hot off) as we could row wirhooj 
 Boat. Their Flefli is good to eat when iheFij 
 is t.iken away from it, if afterwards it \n in! 
 in Butter. 
 
 The firft Diving Pigeon T got the 2:^^ ofMJ 
 on the Ice, and afterwards at 6J?//2i^fr^e//, vwicif 
 
7ith crooked I 
 and aiboit 
 
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 ihey are feen more frequently. See Tab. L, 
 
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 This Bird is the likeft in his Bill unto the Di. 
 
 ill their body I 
 'lineared; 
 idle they w\ 
 
 iderneath tkL . p. ^^^j j^ j^ fomewhat ftronger and 
 
 lers are in ilijR^ i L^ ^ 
 
 ^"ookeder. 
 
 He hath black Feet, with three black Toes, 
 
 d as many black Nails ^ his Legs are black alfo 
 
 d (hort. 
 
 I He is quite black at the top, but underneath 
 
 is Belly even to the Neck he is fnow white 5 
 
 is Tail isfhort. 
 
 His Cry is very unpleafant, raoft like that ot 
 
 Raven, and they cry more than all the other 
 
 rds, except the Rotger-diverx, he is bigger 
 
 an the Diving Pigeon, as big as a midling 
 
 uck. In their Crops I find frnall Filh and 
 
 awns, and alfo fome Sand-ftones ; and one 
 
 them flying over our Ship dropp'd a large 
 
 Prawn into the Ship. I alfo delineated it 
 
 the mentioned place. They fay iikewife, 
 
 atimall treih Kiver FiQi are their Prc7 5 but 
 
 lis I cannot relate for certain. 
 
 When thevhave young ones, they commonly 
 
 by the old ones one or two on the Water, 
 
 teach them to dive and Iwim. After the 
 
 ories have brought their young in their Bill, 
 
 m the R.ocks to the Water, the Preying Bird 
 
 led Ihrgermeifter fomctimes catches the young 
 
 s, when the old ones are not prefent, 
 
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 , and hollow, 
 nee they havt 
 hing elie lik 
 d Shrimps ot! 
 
 the Sea, anl 
 2;es: They do 
 robs, but ufol 
 le alone by 
 
 under Watstj 
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 irfued by Men] 
 Shot, they 
 ler Watery n\ 
 he Ice, and th^ii 
 as nimbkanl 
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 and fometiraes when they are alfo, for theyarei 
 not able to refift them. 
 
 They love their young ones fo well, thattheyi 
 will be killed before they will leave them, anil 
 will defend them as a Hen doth her ChickenJ 
 fwiming about them) at other times theysi;! 
 very hard to be (hot :, for as foon as they kt m 
 Fire, they are immediately lender Water, orm 
 away. They fly in great flocks, with pointeil 
 Wings like Swallows, and move their Wingj 
 much in their flight. One can hardly know m 
 young Luntbs from the old ones, at the m 
 ilght, if you do not take exaft notice of theil 
 Bills 5 for the upper part turns befide the undej 
 part, at the point, and the undermoft befidj 
 the uppermoft, as you fee in the Grofs Bill, yej 
 not fo much in thefe^ and it is commonly donj 
 in the i^/^, i6th^ to the 7Qth. year of theil 
 Age. The old ones are full of Flefb, butitij 
 very dry and tough, and therefore unpleafanj 
 to eat. 
 
 They boil them like the Pigeons, and hi 
 off the Fat when they boil, then they fry tki 
 in Barter. I did not fee them upon the Ictj 
 but abundance of them upon the MountainsI 
 They go waddling from one fide to the othel 
 like the diving Pigeons. I have feen tnanf 
 Thoufands of them together in the D.i»///i Haij 
 bour, on the Mountains, on that fide where tl 
 Ea(\ and Northern Winds could not blow hi!] 
 or not fully upon them, ( and fo do ill '^thj 
 Birds chufe fuch places on the Mountain; toj 
 their Habitations ) where the Herbs do grow. 
 
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 to Spitzbergcn. 
 
 But I faw not lb many by the Haven of Mag* 
 
 %tkn, where I drew my Figure on the 25^^. of 
 
 %lp Afterwards I law feme of them in the 
 
 ^mll) and North Sea, not far from the HeHg- 
 
 hml. See Tab. M at a. 
 
 IV. Of the Mew called Kutge-gehef. 
 
 This is a beautiful Mew^ and is called 
 uio^e-gckf, becaufe it cryeth fo : He hath 
 Bill loinewhat bent, as the Burgermeifter :^ on 
 ;he undcrmoft part of its Bill is a fmall knob 
 r rifing : About his black Eyes he hath a red 
 ircle, as the BHrgermeifter 5 and he hath but 
 ree Claws, joyned together with a black 
 kin. 
 
 The Legs are alfo black, and but (hort 5 the 
 ail is fomewhat long and broad, like a Fan. 
 All the Belly is as white as Snow j the Wings 
 nd Back are grey, and the point of the Wings 
 ack. He is almoft as big as an ordinary Men?, 
 ut fomething lefs than the Strunt-jager. When 
 e cut the Fat ofF from the Whaks^ we faw 
 bundance of them fly by the Ship, and heard 
 ihem cry. 
 When the Seamen have a mind to catch 
 m of them, they bait their Hooks with a 
 iece of ]Vhaks Fat, and fo tye the Hooks to 
 Line, and fling it into the Sea, and fo they 
 tch not only thefe, but all the other Birds of 
 rev. He flieth with fmall Wings as a corn- 
 on Mew^ and dives not. His Food is the 
 u of the Whak, He is hunted by the Strunt- 
 
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 jager {\n Englijl) Dung-hmtcr ) who leave him 
 not till he Dungs, which the Strhntji'^ 
 cats. 
 
 This I could hardly believe at fird, lintiUf. 
 terwards I faw it my fclf very ofttn; 11 
 which I drew was catched by our Ship vm 
 with a Hook, in the Sokth Havcfs. I did p J 
 liarly oblerve in this B-rd, that ic iifcj vo / ifn 
 upon the Water, and hold its Head i^ag.i;::! 
 the Wind, iF it was never (o great a Storm ; iH 
 fo we found whole flocks ot them Twini [i^d 
 the Water together. 
 
 This is not only to be underffooci of (: 
 Bird, but alio of all the reft, for they looki' 
 gainft the Wind that their Feathers may not 
 blown afunder and opened ^ for if they ftou 
 fit or fwim with the Wind , their Feathci 
 would be blown afunder by the cold Wir.( 
 and fo the Cold would get in between thcnii 
 their Skin, which perhaps might prejudice thtii 
 Health, for Birds are covered with thtir h 
 thers as Men are with their Clothes. 
 
 And fo, when they fly up, they prefsagaiofj 
 the Wind with their Bodies, and expand tlieii 
 Wings, and fofly away very fwift'y ;, allotheii 
 Feathers would be entangled , fo that thej 
 could not have a fure and fteddy tlighf, bu 
 faulter in their flying, like Birds that UamK 
 fly. There is but little Meat upon them , vi 
 eat but the Legs and the Breaft, for the Wirg 
 are nothing but Skin and Bone. We have 
 Proverb, and fay, Thon art as light as a \k^^ 
 This we may very well fay of thefe 31-!^ 
 
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 ^have ften them fince in the Spanjfh Sea, and 
 jfo in the North Sea, but yet they differ from 
 [efe^ and To do the Beafts of all Countries. 
 Tab. iV. it is marked with a. 
 
 V, Of the Burgermeifter. 
 
 Tht' BurgcrMeifler ( in Englifli Major ) is the 
 z^cft of all the Birds oi Spitsbergen^ wherefore 
 i Name is given him as being the Chief of 
 jem. His Bill is crooked, of a yellow colour, 
 irrowantl thick ^ his Under-bill is fomewhat 
 ling or knobby at the point or end , a great 
 lal mors than the Kutge-gehefs^ which looketh 
 Iry pretty, as if he had a Cherry in his Mouth 5 
 fhith longifh Noftrils, and a red Ring about 
 5 Eyes, as I mentioned when I fpoke of the 
 wg<^-gchcf'^ he hath but three Claws, of a 
 ley colour, his Legs are grey, and not quite 
 I long as thcfe of a Stork, yet he is almoft 
 jually big with him. 
 
 His Tail is broad, like a Fan, and white ^ 
 
 hich is chiefly to be underwood of thefe 
 
 Jrds when they fly 5 his Wings are of a pale 
 
 llour, aid fo \z all the Back, but the Wings 
 
 le white a^the tip, and fo is the whole Body, 
 
 je builds his Nefts very high in the Clifts of 
 
 je Rocks, where you can neither (hoot nor 
 
 |tch them any other way ^ which was the 
 
 ifon I could not fee their Nefts. I have feen 
 
 imetimes two, three and four of their young 
 
 3es together 5 we (hoot molt of them when 
 
 draw a dead Whale behind our Ship, where 
 
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 they flock in great numbers, and bite ort' gr^i 
 pieces of the fat of the Whale ^ at other rimi 
 we rauft (hoot at them a great difunce, i.ji 
 other wild Birds, fuch as Ravens, Herns, jo 
 the like. 
 
 His Cry is like the Cry of fome Ravens tb 
 I have fometimes heard ^ he Hyeth intheAii 
 ]\ke a Stork ^ he preys upon young Ltimbsj 
 the Hawk doth upon all forts of Birds ;, h,;ed! 
 alio upon the fat of the Whale, whereof 
 doth fwallow down pieces as big as onesHip,! 
 whole. 
 
 The Mallemur^f are mightily afraid of \ 
 they will lye down before him ( when they 
 upon the Carcafsof a dead Whale ) then he bin 
 them about the Neck, which I believe doi! 
 not hurt them much, becaufe they have a vei 
 thick Skin, for elfe they would oppoi'eandri 
 no him, or fly away, but they do notmatts 
 it, neither will they leave their Meal tor!ii| 
 biting. I have fcen him alfo about theSeij 
 Horfes, whofe Dung he eats. He flyeth coi 
 tnonly fingle, except when they meet at th; 
 Prey. He loves to refk on the water, but doi 
 not care much for diving ^ we (hot one b' 
 the Weighegat, on the loth day of Jidji. Yo: 
 fee him at c in the Tab. L. 
 
 VI. Of the Rotges. 
 
 This Bird is a Diver, and might beraffl 
 called the Diving Rotge. His Bill is crookd 
 
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 Itlhort, fomewhat thick, of a black colour 5 
 Feet have but three Claws, with as many 
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 Water fticketh to their Feathers, no more 
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 hide themfelves againft the Winter. 
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 They build their Nefts in the Cliftsof(i) 
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 of their young ones with Sticks. They J 
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 This Bird hath a Bill fomewhat blunt beforil 
 and crooked, and is thick ^ if I rcinember,! 
 is black. 
 
 He hath but three Claws, which are joinej 
 together with a black Skin $ his Le^s are 
 very long 5 his Tayl, which is like unto a Faoj 
 hath this mark, that one Feather thereof [\m 
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 of his Head : His Eyes are bl.ick -^ about fcil 
 Neck he hath a dark yellowifh Ring or Cirde 
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 bigger than the Mew called Kutge-gdcj's 
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 itends to make them dung, he hunts them 
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 fie for his Food ; He builds his Ncft not very 
 
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 lonly alone ^ I faw very feldom two or 
 oi them together ^ he flies like the Rhat" 
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 This is commonly called the Parret. Ami 
 all the web-fooced Birds, that have three Clil 
 this hath a peculiar Bill ^ and becaufeitfec 
 to thofe that gave him this Name to bei 
 that of a Parret, therefore they called himj 
 a Parret 5 but in truth his Bill is not at all 
 that of a Parret, its Bill is broad, andfuj 
 flender ftrokes of feveral colours, vk. 
 White, and the broad part thereof is bli 
 the uppermoft i.s well as the undermoftl 
 both pointed 5 the uppermoft arch is red, 
 his upper Bill hath a thin bended Hook; 
 undermoft hath a yellowi(h arch, andii 
 wards the end downwards cutoff fomej 
 Heaping : The upper part of its Bill, as wd 
 the lower part, is about three fingers broad, 
 about the fame length, if you meafiire thei 
 and undermoft together : He hath on thei 
 per Bill four arched or bended oblong pij 
 holes, and on the lower he hath as mm 
 though the furthermoft is not altogethei 
 plain. 
 
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 underneath on each fide a longifh hole 
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 iermoft on the under Bill is about a Straws 
 jadth broader ^ the upper broad part is bhck- 
 
 and fometimes blew. 
 
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 Jes, whereon you fee towards the inner part 
 [the Mouth fomething like a Nerve, which 
 
 reacheth towards the under part, and there 
 ieth it felf, whereby the Bill is opened and 
 
 lis Feet have alfo but three Glaws, joyned 
 
 |th a red Skin between them, with three (horc 
 
 irrong Nails ^ the Legs are but (hort, and 
 
 |a red colour 5 he walks wabbling. 
 
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 keep a great while under Water. He eat? 
 the reft, red Shrimps or Prawns, fmajl Filb 
 Worms, and alfo the Sea-fpiders and Stan 
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 cth like pieces thereof, but they wtre alj 
 digefted. 
 
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 faw him among the Ice. This whereof I 
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 forts, viz. the MoHntain-Dncl^^y Kirmew, 
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 Duck, or rather wild Goofe, for (lie is of 
 bignefs of a midling Goofe , and is morelilj 
 Goofe about the Bill. It is a very handf( 
 Bird, becaufe of its delicate fpotted Feath 
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 thers, and the Duck hath Feathers of the 
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 jobb'd, like (b't of other Ducks. I could 
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 [u!i maktf rue certain of thfir food, but only 
 Ind-rtoncs. They Hy a great many of them 
 jflycKS like other wild Ducks ^ when they do 
 hny Men, they hold up their Heads and make 
 wry lon^ Neck. They make their Nefts upon 
 t low iflands 5 they make them of the Fea- 
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 thefc are not the lame Feathers which are 
 lied the Edder-down. 
 
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 jr Eggs in them, the moft whereof were rot- 
 when we came to Spitzbergen^ but fome of 
 5m were good to Eat , they are of a pale 
 cen, fome what bigger than our Duck- Eggs 5 
 t Seamen made an hole at each end, and fo 
 \^ the White and the Yolk out, and ftrung 
 {Shells upon a Pack-thread. I would have 
 )Ught fome of them to Humkirghj but they 
 gan to ftink, fo that I was forced to fling 
 em away, although the Shells were entire. 
 kefe Ducks have a very good Fle(h, we boy I'd 
 I roalted them as we did the other Birds, but 
 fat of them we flung away, foi it taftedof 
 ain-oyl, and made us vomit. 
 [The Ships that arrived atSpitzhergen before U3 
 k a great many of them. 
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 X. Of the Kirmcw. 
 
 The Kirntevc hath a thin (harp- pointed 
 as !led as Blood 5 (he (hews very large, efp 
 ally when (he (tands upright, becaufeof! 
 long Wings, and Feathers of her Tail, 
 when the Feathers are off, there is riomcl 
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 this Bird to have very (harp pointed Wid 
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 and as long as the longe(l Feather of the Win 
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 thers in her Wing and Tail, (he might vij 
 properly be called the Swallow-fjtew^ but it 
 commonly called Kirmew from its Cry. 
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 Red as Blood; the Nails are black on all i 
 four Claws ^ the hindmo(t Claw is very iitij 
 The Le^s are (hort and Red : It (hews v( 
 brisk and pert when it ftands upright on I 
 Legs. The Head at the top is Black, likl 
 Black Cap ^ the fides of the Head are Sno| 
 white, and the whole Body is of a Silver 1 
 lour, or white enclining to grey ^ the Wi 
 and Tail are white underneath ^ one fideoti 
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 differing colours, together with the Blood- 
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 brought about thirty of their K^9;s with me 
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 kind of a Hawk, and throws her lelt into the 
 Iter as other Mews do. 
 
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 Worms, and perhaps on Shrimps and 
 fwnSj for 1 found no other E ood rhey could 
 
 (hot but one fingle Bird of them ih'm^^ 
 fch I did not eat of, becaule the la g^ Ihot 
 
 torn it very much. 
 
 'his Bird is quite grev in our Countries, which 
 Fers mu^'h trom that of Spitzkri^en, whofe 
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 This Bird hath a remarkable Bill, 
 fevcrally divided : The uppermoft 
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 underneath them groweth out as it was a 
 Bill, chat rifes up, is crooked and veryllii 
 pointed. 
 
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 gether downwards, the other two gapeupwai 
 the rwo undcrmoft that meet in a point, 
 exactly with the point of the upper Bill. 
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 fmall, of a grey colour, and fo are the 
 Claws and the Skin between them. Thcll 
 is fomewhat broad, the Wings are Icngifti li 
 «he manner of the Kirmcw. They are not 
 ways of the fame colour ^ fome are quite gi 
 which we take to be the oldeO, others are 
 on their Back and Wings, but their Head 
 Belly are white, which are the young 
 This is generally thought, but I am of opinii 
 that this difference of colour proceeds n 
 from a difference in kind than from a dittcn 
 in nge 5 for the grey ones I only law about 
 bergen^ but the grey and white ones, althou|! 
 have feen fome few of them at Sptzkrgm, 
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 when they wa(h themfelves they fit upon 
 
 Water, and pat their Wings a-crofs one over 
 
 other : They fly fingly 5 when they go to 
 
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 Ip, they could not fly up before they came to 
 
 ^lacc where a fl:ep went down, or from fome 
 
 ^antageous rife. They flock in great num- 
 
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 )n the live Whales, bite them in their Backs, 
 
 |d pick out great pieces of his Fait, even when 
 
 lis yet alive, and when we cut up the dead 
 
 lales, there came fo many of them about us, 
 
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 ;m with Sticks and with broad Nets in Frames, 
 
 :has they ufe in the Tenis- Court, to be rid of 
 
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 away, although they faw us come upon 
 
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 [eat numbers, which we hung upon the Tackle 
 
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 then they are numberlefs. They allb often, 
 cover a dead Whale, and fo we get them foi 
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 His Name is given him, bcaufe he is fo ( 
 or mad ( which the Dutch call M<?//) tofca 
 himielf to be fo eafily kilkd, whereunto is 
 the word Mucke^ which fignifies a Gnatt, 
 caufe they are as numerous as Gnatts ;; fo 
 the Name MaUemHc^e fignifieth as much as i 
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 till they fpew it up again, and tumble th 
 felvcs over and over in the water until thev 
 mit up the Train -oyl, and then they begit 
 eat afrefti, until they grow weary of eatkj 
 They bite one another, and fight tngedi 
 which is very good fport, about a piece of fi 
 fiercely, although there is enough tor therii 
 and to (pare. 
 
 When they are full they reft upon the Ice 
 Water. I really believe it is the mol^ dev 
 ring Bird of all, for he eats till he can fiind 
 longer, but falls down. He bites very hiil 
 but the Burgermeifter bites yet harder, 
 whom he Tubmits hiraHilf, and lies down be 
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 kill him with a Stick at one blow. When 
 
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 underftands better to fly 5 you fee him 
 
 ays near unto the furface of the Water, for 
 
 is very light. Of all the Birds of Prey, I 
 
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 Ids his Neft high on the Mountains, yet not 
 
 very high as the Burgermeifter, yet it was 
 
 high for me, I could not come at them. 
 
 Breaft and Legs only are to be eaten, they 
 
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 (hewn unto me as they were flying: Tl! 
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 broad Feet, a very handfome Bird, called ]J 
 of Ghent ^ it is as big as a Stork, and ot 
 fame (hape with white and Black Feathers 5I 
 hovers in the Air, and moveth his Wing!^ 
 very little ^ when he cometh to the Ice he d 
 back again. It is a kind of a Hawk, and Itiil 
 reafon to believe that he hath a very (harp (id 
 for he (hoots down from a great height into| 
 Water. They fay, that the Brains of thisf 
 are in great efteem, but for what I could nt^ 
 learn. 
 
 He is alfo feen in the Spatiifi Sea, and e\i| 
 where in the Nort/j Sea, but rnoll commoi| 
 he is feen where they catch Herrings. 
 
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 feen in Spitzhergen 5 other Birds are not fsj 
 there, except it may be now and then a m 
 one that ftrays and fo cometh thither, as 
 
 Crow did. All thefe Birds come at cern 
 
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 jes, and abide at t^iis place as long as the Sun 
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 Icreafe, and the Nights lengthen, every one 
 
 them returns to its own place again. When 
 •y are going from thence they gather all to- 
 Ither, and when they are all met they fly away, 
 rery kind by themfelves, which hath been 
 try often obferved : Whence I conclude they 
 mot live in this intolerable cold place in the 
 rinter. They reft as well upon the Water as 
 
 Land, ( and when they fly up they look a- 
 linft thp Wind ) for elfe they would quite be 
 ted in this long Journey. 
 
 Whether the Mew called Rathjhftr, that does 
 
 love the Water, performs its Journey in 
 le day, I cannot tell 5 or whether Neceflity 
 
 ipels him to reft upon the Water. 
 
 Which way thofe Birds that have divided 
 laws on *heir Feet, as the Suite, the Snow- 
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 HIS is not very unlike unto th^ Hart, it 
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 of Ji greyilh yellow colour, like an Hart or ft 
 When they fee a Man they run away ^ i,- m 
 ftand (till they ftand alfo, then you mufti 
 mediately fire at them if you have a mind 
 hit them. They eat the Herbs and Grafs. Tin 
 are every where about SpHzbergen^ butabo' 
 all in the Rene field (or Deers-Jield) that k 
 its Name from thence, where they V very oifi 
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 Haven. I never faw them fwim in the Wan 
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 • of them on i\\^ Fogel fong (Bird-fong) thenii: 
 thereof roafted is of a verypleafant tafte: 
 killed fome of them prefently, at our firftd 
 val in the Spring, that were very lean s whej 
 fore we may conclude, that they remain in t! 
 barren and cold Countrey of SpHzkrgan 
 Winter long, and are contented with whattb^ 
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 Between our Foxes and thofe of Sfitzhm 
 there is no great difference 5 one of them llij 
 run by our Ship, very near it, his Head w| 
 black and Body white : They make fuch a noiij 
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 faw them alfo run on the Ice. Their Foodfi 
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 furrounded him with Twenty Men, the 
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 |o the Mountains, where we could not fol- 
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 fan ours. They are flenderer in the Body, 
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 hzUrgen after this manner : They heat Saw- 
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 ;r the fame manner as we ufe to take out 
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 Talons alfo black: The fat of their F.et nil 
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 fo given to Women in Travail, to bring awl 
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 and fmell well. 
 
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 becometh thin like Tj;ain-oyl, or the 
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 uCcd in Lamps, where it does not (\h\i 
 much as the Train-oyl; The Skippers meltl 
 out thee, and bring it home with themtof;| 
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 Fat, like that of a Sherp, but I did notcarej 
 try how it tafted, for I was afraid thatf 
 Hair would turn grey before ifs time, for;] 
 Seamen are of opinion, that if they eat off 
 it makes their Hair grey. They fuckle tlj 
 Young with their Milk, which isverywtij 
 and fat, as I obferved, when we cutupani 
 fuckling She one. They fay our Bears have! 
 very foft Head, but I found the contraryj 
 thefe at Spitz hergen, for we ft ruck them 
 large and thick Cudgels, upon their Heal 
 with fuch blows that would have knock'ddo"^ 
 
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 llock, and yet th'^y did not roatter it at all 
 
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 fyalfo dive under Water, when they were ac 
 
 |e fide of our Long-boat, they did dive, and 
 
 le up again on the other. They alfo run up- 
 
 the Land. I did not hear them roar fo as 
 
 frsdo, but they only bark. 
 
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 old ones, but only by the two furthermoft 
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 fthin, butthofe of the old ones were clofe and 
 Bid. If you burn their Teeth, and powder 
 lem, and give them inwardly, it difperfeth 
 igulated Blood. The young ones keep con- 
 iimly clofe to the old ones 5 we obferved that 
 fo young ones and an old one would not 
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 |ck again immediately as foon as it did hear 
 
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 |«n alive when they have an opportunity to 
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 the Winter-time I do not know, in the Siimc 
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 live as well in the Water as on the Land d 
 Ice, and they have alfo on their Feet five Ck 
 like Fingers, that are joined .together witbl 
 thick Skin, like unto the Feet of a Goofe: Ti 
 molt known of thefe is the Seale^ which tbij 
 alfo call Salldogg and Rubbe, in the G?r 
 Language 5 the Head thereof is like untol 
 Dog's Head, with cropt Ears; Their Heai| 
 are not at all alike, for fome are rounder, ao 
 others longer or leaner : be hath a Beard at 
 his Mouth, and Hair on the Nofe and the Efil 
 lids, yet feldom above Four : the Eyes are veij 
 large, hollow, and very clear : their Skin 
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 will 
 
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 white fpots, fome yellow, fome grey, and 
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 rewith he can bite off a Stick as thick as 
 
 Arm : On their Toes they have black, 
 I and (harp Nails or Claws 5 their Tail is 
 (t ^ they bark like hoarfe Dogs s, their little 
 roung ones mew like Cats ^ they go lame 
 indj they can climb upon the hi<;h Ice, 
 [reon I faw them deep, chieliy when the 
 (hined, wherein they take great pleafure, 
 |when it is ftormy weather they muft march 
 md leave it, for the Waves of the Sea beat 
 
 great violence againft it, as if it were 
 i(l Kecks, as I have mentioned already in 
 [Chapter of Ice. 
 
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 [Weft Mt near to the (hoar, where there 
 lan incredible number of them, that if the 
 ler of a Ship (hould not catch Whales e- 
 »h, they might lade their Ship with Scales 
 and we have Examples that little Ships 
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 but very little for the W,alc to live up- 
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 little Finger. We come up to thtra where 
 lye upon the large (heets of Ice ^ wt! iq 
 great noife with (houting, which afloni 
 them perhaps, or elfe out of novelty they 
 up their Nofes very high, and make a 
 Neck, as our Grey-hounds do, and bari 
 this fright of theirs we ftrike them with 
 pikes, or long Poles upon their Nofej 
 knock them down half dead , bat for all 
 they recover themfelves, and rife again: 
 of them Hand upon their defence, bite a;, 
 run after the Men, and they run as hi 
 Man, and their lame way of going dotb 
 hinder them at all, for they (hove thenii 
 along juft like an Eel : Some run fromtlii 
 to the Water, and leave a yellow Dung bti 
 them, which they fquirt out at their Hum 
 as the Hern does : They (link naturally 
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 dive under the Water, they hold up their 
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 from the Ice under Water, and alfo wheo 
 make a dance of Stales j as they call it, 
 the Ships, they conftantly dive with 
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 Ships, tor It fouls them mightily. Not onl 
 
 t!iis was fo vivacious, but all tlie reilarctl 
 
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 fo that we were forced to kill them. 
 
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 upon the Ice, and run one through the M 
 with my Sword feveral times, which he^ 
 not matter at all ; I fell into the Suow up 
 my Knees, and he barked at me, and ok 
 to bite me, which I avoided, and wlien U 
 up again I ran after him, and gavchi.T. ^^'vj 
 Wounds more, which he was not concerned 
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 off from the Ice into the Sea, and wci 
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 hefhape of clic Body, onlv is miicli hi':',ger tiian, 
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 re alfo like thofe of the vSV.r/V, for they have 
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 i^cer. but they have only fiioit Nails: Tlielt: 
 IHcad IS thicker, and rounder, and alfo much 
 pronger : Their Skin is an inch thick, chiefly 
 ^bout the Neck, covered with fiiort Moufe- 
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 Ihavc but little Hair, and are mangy, and full 
 |)f Scarrs that are bitten, and look as if they 
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 and: They have two great and long Teeth 
 Jn their upper Jaw-bone, that hang down be- 
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 pndtwo foot long, iometimcs they are longer : 
 ; vflhc young ones have no great Teeth at all, 
 i)ut they grow in time as they grow oldci . All 
 ^h'! Seadiorfes have two firm long Teeth j; yet 
 f have {ciza old ones that had but one ; it may 
 i)e that ibmetimes they looie them when they 
 sfighr, or otherwife they may tali out of them- 
 selves, for I oblerved that ibme of them had 
 ^Ibul, iiollow, rotten Teeth. Thefe two long 
 Ttcdi are eiteem'd beyond Ivory, becaufe they 
 arc lb very white, and are dearer; they arc 
 cIo{-aiid hrm within, and heavy, but the Root 
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 locks, whereon grow above and undcrneaili 
 feveral BrilUes that are hollow within, aiidci 
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 Seamen make Rings, wliich they we:^,r on their 
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 Beard they have two fimicircular NV/lnis, 
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 yet with a lefs noife. Their Eyes are at a good 
 diftance iVom tlie N'ofe; tijey have Kyeiidssi 
 other fourfoored Bea lis have,- his Eyes are ra. 
 rurally as red as Blood when lie doth not tnra 
 them, and 1 gould fee no difference whenthej' 
 were rnove:!, for they always turn tl.eir Evg 
 when they did look upon rriC, and then rhq 
 look mncli uglier, tho' ihcy ;are never handtk 
 Their Ears are fornewhat higlier than thcHycN 
 but very near ro them, which are like tholcot 
 rhe^>.'?/r/. Th.eir Tongue is at ieall as big ^i 
 Neat's, when it is but newly boiled it may k 
 eaten, but if it is laid by for two or three days, 
 it becomes rank, like Train-oyl. Their Kt<i 
 is very thick, wherefore lie does not rtadih' 
 turn his Head about, and this is tlie reaibn wiii 
 h.c turneth his Eyes generally. Their Tiilsa:: 
 jhort, like thufeofthe 6V,^/;\ 
 
 [Mcm th.eir Vkih we cut no Far, it h al 
 inixt rogetlicr like unro Hogs-ilelli, to wiiuii. 
 is the iikcil : Tlieir Heart and Liver wc d 
 cat: they talie well enouiJ,!), chielly wliciv^^- 
 )>avc no aval vjnetv of Difhcs. iheir Yar' 
 
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to Spitzberecn: 
 
 
 t:y 
 
 1 17 
 
 eofaliani Bone, a-boiit two foot long, thick 
 t the hotrom, and Jcfs before, fomew'.u bene 
 the middle, at the fide to wards their Belly ic 
 flit, but it is round without, and it is every 
 here covered over with Sinews. They turn 
 \\(ol\/''ife-^'''iffi and other things ouf oi rhis Bone, 
 /'hat their Pood is I cannot cert.iinly tell, they 
 aypcrh<jpseat both Herhs and t/jlj i iWdt they 
 acHir^-S I conclude from fience, that their DuniJ, 
 oks hke Horl'e-durg: Tliit they eat t'-'/h I 
 diic, b;.:caule when we cur the Fat olTa Wiial :, 
 
 c? ^ 
 
 ne Oi them did oiren rake the Si;in with hini 
 indcr Vv'aier, he did alio fling it up, and cntch 
 ■<\ [fj J i n . 'IT* e 13 v rrermei(i tT d ( ) c h ea t h is D u n g , 
 s IS i'ctid before when I writ of the Birds. The 
 iV-tZ/rir/fj kec.p^f^encraliy about Svitz^berge'^^ ior 
 niu.ig the ice-hilis I faw none. I'hcy lye upon 
 ht; [cc\ as i have already mentioned in the Firit 
 arr, by the 1 2tli o'ljuly very naiViIv,as the Seala 
 
 great numbers, and roar moll terribly. '1 hey 
 ;|ivc v/ith their Head under tlie Water before, 
 \\{" the Scales, They llecp and fnoi e, no^ only 
 poll the ke, but alfo in tiie Water, {o that wc 
 tal.ciiieiTi fevcral times for dead ones. 
 I They are very If out and undaunted Crea- 
 tur;s, they Hand by one anoeher as long as 
 *th.y have Life, and if any of tliem be wounded 
 ihfjy raake to the Longd-^oir, norwirhilanding 
 fiat the iMen ih'd<e, and cut, andpufliat them ; 
 foinu vvifi dive under the W.uer near unco tlie 
 iOi;g-boats, and cut holes in the:n with rlicir 
 rtit Teeth under Water; niid other';, wuhijut 
 
 y f.'ar at all make to the Boar, and ua-!'; r.ji 
 
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 r \ 8 7rr /^/^/y/^ 'P.i/Y of the Fuyu/rc 
 
 wi'li lialF thi.i.' BoJy out of the Water, auj 
 cndcnvoiir to p/Jtinto the IJo^t. 
 
 In fLu.h a Bitrlc nSca-lioiTe did once ilrilj 
 VA'irh his 7>c^^(' or I't.fh.'s into thic Boat, aiul too^ 
 Iiold of our liarpoiiicr with f]is loni^ Tootli, 
 between his Sliirt and the W^iftb^d of liii 
 Breeches, i'o tint t lie \V:nil band broke, Oi'ic:. 
 wile he had nulled liiin under V/atcr. 
 
 When t!-.cy roni-, ii'thccy are imrratcvi, tk 
 flrive which Ih.all get nnderncatli the Vv'att:, 
 and lah a liuhtin:^ and birinj; one another di 
 they tL-uli };lood . OchAM-^ flrivcto (lent liherr; 
 the b^ea-horfes taken by th.c Men, linvirgb 
 fore each oilier ro iiQt to the Boat, bitini:; aoi 
 fnialliiniT vv ith ilKo-'Iectlsand roarln^r tcrribli 
 Thev never v'wq over i'o Ion!;]; as one otth?^ 
 is alive; and il' vou arc forced to Hv, bi.'aufto; 
 t h e i r u n ft! e a \< a b 1 e n n i n b c r , they w i 1 i foil o w tf:: 
 Boat tdl yon lofe theni out of Hsin:, torth^i 
 cannot follow far, tiiclr great number binclriK 
 one another. This Vv'e found by ll^ahiptk 
 Stjiizbergoi^ where tlicy got together m gm; 
 lunibeii?, and made our Boat take in \Va!i 
 fo tluit we were iorced to flee, ye: theyfc 
 lowed us as long as we couid lee them, ontii 
 1 2th. day of J:il). Vv'e take them only lortht 
 Teech :'You fiiall fee a 1 moll a hundred of the! 
 before you find one that hath good Teeth, t( 
 jome of them are but fmall, others have k 
 one, and others none at all 
 
 I [aw one in the L/^gUJb H^z-enlp^^^ 
 n^et of Ice ; at Hrft we took him to be a^Vi 
 L..: weicund it was an old, bald, and xcM 
 
he Foya/^c 
 the Water, auj 
 
 : did once urfc 
 
 ic Boat, and tool 
 
 l^is long Tootli, 
 
 ud broke, otlic:. 
 Water. 
 
 re imitated, tk 
 eath the \v'utc:, 
 ; one another t;ii 
 ^c to fccat libeir; 
 i'hn, ilrivipgb 
 [Vjat, hiring an 
 1 roaring tcrribkl 
 "IS as 0[\i: 01 ibi 
 i to^^\ Pieaufcc; 
 ey will follow tli 
 oi' figlu, tor rh;i 
 : n'JiTiberhindnrii 
 :1 l)y IVcihtpt k 
 togctlici' m gm; 
 'it take in Wata 
 rice, ye: iheyB 
 , lee then!, ont'i; 
 theii) only tor the: 
 a hundred ottiieE 
 1 good I'eeth, tc 
 1, odiers havcbi: 
 
 HaTi'fi iymg cii 
 : him to bca^V* 
 bald, and vrMt 
 
 to 
 
 Spit'/b; 
 
 rgcn. 
 
 'fu-Lcrfe. We gave him fome blow^;, v/!i:eli 
 jje took, and dived under Warcr. Wheiuliey 
 pe them lye upon the Ice, or hear them roar, 
 ;|hey low wirh their Boats to uhcm, where they 
 jyein ^reat numbers, but I believe one of theia 
 leeps watch, for I have ftiveral times obferved 
 thai one of them did ihike Inm tliat was next 
 jo iiim with his Toorh, and fo it went on : 
 -When they awake they nfe up and Ifand upon 
 |hcir fore-foot, look lerribly, and roar, and 
 inke with their loiif^, 'I'eeth into tlio Ice for 
 Inadnef., and lb drav^ themfclves along by the 
 kelp thereof, when they run a-pace, o.* climb 
 (ipcn the Ice, as tlie St^a^^'s do. Tiien* greateli: 
 l^rcngth lyeth in tlieir lleau, and their Skin is 
 flicked about the Neck, it is thicker than that 
 if an Elk, and it is alio a f reat deal firmer ; 
 wherefore if they were drefled like an tLlk\ 
 Skin, they would ferve inliead of the bcft BufF- 
 coat. When great multiuules of them lye up- 
 ena llicetoflce, and they do awake and fling 
 fhemlclves into the Se,i, you mull; keep ofT your 
 $oatat adiltance from riie Ice, until the grea- 
 ter part of them are got off> for elfe they- would 
 jjump into the Jioat to you. and overfet it , 
 * lereof many Inifances liave been ; then the 
 Jiponier runs after them on tlie icQj or he 
 -laiT', his Harpon out of the Heat at the ^Sea- 
 |(3/;r, who runs on a little until he is tired, then 
 "Ihc Men draw on the Rope or Line again, and 
 letcii him to the lioat, where he begms to refill 
 his utmolt, biting and jumping out of tlic 
 ^tsr, and the Harponier runs his Launce ia- 
 I ' I 4 to 
 
 
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 1 
 
 I ' -; I 
 
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 i I:: U I 
 
 t ;?0 n^i? /')/^n:/; ^,'?;-r of the Fo)a<\^ 
 
 to him til] lie is killed. When they dart ili; 
 
 Harpoon at tlicm, rlicy always take tlicoppor. 
 
 rujiirv to do it wiicn he is V'^recipitatin^ lumfdi 
 
 i'roui r!ie !cc, or whviihe tliveth with liislleai 
 
 iiiuUr Waicr, for then his Skin is hnooth md 
 
 c^te.'uicd, aiui tlierefore tlie llirpoon llnketli 
 
 ciMOiigh tl'.c: Skin on his l3ack tin: hcticr; but 
 
 when fielycth and llccpeth liis Skin is loi«li?ari 
 
 wriftklcd, lb that th.c Harpoon docs notpiercs 
 
 fhc .^kin, hut falls olT. The Harpoon Ion 
 
 S-.z horf., and the Launcoahb ave (hort, nt tk 
 
 iwn;^in of one fpan, or one and a hall, and 
 
 iiicli tiiick, and the woodcnSraff thcrcot isaboi 
 
 li:; fojt long : tlie Harpoon for a Whale is inuili 
 
 too weak ro pierce his thick Slvui witl)?l, vci 
 
 borli or' (?iem are very well tempered, aiii 
 
 oi i!,oou tO!]i;h Iron, and noi much hardcnd 
 
 When tlic Sczijcri} is killed, the}' rake ^ 
 
 Head Oidv and le.wc; tlie sell, this tlu vcnrrvi 
 
 l;.)ird, Vv'licre they ciin out the Teeth. Q 
 
 iwoi;re.'t; ones bclonc', ro the Owners or iMe: 
 
 eiuni:. o;'i!ie Ship, bur the Irnall I'eetharcni: 
 
 t flcemed. I eai»no:. bui mention ih;\: w c \vl!; 
 
 hv a Field o\ fee, vv.hcre io many S^'i-ho^;is\L 
 
 iwc wci:i.ht o^ them made the l.t: evt: 
 
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 .N. 
 
 Vv Kii irv- sVate;*, out wlien tney wcic lunipt, 
 i^lHnro the Sea, we could hardly ii:cp ciiii 
 ciii' BOiiL CDOW it. lb hi^b was it riiln cjM 
 ttic Wajcr. \i was related to me, b^ iui 
 t'lii uied this Grc:.i;h:-id Trpdc everv \ car. 
 :i eercain 'rriirh, that once whitw fn^i) ii:u. : 
 L;;-;ocn':^ri:^]ne Lorarch Vvh.UL5, tiiey rowuiu" 
 vhe.r ik>acs lo t!ic M^rfs /u;/;^, which \vi;b!ii> 
 
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 n tfiey dart di; 
 s t.-ikc tlit'dppor. 
 ;iriratincThim(..|| 
 
 h with liisflcai 
 
 inisfinooth 4 
 
 Iirpoon llriketli 
 
 tin: hctiCT; but 
 
 Skin is loi'leari 
 
 1 (iocs fiotpierc2 
 
 liarpoon tor 3 
 
 aic (liorr, nt tli; 
 
 ^ a liall. andac 
 
 iTthercotisaboLi 
 
 a Whale is mud 
 
 SIvM wifli.ql, vci 
 
 tempcrVi, aii^ 
 
 ninch liardcndi 
 
 , thc\' rake !ii 
 
 :his th(v carry f 
 
 the Teeth, i:; 
 
 Owners or Me: 
 
 al] 1 eetli are nij 
 
 ion th;i: wc wc::: 
 
 any S^j.-hi:^'is\i!\_ 
 
 k!c the l.i: eve: 
 
 irdiv flcr oi;i; 
 as it niln c^i ; 
 to iT'e, ir. \\>: 
 Jo everv \ car. ^ 
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 rov 
 
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 ■ly which \vi;b'J 
 
 ro Spitzbcigcii. i2i 
 
 :of Sea-horffs, they veniur'd upon them coura- 
 
 igioiiliy with cutting, finking, pulliing, and 
 fliooting, To that they killed a very great many 
 of them ; but when they law that Hill more 
 ami more of them got together, they Uid the 
 (lead Sfit-horfts round about them, rUid ftood in 
 tiiC middle ot them, as in a Cailic, le.ivmg a 
 piiceopen whcrc-the others might come in to 
 thcni, as through a Gate ; and after this manner 
 they h;ive killed feveral hundreds of them, and 
 made a good Voyage of it ; for Ibme Years ago 
 tl.cir Teeth have been in greater elleem than 
 
 [ now. The Figure of this Bead you may lee ia 
 
 . tliJ 1 ab. V. marked with h. 
 
 I 
 
 C H A P. V. 
 
 Oj ihc Cyiijlitccows Fij]) thjt I ohjcryal 
 
 I Found two forts of them, viz. Craivfifh and 
 ^tarfijb; of the Crxivjijb I fliw four forts, the 
 '>:.i-/pider^ as the Fret/chmcyi call them, the ml 
 Pram, the fmafi Praw^^ or the little fmall 
 Shrimp, and ihi^ I V Ij a ie'^s Louje, 
 
 The Surfijb I put to them alfo, becaufethey 
 ha\e tlieir Arms or Legs, wherewith they move 
 tknifclves, andaremcruil^ated with Shells. 
 
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122 
 
 TI:C Joiiith jKirt of thcFoyiV;^!'. 
 
 I. Of the Sea CrawTifh without a Tuil^ ,-; S-.i 
 
 Spider. 
 
 This fort of Crxn^f.jJj has no Tall, bur {\\ i ^ct 
 and two Claws. I'licy arc alio very lil.c Loh- 
 ilcrs in the lli.ipeol tlieir Body, 'ilicy .;ijof 
 ilark brownifh coloiu", Joiucw)i,ir pri.-.klv ui 
 their Iiacks, and hairy all over tlieir I\cd\. i 
 have Icen nuny of tliis Kind witli fixTjitarJ 
 two Claws, m my Voyage to >>p<iiyi, whcr.of I 
 Iiave alio made a drau^'ht in my Vowifyj iii;r 
 SpMfiy (which 1 Ihill, Clod will. n'j,, c«)mmur.: 
 cate to tlie CuriouO bur. they dill^jr iVojn t!ie;. 
 of Si'itzlei-cc»^ in rlieir P/ignefsand IlciU ; rhi^ 
 ot* SintzbiroL"fi\\<\i\\ a Head ii!-:e a L'/mIlt, bii; 
 the male of them tliac I fiw m ir.v \'v)',';irc to 
 v^/>4/^/, made v.itli its Head and 'i./il iinl rh: 
 ihape of a lAice. 1 did not eat ww^' ot" th. 
 S'o:tzhi'rgen Sea. Crawf.jh^ neither have I tlraup. 
 them ac Spit^Lerpen tor want or' time, ior i 
 thought to have them brought alon;;^ v/. hire, 
 but they were carried away by the Jl.ii .. 1 ;;,ui 
 them in til e Eyiglijh Huver/, on the i (/Ji of j«wt, 
 I afterwards law them in rlie North Sea, hj: 
 Jar from E^^iU^J^ vvliere we boug'it liOiTi the 
 H;7f'6'/.i;'^^-Fi.flierrnen a fireat i'-iibai' in whole 
 Scomaeli wx found a Sea Crawllili two ip:ii" 
 long when its Feet v/ere fpi ead oi.;:. 
 
 IL 0/ //A^ Garncls or Fra-vVn::. 
 
 Betwixt our iV.tfv^/5 and tl.oie ol Sptt..Jjtri^> 
 k nodifi-tvencej only that thole; of Spu^j^r^ 
 
to Spiizbcrgcn. l 2 j 
 
 aicrcd before tlicy are boiled. Tlicir Head is 
 peculiar, confillms ot two pirts with ieveral 
 Horns; the whole Head is hruad, at the end 
 of the Heati arc the T.yes, wliich iland out as 
 d\r.vri flies do; he dotli not look dovvinvard^, 
 |h:i llrcl;j;ht before, and iidewards'. I'hc Scale 
 ( i his Jiack is hke a Back-piece of Armour, 
 which alfo behind the Head, in his Neck, is 
 foir.cwhat bended in, ?.n{\ behind it, ii a Prickle, 
 After th It follow fix Plate ', like the,' Armour lor 
 ths) Arms and La^s, and about tlie IJ: ims there- 
 Glare hnall black fpois, as if tht:y were the Naihi 
 ct ilic Armour. 'J'lielc Plates 1\ e exiQly round 
 onti upon the other. The Tail conliiteth alfo 
 of live parts ; \v!ien he expands it, it is like the 
 Tail of a Bird. He liath two Claws before, 
 the furtlicr part whereof looks fomewhat like 
 tlic Phangs of a Tooth-drawer. He hath iS 
 i.cgs, whereof tliofe that are nearell to the 
 Claws are the fliortefl. 7"!ie lull: eight Legs 
 liave four Joints, whereof tlie uppcrmoil is the 
 lonf.^,ctl:, and the unJermoit the Ihortefl : They 
 nrc not hairy at all. Tive ten hindmoll Legs-, 
 whereof the furthermofl are the longeil, and 
 the rppcrmoll Joint is mucli thicker and flior- 
 t(.r, than the lowcrmoll long ones have bui 
 two Joints, the Feet whereof are fomewliat 
 bended under, and are hairy. On thefe hind- 
 mod and undcrmoft Joints grow^ out twofhoots 
 below, on tile reii: but: one. He fhoots very 
 f.viftly along in the Water. He was as big a;i 
 1 have delineated liim, according to the Lii'e. 
 They are Food for the Birdsj as I have mentioned 
 be fere. iU 
 
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 ^ The jourth Tart of the Voyage. 
 III. Of the lejjer Garncl or Shrimp. 
 
 I have alfo taken notice, in my Voyage to 
 Sf^ttzhcrocr/^ a fort ot Shrimps that arc likeWorin^J 
 the Head thereof is hke the Head of a r!y;jt 
 hath on the forcmoft part Oi its Hc^d two 
 Horns ftandinf^ out , it hatli Scales hke ihe/i;^ 
 /o{>jl'; its Bick is round, and broad downwards] 
 it hath 1 2 Legs ; on each fide of the forcnioll 
 .Scale it hath three Legs; after you have told | 
 ■four Scales more, there is on each fide three 
 Legs more; they are no bigger than 1 have 
 drawn them. The Birds eat tliem as thtir bell 
 Food, being always in great numbers 111 tliols 
 places where tlicfe Worms were. I found great 
 plenty of them in the Diunjb Harbour, betweeo 
 and underneath tlie Stones in the Water; after- 
 wards on the Eighth of [luly 1 found them in tl 
 Mtif[eUhiiveh\ 1 have alio found iheni in the 
 Seed of the Whales that fwam upon tlie Watc^ 
 Sec c in thcTah. /', 
 
 IV. Of the Loufe of the IVhah. 
 
 The IVhalt's Loufe harh norefemhlancc at all 
 to our Lice, except in tlie Head, and thcrcior; 
 it belon^is rather to the Cruibiccous .\iiimi!^ 
 Tiieir Scales are as hard as thoie ot the f lawni 
 'i'hev have a Head like a Louie, wiin .1 ilciTn, 
 the two (hurt Horns that Hand out bticrc have 
 two knobs, likcKett led rum-iticks; thetwootlK' 
 bended Horns arc Iharp belorc. it.^ Head b^ 
 
to Spirzbergen. i ij 
 
 ilmoil the fhape of an Acorn, is cut very deep 
 
 behind. It hath two Eyes, and but one No- 
 
 Iril. The Neck is not made oi itiff Scales, but 
 
 [ts Skin is J ike that between two Scales or 
 
 Plates of a Loblter. It hatfi fix Plates on the 
 
 Jack 7 the foremoit of them is fhaped Hke a 
 
 Reaver's Shutlc. The Tail might be compa- 
 
 red unto a Shield, but it is very Ihort. On the 
 
 Ibrenioll Plate it hath Feet fhapcd like a Sythe; 
 
 Bthcy are round before, and bent, like the firll: 
 
 pQiiarter of tlie Moon ; but on the infide they 
 
 fare toothed like a Saw, and at tlie end therepf 
 
 [v|there is a fharp point : On each fide of the ic- 
 
 ||cond and third Plait grow out four Legs that are 
 
 IfibOars ; they have a fhort Joint below, wherc- 
 
 I'inthefe Oars are moved; tliefe they Liy in a 
 
 I ixrofii one over the other, upon their Back, when 
 
 J;ithey feed upon the Whale; or they put them 
 
 rlupwards togerhr., as the Vaulters do when 
 
 Pthey lump over Swords : The ilx hindmofi Legs 
 
 Jlarelike tfiofe of a Crdwfijh -^ they have three 
 
 I ■Joints on each Leg, the foremofl whereof are 
 
 crooked like a Half-mogn, but before, or on 
 
 'thiireiids they are very fliarp pointed, fo that 
 
 they can take firm hold as well of the Skin of 
 
 M'.n as of that of the Whale, fo that you muft 
 
 ' 'cui tlieni in pieces hefcrc you can pull thcr.i 
 
 irom the Skin. He that will Iiave them alive, 
 
 nuiit cut the Skin of the Whale out wit!) them. 
 
 1'hcy (it on certain places of tlie Wliale's Body 
 
 '.(as between his Finn':, on his Pudifidi^ and ca 
 
 phiU'ph) where he cannot c^fily rrib h;mic-1\ 
 
 ||and bile pieces cir of his Skin, a^ if thu Birds 
 
 i;^dc;iff;n him, Some 
 
 
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 J "2 6 The foiirlh Tart of the Voyuoe 
 
 SomeWlialesarcfullof Lice, and others iiai? 
 never a one : The warmer the Weather is, tk 
 more Lice they get, as I am informVI. TheFi. 
 gure that If^ive you here I delineated in theAiu:, 
 j'd'h.ivcrj^ on the yth of "Jul), See Tab. ati 
 
 V. Of the Staififlu 
 
 I have feen bur two forts of thcfe in my Voy. 
 age, tlie firll: of them hath five Points or Ilav5 
 likcLcgsi it is quite otherwife fbapd thaa 
 thofe that I have feen in the Norths Sp.iuijl)^ and 
 Mediterranean Seas. It is of a red colour : Above 
 upon the plain of its Body ithatli five double 
 rows of fharp knobs cr grains :, between '.ach 
 of thefe double rows isafingle row of tlicfame 
 knobs on the whole plain, (b that in all therein 
 15 rows of knobs on the whole plain. Thele 
 I < rows toirether make a Sta'r of live oucvvartl 
 bended points. 
 
 As for the reO:, this Plain iookctli like tk 
 Back of a Spider, but if he is turned he locketti 
 neatly, and in this Poilure is feen in the niidiliea 
 five-corner'd plain S at^ which I take to h it5 
 Mouth, wliich he can open and draw tCA^rLhei 
 like a Purfe. Round about this Star .^rc I'^ia'l 
 black Spots, in rows, of the fnape of a Star, i u: 
 ther forwards, about the middle Star or b\ 
 Mouth a broader one is, like unto the Flower 
 the Crowsfoot. From tlic middle Star prcy^sec 
 five Legs or Arms, which liave no knobs v/hi- 
 they begin, but begin firll to have feme bchina 
 the Flower like fliaped Scar, on both fiilcsw 
 
 tlis 
 
 iii I 
 
 ^■' 
 
die Srar or hi; 
 
 P? 
 
 to Spiczbcrgen. ] it 
 
 the end. The knobs between tlx Legs are fofc 
 to the touch, like the Skin of an Egg. Their 
 Lc[];s are fcaley, about three fingers breadth 
 long, broader at their beginning, where they 
 have knobs, and afterwards by degrees they 
 grow narrower. Iktwcen the Scales on both 
 fidts tl.c Knobs come out commonly three or 
 lour toi^cthcr, ancj look like Warts. When 
 he fwims in the V/ater he fpreads out thefe 
 Knobs on cac'i fide, iull as a Bird doth his Fea- 
 thers when it is going to fly. See Tab. F. 
 at a. 
 
 Of the Second ^K2X^^^. 
 
 BcHdes tlviS, another fine Star-fijlj came to my 
 Hand:^, which rather ought to be called tho 
 L(jdji(h^ bccaule he is like Twigs of Coral, for 
 which I took tliem alfo, before 1 perceived than 
 he was alive. This is of a brighter colour than 
 the other, lor the other is lark red. Its Body 
 hath ten corners, and it hath a Star above with 
 as many Pvays ; each of thefe one m.iy compare 
 unco a Sail of the Windmills that tlic Children 
 run again ll tlie Wind withal, or to a piece of 
 fuc!i Croifes that are broad before, and narrow 
 where they meet together ; that is to fiy, of the 
 fnape of a Dove-tail: It feeleth rough: The 
 lower part of the Body is very neat; in the 
 middle thereof is a Star with fi;c points, which 
 I take to be his Mouth: About the Mouth lie 
 isfoft, to the place v/here his Legs begin : Be- 
 tween tlie beginning of his Legs he had fofi: 
 Caviricj. lii'^ Less are where th','v begin t'lick, 
 
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 i::^ 7^/;c fourth Tart of the Vo)an^ 
 
 and have in the middle a longifli hollow or ^ut. 
 ter, which feeleth foft ; on the Brim rhevare 
 adorned with Scales that lye one over the otlier 
 no otherwife than if they were a row of Coral,' 
 but underneath the Scales are twiftcd , and 
 have in the middle forwards fmall black Strokes, 
 but the Scales lye over one ;mothcr like un:o 
 the Plaits of the Crawfilh : Be fide , when: tiie 
 Legs come out of the Body, they Iprcnd rhcm- 
 felves double into Twi^;-., and nrr, as is laid 
 before, hollow in the middle, until the place 
 where they divide themfelvcs into levera! 
 Branches, and f^) grow flenderer by degrees, 
 Tlie undcrmort- linall Brc-nclies are fcalcy;!! 
 round, but not twifted I'ke Ropes ; they are 
 fliarp pointed on their ends like unro the Feet 
 of a Spider, wherefore the Scam- ii call thcni 
 Sea-fpiders. When they fvvi^n ni ihe Ware: 
 they hold their Legs togeri?ir, and fa tiie;/ 
 row a long. I had one of r!us fore rh;U v;:. 
 a fpin long, from the excremitv of one Foe: 
 to th!! other ; but this I h;ive delineated isiii 
 The biggeft are the handfomcli: i'ov cclou:. 
 They dyefoon alter they are our of tiic VVctei 
 and when they are a dying tlicy bend their 
 Less towards the Mouth. The Bodv, wne 
 it is dead, foon breaks to pieces, which is t!-^ 
 reafon that I could not keep tlic gre.ir onc', 
 See '.rab. P, at 6'. Rond,'l:ttoi:.i^ in fus Bao'; 
 of FiHi, h.ath delineated one of t!ic fiin^c n^'';c 
 but tins is not the f.ime fpecies, foi' !;i> ;> 
 bhiek; neither do I i^.n^ the Plaits u) !:• , i:> 
 cept he t!iat drew it did not obfcrv-.: tncm- 
 
es into Jcverai 
 
 to Spiczbcrgcn. 129 
 
 Same of both thefe forts 1 got on the fifth of 
 July, before the HV/;p^rf/, where a Whale made 
 his cfcape from us, bt-cjaufe the Line w hereun- 
 to the Marpoon was laikird was en; angled 
 about a Rock: Oa this they hung, and lo I 
 got them ahve. 
 
 c n A p. VI. 
 
 Eibre I come to treat ofthe Whale, I think 
 it convenient to fay foniething of Ibme 
 ^ina'd Fillies, which 1 met withal in inv Vov- 
 tge to Spttzbergen^ lome wnereof are propaga- 
 ted by the Oiooting of their Row, and others 
 pear and bring iorth young ones ahve. 
 
 I Will begin with mo. FirR kind, whereof the 
 irll that 1 met withal was the Filh that we caU 
 UcareL 
 
 I, Of the Macarel. 
 
 This FiOi is like unto a Herr}??^ in his fhape, 
 ^uthaih on his iiack a large I'mn, and iome 
 fhar below it a very fmali one. Then lower 
 lerc is another greater and broader one, but: 
 jot lo high as the uppermoft : Undearneach this 
 Ire Five fmall ones, that are all of the fatne b'.g- 
 [els, and at an equal diitancc one trom ano- 
 ler, Very near to the Tail tlieic is another 
 (fs Oiie i fj that on the whole Back there is 
 /o ^ireat ones, and i'cven litde ones, Near 
 \rr» I he Gills is a Finn on each fide : Under-i 
 
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 iitatli the Kcllv tlicie arcag.iin on eacli fide one 
 
 almolloi the fame hi^ficfb of tliat that is neat 
 
 ro the G:lls. IJinleineath towards the Taj 
 
 is one oF the fame bignefi. of the tiiird oa th^ 
 
 Back-. Behhid this there are again fiveofaii 
 
 equal bii^!)efs; aru! bciow that itdl a Icfi one 
 
 ib that thofeof the lower part of the Backarl 
 
 equal to thofe ot the lower part of the ik'lh 
 
 Their Head is like unto rhac of a H:rri;j{, h| 
 
 liath a great many Irnall Iioles on t)ie Cover 
 
 his Gills, and alfo under neaih the Fycs. fhej 
 
 haven g!cat varicry of colours, that lookmo/ 
 
 glorious when tliey are alive than when thej 
 
 are dead, lor when they are a dying the colon' 
 
 fade and grow pale. From his Back toward 
 
 rhe Side he hath black Stroaks. The uppej 
 
 moft part of his Back is blue till tothemi( 
 
 die, asid the orlier IkiU' underneath ir isgreej 
 
 and as if n)n}e blue did Iliine throui^h it. U| 
 
 derncath his lV.diy he is as vviiitc as Silver, ai 
 
 his rit'.ns are wiiire every where. All rhc cl 
 
 lours of tills Piin Hiine like to a Silver or G( 
 
 ()e:» Ground, doiie over u'lih tlun, traniparcj 
 
 CT iliurniuaring colouis 'J iieir Eyes are Mac 
 
 }t is the bc.;iurirulieit Fifli of all that everlia' 
 
 This tint I deiu'ihe here was catcii^;d in t| 
 
 North Sea; attevwaids, on the 271I1 ».by 
 
 'T.//r'., \\) rhe Yc-ir 167^. we did catch io| 
 
 'ivl .'..ircis behind Scau^^d^ by the liland 
 
 .V.' K//da, wii>ch. were half blind j ii; isocca' 
 
 r...d by a black Sksu i:h..t groweii) over t' 
 
 ii/es m ihe^Winter, and comctiic.f J^gainl 
 
on eacli ficlc oiifl 
 hat that is neai 
 I wards the TaJ 
 the t'nird oa thj 
 a[j,ain live of ail 
 t it ill a lofi one! 
 of the Backarl 
 )art of the \k\\] 
 { a H:rrh^, Hi 
 > on t)ie Cover 
 the Kycs. fhel 
 ^, that luokmoJ 
 th:in when the! 
 dyuig thccolou 
 his Back toward 
 ks. The iippel 
 le till to the rail 
 rneath it isgreej 
 throui^h it. U| 
 into cib Silver, at 
 lerc. All rhcci 
 
 a Silver or C)( 
 
 1 ihiH, iraniparc 
 ;ir Eyes use hiac 
 ail that ever I 111 
 'a^i catcp*eii in t| 
 
 tlic 27ih day 
 
 ;e did catch iol 
 
 by tiiC liland 
 
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 ^rowcii.' over tt 
 
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 the bc[2;auiing ol the Siunnjcr. \Vc do not Ilc 
 them in the Wiiitcr, lor thcv luii tOvVard-s t'.c 
 K(irth: III tlic Siunrucr v. c lie tin in in I'lc 
 KorthSea, and 1 have i'cvn Uictn all") in SiKiif;, 
 W't" taught them after riie htllowini^^ nianiiw-r; 
 we taltened a Bullet that vvei^^hod about two 
 or three poundi> to a Line, about a I'lihc^in di- 
 ftance I'rom the end, whereon ue Iia.l (altened 
 a Hook ; thi:> Hook we hiitcd with a piece oi a 
 red Cioch, and lij we tluno; it uuo tlie Se.?, 
 and towed it beliind our Ship,, then v/hen rhc 
 J^Jactnl dotli Iwit'cly fhout at it, he h;tes upon 
 the Hook, and fo is hung, \vl/ich you prcfviitly 
 perceive by its pulling, as you (\o v. liju \\):i 
 cate(' any otlicr i-'iili , n^nAVithlhndin;-]; tlii: 
 the Rope oj ics own accord docli pull or ilr.^w 
 Very h:^rd, by reafon ot" tlie Se.i, ib that if you 
 Dio^iid rowi It about your Hand, it would be- 
 numb your Hand in a little time to tint de- 
 gree, thit you would not be lenfible, if one 
 fliould cut it ; wherefore they rye liieir Rcpcs 
 |o the carved Work on the Stern oi' the Sh:n, 
 fothnc Ibrnetimes many of t!i'.'m are tyed lor': c 
 Ship bv one another, whep. the S!)in lails cpace, 
 but cliis doth hinder the Ship very niucii in its 
 failing, and Ida re fay two inch Ropes diaw 
 |is much as a M-m's b-renf^rh. 'J'li^y citui 
 §hem alio with Jldrrt/^^, with a piece wi\^M;.()f 
 thcyhatt the Hook, at w^iiicii they bite iosMier 
 mf'i at L! red niece oi Riy-x or (.Jod). 'i iiey 
 at tjcii. it you boil, or b-roii, or ro;)!r them 
 ilreih as they arc caught, or dry them ; They aii^ 
 'hid r-^ be di^-iied. 
 
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 lb is peculiar to tliis Inlli toliavc two V'm, 
 on his Back, the forcLnoll: wheuot h- ivcry 
 lonp; Strings, about tv\'o inches !ii[;li .brve tlii 
 Back, the hindmoil Iniinol" the iJikk is nuiio 
 liigh, but yet it goeth a great way a!l alonn;t!]c 
 Ihck, and hath no iuch Stiings. lie Tithno 
 Gilk, in tlie room ot" ihcm he Iiaili two blow- 
 ing holes in Iiis Neck, and on each fulc ot" thele 
 lioles there are cwofliori- Finns, arid undemcgtli 
 thcfe, on each fide a broad one: Undcrnutli 
 Ms Iklly he hath a long very narrow Finn, that 
 reaches to the Tail. His Head is oblong, com. 
 pos'd of many Bones: He haili bclbre on liii 
 Nofe a rais'd part: His I'ail i aboit lui indi 
 broad : His Body is lon[T, thi nd roupdil 
 of a grcyifl] lilver Colour, and fliinin^z : His 
 Siiape islikeli to that of a youn;:^ Ha\, as well 
 the Head as the rell of the Body, i liey are 
 cauiL^ht between the Bears- Jjut/jd and St^tt^'oern^i^, 
 We got one oif of HiiLwd^ when our l>;ok 
 flung out hi', iiiicket for Waicr, \\\ wl^iclihc 
 tool; up one with fomc hnall Fifli ol" the Ihape 
 of an hierriavy bur they were not bigger tiian 
 a joint of your lirtic Fingei. Our Seamen in* 
 lorinal ixie of loni^ other Imall Fifh, that a'cui 
 tiie deep holes betv.'een the high MountJi.:>; in 
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 have two I'ln... 
 lertot f» ' \ vciv 
 i lii};ii ..bi '.'e the 
 ic ljiK:k IS nutio 
 vay all alona;t!ic 
 !^s. He huh no 
 ; haih two blow- 
 iacli (idc o\ thell' 
 , and uncleifitata 
 nc: Unckrnuili 
 arrow Finn, that 
 1 is oblonn;, ccnv 
 ill be! ore on h 
 i abo'U nn indi 
 nd roupclilk 
 
 njj; Ha\, as vvdl 
 uVdy. '1 licy are 
 id and .S'/'i^^^':c«. 
 when our Cock 
 iti winch, he 
 .^i(h of the Ihapc 
 ; not bigger tiian 
 C')ijr Seamen ii> 
 Fifh, that aici,! 
 ;h MountJUiS; !;i 
 
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 IIL Of the Dolphin. 
 
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 11 1 
 
 1 . 
 
 TIms is alfo a common hfh, bccniifj'.rc Trc 
 thcni in great Mumbers, every where in thcSeti, 
 chiefly i)elbie a Storm or h rd We.itlier, (ov 
 then they jiuiip in p.reat Niimheis o'ltol" die ^ei, 
 iikii^Seafis, The l^:ad ot" i', rhiedy the Nor.", 
 isver 'like that ot tlie /V;.v's M -id. F:: Mojth 
 i, full ^ little (harp Teeth. VI , hath al'lnnon 
 the!n.'d' o\ his Luuk, which is hollowM oi't. 
 ' towarcV. the Tail, h.kc an JKilf-Mooi?. '^n *ls 
 Belly are •:wo F:nr.s lt?cet!iofe ot' t!\c W!m'.,^ 
 thcfe Fintisare not hkc them of Tmall or lirrle 
 Fifh'.s, d'.at ar'.j bonev, join\l tO[;cther v-it 
 t'-'nSkin, t)Vii- they ar'j a'll over fiefhy, ar.r.lu 
 vered with a ^^"••■ I. Shin, and ar.\c]::. o\ lointed 
 Dones withui. The Tail i'i broid, ac.doi i:\o 
 fame fhape as that of tlie Whale, bw: ;*.: i.y not 
 tut in, and is crooked from cie eiiu :c ^Ui^ 
 other, hke a Siekie. He (iaih two {rn^xll rev ^.i 
 Eyeh. The greareii: part of t!ie Body is oi a 
 biack colour, but the Belly is white ; they are 
 five or (ix Feet long. They run very hvifc 
 againil the Wind, as an Arrow: They are ge- 
 'nerally caughc by chance. .Becaulo Figures 
 'thereof are in odier Books, I. did no:: think ir 
 convenient to delineate iiim, 
 
 iV. Of the But.skopf, cr Place 3 Head. 
 
 Tlie Ei^tikopps 1{'c?a\ is hivAV: bc:bre, where- 
 on is a iiill or i3eak oi^ an equal bigneft ail along, 
 
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 77,v" /^v//;//; T'.r;-/ of the Foy^irrc 
 
 wliicli (lillinp/.nn^cs liim from the Dolptmn 
 vviiicfi is ;h chijr bcliind, and more pouuid be- 
 fi-rr. Tiic I'innsnrc like thofc of tlic Dol^h;^ 
 liiii I he iv>:\.i,ioJi: on his fklly are hkcr thole of 
 t:>' V iiale • irs Tnil is aifo hkcr a Wlialt s. He 
 hvi;.!] a .V/'V;///^ //'-/t-ihovc in his Neck, whcrtcut 
 ho Inonts the Water, but not wirli iuih a 
 ilrcn;'[h, nor I'o hi'/h as a Whale doth. 'J had 
 i- aii'j a dilTercnce in rht* (bund ol tlic Fillies, 
 f'r t!iis, wlicn he blovverh out Water, \mk. 
 I'jr a linallnoirc, bur th(^ blowing ot a Whaie 
 I • r a 1 ■ c t f ; 1 1 n t y o n f a a y h e :n" i t a fa r o (]'. 1 i i s H yci 
 iirc \\ . V iniall I'l proportion to fiis b'giici,, ! 
 liivc je.-ii thcin hxtecn, t^;j,i!tcen, aiui lorTit- 
 t\iZi:'^ rwiiitv i''^'^t- Iriiij, Their Back is o} a 
 t>: < \.-.i (('i')'.'!- : tin.'. Mead [)rovvn and n-iari)led, 
 vindv.rnca:!> ^'uir Bellv' thev arc white, 'ilic) 
 nir wrv near iiiUo the S'iips, io that one imy 
 p;i!'i;!C i! :;-iU wiih a StKi., and they k'^L\)\\^ 
 \':'''.] n S!:i;- ibr a \ovi\ ' in^c. wh'-i] ctii'.::' iadics 
 tl'./ v'j!, ibrwhcn they la: the Ships they are 
 ciiVaiJ {)( tivcci], 'r!K:\' all fwim a^ainfl rhc 
 V» ' i I : . V, a 1, J i "/aj A^j-, I'irin-jijh^ a n d Dohh/is . I an' 
 c;i' crp'-.bv.Jiij that they endeavocr to iiiuaAay 
 i\\iA ilij biurr;}, and ihar they find lome \^a\^ 
 i>i v-i'c)' iiiiii^ir iiod 'c5 (brre Days b^'Mic, l>i 
 eoinhaH i^c iuino l^ifh tninblc abf.ut Ur,^ni^: 
 
 •;• ?i}e 
 
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 v!^J':> 1 do nor r-.ke to hep' 
 
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 V i.entinnes i);ii'l i 
 
 i: :;• ^.:i (.' r;r;::': I'ifb:.'-, th^t might 
 
 i,:i;ul i•■<./^f^^ U..r ■J.:ir Head is quite b.J^^ 
 
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 t h :-.-L a i'u^n t'ki; ilauOii ' ^ ^■'■"'■ 
 
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m the /)()//)/)//;, 
 
 nore pound be- 
 
 c of the Doijilm^ 
 
 are hkcM* tliolc oi 
 
 raVVhaits. He 
 
 Neck, w hereout 
 
 u)t with hull a 
 
 ale doth. 7liW2 
 
 cl ot the I'lfk^,, 
 
 c Watc'!', make 
 
 Ky\x\\i ot a \V!i,ii!: 
 
 aroif. liisHvL- 
 
 to Ills bigncl'x 1 
 
 tccn, ai;cl ion> 
 
 lieir Bcick is nt a 
 
 wn and niari»kd, 
 
 .re Vvhiic. 'ilic) 
 
 , i') that one Ilia) 
 
 d.wA i\vc\- kctp lip 
 
 ic Ships thuy are 
 \vim a^ain;'! tk 
 
 ;oi::r to iim away 
 ;y iind loirVv \^<x^ 
 Days hcloie, ioi 
 Ic about !rr,ini!ci!' 
 :;t: fnkc to K'jp!:\ 
 
 inighi r'^lriy !- 
 eld IS qui';: b'-'f^- 
 
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 to Spitzbergcn. 
 
 times higher than the other But^koif ^^^^ '■> ^^'-7 
 arc fotncvvhat of a darker brown Colour, but 
 of the fame bignefs. We law thum tiur,biw Se- 
 veral times out of the Water ; one rni-'.hr eafily 
 uhi them, becaiife of ilicii- [I'gli Finn tl:at 
 ttands on thetopof their [iv.k. liicy are not 
 Sivord-fijh^ nor of the lIiHie kind we call 7V/a^;- 
 hlt'rs, which we fee bctwctn ihe /^/i.- and ihc 
 
 Hi! gel A /id. 
 
 V. Of the White. UHl 
 
 I do not by this Name mean the v'.ux wc. 
 c;^v!} fohcre in our Conntry, that jr*. 1:- ^t Irn-'!, 
 but I mean a b!f!;f^er fort, asl-rfi-c n . a />/%'.<,(■:,, 
 
 'in ilicipe hke a Whale, and vvithr);jc Finn, !>ii 
 his BacJv; he liath two Fins on his B'.il'., c:s 
 lamuiloriTicd by others that have (Jciii;:;lu- die:.). 
 Tlie Tail is like unto a Whidc's. He hull a 
 
 (6pj:itJjoie on his tiead ; he hath nh^; rm 11-.. [^ A 
 
 l^onhis Head like a Whyie. He is oi ^vllo'sviiu 
 white cojcur. He hatli FatcnGi:;„^h in propor- 
 tion to his bignefb ', 1 was told by di-'ri that 
 had caught one, tlicit they did iill'a [virr..i or 
 Kit from one; but this Fat is very luii:, a:.d 
 t!]c fhii-poon eafiiy b"caks out, wheicforc tliey 
 do not cai'e to catch tliem. ' W hicn wc iwC picuy 
 01 tii^m, the Skippers (ay, it is a iiu^ii ■■\ a 
 ^ocd Year for catching of \V hales '■, for, if t'efe 
 iind gjod i'ocd, the Whales ^nd the 'i^n:^: aif.:-. 
 
 , Vc law on the lodi of '7«,^:' ibmw hundicdj ci 
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 VI. Of the Unicorn. 
 
 The oVj/j,??-;? Is but il^ldom fcen in thclc parti, 
 neithci had I the ^coi) Fortune to meet witli 
 iv\'' id cili mv Voyage ^ ;i[id yet forncrirncs m 
 ny of tlicm arcictn. 1 do not fnd that tk 
 Ciiis that 1 have (ccn in fome Books a^rce witii 
 tiic der<:riptlon thnt 1 heaid theicof-. for I was 
 inioaii'd, that \vc \\c\i\\ no FirMi on his Back, ai 
 he :■. virawn, lie liath aifj a Svout-hde in !iii 
 Netk. Whcnilicv fwim fvviltly in the Water 
 they i'ly th»at iTicy hold up then' Horns, crra- 
 tiUT'Tccih, out Oi" the Water, and to g.) m 
 grcdt ihoalr. '1 he fl^ape of tlicli Body is l.k 
 TiSr:l-^ ti'i; undcr;^^oll Finns, and thcTa:!. ai; 
 FL- Ui>.o thole of the Wh.i'e. The Skm ci 
 Fni .; of uw\\\ ;;, hlack, 'c:nichkcii };rey dappled 
 Ho; ic ; underne.i.h thLir !>vl!y thcj" c:re whitu 
 'J h^y ,ve liom llxtcen to Lv\^nty toot lor^. 
 They Uvifn \cv) i\v;!cly, t!i^takhoL;gh tliwVaic 
 Feen, yet they are but leldom caught. 
 
 VI L Of yjc Saw-fini, fomttim:s c:Jkdik' 
 
 Sword- fif]]. 
 
 This Fiin hdth his Name IVom a Saw, whidi 
 is a Io:^g broad P>one fixed to Ins Ncfe, thathadi 
 on each iidc many pointed Teeth or Fcggs, 
 like a Comb, He hath two F;nns on hisBau, 
 the undwrniod of them i^ Fke th.e Buf^t^cpfh 
 i!ie uppernioii hath behind, towards theT:i!i,2 
 Follow ncfs Fke unt;) a Sickle, Undcvncadih.5 
 
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11 . 
 
 
 
 3rn. 
 
 ^en in thefe parti, 
 
 r.c to meet wit!; 
 
 t forn crimes m 
 
 ot ^,^A that the 
 
 L^ooks apjee witii 
 
 ^eicof: tor hv3i 
 
 1 on his Back, as 
 
 Svou^-lide \\\ hii 
 
 tly in the Water 
 
 wMr Horns, a u- 
 
 c!', rind lb a.) !P. 
 
 tJicii l>oJy i^i.k 
 
 and tr.c'ra:!, ar. 
 
 !c. The S]<:n ci 
 
 kcr? j:rey dapplcJ 
 
 y the J- c.revvhiti", 
 
 vACJity toor Icr: 
 
 »iAti40L.^ii t-iiwv ah 
 
 , caught. 
 
 cm ri Saw, wliicli 
 iis Ncfc, that hath 
 Fecta o: tcg?s, 
 'inns Oil hibBaik, 
 <c tiie Bu/^kcpi\ 
 ) wards thcT-t:;, a 
 Underneath b 
 
 M7 
 
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 Iklly he hath four, on each fide two, the iipper- 
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 andlongeft, but t)ie lowcrmolt are fonievvnat 
 fliortcr and narrower; they Hand directly tin- 
 dtrncath rhc uppermod Finns of the Bick. 
 The Tail is hke unto a piece of Board, where- 
 on the Dyers widen or itretch their Stoekins, 
 which is pointed behind and underneatli. Tiie 
 Tail is not divided, 6^c, 'iowards the under- 
 mod Finn of the Back the Tail is thinner. 
 The other Shape from the ton to tiie Tail, k 
 like a Man's naked Arm. The Noilriis are 
 oblong. The Eyes (land hic^h out of his Head. 
 Their Mouths are juft directly underneath the 
 Fyes. 1 h^y arc in bignefs Irom two to twenty 
 f)ot. 
 
 Tiief* S.i'.v or Sivord fijh arc great JMiemies to 
 the Whdle and Firr/i-fjlj. Many of tiicm g.ither 
 .bout him, and they do not leave the IVbdf un- 
 til thei* have killed liini, then tlicy eat of him 
 oriiy t'lc Tongue, all the red they leave be'nind 
 iiicm, js dcih appear by the Whales that are 
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 liorne-vova2.e or Rtaurn, a i^iojat bctu'cen a 
 tVkiale iiul a Svardfijij^ where botii of tuem 
 iT->ade a great biUHe, beating and juiriping 
 ai)our , and I undcrflood that in cah"n Weather 
 !pe S;amea let them alone until the li'liMe be 
 'v ikd, wivire tliey take him v/ii-hour any trou- 
 ble. Win if they fet out their Long-boats after 
 ti.e lyiJilc^ tiiey frighten the ^--vordjiyj^ aovi (b 
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 is like to the upperrnod of the Ihaskopf^ biu the 
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 bottom, but it is hollowed out like a Sickle. 
 He hath fix Finns underneath his Belly, where 
 of the forcmofr two are the longeli, and Ir^ped 
 like a Tongue, but the two middlcmoli arc 
 fomcwhat broader than thofe towards thcTiil, 
 and oi the fame fhape ; the two la 11 underneath 
 by the I'ail are of an equal breadth froni top to 
 bottom, Ibmething fliorter than the muidle 
 ones. The Tail is of a peculiar Oiape, like un- 
 to one half part of that of the Sivordfifh^ but it 
 IS fplit below ; and the other part is like a Leaf 
 of a Lilly. He hatha long Nofe. Thevvhoie 
 Fifh is long, round and thin, and he is tliic lii; 
 towards the Head : Ff is JVlouth is fl\ap\l as ihic 
 of the Sirord'tijh '■> it is full of fharp Tee!li,ihroe 
 upper and three under rows, o;ie bv the other 
 His Kves ifand fometning more out before tlwn 
 behind, after the fame taflT.on as tliofc ol the 
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 !ia th five Gills on each fide, as the ^vrd-flh: 
 bis Slvin is hard -ind thick, and rou<;iMf you 
 touch it or flnke \i upwards ; it is of a t^reyi!]: 
 colour : they arc n-om one tariion". ioir; to 
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 dug out with Shovels. They devour of many 
 JT/;.t/iJ all the Fat underneath the Water, and 
 this is the reafon that tlie Seamen Hiy, Thq huve 
 cnuohl half (t \Vh:ih thxt was rif.id. And the 
 Ijjrds do help them alfo, and what is not ta- 
 ken a way underneailT, fei ments out cf the top. 
 I'hey have a large Laver, whereof they make 
 Oyi. Out of then- l^acks we cut tlie Flefn, v»h!::h 
 we hang up for fomc days in the open Air, 
 then we boil and roall it, and this taifes very 
 M'eil, when we have nothing that is better, 
 'ihey do not fling away tlic Hajs in Spai/?^ but 
 iJl ihem : The httle ones are the bell. They 
 are very eager alter Man's Fiefl], and eat mai:y 
 a Man that goeih to iwim or wafli in the Sea, 
 whvMcof we iiave many Iniiances. They arc 
 caliU' eaught alter tlic following maiincr; we 
 lake a great Flock lalined to a ihong Iroa 
 Cliain, baited v\ ith ap'cceof Flef!),and let it !:anc^ 
 duwn iijio the Sea ; the Hn, as foon as he doth 
 perceive it, i'naps at ii", and is caccli'd; but 
 when the Haji perceives that he is f.-d, lie doth 
 ::ib his utmoii: endeavour to bi: 
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 '"TpHK Fifh properly called tlic Whd^^ toi 
 J^ whofe fake our Ships chiefly untlcnakc 
 the Voyage to Spitzbernen ., is differing jioni 
 other Wh.iles in his Finns and Mouth, whidiib 
 wkliout Teeth, but inllead thereof long, oLd, 
 ibmewliat bread, nndiiorny Flakes, all ]?.^\Ji 
 like Flairs: he dilfers from the Finn-rilli 1.11 his 
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 his Bad: but the Whale, properly lb caliid, 
 hatli none on hisB.-ick; and there is two Finns 
 bciiiiid his Eyes of a bignefs propovtJon-ibk'to 
 the V/hale, covered with a thick black Skia, 
 delicntoly marbied with white Sti-okcs, or a5 
 you fee in Marble, Trees, Houfc--, orth;j like 
 things rcprcfentcd. In the Tail of one of the 
 Fillies was marbled very delicately thi:j number 
 !Cjv veiy even and exact, as if they \ui\ ken 
 paii'ied upon it on purpofe. This marbling on 
 the Whale is like Vejns in ?i piece of Wood, thai 
 • un itreiahi through, or clle round aboui th. 
 center cr pith of a Tree ; and fo go both v/hix 
 r.nd yellow itrokcs, through tlie thiik and 
 the thin drokcs, tliat is !ikc Farchncn*. 0: 
 Vellorn, and give to tlic Whale an incompara- 
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 when it is opened, and the Fingers are expan- 
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 ftirt' Sinews, which fly up and rebound again 
 if you fling them hard againft the Ground, as 
 the Sinews of great Fifh, ab of a Sturgeon, or 
 olTome four footed Jiearts generally do. You 
 may cut pieces of thefe Sinews of the bignefs 
 of your Head, they fqueeze together when 
 thrown on the Ground, and {o rebound very 
 high, and as fwift as an Arrow from the String 
 of a long Bow. Thie Whale hath no other 
 Finns but thefe two wherewith he fleers him- 
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 Their Tail doth not iland up as the Tails of 
 almofl: any other Fifh, but it doth lye horizon- 
 tal, as tiiatofthe F//2^aF///^, Butskopj\ Dolphin^ 
 and the like, and it is three, three and an half, 
 and four fathoms broad. The Head is the third 
 part of the Fifii, and fome have bigger Heads; 
 on the upper and under Lin are fliort Hairs be- 
 fore. '1 heir Lips are quite plain, Ibmewhat 
 % bended [ike an S , and they end underneath 
 the Eyes before the two Finns : Above the up- 
 permofl: bended Lip he hath black Streaks, 
 fome are darkifh brown, and tliey are crooked 
 as the Lips are. Their Lips are fmooth, and 
 qii te black, round like tlie quarter of a Cnxle ; 
 when tliey draw tiiem togeiher they lock in- 
 to one another : Within, on the uppermoll Lip 
 h the Whale bone, of a brown, black, and 
 yellow colour, with ilreiks of feveral colours, 
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 on the upper Lip, is a cavity or hole which the 
 upper Lip fits exactly into, as a Knil'c int»a 
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 Water that he bloweth out through this hole, 
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 his Tongue. The Whale- bone of Ibmc W'l.; 
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 Moutli, and behind towaids his Throat : and 
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 15 ibmerimes about two or three Men^s It.ijth 
 from wfience you may eafily conicctuie !.(/ 
 large tins FiHi mull be. On one fide, all in ' 
 row, there is cu'o hundred and titty jvcces r, 
 Whale-bone; and as many alfo on the orhir 
 fide, which maketh live hundred in al], and 
 there is more over and above this numb::", tor 
 they let tiie leait Whale-bone of all remau!, bc- 
 caufe they cannot well come at it to cur ' out, 
 becaufo It is very nar;ovv where t!ie tw » bps 
 mecr cogethei-. The Whale-bone is in a llac 
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 lit fticketh falUothe upper Lip, every where 
 overgrown with hard and white Sinews towards 
 the Root, fo that between two pieces of Whale- 
 bone you may put in your Hand. Thefe white 
 Sinews look like boiled ^ea-cattsov Black-fi[h (in 
 Spanifli called Cat tula U Mat) they are ot a 
 plcafant Smell, To that we might eat of them ; 
 they are not tough at all, but bre:ik ascafily as 
 Cheefe, but they did not taflc fu well ; wlicii 
 they putrifie or rot they fmell horribly, jull like 
 unto a foul or rotten Tooth. Where the 
 Whale- bone is broadefl, as underneath by the 
 I Root, there groweth fmall Whale-bones, the 
 other greater, as you fee fmall and large Trees 
 one amongfi: the other in a Wood. 1 believe 
 the fmall Whale-bone doth not grow bigger, 
 as one miglit think that fome of the great pie- 
 ces thereof might come out, and that fo this 
 fmall Whale bone might grow up again in the 
 room ilicrcof, or as in Children the Hair grows 
 again wlicn cut off; but it is not fo , for this 
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 one end to to'tlicr of an equal thickncfs, and full 
 lot long Jacks like Horfes Hair. Tlie Whale- 
 bone is underneath narrow and pointed, and all 
 overgrown with Hair, that it may not hurt 
 that that is young : But without the Whale- 
 bone hath a Cavity, for it is turned juii like 
 luiuo a Gurter wherein the Water runs, where 
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 eafily wound or hurt the under Lips. lam 
 opinion that one might ufe Whale bone in anyl 
 thing that we ufe Boards for, for they make 
 Whale-bone, Boxes, Knife hafts, Walking-(Hck 
 and the like. I fliould think that out of the 
 Hair of the Fifli might be made fomething, as 
 the Spaniards do out of the wild Sempervm 
 JlO'?s (by them called SavtLi) they prepare it 
 like Flax or Hemp, and fo make Packthreads, 
 Cloths and the like Manufatlures of it. 
 
 To cut the W hale-bones out is alfo a peculiar 
 Trade, and abundance of Iron-Tools belong 
 thbreunto. The lower part of the Whalt's 
 Mouth is commonly white. The Tongue ly- 
 eth among the Whalebones; it is very dole 
 tyed to the undermoft Chap or Lip ; it is very 
 large and white, with black fpots at the edges: 
 It is a fofc fpongy Fat, which cannot eafily be 
 cut; it makes a great deal of work to the Cutter 
 (for fo they call the Man that doth cut the Fat 
 into fmall pieces with a large Knife, which 
 cannot well be done with other Knifes, becaulo 
 it is tough and loft) wherefore they fling the 
 Tongue away, elfe they might get five, fix or 
 ieven Barrels of Train-oyl out of it, but, as 
 Ifaid before, they fling it away, becaufeof its 
 Ibftnefs ; and this is the moll: picaflng Food ibr 
 the S-vord fjh. Upon his Mead is the liovd or 
 Bump before the Eyes and Finns: At the rep 
 of this Bump, on each fide , is a Spo!iL-Iu}!i', 
 two over-againll one another, which arc b-n- 
 ^cd. on each fide like an S, or as rlie hole tiuit 
 is cut on a Violin, whcreouc he dotli l-iow ilic 
 
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 UTater very fiercely, that it. roar> like a hollow 
 Wind which we hear when the Wind blow- 
 ethintoa Cave, or againft the corner of a Board, 
 or Uke an Organ-pipe. This may be heard 
 at a leagues diftance, although you do not fee 
 him by reafon of the thick and foggy Air. 
 The Whale blowethor fpouts the Water fier- 
 ceft of all when he is wounded, then it founds 
 as the roaring of the Sea in a great Stornij 
 and as we hear the Wind in a very hard Storm. 
 Behind this Bump the UHmle is fomewhat more 
 bended in than the Finn-fijlj^ yet when they 
 [mm you cannot well difcern one from theother, 
 except you obferve it very exad^ly, for it is 
 only the Finn on the Fhn'fiflj\ Back that di- 
 llinguifhes him from the Whale, The Head 
 of the Whale is not round at the top, but fome- 
 |vhat flat, and goeth down floaping, like unto 
 le tyling of an Houfe , to the under Lip. 
 he under Lip is broader than the Whde is 
 n any part of the Body , and broadeft in the 
 iddie J before and behind it is fomething 
 arrowei*, according to the fhape of the Head, 
 n one word, all the whole Fifh is fhaped like un- 
 oa Shoomaker's Laft, if you look upon it from 
 leneath. Behind the Knob or Bump where 
 he Finns are, between that and the Finns, are 
 lis Eyes, which are not much bigger than thofe 
 if a Bullock, with Eye-lids and Hair, like 
 ^ens Eyes. The Chryflal of the Eye is not 
 uch bigger than a Pea, clear, white, and tran- 
 larent as Chryftal ; the colour of fome is yel- 
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 three times as big as thofc of the Whale. The 
 Eyes of the Whale are placed very low, almoft 
 ac the end of the upper Lip. Some bring alon^ 
 with them from Spttzbergen fome Bones, which 
 they pretend to be the Ears of the Whale ; but I 
 can fay nothing to this, becaufe I never faw 
 any; but thus much I do remember, that I 
 have heard them fay that they lye very deep. 
 
 The Whale doth not hear when he fpouts the 
 
 Water , wherefore he is eafieft to be ftruck at 
 
 that time. His Belly and Back are quite red 
 
 and underneath the Belly they are commonlj 
 
 white, yet fome of them are Coal black ; mof 
 
 of them that I faw were white. Thjy lool 
 
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 him gliften like Silver. Some of them ar 
 
 marbled on their Back and Tail. Where h 
 
 hath been wounded there remaineth always 1 
 
 white Scar. I underfto"»d of one of our Haf 
 
 pooniers that he once caught a Whale zt Sfiti 
 
 bergen that was white all over. Half white 
 
 havefcen fome, but one above the reft, whic 
 
 was a Female, was a beautiful one ; fhewas 
 
 over marbled black and yellow : Thofe that at 
 
 black are not all of the fame colour, for fon 
 
 of them are as black as Velvet, others of a Co 
 
 black, others of the colour of a Tench, Wbe 
 
 they are well they are asflippery as an Et 
 
 butonemay rtand upon them, becaufe they a 
 
 {o foft, that the Flefh thereof giveth way too 
 
 weight: And the outward Skin is thin. 
 
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 >me bring along||eat of the FiQi when he lies dry a floating 
 e Bones, whichlupon the Water. The Sun beams feem not to 
 ^^Whale', butli|jave fo great power as to dry the Skin fo. 
 fe I never fawji^e found our firft Whale was fo much heated 
 lember , that Ay fiis hard fwimming that he flunk aUve ; we 
 ye very deep. m^^\^ puH of great pieces of the Skin, of the 
 sn he fpouts thingth of a Man , which we could not do to 
 ; to be ft ruck atKther Fifhes that were not fo much heated : 
 ck are quite redE^t from Whales that have been dead fome 
 ^ are commonlmys, and are dry, where alfo the Sun Ihines 
 oal black 5 mo(B,pon them, or when it doth not rain, one may 
 
 dl off a great deal of the Skin, but it flinks 
 fely ofTrain-oyl, or Fat, that ferments thro' 
 e Pores of the Skin. I kno\v not what ufe ta 
 ake of this Skin, but I havefeen Women tye 
 rail. Where h|heir Flax with it about the Diftaff. 
 laineth always I fhe Whale lofeth his beautiful white colour 
 one of our HaAhen it groweth dry, for before there is more 
 a Whale at 5/>/f#ack amongft it, which makes the white (hew 
 ^r. Half whitelg better, neither doth the black look fo well 
 X the reft, whicfcer [^ \^ ^^y^ for it groweth then brownifh* 
 1 one ; (he wasaifh^jn you ^old the Skin againft the light, you 
 V ; Thofe that aje many fmall Pores in it, where the Sweat co- 
 colour, for foir leth through. 
 
 , others of a Co y\^q Yard of the Whale \s a ftrong Sinew, 
 a Tench, 'Wb( 1^ according as they are in bignefs, lix, feven 
 ppery as an E( ejght foot long , as I have feen my felf. 
 , becaufe they ai fherc this Yard is fixed the Skui is doubled, 
 giveth way tool ^\^^^ jt n^s j^^ like Ja Knife in a Sheath, 
 )kin is thin 5 lil here you can fee nothing of the Knife but 
 lied off with on ,1^ ^ ji^i^, ^f ^h^ tjaft. The part of Genera- 
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 tion in the Female is juft fhaped like as that of 
 four-legged Beafts. At the fides of Pudendum 
 ftand out the two Breads , with Nipples on 
 them, like unto thofe of Cows : Some of thefq 
 Brealh are quite white, fome are fpeckled witli 
 black and blue Spots, like a Lapwing's Egg 
 When they have no young ones they have buc 
 fmall Breafts. I am informed, that when they 
 couple together they fland upright, clofe to on( 
 another, with their Heads out of the Water 
 whic feemeth very probable, becaufe they can' 
 not keep long under Water, and chiefly in fticl 
 a heat. They fay that they have but tw( 
 young ones at a time, for they have neve 
 found more than two young ones within them 
 How long they carry their young is not eafi 
 determin'd ; fome fay they go as long as a Cow 
 but it is very uncertain, he that will believe 
 may. The Sperm of a Whale^ when it is frel 
 fmells like Wheaten-flower that is boiled 
 Water, when it is ftill hot it is very wiiite 
 one may draw it out in Threads like hot Sea 
 ing-wax, Glew, or the like ; when it growet 
 cold it turns to a Musk-colour,and fmells ftron 
 and little red Worms grow in it, like untotl 
 grey ones, that you may fee in Tab. P. ma 
 ked with C. I have try'd feveral ways to kee 
 this Sperm fweet and frefb, but I could nevi 
 make it like unto that Sperma-citti which tl 
 Apothecaries fell in their Shops. One may d 
 of this Sperm whole Pails full out of the Wate 
 for as well this as chat of the Seahorfes and Sea 
 fwims upon the Sea like Fat, and we fee abu 
 
 dan( 
 
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Voyage 
 
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 ergen; 
 
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 like as that ofldance of it in calm Weather, fo that it doth 
 
 s of PudenciurM^^VQ the Sea all foul and (limy I try'd to 
 
 th Nipples onldry this Sperm of a Whale in the Sun, and it 
 
 : Some of thefellook'd like Snot, and when the thin Slime was 
 
 •e fpeckled witliliiry'd away from it, look'd like to FiU meteorkay 
 
 Lapwings Egglfave only that they are thicker and more heavy. 
 
 > they have butlAnother parcel I boiPd in Sea- water, juft as I 
 
 that when theiook it out of the Water, until the Water was 
 
 ^ht, clofe to on Jevaporated from it, then I had fome Sea fait, 
 
 r of the Water Ind a nafty brown Slime. The third parcel I 
 
 ecaufe they canlboird in frefli Water, and afterwards again in 
 
 id chiefly in fticliSea Water, and the longer I kept it afterwards 
 
 have but twjthe more it ftunk,and the harder it grew. The 
 
 ourth parcel I intended to keep in the falt- 
 
 acer, with an intention to carry it along with 
 
 e to Hamburgh, but it diffolv'd in the Water, 
 
 ike Glew , and the Water became foul and 
 
 inking, fo that I could no ways make it like 
 
 he Sperma-cati of the Jpotheraries. Where the 
 
 ard doth begin it is four-fquare, confifting of 
 
 is very wbitelnany ftrong Sinews; if you dry them they are 
 
 ds like hot Seals tranfpa rent as Fifh-Glew ; out of thefe Sinews 
 
 when it growetihe Seamen make twifted Whips. Their Bones 
 
 nd fmells ftionlre hard, like unto them of great four-footed 
 
 it, like untotliBeafts, but porous, like unto a Spunge, and fil- 
 
 n Tab. P. iTiaied with Marrow, when that is confum'd out, 
 
 ral ways to keeliey will hold a great deal of Water, for the 
 
 3Ut I could n2V( Dies are big, like unto the Wax of a Honey- 
 
 Ofnb. Two great and ftrong Bones hold up 
 
 hey have neve 
 les within the 
 ung is not eafil 
 is long as a t 
 at will believe 
 when it is fre 
 hat is boiled 
 
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 hich x\ 
 
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 One may di he under-Lip, they lie one againft the other. 
 
 )utofthe Wate 
 eahorfes and Sea 
 and we fee abu 
 
 dan 
 
 d both of them make a Figure like unto an 
 lalf-moon, but one alone by it feif makes a Fi- 
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 thefe Bones I faw at Spitzbergen^ lyirsg O" the 
 Ssrand^ about 20 foot long, of a very white 
 colour, as if they had been calcined. Our Sea- 
 men bring fome of thefe along with them home, 
 to fhew us how big fome Whales are, which are 
 already whitened to their Hands, for thofe that 
 come freOi from a Whale, ft ink abominably, be- 
 caufe of the Marrow that is in them. Their 
 Flefh is courfe and hard, and it doth look like 
 unto that of a Bull, it is intermix'd with many 
 Sinews ; it is very dry and lean when it is boi- 
 led,becaufe their Fat is only between their Flefli 
 and Skin : Some looks green and blue as our 
 powder'd Beef, chiefly where the Mufcles meet 
 together ; if one lets it lie a little, it grows 
 black and ftinking. The Flefh of the Tail 
 boils tendercft, and is not quite fo dry as that 
 of the Body. When we have a mind to eat 
 a Whde^ we cut great pieces off before the Tail 
 where it is four-fquare, and boil it like othei 
 Meat 5 good Beef I prefer far before it, ye 
 rather than be ftarv'd, I advife to eat WhaW, 
 Flef/j^ for none of our Men dy*d of it, and th( 
 french?Ke?» did eat almoft daily of it, they flinj 
 it fometimes on the tops of their Tubs, andle 
 it lie until it is black, and yet they eat it fo 
 all that. The Flefh of a HwWp, as well astlia 
 of the Si'a/eSy is alone by it felf, and the Fata 
 the top thereof, between the Flefh and Skii 
 It is about fix Inches thick en the Back and lie 
 ly, but I have alfo feen it a Foot thick upon 
 Fin, according as they are great or little FiO 
 'Ihc Fat of f heir under Lip is thicker than tw 
 
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, lying on the 
 a very white 
 ed. Our Sea- 
 
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 Foot, and is the thickeft of all the Whde^ The 
 
 Tongue, as I have faid before, is faftned to it, 
 
 but very foft, but it cofts too much labour to 
 
 Tth m home 1^"^ ^^' ^^^ of fome Whdes is much thicker 
 
 ^ \.\A^ ^rllthan that of others, as it is with other Animals 
 arct wnicnarel" , . , ' . , , , 
 
 f r thofe thatl'^^ Men, where one is much leaner than ano- 
 
 * ° noKlv hp Ither. In the Fat are little Sinews interfpers'd, 
 
 Xr ^Thetrth!<^i: hold the Oyl, as a Sponge does Water, 
 
 doth look like^h^ch 0"^ may fqueeze out : fhe other itron^ 
 
 M with manvl^'"^^^ ^^^ chiefly about the Tail, where it is 
 
 ^^ h n it is boi-ff^^""^^' ^°^' ^^^^ *^ ^^ ^"^"^ ^"^ winds him- 
 
 ^ ^ .UcW P?ip(i^lfelfi as a Ship is turn'd by the Rudder, but his 
 
 veen tneir rieini' ' u- r\ j ^ j- i • u- r 
 
 A blue as ourl^^""^ ^^^ Oars, and according to his bignels 
 
 '" Mufcles meetl^^ ^°^^ himfelf along with them as fwiftly as a 
 
 r^tl it srowsP^^^ ^^^^> ^"^ ^^^h make a long track in the 
 
 efh^f the Taf f^' ^^ ^ g^5^^Ship doth when under fail, fo 
 
 r/^ Arxr o<i tha#^^^ ^^ remaius divided for a while. 
 
 te 10 ory as ^n^l ^^e mjales of the North Cave (they are fo cal- 
 
 a mind to eat oi , r ^u u u ^ o ■ t 
 
 ^before the TaHf^' becaufe they are caught between Spitzber^ 
 
 oil it like others ^"^ Norway) being not fo big, therefore do 
 
 before it vel"^^ ^ much Fat as thofe of *S/>//^^6'/'^e;/, 
 
 »^ t eat WhalM^'^ of thofe of the North Cape you fliall not fill 
 
 d ^f it and th#^°^^ ^^"? twenty, or thirty Cardels of Fat ; 
 
 ?• ' 1 ^ flinl^^ middling fort of thofe of Spitzbergen yield 
 
 Mr Tubs, andleF«^"?onIy^^eventy, eighty or ninety and they 
 
 fet they eat it fofc ^.^^"^ % o^. ^^^^X, ^^^\ l^^S j>^'^ biggefl- 
 , as well as thar^^^^w^s fifty tnreefo^^^ a iid we cut oft 
 
 ' 1 the FataK"^ ^^ much Fat as filld feventy Cardels 5 his 
 
 FMh ' nd Skirt^^^ ^^^^ about three fathom and an half broad. 
 
 I ' R k anc* Beff^^ Skipper Peter Peterfon of Friefland informed 
 
 t- thkk uponP^' ^^^^ '^^V found a dead Whale, whereof 
 
 f°° ' 1 ttlc FiOf ^^y ^^^ ^"^ '^^ much Fat as fili'd one hundred 
 
 Tr^ker t^an t\vl"^ thirty Cardels, his Tail was three fathom 
 
 
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 and an half broad, but he was not much longer 
 than our biggefi, as one may guefs by the Tail 
 alfo, yet much thicker and fatter; from whence 
 one may infer, that they do not grow much 
 longer, but only in thicknefs or fatnefs, as we 
 daily fee : Nor did I ever hear that a bigger or 
 better Whale was ever caught, and even thofe 
 but feldom, for if there were many fuch, our 
 Ships could not hold fo much Fat as it cut from 
 ten, fifteen or twenty M^/^^/w, as fome of them 
 have fometimes taken in. 
 
 Over the Fat is, bcfidesthe uppermoft thin 
 Skin already defcribed, another Skin of about 
 an inch thick, proportionable to the bignefs of 
 the Whale ; it is colour'd according to the co. 
 lour of the Fifli; if the Fifh be black, thisun- 
 dermoil thick Skin is fo; iftheoutmoft Skin that 
 is like Parchment is white or yellow, the thick 
 one underneath it is of the fame colour. This 
 thick Skin is not ftiff nor tough at all, fo that 
 one might drefs it like Leather, but it dries juft 
 like unto the Fungus that grows on Elder, 
 which we call jews-ears^ which are thick and 
 turgid when they are green and frefli, but brit- 
 tle when tlTey are dried ; whereforh this Skin 
 is not efteem'd at all. This and the uppermoft 
 thin Skin that covers this, are the occafiOxn that 
 the IV h ale y. which I take to be the ftrongeft and 
 biggeft of all Creatures in the Water, cannot 
 make ufe of his (Irength, becaufe they are too 
 jfoft to do much. 
 
 I have nothing to relate of the inward Parts 
 of the Whale, but only that his Guts feem to 
 
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t much longer 
 jfs by the Tail 
 
 from whence 
 )t grow much 
 'atnefs, as we 
 It a bigger or 
 ind even thofe 
 lany fuch, our 
 t as it cut from 
 
 fome of them 
 
 ippermoft thin 
 Skin of about 
 the bignefs of 
 iing to the co. 
 black, thisun- 
 tmoft Skin that 
 How, the thick 
 e colour. This 
 at all, To that 
 but it dries juft 
 lows on Elder, 
 are thick and 
 frefli, but brit- 
 icforh this Skin 
 I the uppermoft 
 le occafion that 
 e ftrongeft and 
 Water, cannot 
 ife they are too 
 
 le inward Parts 
 Guts feem to 
 b 
 
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 be of aFlelh colour ; they were full of Wind, 
 and the Dung that was within them was yel- 
 low. 
 
 The Food of the Whale^ as it is believe ;, are 
 the fmall Sea-fnails, the Draught whereof you 
 may fee ate, in the Tab. ^Q^, whereof I have 
 made mention in another place, which fomc 
 take for Spiders ^ whether thefe afford fuch 
 great Nourifhment, I cannot exadly tell. Some 
 fay, that they live only by the Wind, but th.eic 
 methinks tijey muft have nothing in them but 
 Wind, which I found othcrwife. 1 was infor- 
 med by others, that about HitUnd a fmall iVhale 
 was caught, had about a Barrel of Hcmn^^s in 
 his Belly. The are fmaller Whaies than thofe 
 we catch at Sfitz,bergerjy but tliere is more dan- 
 ger in catching of them, they being lefs and 
 nimbler than the great ones, to whom the 
 Water doth not fo eafily give way as to thefe, 
 for they jump and play in the Water, and keep 
 their Tail commonly above Water, fo that one 
 dare not come near to them to launce them. 
 Concerning the Ifktk^s Valour, w^e do find 
 that he is not very couragious, according to 
 his flrength and bignefs, for if he fees a Man 
 or a Long-boat, he goeth under V/atcr, and 
 runs away. I did never fee nor hear, that out: 
 of his own Malice he endeavoui VI ro hurt any 
 iMan, but when he is in danger; what then he 
 doth is of neceflity, and then he doth not va> 
 lue a Man no more than a Sand, nor ? 1 .ona- 
 boat, for he doth beat them all into SpUnicrs, 
 
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 His Strength may be guefs'd by the Fifbermen 
 that catch with great Nets other Fiflies, when 
 they are going to draw their Nets towards the 
 Land , what a great Strength they muft ufe, 
 which is nothing at all to be compared to his 
 Strength. The IVhale doth fwim fometimes 
 away with fome thoufand fathon)s of Rope-line, 
 fwifter a great deal than a Ship can fail, or a 
 Bird can fly, fo that it makes their Heads gid- 
 dy \ yet a great Ship is too many for him, for 
 although he fhould ilrike againft it with his 
 Tail, yet it doth him more hurt than he does 
 the Ship. 
 
 The Whales keep, in the Spring, Weftward 
 from Spitzbergen ^ near old Greenland and the 
 Ifland of John Majen; then they run Eaft wards 
 to Spitzbergen ; After them come the Finn-fifh, 
 and rlicn there is no more Whales feen. It is 
 probable they go after a tolerable cold place ; 
 for after that, 1 have feen Finn-fijh in the Spanifh 
 Sea in the year 167 1. in the Month of Decern- 
 herj and in the Year 1672 in January^ and alfo 
 afterwards in the year 1673. ^" thQ Straights oi 
 Gibralter in March, and alio in the Mediterra- 
 
 riean. 
 
 He fwims againfl: the Wind , as all other 
 Whales or great Fifli do. The Sword-fifh is his 
 mortal Enemy, he might rather be called Comb- 
 fifh, becaufe his long Tooth is on each fide full 
 of Teeth or Prickles, moft like a Comb. In 
 our Home- Voyage to Hamburg I faw an Exam- 
 ple of this Emnity of a North-caper Whale and a 
 Sivord-fij'hy near to Hit land, they faught and 
 
 (truck 
 
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e Fifbermcn 
 ilhes, when 
 towards the 
 y muft ufe, 
 pared to his 
 \ fometimes 
 )fRope-line, 
 m fail, or a 
 • Heads gid- 
 forhim, for 
 : it with his 
 than he does 
 
 r, Weftward 
 Und and the 
 in Eaftwards 
 the Fim'fijhj 
 es feen. It is 
 e cold place ; 
 in the Spamlfj 
 ith of Decern- 
 uaryy and alfo 
 e Straights ot 
 e Mediterra^ 
 
 as all other 
 
 jord-fi(h is his 
 
 |e called Comb- 
 
 each fide full 
 
 Comb. In 
 
 faw an Exam- 
 
 Whale and a 
 
 faught and 
 
 ftruck 
 
 to Spitzbcrgen. i 5 y 
 
 ftruck at one another fo vehemently, that the 
 Water flew about like Duft, fometimes one, 
 and fometimes the other was uppermod ; the 
 Weather was a little flormy, or elfe we had 
 ftaid to have feen the end of the Battle, fo wc 
 were forc'd to leave them. 
 
 The dead M^hale killM by the Sword-fi/Jj ftinks 
 at a great diftance, but not prefently, and thofc 
 that have been wounded fome days before they 
 are caught fmell the worft, and drive high 
 above the Sea-water, when others drive even 
 with the Water; and fome fink. 
 
 The Whales have, as well as other Bcafts, 
 their peculiar Diftempers and Ailments, but 
 I can only write of what I know by Hear-fay. 
 An ancient and experienced Harpoon icr infor- 
 med nic, that he did once caxch a WhaU that 
 was very feeble, and that all his Skin, but 
 chiefly near unto the Tail and Fins, hung like 
 Films, as if they were old Rags dragg'd along 
 behind him, and that he was quite lean, fo 
 they made but very little Train-oyl of his Fat, 
 for the Fat was quite white, and light withal as 
 an empty Honeycomb. Before a Tempeft 
 they beat the Water, that it doth fly about like 
 unto Dufl:, with their Tail ; but they have 
 the greatefl ftrength when they ftrike fide- 
 wards as if they did mow, fo that one might 
 think that they were in a great agony, and a 
 dying. They are mightily tormented by the 
 Lice, whereof I have treated more at large 
 above : The Draught of this Loufe you may 
 fee at ^, in the Tab. ^ 
 
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 Tlie Wounds that are £»iven unto the Wh/tlc 
 by the Harpoons, into the fat, heal up again 
 ot' their own accord, for the Salt-water cannot 
 rtick on it. M?^t\y fuch ¥tjhes are caught that 
 have been ftruck by others with a Harpoon, 
 and are hcaPd up again, and fo have white 
 Scars. 
 
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 Hoiv they catch the Whale. 
 
 FIrfi:, it Is to be obferv'd, that when Its like 
 to be a good Year to catch Whiles in, there 
 IS many white fi[lj to be feen before : But where 
 \vc fvC many Seales^ there we do not e>vpe6l to 
 meet with many Whales-, for they fay, that 
 they cat up the Food of the IVhalc^ wherefore 
 the iVhiles will not ftay in fuch empty places, 
 but go to find out better, and fo ^ orne to ^Pitz.- 
 hergefj^ for there, at the Shoar, we fee great 
 plenty of the fmall Sea-fnails (you may fee 
 them inark'd with e in the Tab. O^) and per- 
 haps fome other fmail Fifh. They are caught 
 after the following manner: When rl.ev fee 
 Whales^ or when they hear them blow or ipour, 
 they call in to the Ship, lall^ fall: *hcn every 
 Body muft be ready to get into the Lon^ i oic 
 that he doth belong to, comniv)i:ly hx Me;i ^o 
 into every Long-boat, and fometimes (even, 
 according as the Long-boats arc in bignefs, they 
 
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oyage 
 
 I to the Whtik 
 leal up again 
 water cannot 
 : caught that 
 h a Harpoon, 
 D have white 
 
 bale. 
 
 twhen its like 
 
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 not eype^: to 
 
 icy fay, that 
 
 lit' J wherefore 
 
 empty places, 
 
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 we fee great 
 
 {)'0\\ may fee 
 
 (T) and per- 
 
 ey are caught 
 
 ^hcn r!;'.'V fee 
 
 :)!c5\v or ipout, 
 
 icn every 
 
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 all of them row until they come very near un- 
 to the IVhaie, then doth the Harpoonier arifc, 
 who fits always before in the Boat, where the 
 Harpoon, or the fliarp Iron made like unto aa 
 Arrow fixed to a Stick, doth alfo he on the 
 foremoft board of the Long- boar, which the 
 Seamen call the Stajfen, that is, the broad piece 
 of Wood that cometh up before the Boat from 
 the bottom, and ftands up higher than all the 
 reft. But when the PVhale runs ftrait down to- 
 wards the bottom underneath the Water, then 
 he doth draw the Rope very hard, fo that the 
 upper part of the Long-boat is even with the 
 furface of the Water ; nay, he would certainly 
 pull it down to the bottom, if they fhould not 
 give him Rope enough : This he doth com- 
 monly where the Sea is deepeft; and this doth 
 require an incredible force to draw fo many 
 hundred fathoms of Rope under Water. This 
 gives me occafion to remember, that when we 
 on tlie 27th of Jpri/, in the Year 1672. did 
 fling out our Lead, near St. I(Jlda, behind 
 ScotLvjdy into the Sea, where it was 120 fathom 
 deep when the Weatlier was calm, and when 
 we would pull it up again, it was fo heavy that 
 20 Men had much to do to heave it. The Har- 
 poonier taketh his Harpoon, and holds the 
 Point, or the Iron thereof, together with the 
 Rope or Line of five or feven fathom long, 
 about an inch thick, and is laid up round like 
 a Ring, that it may not hinder the Harpoon 
 when it is flung, for as foon as he doth fling or 
 dart the Harpoon, this Line follows j for it is 
 
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 more pliable than the red: that are faftned to 
 it, wherewith they purfue the Whale. It is made 
 of the fineft and foKteft Hemp, and not daubM 
 with 1 ar, but it doth fwell in the Water, and 
 fo it grows hard. The Harpoonier darts his 
 Harpoon with the Right hand at the Fifli ; as 
 you may fee by m in the Tab. Ji When the 
 Whale is hit with the Harpoon, all the Men 
 that are in the Long-boat turn themfelves about 
 and look before them, and they lay their Oars 
 nimbly upon the fides of the Long boat. There 
 IS a Man in the Long-boat, whofe bufinefs it is 
 to look after the Rope ; as you may fee at A^, 
 in the Tab. A ; for in each of thefe I.ong-boats 
 there is a whole heap of Lines, between the 
 two Seats or Benches; this Heap is divided in- 
 to three, four or five parts, and '-ach of them 
 is of ('ighty, ninety, to one hundred fathoms 
 long. The firft: of them is ty'd to the Fore- 
 runner, or finall Line J as the Whde runs under 
 the Water, they tie more and more Line to it, 
 and if in one Boat there fhould not be enough, 
 they make ufe of thofe that are in the other 
 Long-boats Thefe Ropes or Lines are thicker 
 and Wronger than the Fore-runner, and are 
 made of ftrong and tough Hemp, and tarr'd 
 over. The Line-furnifher, or the Man that 
 doth look after the Ropes, and alfo the other 
 Men that are in the Long-boat, muft have great 
 care that the Ropes or Ltnes may not be en- 
 tangled when they run out lb fwift, or that 
 they may not run towards the fideot the Long- 
 boar, 
 
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 le. It is made 
 d not daub'd 
 ; Water, and 
 lier darts his 
 the Fifli ; as 
 When the 
 all the Men 
 nfelves about 
 ay their Oars 
 , boat. There 
 ; bufinefs it is 
 riay fee at A^, 
 e I.ong-boats 
 between the 
 is divided in- 
 '^ach of them 
 idred fathoms 
 to the Fore- 
 ile runs under 
 >re Line to it, 
 Dt be enough, 
 : in the other 
 cs are thicke'' 
 ner, and are 
 p, and tarr'd 
 le Man that 
 Ifo the other 
 ift have great 
 
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 ift, or that 
 ot the Long- 
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 boat, for then the Long-boat would be over- 
 fet, and many Men lofe their Lives, if other 
 Long-boats were not near to their Afliftance. 
 The Line muft run juft before, in the middle 
 of the Long-boat, that is called the Suve by 
 the Seamen, and by reafon of this ftrong and 
 violent Motion, the Wood and Rope would be 
 fet on fire. But to prevent this, the Har- 
 poonier hath a wet Rag tied to a Stick ( like un- 
 to a Mop) ready at hand, wherewith he wets 
 the Wood without ceafing. The other three 
 Men that are in the Long-boats take alfo care 
 of the Lines, as well when they are let out, as 
 when they are taken in again ; and when they 
 cannot hold it with their Hands, they wind it 
 about the Staves of the Boat, and fo they do flop 
 it from going any further. Another, that is cal- 
 led the Steerman, ftands behind in the Long- 
 boat, as you may fee by in the Tab. J, and 
 fteers the Boat with an Oar, and he takes great 
 Care, and minds the Rope, to fee which way it 
 runs out, for if it doth go towards either fide, 
 and doth not run juft before over the Stave, he 
 fo guides the Boar, that it may run exaQly out 
 before. The Whale runs away with the Long- 
 boat as fwift as the Wind. If the Harpoonier 
 can, he doth dart the Harpoon juft behind the 
 Spout-hole of the Whale, or in the thick Fat of 
 his.Back, where they alfo do launce him, for that 
 maketh Iv'm fpout Btood fooner than if wound- 
 ed in any other place, and die fooner than if 
 you fliould launce them into their Bellyj or 
 through the Guts- The firft IVh^tle we caught 
 
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 fpouted Blood in fuch a quantity, that the Sea 
 was tinged by it wherever he fwam, wherc- 
 unto the Mdlemucks flock'd in great Numbers, 
 as I have mentioned before. They alfo launcc 
 the Whales near their Privy-parts, if they can 
 come at it; for if they are run in there, it doth 
 pain them very much, nay, even when they 
 are almod dead, if you run in your Lauiice 
 thereabout, it caufes the whole Bocly to trem- 
 ble. For the moft part they do not much mind 
 where they launce or pufh them ; for there is 
 r!0 time to take great DeUberation, but they 
 itrike at him as well as they can. But about 
 tlic Head the Harpoon can do him no burr, 
 becaufe the Fat is but very thin there upon the 
 Bones, which the Whales know as well as we; 
 for when they find themfelves in dar.ger, fa 
 th?t they cannot efcape the Harpoon, tliey 
 rather leave their Head than their I3ack unde 
 fended, for there the Harpoon breaks out eafier, 
 and fo the Whale gets away, lihe one that hath 
 no mind to fight any longer. The Ufe of ihe 
 Harpoon is, to tye, as it were, the Whales with 
 them, that they may not run away: It is flia- 
 ped like an Arrow before, as you may fee at /,| 
 in the Tab. Qj, It hath two fliai p Beards, they 
 are fharp at the edge, and have a broad Back, 
 like unto a Hatchet that is fharp before audi 
 blunt behind, or on the Back, fo that it may| 
 not cut with its Back, for elfe it would teai 
 out, and all your Labour would be lo(i. Thcl 
 Iron Handle is thicker behind than before, and 
 it is hollow, whereinto they put the Stick, A 
 
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to Spitz bcrgcn. 1 6 r 
 
 I you may fee in the lab. O , marked with h. Be- 
 tore this hollow part , the Fore-goer is ia- 
 IHenMorty'd, that is to fay the ibremod Rope, 
 as you may fee in the lab Q, marked with :. 
 Irhofe are the beit Harpoons that are made of 
 clean and fine Steel, and are nor hardened too 
 luiuch, fo that you may bead it wirhouc ihap- 
 ping, for oftentiines l\vo lujndrcd Pounds arc 
 lof]: (For a midhng \Vh.iU is eilecm'd at lo much) 
 in a minutes time for w^anr ot a go xl and vvel!- 
 ItemperM Harpoon. I'he Wooden Stick is fa- 
 iltened witliin the Iron Collet or Tunnel of the 
 Harpoon, with Packthread wound all about: 
 the Iron ; fomewhac higher up, abouc twolpanj 
 lofF, there is a hole nT^.de through the Scock, as 
 you may fee marked with /-, ni the Tab. Qj> 
 The Harpoon is light behind, and heavy to- 
 wards the point, or before, like an Arrow, that 
 is made heavy before with Iron," and light be- 
 hind with Feathers, fo that fling it which way 
 you will, it doth tall alvrays upon the point. 
 Ithrough this hole cometh a piece of Prick- 
 Ithread, wherewith the end of the Fore-riuiner 
 liifaile.ied to the Handle or Stock of the Har- 
 poon, but this is fbon torn off, and it fwrveth 
 
 :• nothing more afrcr the Harpoon flicks in 
 |hc Body or tlie Whale ; neither is the Wooden 
 f-iandle of any further ufe. and {o it doih f^ioii 
 
 me ou<-. from the Iron. When the Whale is 
 
 |tr "fk with the Harpoon, all the other Long- 
 
 !;)iis row onv. before , and take notice which 
 
 ay the Liae doili (land, and fonctiines they 
 )iui at the Rope or Line (as y^ u may {<.{:^ \\\ 
 
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 the Tab. A, marked with />.) If it is ftiflfand 
 heavy, the Whale doth draw it ftill with his 
 might ; but if it doth hang locfe, fo that the 
 Long-boat is before and behind equally high 
 out of the Water, then the Men pull in the 
 Rope again, (as you may feen in the Tab. A^ 
 marked with</) and the Rope-giver layeth it 
 down in very good order (as you may fee at 
 ^, in the Tab. A) round, and one row above 
 tlie other, that if the Whale fliould draw on 
 again, he may have it ready to give him with- 
 out being entangled. Here is alfo this to be 
 obferved, that if the TO^/e runs upon the level 
 they murt not give him too much Rope, for if 
 he fhould turn and wind himfelf much and of- 
 ten about, he might eafily wind the Rope about 
 a Rock or heavy Stone, and fo faften it to it, 
 and fo the Harpoon would come out, and all' 
 the Labour would be loft •, which hath often 
 hapned, and we our felves loft one that way. 
 The other Long-boats that are towed behind 
 wherein the Men look all before them, and fi 
 ftij], and let the Whale draw them along: I 
 the Whale doth rowl upon the Ground, fo tha 
 tlie Long- boats or Sloops lye ftill, they draw 
 their Lines in again by degrees, and the Rope 
 mafterdoth lay them down again in their pro 
 per places, as they had been laid before. Whei 
 they kill the Whale with Launces, they alfo pul 
 their Lines in again, until! they come near to th 
 "Whale, yet at fome diftance, that the others ma; 
 have room to launce: But they muft havegrea 
 care, that all the Lines of every Sloop may no 
 
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 be cut* Oif toge . - ^eraufe fome Whales fink, 
 and others do fWi- 1 c-. C: t!> ;hc Wncer when 
 they are dead, whicii .. •'' '.an tell be^brc- 
 {land, whether ihey ^^'ili J one o-- » je otjicn 
 The tk ones do not link ,- v urly aiV.cr r' , aiG 
 frefhkillc^^ Lut the ica i <^. . tluk immciLjtely 
 after they are dead, but at.cr ibme few diiys 
 they come up again, and rvv;::^ on rh^; M tier : 
 But it would be too long a whiic for a Man ^o 
 ftay till he cometli up again , and the Sea is 
 never fo quiet that one can (lay long in the 
 fame place, and where the Sea is quiet , and 
 without Waves, there the Stream doth carry 
 the Ships and the Ice along together, fo that 
 we fhould be forced to leave the Whde unto 
 others, that would find liimdead fome days af- 
 ter. 'Tistrue, this is the eafiell way to catch 
 Whiles^ but it is very naiiy and ftinking work; 
 for long and white Maggots grow in their Flefli, 
 they are flat like unto Wornrjs that breed in 
 Mens Bellies, and they fmell worfe than c ver I 
 fmelt any thing in my Life. The longer the 
 Whde lies dead in the Water, the higher he doth 
 fwitn above it ; fomefwim a foot high above 
 the Water, others to their middle, and then 
 they do burfb eafily, and give a very great re- 
 port. They begin immediately to ftmk, and 
 this encreafes hourly, and their Flefh boils and 
 ferments like unto Beer or Ale, and holes break 
 in their Bellies, that their Guts come out. If 
 any Man is enclined to fore Eyes, this Vapour 
 enflames them immediately , a^ if Quicklime 
 was flung into nhem. But when the live Whales 
 
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 rife and fwim again, fomc of them are aftonifli'd, 
 others wild or ftark mad: To thofe that are 
 wild we come foftly or gently from behind, 
 as we do when we are going to trapan theni; 
 for when the Wind is down, the Weather cahn, 
 and Airferene, fo that the Sei doth not foam 
 or roar, the Wh.tles hear immediately the (hik- 
 ingofthe Oiirs. 
 
 If many fmall Ice-flieets lye near to one 
 anothei', fo that we cannot follow the /l'7.Wc 
 with our Sloops or Long-boats, we fetch in 
 our Line with all might and (Ircngth, and it 
 with one or more puUi wc can fetcii out the 
 Harpoon it is well, if not, we chop off the 
 Rope or Line. The Whde is befl: and fu reft 
 ftruck with a Flarpoon whca he fpouts Wa- 
 ter, as is already faid above , for we do oh- 
 ferve, that when they lye ftill and very quiet, 
 that they then lidcn, and arc fomctimes un- 
 der, and fomctimes above Water, fo that thei 
 Back doth not quite dry, and before we an 
 aware of it he flings up his Tail behind out o 
 the Sea, and fobids us good-by; as you may 
 fee at /, in the Tab. A. The Whdes may ea( 
 be caught vv^hcn the Air is very ferene and 
 clear, and the Sea quiet, and where there lloa 
 neither great nor fmall Ice^flieets, fo that wc 
 may go in between them with our Boars 
 Sloops, to ibllow them; for at the Ice ficldi 
 r.he I'l bales do commonly lye and rub them' 
 ielvcs at them, perhaps by reafon of the Lia 
 th.it bite them. Bcricie.s, againft the Ice-flicet 
 x\v: Sea beats, dalhe?, and foams, with fm.. 
 
 curiir 
 
 
 
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 curling Waves, Co that the JVhaies do not ob- 
 ferve nor mind the llrikingot theOars, and fo 
 they are eafily itruck vvidi the Harpoon. It is 
 very dangerous to kill a Female, chicily when 
 Ihe is big with young, for they dv:;!cnd tliem- 
 felves very long, and are (larder to be kilTd 
 than a Male one. Ofrentinnes the Long- boats 
 wait fix or ieven Hours, nay, a whole da\, for 
 a WhaUy before they hie one. 
 
 Where great quantity pi fmal^ Ice is crov/dcd 
 together, there it is alio very dapgcrou'^, rnd 
 hard to ccme to rh.e IVbale^ lor lie is fo cun- 
 ning, that when he perceives where the Ice is 
 he retires thither inimcdiatcly- Tl;e Hai poo- 
 nier Hands at the Head of the Lcng-hort, and 
 doth draw on the Rope, as you n'Vv' lee at ^f, 
 in the Tab. J^ to try whethi; it i:, heavy or 
 ligiit; if it feels heavy, fo that v^e mc alVaid 
 that it will puil the Boat un:ler Water, then 
 we give him more Rope, if he rs;ns ilrait out 
 before, he drrweth the Sloops a her hin^. Jf 
 he doth run underneath a f^reac Ire u.ld, the 
 Harpoon it r takedi a Knite in his H;.ir;.^, ns v'ou 
 may ke At 11. in .the Tab. ../, \v!:i(h vhev'--'-^ 
 
 de. 
 
 the C;h'..p!Mn^:. K/]i'v\ ?ir;d if t\vt l^-r:- 
 !:o!!()v\', or •pOi!['^y,- or iull oF holes \u : 
 hat fi'-; •l^/;?/:' car\ ^cu.h htcar? 
 md «::e Rope is ;0L ',0^% '^; 
 ./W K.xW^ A^nd ^^" rlie feu h^-: levc'- 
 o.^v». vbev dr^AV d'-f; Ro^x^ in m:: mvKh 
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 in the Body oF the Whale^ yet not without 
 great lofs, tor oftentimes they run away with 
 the Lines that belong to five and more Sloops. 
 It happens very olten, that they run to the Ice 
 with the Long-boats, fo that they dafli againft 
 it, as if they would break it into pieces, which 
 alfo very often happens. But when the Wbde 
 rifes again, they oftentimes fling one or two 
 more Haipoonsinto him, according as they 
 find '' '"'■' nrud more or lefs, then he dives un- 
 der Wh cr again. Some iwim or run even all 
 along on the Waier, and they play with their 
 Tail and Finns, fo that we rrtull have great 
 care that we may not come too near them. 
 When the Whales Hing their Tails about after 
 this manner, they wind the Line about their 
 Tail, fo that v/e need not to fear the Harpoon 
 tearirg out, for then they are ty'd ftrong and 
 firm enough with ihe Rope. After they are 
 wounded, they fpout with all their might and 
 main, fo that you may hear them as far off 
 as you may a Cannon ; but when they are 
 quite tired, it cometh out only by drops, for 
 he hath not ftrcngth enough to force the Wa- 
 ter up, and therefore it founds as if you held 
 an empty Mug or Bottle under Water, and 
 the Water runs into it, A\v^ ttis found is a 
 certain Hgn of his fceblcnefs, and that he is 
 going to expire. Some Whales blow Blood to 
 the veiy latt, after they have been woundcc), 
 and theie dafh the Men in the Long-boats 
 mofb filthily, and dye the Sloops as red as if 
 they were painted with a red colour ; nay, tic 
 
 ' very 
 
not without 
 a away with 
 more Sloops, 
 un to the Ice 
 
 \f dafh againfl: 
 pieces, which 
 len the Whde 
 
 5 one or two 
 rding as they 
 1 he dives un- 
 r run even all 
 lay with their 
 jft have great 
 oo near them, 
 liis about after 
 ne about their 
 ir the Harpoon 
 ty'd ftrong and 
 After they are 
 heir might and 
 :hem as far off 
 when they are 
 y^ by drops, for 
 3 force the Wa- 
 as if you held 
 :r Water, and 
 tbis found is a 
 and that he is 
 blow Blood to 
 been woundcc), 
 the Long- boats 
 )ps as red as if 
 olour ; nay, tic 
 very 
 
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 very Sea is tinged red all along where they 
 fwim. Thofe Whales that are mortally woun- 
 ded heat themfelves, that they reek while they 
 are alive, and the Birds fit on them, and cat oq 
 them while they are ftill alive. When the 
 Whales blow up the Water, they fling out with 
 it fome fattifh Subflance that floats upon the 
 Sea like Sperm, and this Fat the MdlUttiucks 
 devour greedily, of which feveral thoufands at- 
 tend Iiim, fo that a Whale often hath more At- 
 tendants than a King hath Servants; as you 
 may fee by T, in the Tab. J. Sometimes alfo 
 the Harpoons break out; then often Long- 
 boats of other Ships attend, and as foon as they 
 fee that the Harpoon is come our, they fling 
 their own into him, and the Whale is theirs, 
 altho' the firft Harpoon hath almolf kili'd the 
 Whale, yet if he doth get loofc, the fecond Per- 
 ty claims him, and the firft muft look hv ano- 
 ther. Sometimes at the fame time two flar- 
 poons, belonging to two feveral Ships, are ilruck 
 into the Whale, fuch ones are divided equally, 
 and each one hath half, as you may fee at 
 MM^'m the Tab. ^; the other two, or three, 
 or more Sloops, as msny as there is of tlicm, 
 wait for the Whales coming up again,and when 
 th^y fee that he is tir'd, they kill him outright 
 with Launces. In doing this is the grtateil 
 danger, for the firft that do fling the Harpoon 
 into him are drawn along by the Whale, and 
 are at a good diftance from him, but thcfc rhat 
 kill him with Launces are as well upon his Bocy 
 as at his fides, according as the Whale tun.s 
 
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 Ond winds lunik'lf, und tl\cy receive many fe- 
 vcrc Blv^v/s. f'crt: the Sccerfman mull t;jk(j 
 nrc to obi'jrvc how tlic Whixle rims and tiiriv; 
 lumic'lt ahnuc^ thn ihc llirpoonicr may reach 
 liini u'iih 111'. Launcca ; all ihc other Men in the 
 Sloops 10 v\' :''lij/^cr.ily, {binctijncsio! wards, and 
 ibmvtiui-ij b."J{vv.^ir(h, which thry call rowify^ 
 o;} and Jlrikr/r^^ and when the Whale lifts up 
 hiiTiilir out: oi the Water, he commonly doth 
 llrike chcuc with his 'I'ail and Finns, that tli'j 
 V/arer daliieth up like DuH-. A Long- boat li:j 
 Vr^iucs no more than Duil, for he can beat ii 
 all mio n"i:^rtcrs nt a blow^: But a great Ship i, 
 too hard for him, and if lie (Irikes againll ii 
 with his Tail, he feels it more than the Ship, 
 ibr he dorli lb paint the Ship with his own 
 Blood, t'lit it makcth him very feeble. A 
 ^ood Srcermau is next unto the Harpoonicr 
 raoll ufciul in the Sloop:, he ileers with one 
 ijjr, and doch look out beibrc ; the ot]\er four 
 Mjii turn their Back to the Head, and look to- 
 wards tlie Stern, tlierelbrc doih tlie Steerman 
 aiul ilarpo jnicr always cry, Row o^/^ or fif'il:('~, 
 thu is to fav, row near to the H'hale, or clfe 
 keep iafiher oA\. The Launces have a Wooden 
 Sr.ck or Handle above two Paihoms lonp;, or 
 l;)iDevv'hat ilioner thnn a PikcihiT; as in t'r: 
 Tub. X^ > ou vody lie at g , the iron thereof is 
 to.mr.only a Faihoin long, and pointed befcr. 
 ]\kQ unto a Pike; Jt is made of Sreel or tough 
 Iroii, t -la I ii m IV h';nd without: breaking: For 
 after you have made a di:c\) hole in his Bo6\ 
 v:iia Your l..iiinccs, vou nckc Inic k with th^m 
 
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 ^>nc way and the other way, as they do when 
 they poke for Eels, as you mny fee at Z, in 
 the Tab. // •, but it he doth get one or more out 
 of your Hands, you take another, for every 
 ^loopliathat leafl: five, fix or {z\'{:n^ and yec 
 fometimes he has them all out of thrcr:', lour, or 
 more Boats kicking in his Body. 
 
 
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 Whiit they do with the dead Whale. 
 
 AFrcr the W^//'//<? is killed they cut ofF his 
 'J'ail ; fome keep the Tail and Finns, and 
 hang tli:m up ar ihe outflde of their Slip, lor 
 that defends them iroin r\\z lee when \t pref^- 
 fcth upon the Ship: The Tail p; ^dcrs the tJoat 
 in its eourfe, beeaufe it doiii lye cio ■, and that 
 is the realbn why tliey cur it ' o} iijfore thj 
 Tail they fallen a piece of a Pvop-'. and at the 
 other end at the Stern of the \-{\ -!uop, as you 
 may Ice in the Tab. y/, marked u rii ;i-. There 
 is in all four or five Sloops fillen.d to one ano- 
 ther behind, and fb ilicv luw one behind the 
 other to the great Ship. When th'.y have 
 brought thQli'hde to the Ship, they tye it with 
 Ropes faii to the Sfup; that part wiicre the 
 Tail is cut oiF they fallen to the fore-part of 
 the Ship, and the Iload towards the Scerii, 
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 is IcWom that a Whale doth reach farther than 
 from the Poop to the middle of the Ship, ex- 
 cept the Veilels are very fmall , as you may fee 
 at X, in the Tab. J, 
 
 By the Larboard is to be underftood that fide 
 of the Ship that is at your Right Hand as yoi 
 go from before towards the Stern ; but that fide 
 of the Ship that is on your Right Pland as yoi 
 go from the Stern towards the Fore-part is cal- 
 led Star-board, becaufe you go from the Steei 
 forward. 
 
 Whoever of the Ships Crew fees a dcac 
 Whale, cries out I'tflj miney and therefore the 
 Merchants mul^ pay him a Ducat, for his Car( 
 and Vigilance. Many of them climb often u[ 
 into the Maft, in hopes to have a Ducat, but ii 
 vain. 
 
 When the dead Whale is thus failened to thi 
 Ship, two Sloops hold on the other fide of th 
 Fifh or Whale, and in each of them doth ftan 
 a Man or Boy, that has a long Hook in h 
 Hands, wherewith he doth hold the Boat t 
 the Ship, and the Harpoonier Ihnds before i 
 the Sloop, or upon the Whale, with a Leather 
 Suit on, and fometimes they have Boots 
 Underneath tl^e Hook are feme fharp N 
 fixed, thattheymay be able to (bnd firm, 
 the Whale is very llippery, fo that one may e 
 fily fall, as upon fiippery Ice. Thefe two M 
 that cut the Fat oii' have their peculiar Wag 
 for it, viz>, about four or five Rix Dolla 
 Firft, they cut a large piece from behind 
 Head, by the Eyes, which they call the Kj 
 
 
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 farther than 
 the Ship, ex- 
 jyou may fee 
 
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 ur piece, that is as much as to fay the Winding- 
 piece ; for as they cut all the other Fat all in 
 
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 rows, from the Whale towards tlie end, fothey 
 cut this great Kjnter /^/cff larger and wider than 
 all the rclh I'his piece, when it is cut round 
 about from the Whale, reaches fiom the 
 Water to theCra^^e, (that is the round Circle 
 that goeth roun 1 abont the middle of the Mali, 
 and is made iti the ihape of a Basket) from 
 whence you may guefs at the bignefs of a 
 Whale. A ftrong and thick Rope is fixed to 
 this l(ffiter piece^ and the other end is JRxed un- 
 derneath the Cradle, whereby the Whale is as 
 it was born up out of the Water, that they may 
 come at it, and by reafon of the great weight 
 of the Whale, the Ship leans towards that fide. 
 One may judge how tough th.^ Fat is, for in 
 this (.-wlc an hole is made, through which the 
 Rope is taflened, yet not deep into the Far, 
 wherewith they turii the Fifli at Pleafure^ as 
 you may fee at \,, in the Tab. y/. Then, as is 
 before faid, they cut another piece down hard 
 by this, that is alfo hailed up to the Ship; as 
 you may fee at £, in the Tab. J ; and then ia 
 the Ship they cut it into lefs pieces about a 
 foot fquare. Thefe two Men have in their 
 Hands, as well as thofethat ftandon the Whale, 
 long Knives, wherewith they cut thcfe fquare 
 pieces. Thefe Knives are, with their Haks, 
 r peculiar Wagcsl about the length of a Man ; and the more tlic 
 five Ri^ Dollars.! Fat of the Whale is loofened, jult as the Hide 
 from behind thej is flca'd from an Ox, the higlicr iT.ufl they pull 
 hev eall the Kf^''\ up tlie Fat with their Puileyb, that they may 
 ^ ^''1 cue 
 
 ftood that fide 
 t Hand as you 
 ; but that fide 
 It Hand as you 
 ore-part is ca*- 
 from the Steer 
 
 w fees a dead 
 id therefore the 
 at, for his Care 
 1 climb often up 
 a Ducat, but in 
 
 isfaaenedtothe 
 ther fide of the 
 hem doth ft and 
 ng Hook in h'S 
 old the Boat to 
 Hands before m 
 with a Leathern 
 
 have Boots on. 
 ome (harp Nails 
 ftand firm, tor 
 
 that one may ea- 
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 172 Ji?c fourth Tart of the Voyage 
 
 cut it the caficr. And when they have drawn 
 up this Far, the Men take it in to them into 
 the Ship, and loofcn the Rope that it was la(K 
 red unto. The Rope is fallned with a Ring 
 whereinto tlicy put a great iron Hook, which 
 is fallncd to a flrong Tackle, and alfo ibme- 
 times, before in the *5hip, are fix'd two other 
 Tackle, wherewith all the Fat is drawn up into 
 the Ship. In th.: Ship Hand two Men, with 
 Hooks as long as a iMan, wherewith they hold 
 the grciat piece of Far, which the two \Jen cut 
 into fquare pieces with their long Knives. I>y 
 them itands another, that hath a fhort Hook 
 wlch a Ring in his Hands, which he thrylh in- 
 t > the pieces of Fat that are cut fquare, and 
 puts ir upon the iknchor DreiTing boa rd,w here 
 IX. is cut by others ihto k[;> pieces. l"he two 
 rirll >;cn with their long Knives, that cut tdc 
 large pieces of Fat, Hand near the Larboard of 
 the Ship, at that fide wlicre the Whale is Hx'd 
 vind tlic other Men tliat afterwards cut it mto 
 lefs pieces, itand on the other fide call'd Star 
 board, as you may fee at /, in the Tab. 
 When it is a good time to catch Whales, an 
 they will not lofe ir, they tow fometimes \\ 
 vcral Fifl'f beiund their Ship, and catch more 
 and thicy cut only the great pieces of F\ t c 
 them, and fling them underneath into the Ship 
 But vvlicn they have no mure VelTeis to pu 
 t'lieir Fat into, they fail into an Harbour; or 
 it be calm Weather, and not windy, they ftay 
 in the Sea, and faflen thcmlfjlves to a flicet 
 Ice, arid fo they drive along with the Stream 
 
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to Spitzbergcn. 17:5 
 
 The other Men cut the Fat into fmall pieces, 
 on a Table : on the further fide of the Table is 
 a Nail faRened, whereunto they iaften a Hook, 
 which thcv put into the Fat, that it may lye 
 fteddy when they cut it into fmall pieces; the 
 Fat is tough to cut, wherefore it mu/l lie firm. 
 That fide v/hereon the Skin is they by under- 
 moft, and fo cut the Fat from it by pieces. 
 The Knives wherewith they cut the Fat into 
 fmall pieces, are lefs than the other, about three 
 foot long with their Hafts. They all cut from 
 them that they may not be beda'jbed with the 
 Fat, which might occafion a fiirinking-up and 
 lamenefs of the Sinews of their Hands and 
 Arms. One of them cuts the foft and tough 
 Fat into fmall pieces with a long Knife ; this 
 Man they call the Chopj/er, and he is mightily 
 daubed, wherefore he doth hang about him all 
 forts of Rags and Clouts he can get. The Fat 
 of fomc Whales is white, of others yellow, and 
 of fome red. J'he white Fat is full of fmill Si- 
 news, and it does not yield fo much Oyl as the 
 yellow. The yellow Fat that looks like Butter 
 is the beft. The red and watery Fat cometh 
 from dead Whales, for in the place where the 
 Fat runs out, the Blood fettles in its room, and 
 yields the worll and lealt Oyl. Before the 
 Table-is a Gutter made of two Boards nailed 
 together, whercinto the fmall or minced Fat 
 is flung; by it Hands a Boy that fliufflcs the 
 Fat by degrees into a Bag that is iixed to the 
 end of the Gurcer, and is like unio a Pudding 
 bag, ib that it readies dov/n into tlie Ship; out 
 
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 1 74 The fourth part of thr Voya^^e. 
 
 of this Bag the Fat runs down iiuo ?. Tub oi* 
 woodden Funne!, which they put ur • empty 
 Veflels or Cardels, as they call the;i , and the 
 Men that are below in the Ship fill 'em with 
 it, and fo it is kept uin-I they try it u^ into 
 Train-oyl. When the Fat is cut off tVom one 
 fide of the Whale, before they turn him they 
 cut out the Whale-bone in one entire piece*, 
 and this is fo heavy, that all the Ships Crew 
 hath enough to dj to pull it up. They make 
 life, for that purpolc, of a peculiar fort of 
 Hooks, two whereof they fix on the fides, and 
 one on tlie middle of it, very well provided 
 with llrong Tackl;, as you may fee in the 
 Tab. /< , and .■cer wards they cut out the 
 "Whale bone ot the oilier {\At of the Filli, and 
 draw it up alio v.itli Pulleys into the Ship, 
 where it is cut into \:q\\ pieces as they bring 
 it hither in. The vV hale- bone doth only be- 
 long to the Owners cf the Ship, and the o- 
 thers that run their hazard, whether thev 
 catch few or many Whales. The relt, which 
 take their Pay by the Month , receive their 
 Money when they come home, whether they 
 have caught many or none, and the Lofs or 
 Gain falls upon the Merchants. The Hooks 
 that they c^ane up the Whale bone withal, are 
 made on purpofe for it, like a Beam of a pair 
 of Scales ; on each end arc two fharp points, 
 which they knock in between the Whale-bone; 
 in the middle of the Beam is fadened a long 
 Handle with a Ring, whereon the Ropes are 
 faftened h on this Haujile there are fixed two 
 
 othei 
 
 ^t' 
 
i.no a Tub cfH 
 [\t iiT • empty 
 the; I , and the 
 fill ' v^'ni with 
 try it ''P into 
 It off tVom one 
 
 fo Spitzbergen. I75 
 
 other crooked Hooks like Birds Claws ; in the 
 Ring where the Ropes are faftened is another 
 crooked Hook, at the top faftencd by a Ring, 
 fuch a one as we make ufe of here when we 
 wind any thing up by a Crane ; but in the mid- 
 
 die between thefe two Hooks is faftened ano- 
 
 tuVn iiim they Ither Rope, which keeps the lowermoft Hook 
 ; entire piece , Iftedd/; the two hindmoft Points are knocked 
 le Ships Crew I into the Whale-bone behind, and the two fore- 
 ). They make Imofl: fliort ones before, which hold the Whale- 
 leculinr fort of Ibone faft between them when it is wound or 
 1 the fides, and I pulled up. 
 
 well provided! The dead Whales, when the Fat is cut .off 
 
 nay fee in th?!of them, they let; float, and are the Food of the 
 
 y cut out theiBirdsof Prey when they are hungry, but they 
 
 if the Filll, andlhad rather have dead Whales that have ftill 
 
 into the Ship Jtheir Fat left on them. The white Bear is g^- 
 
 ;s as they bring Inerally not far off, whether there be any Fat 
 
 b doth only be-lieft on them or no, and look like Dogs that 
 
 ip, and the c-lonly feed upon Carrion, and at that time their 
 
 whether thevlwhite Furr is turned into a yellow Colour, and 
 
 he relt which lat the fame time they fhed their Hair, and 
 
 receive their Ithcir Skins are worth very little. Where a 
 
 whether they I dead Whale is near, we fee it by the Birds, 
 
 id the Lofs or 
 The Hooks 
 )one withal, are 
 Beam of a pair 
 vo fharp points, 
 le Whale-bone; 
 faftened a long 
 the Ropes are 
 are fixed two 
 othei 
 
 whereof arc many, and alfo the white Bears 
 (lifcover it, as you may fee at g in the Table B, 
 chiefly in the Spring, when but a few Whaies 
 are caught, for then they are greedy of their 
 Prey ; afterwards when many Whales float on 
 the Sea, they have their Bellies full, and we 
 do not find fo many by a Whale, becaufe they 
 are difperfed. 
 
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 176 T'hc fourth Tart of the Voyage 
 
 C M A P. X. 
 
 Of the Trying out of the Train- oyt from 
 
 the tat. 
 
 1 
 
 Formerly the Dunh did try out their Train- 
 oyl in Spttzbergcn^ at i^mirthber^.^ and about 
 the Cookery oi HarUngen^ where llill, for a Re- 
 mcmbrancc, all forts of Tools belonging thcre^ 
 unto are to be fecn, whercotT have made men- 
 tion before. The I'rench'inen try up their Train- 
 oyl in their Ships, and by that means many 
 Ships arc burnt at Spitzherge//; and this was 
 the occalion.of the, burning of two Ships in my 
 time. They try out their Train-oyl at ^Spnz- 
 bcrgtf?j that they may load the more Fat in 
 their Ships-, and they believe it to be very pro- 
 fitable, for they go their Voyage upon parr, that 
 is to fay, they receive more or lefs, according 
 to what they catch: but I do not account it 
 Wifdom to fill up the room of the Ship wich 
 Wood, wliere they might (low Velfels. But 
 our Country-men, as 1 told you before, put 
 the Fat into tlie Vcifels, wherein it doth icr- 
 ment jull like iiccr j and 1 know no Inllancc 
 that ever any Vcifcl did fly \\\ pieces, aithoug!i 
 they are (lopt up verv cloic, and fo it bccorj)crli 
 j'or the greatcd part Train-oyl in them. Ui' die 
 iVcOi Fat oi" Whales, when it is burnt out yoii 
 loic Twenty in the Hundred, more or Icf:, i. 
 
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 V. Ii;;rc they i\\ up tlic i^'a: into liain-oyl, no.ir 
 ti<in.uar:'.^ iL.y rry uptlnjF.it out o! tlic Villlls 
 liiLO a prcat woricn rrouiHi c Tub, and one 
 cf tliib two Mcaci7"5pty ic nuo a ^j;tcJt Kettle 
 (liar. Itandsn-ar ir, tiiat iloih iiold two Cardcls 
 
 X d\. 
 
 lit their Train- 
 
 ^ber^^^ and about 
 
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 clonging therc^ 
 
 Lve nnade men- 
 
 up their Train- 
 
 .t means many 
 
 , and this was 
 
 yv'o Ships in my 
 
 n-oyl at Sptz- 
 
 e more Fat m 
 
 to bt very pro- 
 
 upon parr, that 
 
 lefs, according 
 
 not account it 
 f the Ship with 
 V VeiTels. But 
 'ou before, put' 
 lein it doth icr-' 
 low no Inlhncc 
 kicces, akbough 
 |i fo it bccon-cth 
 a them. Ofthc 
 
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 tluc rncikcs 12c, I'^o, and lomctimes 
 
 1. 10 Cidllons-. Und'^riivuih tiiis Copper tliat is 
 
 |n)ade up witli k»ricks tlu:y put the Fu'e, and io 
 
 iicy bo;l it, a:;(? tiy it up into i'rain-oyl, as 
 
 |\o!i try up other ]'<ii. '1 lUi Copper is very well 
 
 uore 01 
 
 lei: 
 
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 C0iU:P 
 
 ivLureci, as il.c IJyers t-opp.M-s uic to De : it is 
 
 very bio.id and ij.it, jull hke a Fryin^j pi:i, 
 
 made of Cop[)..^i. Wiici: iherai is well tryccl 
 
 or fryed out, th-jy take it out ol Luc Fan with 
 
 fir.iii Ke.tlct,, iij.:ua great biove, that the hquid 
 
 only may run tliiough, the rtil is thrown away. 
 
 Tl.is 6ieve "Hands over a ^rojc Tub, which is 
 
 ,ibove hah Hiled with cokl Water, thattliehot 
 
 Train oy I may be cooled, and thac what is 
 
 unclean and duty of die IViood and other Soil 
 
 uiiy fall to i\\c bottom, a:id only the cleat' 
 
 Frain-oyi iwiia at the top of the Vv'ater, like 
 
 piherOyl. In this cj'.eu rub or Trough is a 
 
 hnall Spout or Tap which doth run ouc ovei* 
 
 [another as b:g as aTub, out ofwiiich t!ie Train- 
 
 J runs into another Tub, when ic is ainiod 
 
 fv^dy to run over, w]!i<.r» is aUb filled with cold 
 
 iV lertotheniiddle, whcn.'in it is more ccoleJ, 
 
 :id becomes clearer, and more refined than ic 
 
 '/:s l.efore. In tins Trough is another Sponc, 
 
 iiroLigh v/l'.ich tite I'raiu oyl runs into the 
 
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 our of [lis Pvloutli ac the fides, as it doth in 
 Wh;ilc,'5, iov clfc h(j c;in open his Mouth if \\z 
 plcafcs. Within his Mourh , between the 
 Whale-bone, he is all over hairy, like unto 
 Horfes Hairs, vtliich grows within to the 
 Whale- bone iliat i:. bi.t new growing, and it is 
 of a blue colour, 'iihc other Wiiale-bone is of 
 a br('wn colour, and d^irk b'ov/nilh with yelbw 
 Ihoaks, w!]ich arc clleeinc! to be the olde(l : 
 The blue Wiia!e-hone coniLih from young 
 UMv.les and Finn lifiies. He js not as black as 
 VcKer, as tlie Whale is, bi!t like a Tench, 
 The fhape of his ijody is lonn; and fmall, nei- 
 ther IS hefofat uS a Whale, wherefore we do 
 not much care ro catch liim, tor he doth not 
 pav us for our Labour. Ir is much more dan- 
 gcioiis to kill liim than to 1;:11 a Whale, be- 
 cauie he moves quicker, and heats about hiiii 
 w;ih his Tail, and from him with his Finns, fo 
 that we dare not come near unto liim with our 
 Sloops or Long-boats, for the Launces kill him 
 iboiiell. I was informed, thn once fomc, be- 
 lO'c they were aware of ir, i\'A fim^^, by a mi" 
 ;!;akc, their ITarpoon into a i'lnnfilli, where- 
 i.poa he drew both Boat and Men, all on a fuJ- 
 dvii, underneath alar^e Ice-flteet before they 
 were a ware of it, and not one ot' them efcap'd. 
 His Tail lies (lu, Iilce unto th.jr of tlie Wliale, 
 Wh'jn the Finnfiibes appear vve fee no mora 
 Wlnlcs. 
 
 '\\\i rrain-oyl of the V/ha'e is w^cd^ by feve-- 
 
 [HI, viz.. by the l^riz^-mnl'tr r^ C'lrrii-rs^ ClD-ith^ 
 
 'irkvrs^ and Scaph'^'lcr-; \ b«)t the <^;catc(t vAq 
 
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 I So Tl:c fourth T.trt of the Voyr^gc 
 
 th.H ib inadv of it, is to bui-a \z in Lamps iniL,- 
 of oiliur Oy I. 
 
 l'lieu/(<>;/.rva Ships carry ^001-40 Men, ar 
 foiViCfimLS n\o\c., chiefly t!ie great Ship, t!i; 
 fiavc fi:- Sloops belonging to them, f'nch Siri| 
 hold iVom Soo to icoo Cardeis of P'at; tl 
 Icfs Ships have coTimoniy fewer Cardels ( 
 VelT'.ls, from 400 to 700, and have coin m on 
 fi ^ c Sloops or Boacs bcioDging to tliem. Tiici 
 all >iZ0 Gd 11 lots to Spitzberpi'/i to catch VVIulc 
 they have three or tour Sioops beluiigin|,; 1 
 than: Some pin the Sloops upon the Deck 
 t-ie Ships, others !'>ang th^n overboard, a^ tht 
 do at ^Spitz!'er(^e^y when tliey arc amoiii:^il tt 
 ice, tliat ss iooii as t!i»:y call Fallj fali^ ih 
 may immediately lee down their Sloops Ini 
 ih'v' vVatc!', 
 
 Then ihere rciiiains on board in the Ships ti 
 Stcerfnian, the Barber, the ChyruriTiou, t 
 Cooper, arid a Boy, to look after the Ship 
 Skipper or Coiumander hamfcif R,o^'houi- v.'i 
 the relt of tlie Men, for they are all obligd 
 go a Whale-catefjin^^. 
 
 In each Ship th^ic are (Ixty Launces, 1 
 S:a horfe Launces, forty Haipocns, teri 
 Harpoons wlierewirh tlicy ftrike tiie l 
 under Wa«c'\ fix Jinall Sea-horle Hai ;■ 
 thirty Lines or ilcpcs, and each of tlicni i:> ■ 
 t'l^lnv or ninety fcti: horns long. Whco 
 o ) a hunting thicy take along \vi:h t!:c'7i 
 cnch bloop rv/o, and fjrnc tinges three 
 poons , fix LauncLS two or ihi'ce Sl.i-. 
 l.aunces, three Line:, and five or iiK x^^^i 
 
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 th'j McVp" )nier, Line kecncrorGlvcr, and the 
 Stccrfman ; They r;li row cquillv, until they 
 come near to t!ie Whale, except tiie Sicerfman, 
 for !ie £!,u!des the Bo.^t with his iliukhr. They 
 
 a! 
 
 (0 hive in each Sloop a Cl:opping-I<nire , to 
 [\r olTthe Jlopc when ihey cnnnor lolhnv rhc 
 Whale, and a Hnmrner. ynd other Iiifinimefits, 
 ;is Hatchefs, braL^*?, and feverai lorrs ofKriv'..s 
 wne'-ewirli d thev ^ut the iVh.iles, Mw:: and 
 
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 .s the common Diiiemper in tliis Vovigc, be- 
 
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 ics l-^evcrs, Impolthumcs, and otiicr ucciclen- 
 ul Oii^cmpcrb, and therefore tl^e Ciiyiiir<i!0ii 
 muil cakj care to provide hiniivir. 
 
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 Of Roiz-hlhcs and Sca-qualais. 
 
 ,13 OtZ'fijJj {o\' Slmie-fijhes) I call thefe, tliat 
 [X\ in themfelvcs are nothing elfe but Slime, 
 lid they arc tranlparenr. I have oblerved le- 
 'tral kinds of thefe, fonie whereof liavepaits 
 ike Finns, as that ianiL^ whicii I c\\\ tlie Sr\^ 
 li)-;lu\ Others are like u;i:o tlie i\\t Snails, 
 illy inilead of Finns they iiavc: Stalks like un- 
 
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 1 S 1 71:cfcuytb f.irt of the Vojn^<:^c 
 
 to Feathers fiefides tlicfe, I hive ^iicn four 
 oihcr fori', i-iac are quite (Mrerin'; in ("hapc 
 iroiii the oiiie-.s, and arc called SeA-fidlms \}\; 
 thz Seanic!', iis it" tliey were a thick Scum oi tlv.; 
 Seacoirjil.iied to<rethcr. Tlii'V are alio calkd 
 alter the ]j\x\n NaniO Scd Nenlfs^ becaule they 
 cauJe n hiirriinr, Wwn hire unto Nettles, I hav: 
 fbrmcilv \u(^ loincThoiiglus, tliat the Roiz a 
 Si/mc- fjl'cs i'ii;;.-'it !).: a S:e'.i fliiiii^ out and fo pu- 
 trifled, and that t!i:y did crjie this burning 
 V:nn by re.ubn ci t'leir riurcfadion ; arid fo I did 
 think tliat tha' received tlieir fiiape or form 
 acco:dinr, to tlic ilvcral kinds of i'-fhes iVoni 
 wliencc tlv^v came, and that fomc did take alar 
 yhor^jOA'b^ cithers riltcr /r'/!;,rA.-, anrl tlic like; 
 hut th.is dorli not leei-si to be agreeable to Rea- 
 ion, fo;- } iKUc ccnfidLrM it b( iter fince, and 
 find .1 il'c to 'pe :i \\w jijore tioble tliiniv than thot 
 if in'-'ii'd pro:.'.'ed iVoni pii'T^iled Seed cal; aw t- 
 They c;::.;n;e tlic oca nv;';!uil\, lor all thef'.;, 
 and nr..I:::;!iriv.!s uidvs tc tlKin, luil as a Bu:. 
 Joih i::uo Cloi ii. 
 
 L ( // .' he Sea- Ma y il \ c. 
 
 '[''efe finail L'irii arc very hkc iiito rhc > 
 :K:ii':Sj becaule oi' th.eir tranlj^arcni: Boc'}, -i; 
 ihcy alio dnic'lve like the fame, if yc^u !icid 
 ilieni i:i your Maiid. 'I'hev i;avc two Finns u: 
 c!erne;uh, abodt the Neck, \vi;ich are likelhm 
 to thofe of tt'.e I'l'hAlt'. '] !icy arc in their fn<ipe 
 !ihe UiJio our V* i.ite Rovvls, broadand thick -n 
 rlie n.iddlc, ajui thin and pointed at each eui 
 ilsicr thtj \x[\ of the Bodv, ii :i vc y like vw:'- 
 
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 ," in rhapc 
 
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 becautc X-Vx) 
 tks. Ihav: 
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 nit aivl i^:> P'^ 
 this hunv.r,g 
 i; .i[;cirol(h' 
 ,;ipc or form 
 
 ;cli<l lAkeaiu'. 
 
 and ilic like: 
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 iter hiicc, nr.d 
 ling, thmOn 
 
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 /v? Spit2.bcrgcn. i8^ 
 
 our Ma) fl)e^ fave only that the Tall or Body is 
 ;;ll alon{5 thicker, and only begins to be pointed 
 rjwatds the end. The Heavi is broad and 
 round, fplit m the middle ; it hath im?dl iSorns 
 about the brejddi of a Straw; on !i;s Hoid bc- 
 fc'v. it hatli two rows of fix red htrle Knob^, 
 ^\\ '.: i them in each row ; wlut'icr ihcv b-j 
 Hy )V no I cannoc ex:KlIy tcl!. Its xVlouih is 
 di^' .^;^ orfplit. From liis M',uth down into 
 hisBcily iiic itsG'its, wiiiclionc may eafily lee 
 bcciufeof ii^. triinfparency. It is o^ a yellow 
 and bl'iclc coioui ', but ihc colour of th.e wh.ole 
 F'ih IS like unio ihe Whiro of a." F,gg. He 
 moves in the Watci' jiiil Lkea Sfartt.'/t:, 1 Iiave 
 drawn !iim h^; -e in his proper biLnitC I am of 
 opmion, that tfic Jindj ti-ed upon them, be- 
 caufc t'le Lz/w/'j, f*^eo?%r/^' ys ^ and i\vret' 
 divers^ are plentifully fecn in thole prices where 
 thcfe Fifli or Sea Inf.ds are Lcn. The fame 
 that I have delineated here 1 icuiid in the»SW//^ 
 h') in SpazUr(^cr2^ on the 20th of J/^/^f ; in the 
 Tub. P it is marked wiili /. 
 
 II. 0/ t'j'j Siiaii Sli-nc-fidL 
 
 Thefe are alfo quite tranfparent, like unto tlic 
 Sca-yjeu/es^ but they are flac, and wound about 
 like a Snail, and fo we Hnd upon the Land the 
 Iticlis of fuch fiat Snads. It is very remarkable, 
 il'at out of the utmoft part of hi.n come two 
 Sulks, like unto tlie Beam cS a pair of Scales, 
 hairy or rough en each lide, like unroa Feather. 
 With thefe Stalks he moves himfelf up and 
 down like the Sea-fJcttL', 'I'hey are of a brown 
 
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 cannot: bii;cve ».}uU iiicy Crin h'j io noir .(h;i.;:^ a 
 
 Foccl for i!v.: H hJcs^ ns r<> ivinlfc ilicni io iVr ; f 
 
 rather btlicvc thitthc l.unh:, i'r'nr./.aiv rs. "-(l 
 
 the Viuret-cj-vns^ fc-d i!i"f:n tlicrr. 'J hey ij- 
 
 r.oi" b'ih-'^,cr th.-:ii 1 h.ivc (Icliiv-ntccl ih'.'iri. W'.: 
 
 i'uv iii.ry of thi'i^^ in t!.c /w-r/,'/; }it'jLom nr 
 
 Sfiizbi^ec-) or. the c^oth (lay of v/'.7/;r. Arnon:^ 
 
 the I( c I I'i \v iivMi-::. 'ITiCSeiimcii t -ke ti>ere fnuill 
 
 j-^'idi iiir Sidrs^ ?\\\\\ho\\\(\ r.l'o Iiavc tcil:'::! 
 
 then: CO be Ui(.i\ ^' 1 \ni\ nor had tl^crn iti my 
 
 iiami, wrul look M iv.or : r.iiriMilh/ upon rhcrn, 
 
 afidib\iii:' tfiac r!^' y had no nfllnity at all wiihvho 
 
 Stiid^r^, \\\ {\w'\\\\ ^ ?t n J.iarked widi a. 
 
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 flool-j, i'.;" [i ■■■< a-, i. \. C!Cr! I"' 1!^:! aiid lliiclvSri- ":; 
 tint p, M.-: !;::L i:i'J th^' r^iilJiv; of riic Jkavh 
 iiaiii ti I'luJ t..j;;oii im* hnofi, t!i ar is as th^^ : 
 r![?;iin ::: tiuSt.^;. : ."iiui lii.:^^^ jif a parr :..av ;.!' 
 I.J conronrcJ 'a.to Ujcli a Jm^w I hit as onr V, . 
 iTiLii \v ci'*. 1 i-orn tlie Stalk (h^wiiwaid:, it 'i' " 
 e:,ro\v thiol: :':r;:^ aivl roi:!ir\ vci it i:i a ;[;io:: 
 ileal lif- th.i;: chr outic; . \ h?vc Icon them Io;: 
 i!ijiniw:!vcs un tiOiu b:lou' and then h'ornr;,. 
 v:op t^own av;.r-% )L.(t as a St'ch tliar is foic- 
 tiowi-: iiiiciviTja !] the Ware;- i-choundct?^ ; 
 aaam. 1 '^or ti:':m in xht r'oyih Sr:>, hctv a ; 
 
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 A-^-. Amor;; 
 ketncfefni:!!! 
 ) have tell:'."', 
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 y upon tlv;i' • 
 atallwiilnr: 
 
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 h.ir is as ib'; :: 
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 r'lot is foro--:! 
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 {hcAYiAi. l\uck\'I fjue't in i]\c. pJk. And lam 
 nlTo iniorm"*d, that lbnu!rimcs tlicy come ns tar 
 (lowna'j to /'><■>/ /.T^. Hy rcrilbuof irsn^qK*, ic 
 nn} be caF'd I'/jf I- lat Slime'jijb^ov Stalk Slime- fipj, 
 
 IV. ()j the Rofc-uke fhapcd Slime- fifli, 
 
 11 lis Sltm ''f'f is as round ns a Circle, yet 
 in hiscirriim erciicc her ween his double /Irokcs 
 a little indented. 'J'he Rays ipring cut fui- 
 i:',!.: tV:jni ilie middle ol" the Body, and there 
 jrcfix-fcn (<t th'Jii in number, but they divide 
 rhimfelvcs u'tr. rwo Branches*, where tliey run 
 ion\cwhat ciorcr together, and are fplit in two. 
 '[\yc Body the-'of is white and t ran i'pa rent, as 
 is mcntionVl be'orc ; lie draws ittcgeth.er, and 
 rpens 'X n:-ain as lie p'calcrh ; bni the Rays or 
 Sr.okes are brounifb red. Ou the end ot thefe 
 
 i. 
 
 S, .u'cs, towards the outward circumference arc 
 jLVc/al fpors, 52 in luur.her. In the middle of 
 il'iis Plate is anorhc" InialJ Ciicle, and iVom the 
 circumFercrje of u'at r!ie lie^ore nam'd vSpokcs 
 i'c.^'in. It is iiollow widiin, which Cavity may 
 P". haps be ]v:j Bcliy, wfierein I found two or 
 ee of the fhidll Sl:rimi^s. Round about did 
 nL>; dc .p. icvcn brown fmall Threads, like 
 '/;i{r. f;!!:, or uf;e unio the Tlireads that flie in 
 t!vj Air i^bout Autumn ; he cannot note thefe, 
 \ bJieve IiJ wei^;!i'd about half a p- :md ; he 
 v.'-'> abour iiall' a fpan broad ; the l'hre;i Is were 
 lixiu: a rpan long. This ibrr v/e got about 
 ■liUnd. One might very well call lum the 
 '".?.^', or ii^'jt^'lfke Siifr/c-fifu^ by reafon of hib 
 ■i^'n-c and fliape. I have heard icm.; relate, 
 
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 that the Macarels do fuck rheir Colour out o 
 thefe two, but I cannot affirm ir, but leave it 
 undecided, until I can alTcrt it by my own Ea 
 perience. Thefe three firll- Sja-qua/ms arc nu- 
 merous in the North Sea as Atoms in the Air, 
 but about Spitzbergen we do not find many of 
 them. I have ^ctn them fwim at top onlv in 
 calm weather, but in Itormy weather they fuik 
 to the bottom. 
 
 V. Of the Sh'mc-fifli like a. Cap. 
 
 At Spitzh^JYQeft^ near the Mulcle- Harbour^ m 
 the 8th o^Juij, when the Weather was cahn, 
 I law two forts of Slime-fipj^ whereof one {..id 
 fix, the other eight Corners: That with fix 
 Corners had ahb lix purple ftreaks with blue 
 brims. Between tlicfe llreaks the Body is divi- 
 ded like unto a rumpkin into fix Ribs. From 
 the middle of his Body hang down two 
 Threads, that are red like Vermilion, and 
 rough, of fmall Hairs, they are fliap'd 1 ke 
 unto tiie Lctrcr [V ]. I did not lee li:m 
 move them when he fwam. Within his BoJv 
 he hath other broader breaks, of a purple co- 
 lour, and on the edges or brims of a lighiiiL 
 blue one ; they repreient themfelves like un.to 
 a great [ V/ ]. The whole Bcdy is as white 
 as Milk, and not fo tranfparent as the Budy ot 
 that tliat comcth next. \i is (liap'd )ull like a 
 Cap with Corners, wherefore one miglit call 
 it the C dp-It ke Fill:. 
 
 It is about as big again as it is delinea- 
 ted here. It weigl.ed about two Ounces, 
 
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 lour out c 
 )Ut leave ir. 
 ny own E;; 
 {lims lire nu- 
 
 '\\\ the Air, 
 nd many of 
 
 top onlv la 
 lei they fuik 
 
 
 Cap. 
 
 Harbour, o: 
 er was cali.'i, 
 reof one lud 
 !'hat with lix 
 ks with blue 
 
 Body is divi- 
 Ribs. Fiom 
 r down two 
 rtniiion , and 
 I fl^apM Ike 
 
 not kc h.m 
 ithm his Body 
 )f a purple v- 
 i of a lighiilli 
 L;lves like unto 
 dy is as white 
 as the Bodv oi 
 ap'd )ul-c like a 
 one mii^ht cak 
 
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to Sp.i/bcrgcn. 187 
 
 I did not perceive, when I had him in my 
 irmd, that he did burn me, but it dilfo!- 
 vcd hke Snot or Slime. In the Tab. 1\ it is 
 oiiirK'd with^'. 
 
 VI. Of tljeS\'\mQ'f]{\\ hke a Fou?jt.:!^, 
 
 The fixth and la(t is a very notable Fifli j it 
 hath a hole at the top lik-j unto a (^uill oi a 
 (ioofc ( that may |/erhans be his Mouth ) 
 w iiich goes into a cavity like a Funnel, where- 
 fore we might call him a h'.'^»»el'fijh, From 
 this hole come down tbur (Irokes, two and 
 two, ex^ftly oppjfite to Otic another; two of 
 thcin are cu: tranlVerfo lly,and two arc not cut. 
 Thole that are not cut are about half the 
 brciitltii ol a liriw, and the Oihers that arc 
 like unro the Bick bnne> ot a Snake, are as 
 broad as a flraw ; b)tli of them come down 
 beyond the middle oF the whole Body. From 
 tlic midii'e of tiic Funnel come down four 
 odiers, like unto tfie Back-bones of a Snake, 
 and they come down lower than the odiers ; lo 
 ihat all of them make eiLdit in number. Thev 
 chan^^'d their colour as we look'd upon them, 
 Uito blue, yellow and red, with fuch delicate 
 iolours as a Rainbow. They look'd in my 
 Hyes to be like unro a Fountain with eight. 
 Itrcams or fpoucs, v/herefore we might call it 
 1 toiifHciiti'i'ijIj with eight Ifreams. Witliin him 
 came down from the end of the Funnel fome- 
 diing like a Cloud that divides it felf into rows 
 which I t..;ke to be his Intrails. • Where the be- 
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 fore-mention'd outward flreaks end rhemfclvej 
 the Body is ^vi\ bent in fomcwliar, then ir 
 turns round, and there it haih many iin 'i 
 flreaks. The whole Body is as white as Viik, 
 of the fame bignefs as it i:> here deliiiearc). I 
 believe ic weigh *d about Four ounces. 1 did i.o! 
 perceive that h« did bu' n ones Skin, biic he 
 did, like hiin X mentioned before diilolve \\\r 
 (lime. 
 
 Since I have fcen other forts of thefe Siw- 
 ?;ettlds in the Spa//f[/j Sea, that weigh'd fuvcrai 
 pounds, and they v/cre of a blue, par[)Ic, yei- 
 lowiQi and wliite colour, that burn n^ore vio- 
 lently than thofe of the A'orth Sea; they fuck 
 themfelv'js lo clofe to the Skin, that they 
 raife BuH-crs, and caufe fometimes^V. J/J!l.>'>^»\ 
 fire. The Cuts whereof, together witfi the 
 Defciption , I hope to communicate to the 
 Reader at another time. This is mark'd with 
 
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185. 
 
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 A SUPPLEMENT to 
 
 Cupt. Wood'i and Martcn'j- Horth-Eaft 
 Foya^cs Containing fome Obfcnatms 
 and Navigation to the KorthWcd of 
 Grontl.iiid, .„;,/ othir Konhcni l^r-ions. 
 
 CHE%%r, mid otkr JJhnds. 
 
 UR Men conceive Gree,dand to be 
 broken Land, or a great 
 iiuinber of lilands at leaft ^"'^tbim 
 very near to one another'. '^•""''■ 
 On the Wtit (1,1c they dncovcr'd as fir .. S, 
 
 to b' ;l'^^ '"'H,ght no. worth/ to .,/c Na S 
 to, bung carchil only to take notice cS thofe 
 
 u. lor",?" r^:;''"'^^ ^""^'' u-c coninS 
 oub loi iheir hifhing. On the Jia/KHdc- th-v 
 
 Wi^nt no (arrhcr th.,n 78 dcg. bcr,Xl\l 
 llitr. d ( alio many Illands, fo;:,, of which 
 
 Whcli may |,e that .he O.vr.O call ^' 
 
 '&»i/.,^.s./,^.„^, or >/;;. ;,/,,,„-. ,,.,„.„^„, 
 ^■'"", tnoiigii it corrclponds wei! to ' ' 
 "^"hcr ; but ratliei- to ih.- lauu. h btloprreu, 
 
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 to GreeiiUnd^ and is but a fmall Illaiid, and 
 lies North-eafi: and South- well: ; whereas the 
 Country Sir H. IVillmnJjhy landed upon, was a 
 larc^e Country (inafmuch av /;,- jaiTd maiiv 
 days by the fide of it) an-i h'.:s North and 
 
 South which mult be Gret^rjUnd.Eao^t'^ 
 fP'^j 7//.1W was difccwer'd 1616, by Canr, 
 
 1 . Liage^ who had made that Voyage 
 ten tunes. IVychi's'llJnrjd (lo trtiTd from u 
 
 Gentleman ofthat Name") was iound 
 
 \J\vV' *^"^ *^^^7» ^^^ tiierc bciiip; notiiing 
 remarkable come to our knowledge 
 concerning thcic, wc pais ilicm over. Only it 
 is worth noting, that both the iVhde and 
 MorJ's-pjbtno was known and pra6lis\l 800 Years 
 agu, as appears by the Relation which Vtiher 
 the Nor\v(gt<i?i made to his Lo;d Jlf,ed Kingoi 
 En;^Lind\ where he alfo fiiith, tliat tlie Alo'-jjts 
 were hunted lor their Teetli, which were 
 mightily ellecm'd. 
 
 Lherry J/Lujdy when flril difcovcrd I know 
 not, but it receiv'd not its Nan'ie, 
 ntu" was known to be of any Profit, 
 till 160^, when a Siiip ictoutactht 
 Chirge of Sir francis cherry touchM i'pi)n it, 
 and iound there Ibmc Lead , and a Moris's 
 looth; but ihiid not 10 tifh, bccaufe the Year 
 was too far ipent. However, they cal! d r 
 (in honour of Sir Fr-trjas Cherry^ for wlioic uic 
 they took polTcflfiion of it) Chi^rry-lJhiriiL 
 M>'js' iii 1 r; oji . a Ship fer fail ( M r./ 1 \ld> n tlit 
 '*'A"-'''.s- M-Tclianr, and Stitfhcn iiajhrt the .M:i- 
 ller) froin Lvfidoriy Jpytl 1 5, and arriviAi at <>^'' 
 
 cheery- 
 IJUn'd, 
 
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n 
 
 the TSLorth-EiiJl Voyc\^!/s, 191 
 
 in Lapland^ May i. They Ikid in Lapland till 
 y«/y I. and July 8. they came in fight of Cherry; 
 and they came to an Anchor on the South- foutn- 
 tA{\ fide, but, becaufe of the Stream, could not 
 la id; fo that they failed round about the Ifle, 
 a; 1 ^t length anchored two Miles from the 
 Stiore. Gomg on Land, one of them with his 
 Gin killed as many Fowl as almoft laded their 
 Bo^c. July 9. they found on Shore nothing but 
 ftore of Foxes ; that part of the Ifland was in 
 74 deg. 45 min„ July 10. they we'r,hed Anchor, 
 ai'd Ifood into another Bay, and came to aa . 
 Anchor in eight Fathoms, where they faw an 
 incredible number of MoriTes fvvimming in the 
 Sea. Coming to fhore, they efpied a vait Com- 
 pany of them lying on the Ground ; they lliot 
 at them with three Guns they carried with 
 'them, but with all their Weapons chey could 
 kill but 15 of above 1000, that lay there like 
 Hogs huddling together on heaps; but they 
 found as many lY^eth as filled an HoG;fliead. 
 Before the 13th they killed near 100 more, ma- 
 king ufe only of their Teetli. 
 
 In 1605. the Lmie Perlbns vv^er.j: ii<»;ain, arri- 
 ving there July 2. They wcnr on ihore, and 
 July 6. Hew abundance ol Mo! l^e%, and not only 
 with Shot, as they did the Ycai beiore, hut with 
 Launces dcxterouily ufcd, duTcling th;.m to 
 certain places ot their Bodies^ they bep,an ahb 
 to boil their liiubber, and niaJc 11 Tuns of 
 ^)il, (five of tlieir Bellies will yield cnc Hog* 
 (head) and abundance of i\.'efh. Here alio 
 they found a Leid-niine ui-der Mou:;^'^^]^!} ^ 
 
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 and brouglit away about ^o 1'iin of the O^n 
 In j6o6. the lame Ship, vvirli tho, iame J'cr. 
 fons, was lent aL^.iin, and landed 'July ^, in y^ 
 deg. 5S cn^n* ^vhcre tiiey Ihic' nh the Ice uas 
 all cleared; for the Modfe-, vvili iiot come to 
 fliore till the ice r-c all Nv.)iinv:d, Where, rirone 
 time in !;x Hourj?, i\v:.y fl-w ht:twixi, 7 and 
 800 iViorires, ;;nd two s;reat. liicnrs: Uiey iriidi^ 
 22 Tuns ot Oj, 1, and ^ i-fogihsad of Teerh. 
 
 In 1608. June 2\. w'CxS lb Iiol cj.at t!ie mc'L'^J 
 Pitch iHii down rlie lidos ol tlieii- Ship: in kx^w 
 Hours t'me tliev ll',:w above 900 Mo; iTjs, iina- 
 king ^1 Tunsoi Ovi, ;ind above 2 Hogniecici,sn[ 
 Teeth, behdcs 40 mojc. 'I'ney took alive iiuu 
 iheir Ship two young Mu iT:s, a Male an 1 He- 
 male; the Female died, the Male lived ten 
 Weeks in Er/gLmJ.., whcic they taught it maiiv 
 things. 
 
 In 1610. at anotlier Voyage vviih two Sliips 
 they killed many liears, and law divers young 
 ones no bij[j;er than young Lnmb^, very gaaic- 
 Ibme and lutty; they br(>a.',!K two of them iii- 
 to ErigU"d, Much l-'owi v.no they flew, and 
 many Sci-ils; and 7".^(' 15. fee up an iiniig;i 111 
 tokcii of FoirefTion cf the liland for the /-////• 
 covi-t Company : In Cui/i'l/iah'd they tbund i hrcc 
 L.cad-mines, and a Coal mine o.i the N'ortii 
 iide of the Ifland, Tiiree Ships more alll/ r,>rae 
 1 il i h a c Q'j cm- Ip^^ >./ •• ^ h ey k d K: . 1 5 o o M ; ; . : 
 atone time, at oAi:v tinus near zoo mor , ■ . 
 Man killing ^o with hij Launce at one ]•' '■ 
 Hunting. 
 
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 Tlic Moris, Wali-Lifl-i, Horic-whale, Rof- 
 inarus, or Sca-liorie, f'tor lb he is by the An- 
 cients otlcn called, thougii ot hue rliey ]r;.ve 
 (iikover'd anodicr Fifh not unlike lum, with 
 t\\\t 'J ccilijU'lijch they call a Sca-Iioife) hjrh 
 a sKin likea Sca-cal , (\i^ith ihort and lad yel- 
 low Inirj a iVlouih like a Lion ; if any, iiardly 
 dilLernable, Ears, yet tliey hear well, and are 
 frighted with noiie; (which alibis faid of 
 the Whale, that Jie is driven away witii the 
 IfoLind of a Trumpet; large Hrealt, fhorr 
 Thii^,!is, four Feet, and upon each Foot five 
 iTocs with Oiortfiiarp Nails, with which they 
 diiiib the Ice ; and as large as a great Ox^ ha- 
 ving a great femicircular Tusk growing on 
 edcli fide of their upper Jaw, which are verv 
 much valued, cfpecially by the Northern 
 I'eople, partly for their ufes in Medicines, as 
 Itomakc Cramp-rings, fwhich they makealfo 
 oftheBriltles upon his Cheeks; to rehll: Poi. 
 lull and other malignant Difeafes, whereni 
 they are at lead equal to that calPd the Uni- 
 Icoriis Horn; but more for their Beauiy,whieh 
 I ^qual to, if not furpafluig, Ivory. The hea- 
 jvincfs of it makes it much fought afier for 
 jHandles of Swords. Their Skins being drei^ 
 W, arc thicker than two Ox-hides, yet light, 
 fnd excellent to make Targets againif Darts' 
 pd Arrows of the Savages. They kQ:\ upon 
 ifli and Herbs, and ileep, if there be Ice, 
 Upon that ; where if furprifed, the Female 
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 monly two at a time) into the Sea, and lie 
 felt' alter them, fwimming away with tlicii 
 in her Arms , and it' provoked, after flie hati 
 fecin'd them, returning many times to fetiip 
 en the Boat, into which if fhe can faften lit 
 Teeth, file will eafily fink it. But if they t 
 farther from the Water, they all rife up to 
 gether, and with tlieir weight and force fiii 
 ling upon the Ice, endeavour to brake it ; a 
 they did when furprifed by 'jonas Pool w 
 1610, where himfelf and divers of his Me; 
 efcapcd drowning very narrowly ; one u 
 them being in the Sea, the Morfles let iipor 
 him with their Teeth, but with very gmi 
 labour and hazard of his Company he efcapc(i 
 from Death, though fore wounded, frc- 
 quently alfo they fleep on the fhore, and il 
 they have convenience, \ipon a high and lk[ 
 Place. They always go in great Companies 
 and fet one to keep watch ; which if furprilct 
 ailecp, 'tis an eafie matter to kill all tiic vdl 
 but if he give warning by grunting, \k\ 
 clap their Jiinder Feet under their two TusI 
 and fo roll into the Sea. But if tiny b 
 caught on plain Ground, yet they arc lia 
 llain, being both iirong and tierce, ani 
 hading one way to the Water. The Dun 
 at firii were very much troubled to 1 
 them, their Shot the Bcatl valued not mu 
 their Hatchets and Ha If- pikes would 
 pierce them ; nor did they think they lOi 
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 the mldll: olf tbe Forehead. The firft time 
 they let upon them, of two hundred they 
 cotild not kill one, but went for their Ord- 
 nance to flioot them Our Men, after a lit- 
 tle Experience, found the way to diipatcli 
 them with Javelins, as is before rehear- 
 fcd. 
 
 Some imagine this to be \fnhK Mayan's Jflandy 
 but it feems rather that it i'^ not ; for the Nor- 
 thermoft Point of that is in the 71 d. 2^ nu 
 whereas this is 74 d. 55 m. except the DutrJo 
 be not fo accurate in their Obfervations and 
 Calculations as were to be wifli'd, which I 
 much lufpe£t, v. Nova ZsmbU. Befides C/;fr- 
 r^-T/Z-i;?^ is round, not frequented with Whales 
 but Morffes. Our Men alfo have travell d it 
 on Foot from North to South, which on 
 U^yeris Ijland cannot be done ; and though 
 they tell many Particulars of the Place, yec 
 they never mention the great Beererjl?trg. 
 Hope Ifland indeed is a long, liland, lies much 
 what as they fay of -M^^f^'s, and hath been 
 vifited by the Whale filtiers, but it is more 
 North than they place the;r Illand. The 
 itch of afcribing Difcoveries to thcmfelves 
 hath brought ( I fear ) Contufion both in 
 this and many other Matters of this Na- 
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 i)uu.h pretend) lecins by the Englijlj to be 
 called Hope-lJUnd^ or if not, I know not 
 whether the Er7glijh have been iipcn it. k 
 ieems not to be oi any great Conrequcuct:, 
 all that is fpokeii of it bemg that it tixtends 
 in lengtli from South-wcfi: to Nortli«caih 
 The iarther it flioots out in length, the 
 more contracted and narrower it grows in 
 [;;rows in Iircadth ; fu that in the middle the 
 diltance is very fmall between both Shores 
 Jkt'ore the Whale-filhing was removed to 
 GreeytLwd^ in the 6\immer-timc this Kkiid 
 was much fieqiicnted by the Seamen, whom 
 1'rade invited thither ; and the Ifland was 
 well known to molt of the Northern Adven- 
 turers of Enrotfe ; but fince the Whales havi 
 (itferted tlicfe Shores, and have removed 
 their Sca-quarter.s farther to the North, the 
 Seamen aiid Fiihermen have been forced to 
 lollow their Frey to Grec^Lxrjd, For it fccn,' 
 the Whales, eiificr we.iry of the Pla e , 
 or fcniible of tlieir own danger, do olicn 
 change their HarboLirs. In the Spring tm.; 
 
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 Weflcrn fide of the Kland is not fo much 
 cnclolcd with Tee, as that which lies in the 
 North, where it runs out into rhe Sea, witli 
 a iharp Point behind the Mou?itJi!u of Ee.vs ; 
 lor on this fide, all the Year long, tlie Ice 
 never removes from thj Shore above ten 
 Miles ; and in the Spring tnne lb beftegcs it, 
 tiut there is no Tallage through it. For 
 which rcafon the Maiiners, who arc bound 
 for this Ifland, ufe all the Care tliey can to 
 avoid the Eaftern, and to make diicclly to 
 the Weflern SJAore, there ro lye wliilc tiie 
 Fiiliing Seafon continues; if by millarriage 
 they come upon the Eall-fiilc, tliey are then 
 forced to fetcli a compafs about the North 
 part of the Ifiand, wliercby they arc not only 
 cxpoled to the terrible Winds that blow olF 
 iTom Bears-Mount at :-/, but alfo to tlic dangers 
 of the floating Ice •, for 1 ere the Sea flows 
 from South to North, and ebbs from North 
 to South. At the Northern end of the ifland 
 appears the Bears- Mount Aifi^ of a prodigious 
 heigiit, and fo perpeucicularly fleep, that it is 
 impofliblc to climb to the top oi it. TiiiS 
 Mountaiii, from the J3ears there frequently 
 fcen, called Beere>?berg or the Bears- Mo untaiti^ 
 at the bottom takes up tlic whole ipace be- 
 tween the Eaftern and Wcitern Shore 5 on 
 the North fide it leaves a little room for le- 
 veller Ground to the Ocean; and being of 
 prodigious height, may be defcry d ;;'j Mil-s 
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 The Sea Coaft lies thus : i . Xonrds-hotcJt^^ 
 or rlieNorrhern Angle^ is the extream Point 
 1 hooting; out to the North. 2. OtJ/-liotct 
 is the moll Haftern Point. 'Isber^h, mark'd 
 I, 2, ^, are three Mountains of Ice, or la- 
 tlier vail heaps of congealed Snow, which 
 diflblved by the heat ot the Sun, lalls from 
 the top of Bears Mou»ta/^ij but upon the Sun's 
 retiring freezes attain. ^:^. Zjiydu/l-ljoecl{ is i\k 
 South eall Ar.gle, From this Point the Shore 
 extends itlelt horn Haft to Wefl to a little 
 liland, and then winds again to the Weft 
 and South; in fome Places not paflable by 
 reafon of its fteepnefs, in others fmootli e- 
 nough. 4. Cleyn Sand'buy^ or Little Sand-hxy^ 
 E}fr/A/;d or E^gUf^d, being certain Rocks iiill 
 of Birds; here, about a Musket-fliot from 
 Shore, the Sea is 60 Fathom deep, and a 
 little farther, the founding Line will not 
 reach to the bottom. 5. Groote Hootr-kiy, 
 or great Wood Bay, by reafon of the great 
 pieces of rotton Timber that are there found, 
 In this, which is the narroweft part of the 
 Ifland, are certain Mountains not very iUcp, 
 from the ^op whereof any Peifon calling 
 them that ftand upon either Shore, mav be 
 heard by botli. 6. C/cy/j Hoote-hav^ or little 
 "Wood Bay. 7. Englijh-b:,y^ and feveral o- 
 thers, to which the Dutch h3,\'Q given fuch 
 Names as they thought fit; 
 
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 C A lied a I fo Gro4«/4W, Groi»Iandy ^nd more 
 anciently EngroeftUnd^ lies ( as I flan - 
 ders fay) like a Half-moon about thp North 
 of their Countrcy, at the diftancc of four 
 Days failing; But it fecnis to lye not fo 
 niucli Eaft, but rather North of America. 
 From Cape Farewelly in 60 dcg. 30 min. on 
 the South, it is unknown to how many de- 
 grees in the North. The Eaft and Weft 
 are encompafs'd by two great Oceans, but 
 at what degrees of Longitude is not ycc 
 difcovcred. Only Mr. Fotherby found it 
 near the Coaft oi GroneUndy in 71 dcg. and 
 the South of Greerdafd to be above two hun- 
 dred Leagues. 
 
 It is faid to have been difcovered firft by 
 a Norwegian Gentleman, whofe Name was 
 Eric Rouopj or Read Head; who having com- 
 mitted a Murder in IjeLind^ to lave his Life, 
 refolved to adventure to anotl-.er Country, 
 whereof he had heard fome obfcure flying Re- 
 ports. He fuccteded fo well,that he arrived in 
 lafe Harbour called Sandftajm^ lying between 
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 upon an Iflnnci over againfl: G'^j^/e/^W, which 
 lie called HuiiiJ'crkc.n or \\ '. "c Shirt, bcLauit 
 ofth': Snow upon it ; tli'w udicr on tiic CJuii- 
 tinciir, c.ilk'cl }-lunrf Eric. He wintirM m 
 tlic llLuitl, but wlicn tlic Scafon fLifVcrd, 
 p.iiVcd into the Co:., iient, which bncinifc 
 of its ^rccnnct's and {lonrillVmi; lie callid 
 GrondMirl, Thence lie \L\\t his Son to OIau;. 
 Tyrf-c^r Kin[; of AVnr.tr, to p;ct his Pardon, 
 wliich was eafilv p^ranted, when lie w.is in- 
 form'd by him of his r.ew Difcovcry. Where- 
 upon divers Gentlemen adventnr'd to ^^laiit 
 tlicrc, who multiplying, not long after divi- 
 ded tlic whole Country into Kaflern and 
 Wcftern, and built two Cities, G^trdc and 
 A//v. In A/i'e was a BidiopsSce, and a Ca- 
 thedral Churcli dedicated to St. yhafmy. 
 the Seat alio of the Vicerov fent thither from 
 rime to time by the Nonregians, They write 
 alfoofa great Monaftery called of StTZ/jw.//, 
 wherein was a Spring, whofc Water was fo 
 hot^ that it drclTed all their Meat ; and be- 
 mg convc\ ed into the Cells and other Rooms 
 in Pipes, lieated all the Monaftery as il it 
 ba.d been fo many Stoves. They Hiy alio, 
 that r.liii xMonalleiv is bnit all of Pumiiie- 
 ilonc-^, iwid that tins hot Water falling upon 
 them, mi>;cs with the outer parts', and po- 
 ■ijces a fort ofciamn^.y Matter, which fcrvc, 
 zaikad of Lime. ' 
 
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Hut what the NonveoUfjs conquLYcd or pof- 
 fcllcd in this Country was an uicoriddcrable 
 corner of that large Continent. 'Ihemlch cs 
 mention a Nation whom they call Skreloigrrs, 
 to have inhabited in the niiddle oi' tiic Land, 
 but what they arc we know not. But whe- 
 ther their Paucity cxpol'ed them to the mcr- 
 iJcfnefs ot the Natives, or whether it were 
 ail Epidemical Difcafe which they call the 
 hliick Plague, which fwept away not only 
 nioft oF that Nation in GroneLtnd^ but allt) 
 die Merchants and Mariners in Nonvay^ that 
 maintained that Traffick, or whether it were 
 fomc other Reafon, which is now forgotten ; 
 lo it is, that fince 1^49, httle Intelligence 
 \m\\ defcended to us concerning Grojiehyia^ 
 till feeding the North weft padage to C/V/a?, 
 oaafion'd more knowiledge of it. In 13B9, 
 they fay, that the King of Dem^htrk fent a 
 Fleet thither, with intention to re-eftabli(h 
 his Dominion in thofe Pares ; but that beinp; 
 Gill away, difcouraged him from any further 
 Enterprize ; till now of htQChn/lia?f IV re- 
 newed fomewhac again of that Navigation, 
 oi which by and by. In 1406, the Bifiiop 
 (l" DrofitJjeit/t fcnt a Pricft (called Jndrcdi) 
 t) fiicceed Hemy Hifliop of Carda^ if dead ; 
 il alive, to return and bring notice ot the 
 the itarc of the Church there. But A/tdnas 
 jnivcrcnine back 5 nor hath there been fince 
 my fi-irtlien' care rn.ken to fupply Bilhops, or 
 iKUintain Chntlianity there. There is a 
 
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 Relation in Purchases Pilgrim, pjtr, j. Qf 
 one Jvoy Boty a GroneUnder^ tranflatcd 1 56c 
 out of the Norweighifh Language, wiiich 
 gives a fufficicntly particular Account of 
 all the Places in that Country that arc in. 
 habited by Chriftians, but of nothing be- 
 fides. 
 
 The occafion of our Voyages to thofc 
 Coflfts, was to find out a way to Chim^ (jrc, 
 by the North-weft, which had been fruit- 
 Icily fought toward the North-Eaft. 
 
 The firli: whom we read to have fearch'd 
 the North-Weft for a Paffagc, was A/wv; 
 Frobijher^ who in 1576, with two Barks conv 
 ing to tfie height of 62 dcg. found a grcai 
 Inlet, called by him Forh[(Jjcr's Strdits^vAmt- 
 into havini; lailed 60 Leagues with mam 
 Land on cither fide, returned. He found 
 there a certain Oar, which he conceived ro 
 be of Gold ; and the next Year he made .1 
 lecond Voyage ro tctch a quantity of it, bui 
 It proving to be nothing but black Lead. 
 iiiilwerM not cxpeclation ; yet they found a 
 Silver Mine, which lay fo deep and fail in 
 tlie Rocks, that they could net dig it. They 
 melted Gold alfo, but in very fmall quanti- 
 ties, out of feveral Stones they found there 
 upon Smttlis I He. They found alfo a dead 
 Fifli, of about twelve foot long, not unlike 
 in fliape to a Porpoife, having an Horn fix 
 foot long ffuch as is commonly cali'd Un 
 corn's Horn) growing out of his Snout, win. 
 
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 (s ftill kept at Windjor, In 1578. he went 
 out again upon a DlfCovery, wherein paffing 
 as tar as he thought good, lie took polFeffion 
 of the Land in the name of Queen Elizabeth^ 
 calling it Meta incognita. 
 
 In 1583. Sir Humphrey Gilbert upon the 
 fame ckfign went to the great River of St. 
 Lmrence^ in CanadA^ took poffcffion of the 
 Country, and fettled a Fifhing-Trade there. 
 This Voyage I fappofe was made upon fug- 
 geftion of a Greek Mariner, who affured foinc 
 of our Nation, that himfelf had paffed a great 
 irrait, Nortli of Virginia^ from the Well or 
 South Ocean, and offered to be Pilot for the 
 Difcovery, but died before he came into 
 EugUnd, 
 
 In 1585. Mr John Davis was employed 
 with two Barks to the fame fearch. The 
 firft Land he came to, be named the Land of 
 dtjolation^ and is one part of Groneland ^ then 
 he arrived in 64 deg. 15 min. \n Gilbert^ 
 Sound, where they found a great quantity 
 I of that Oar, which hobijher brought into 
 England^ and alfo Lapis SfecuUris. Thence 
 they went to 66 deg. 40 min. to Mount Ra* 
 li'ioh^ Totnefs Sonnd^ drc. where they faw fome 
 I lew low Shrubs, but nothin,5 elfe worth no- 
 ting. 
 
 la 1586. he made a fecond Voyage to the 
 I fame Place, where he found amongft the 
 Natives Copper Oar, as alfo black and red 
 Copper. Thence they fearched many Places 
 
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 difcovering the defired Paflage. 
 
 In 1587. he made a third Vogagc, to 72 
 dcg. T2 inin. the Compafs varying to 82 
 deg. Wcftward, the Land they called Lo^idon 
 Coajl ; and there they found an open Sea, and 
 Ibrty l.cagucs between Land and Land, think- 
 ing this to be the moil: hkely place to find the 
 i^alfagc; and it was from him called Frcum 
 Davis. 
 
 Thus from time to time proceeded the dii- 
 covery of thefc Countries, but now not upon 
 Iiopes of a Pallage to the IMes^ but for the 
 profit of Trading! till Mr Hudjo/i, m 1610 
 after lie was latisfied, that tliere was no Pal" 
 j'age North- eallciiy, v;as fcnt to make < 
 Tryal liere alfo. lie proceeded an hundrc 
 Leagues fartliei than any bcibre had done 
 and gave Names to certani Places, as Di'[:rt 
 "provokes^ Ijle of God^s Mercies^ Prince Hjm'js 
 Cape^ Kjf% James's C^tpe^ Queen AmPs Cij) 
 end tlie like; but the Ice hindred him iron 
 going iurther, and the Sedition of Ins Mci 
 trom returning home. 
 
 In 161 2. James Hill returning into E;; 
 Lwdy and with him VVtllutm Baffin, who dii 
 covered Ccdtn\ Soufjci^ In tlie height of 6^ 
 dcg. 20 min. which diflcrcd in Longitud 
 tiom London 60 dcg. ^o min. Wcftwan 
 They faw alfo the footing of a great Bcdi 
 they fuppofed an Elk, or the like. Jwifs 
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 tending to Trade with tliem. Tliey trycd 
 the Mine at CnnmnghMi^ River, wliicJi the 
 \)!iries had digg'd before, and found ic to be 
 nothing worth. There were Jlocks of very 
 pure bcone, finer and whiter than Alabader, 
 and Angehca growing plentifully in many 
 places, wliich the Savages ufed to eat. 
 
 In 1615. Mr. B.iffin was fent again; he 
 found l'Atr-?oint to difter in Longitude from 
 \lond.on 74 deg. 5 niin. Weftward. But the 
 chief thing they difcover'd was, tliat there 
 was no Padiige in the North di Davis Strains ^ 
 it bt^lng no other than a great Bay ; but that 
 profit might be made by fifhing for Whales, 
 Morifes, and Unicorns, of which there are 
 Icood ftore. 
 
 In 1616. Mr. Baffin went agaiii. In Sir 
 uho. Smithh Sound, 78 d^g, Lac. their Com- 
 pafs varied 56 deg. Weftward, the greateil 
 variation that is any where known. Defpair- 
 ing to dillover their defired North-wefi: Paf- 
 lajje, they returned home, and fince that wc 
 hear of no more Voyages made h'om England 
 upon that defign, except by Capt. Jamesy in 
 1 163 1. 
 
 This Ingenious and mofl Skilful Navigator, 
 Capt. Tho, James was pellcrM witli much Ice 
 in thefe North- Weft Seas in J/^ne and Jf*l}y 
 failing from Cape-Farewell^ by the liland of 
 mj^olution, to M///'s and Nottingham Iftes, as 
 alio that caird M.wsfitld^ from vv?icnce he 
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 near Port-Ndfon^ and named the Land AW 
 South-H\iles. He met hereabouts witii Cant. 
 fkv, in one of his Majefty s Ships, wlio had 
 been in Fort-Nelfoj^^ but they were foon part- 
 cd by bad Weather. Capt. James continued 
 to roving up and down thcfe Seas, and givin'^ 
 Names to his Dilcoveries, as Cafe Heyiynttx 
 Mina, LordWejlon's llhnd. The EarlofBnJloti 
 IfJandy Sir Thomas R^e^s JJland^ Earl of Dadfs 
 IJiaady Charlton IJIand^ where he winter'd in the 
 Lat. oi 52 deg. 30 min. from whence lie return- 
 ed home in 1632. having built a Httle Pinnace 
 out ol his Ship, in which he pafTed over to 
 Carjs Sivan^'Aefl^ and fo by Cape Charles 2^^^ 
 SaUsbury-Ilk homewards, having made manyj 
 additional Difcoveries beyond Hudfon^ Buttony\ 
 and Bajfin. 
 
 This Ifland (faith Capt. James) and all the 
 reft (as well as the Main) is a light white 
 Sand, coverd over with a white Mofs, and 
 full of Shrubs and low Bufhes, excepting; 
 fome bare Hills and Parches, where the Sand 
 will drive with the Wmd like Duft. 'lis 
 full of Trees, as Spruce^ Ftrrs^ and Jumper, 
 which together with the Moft will take lire 
 like Torches Oi Flax. We found great ftore 
 of an Herb like Scurvy-grafs^ which boil'd, 
 did extreamly refrefli us. We faw fome Deer, 
 abundance of Foxes, a few Bears, and fome 
 little Bcafts. In May there came fome FowlJ 
 as Ducks and Geefe ; white Partridges we 
 law ; Fifh we could never fee any in t!ic 
 
 
 
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 5ca, nor any Bones of Fifh on the Shore fide, 
 excepting a fcA Cockle-fhells. The iMnskitoes 
 upon our com"':;^ away in "Jnly were moll in- 
 tolerable, tlicvc being no Fence againft them. 
 The Climate (of tlic Ijle of Lhar i:to?i) is moil 
 imnaturai, the Days in Summer being excef- 
 five hot, and the Nights flurp Frofts, even 
 roan inch thicknefs in the F -nds, and all this 
 in June and J///y. Here an; diveis forts of" 
 Flies, as Butter-flies, Butchers-flics, Horfe- 
 {;ics, infinite numbers of Ants and Frogs, 
 [Icnty of Vetches, which recovered our Scor- 
 butick Men. And yet that which is mod 
 wonderful, the Winter is as fevere here as 
 ia any place lying 30 degrees more Nor- 
 therly. 
 
 The King of Denmark alfo, partly to ad- 
 Ivance the Trading of his own, and partly to 
 I renew his ancient Pretence to that Country, 
 if any thing fliould be difcover'd worth the 
 claiming whilft the EfiglijJj were bufie in thefe 
 Difcoveries, let out two Ships and a Pmnace 
 1605. the Admiral was Capt. John Gonnigham 
 a 6W, Godske Lwdetraiv a noble Da/te was 
 Vice- Admiral, the chief Pilots were Jamni: 
 Hall and Jofjfi Isjiigbt^ EngHfi-Mt/i, Godske ar- 
 rived on fome pare of the Country where he 
 traffick'd fome fmall matters with the Na- 
 tives, took two of them, and returned into 
 Denmark. The other two Ships arrived at 
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 gave D^tnijb Names to divers places, trade 
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 way three, and found certain Jitones in a pla^ 
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 jwund of which were exiraftcd twenty-ii 
 Ounces of fnie Silver. 
 
 In i6o6. he fent agahi for four Ships an 
 and a Pinnance Godske Lindi/i.tw Adniir^; 
 and 'j.tmes H.ill Piiot-General, they broun'i 
 away Five of the Natives. 
 
 Ii7 1607. ^^mes Hxll was fent again, h^i 
 the ?canien mutinying as foon as he cani'j w 
 tlie Coalt, brought the Ship back again iiK3 
 Di^'z-jwarky without any thing done. 
 
 The King of Denmark {^^K. out two Ship 
 more, under Chriflian Richardfon an Holflii/.'-; 
 with Norwegian and IJelmdijh Mariners, w In 
 returned before they faw Shore. iMore 
 their Expeditions we know not, till 1619 
 when he lent cuijohn Muuck with two Ships 
 "They arrived fafe at Cape Farewell^ 60 dcg 
 30 min. where their Tackle was fo fro/Vvii 
 and full of Hides, that they could not lia 
 die them ; tiie next Day was fo hot, that th 
 could not endure rlieir Clothes, but wroiii;li 
 in their Shirts. The South part of Hndjon 
 E.ty he called M^rf Novum ; that part toward 
 Gronelayniy Mare Chridianuin , He arriv'i 
 in <^^ dcg. CO min. wfierc he wintcr'd, aii 
 caird It Mu'/?cks Winter- H<ir hour ^ and t 
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 P/V^'^ Ifland^ In that long Winter he there 
 endured, little of Note happen'd, but that in 
 Afrtl it rained, and then came thithe,: vaft 
 quantities of Fowls, of divers forts, to breed 
 (ill thofe quiet undirfurbed places. Of all his 
 ICompany, which was Forty Six in one Ship, 
 and Sixteen in the Pinnace, Icarce fo many 
 were left alive, as were able to bring the Pin- 
 nace thorow very horrid dangers, to their own 
 [Country. 
 
 If any one dcfire to know what became of 
 the Eight GroneUnders brought at feveral 
 times into Denmarky the Account is this : The 
 ing commanded great care fhould be taken 
 them, appointed certain Perlons to attend 
 them, to give them Liberty enough, fo as 
 |hey prevented their efcape. No NecefTary 
 ir Conveniency was wanting ; their Food 
 [uch as they could eat, Mdk, Butter, Cheefe, 
 'lefh, and Fifli, but raw. They could eat 
 p Bread, nor boil'd Meat, but nothing fo 
 uch abhorr'd by them as Wine, or Brandy; 
 heir plealanteft Beuvrage was I'rain Oyl. 
 iiit whatever was done to, or for them, 
 lould never take away that Melancholy and 
 ihagrin which they continually lived in for 
 le want of their beloved Country. They 
 )uld never be brought to learn much of the 
 )iint(lj Language, or to apprehend any thing 
 |f Cliriftian Pvcligion. Three of them were 
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 the mod towardly and hopeful, who might 
 ferve for Interpreters and Brokers to the 
 Da/ies \ but two of them, Oxo and Omeg^ died 
 in the Ship, and the third (becaufe the Dm^ 
 durft not land or trade by rcafon of the great 
 numbers of Natives that appeared in Arms 
 on the Coafl, ready to revenge them that had 
 been before carried away) was brought back 
 into Denmurk^ to his lormer Treatmejit. An 
 Ambaffador arriving there from SfAiriy the 
 King was plcafed to (hew him thofe Savages, 
 and their dexterity in rowing, which was by 
 all the Speftators admired, 'i'hc Amballador 
 fending them Money, one of rhem had the 
 courage to buy him Clothes after the Dmi^) 
 Falhion, got a Feather in his Cap, Boots and 
 Spurs, and all things da. cavdiere ; he came 
 alfo to the King, and defired to ferve him; 
 but this fervor was quickly decay'd, and tb^ 
 poor Man returned to his fadnefs and com- 
 plaints. Some of them endeavoured to gettc 
 Sea in their little Boats, but being retrieved 
 dyed of Melancholy. Two hved diver 
 years at Kj)Umgen in 'Jutland^ where the] 
 were employed in diving for Pearl JVlu 
 fcles ; in which their Skill and Dextcrit;, 
 was fuch, that every one that faw them be 
 lieved they had praftifed the fame Employ 
 ment in their own Country. Such Succe( 
 they had, that the Governour promifed him 
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 time he fliould Icll Pearls by the Quart, if 
 they contiiiMcd. Buc his Covctoufnefs de- 
 Itroycd his Gain; for not content with whac 
 they filhcd in Summer, lie alfo compelled them' 
 under the Ice in Wintertime ; where one of 
 them fell into fucli a Difcafc, from the cold 
 lo contraded, that he dyed. After whofc 
 Death tlie other never enjoyed himfelf ; but 
 linding an opportunity, he got his little Boat, 
 and before he was over overtaken got to the 
 main Sea. But being brought back, they re- 
 prefented to him the impoflibility of his ever 
 getting home to Gro;?eiaf2d -, but he flighted 
 their Advice, and told them, That he in- 
 tended to go Northward fo far, and when he 
 was there the Stars would direct him into his 
 own Country. 
 
 The Country is moftly all High-land aad 
 and Mountains, cover'd with Snow all the 
 Year, but the Southern Parts move than the 
 Northern. They have very little or no Wood 
 growing there, except fome few Bufhes, and 
 not many Plants or Herbs ; confequently not 
 many Beafts there nourifhed, but tl)eir chief 
 fubfillance is upon Fifhing. There are divers 
 Mountains, which promife rich Mines of 
 Metal ; and fome have been found to contain 
 it adually, others only to make a fiaew. The 
 Inhabitants know neither fowing nor planting ; 
 tho* the Soil feem'd to be fertile and plea- 
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 and Cold, are wliolly uiidifcovcr'd j the 
 fouthern tonfill of many Illands, diHcrcnt in 
 fliapcs and bigncfs; which fcems to be thi; 
 realon, that in thcfe Seas are many various 
 and ftrong currents, (and as Ivor Bott faith) 
 very many dangerous Whirlpools towards 
 the Weft: and North, none of which however 
 have been found by our Mariners. The 
 Country feems much fubjcct to Earth-quakes, 
 cllc very healthful ; only it was obferv'd, 
 that thole who went thither infeded with 
 any Venereal Difeafegrew worfe immediately, 
 and could not there be cured. Which they 
 attributed to the purity of the Air, perhaps 
 they might have done it more rationally to 
 the Cold. 
 
 Ivor Boty fpeaks much alfo of their great 
 numbers of Cows and Sheep ; but our Men 
 found no Bealt there, but Bears, Foxes, (very 
 many ofwiiichare black) Rain-l)eer,and Dogs, 
 whereof are two forts, a bigger, which they 
 ufed to draw their Sleds ^ and a lelFer, which 
 they feed for their Tables. Our Menobfcrvd 
 this peculiarity both in their Foxes and Dogs, 
 that their Fizzles were of Bone. T ho it is 
 very likely, that there are the fame forts 
 which are in Lapidr/d and SamoiedA ; but our 
 Men have not fearched any more tliaii the 
 Shores, both becaufe of their fhort ftay, and 
 
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 inleded with 
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 Of Fifhes there is great both Plenty and 
 Variety, Whales, Seals, Dog-fifh ; but i»i 
 thefe arc caught the great quantity of Sea- 
 Unicorns, whofe Horns are \'% much eftecm- 
 cd, and kept as Rarities in the Cabinets of 
 Princes. The Natives here are ib well lio- 
 red withit, that they have fufficent both for 
 truck and their own ule. Tlicy make of them 
 (befides other Utenfils) Swords, and Heads 
 for their Darts and Arrows ; which they 
 work and grind with Stones, till they make 
 them (harp piercing as ouvs. The Horn 
 grows in the Snout of the Fiih, and is Jiis 
 Weapon, wherewith he fears not to fight the 
 Whale, and to alfault and fometimes endan- 
 ger a Ship. The Fifh itfelf isas large as an 
 Ox, very ftrong, fwifc, and hard to be caught, 
 except left on the Shore by the Tide, or en- 
 tangled by the Weeds. 
 
 Fowls are here in great abundance and 
 variety. Our Men have feen thofe they call 
 Bafs'Gee/e, or fuch as once a year comes to 
 breed in the Bafs^ a famous Rock or Ifland 
 near Edhiburgh. The Natives alfo have a ve- 
 ry great Art and Dexterity in making and 
 fetting Snares and Springs to catch them ; 
 which they do chiefly for their Skins and 
 Feathers. Two or three of our Men with their 
 Guns killed in one Day Fifteen hundred, and 
 found them wcrfe{tarted, better cloth'd than 
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 Skin> being very thick, rouji^li and more covciM 
 wun Fcathcrs,\vlnch alio were notcarily pluck- 
 ed oti'i which is the icafon that the Natives 
 drelb their Skins as they do thole of Ikaits, 
 and Seals, and make Garments of them, u- 
 fmg tiiem to all purpoles like other Inirrs; 
 uith the Feathers outward in Summer, m- 
 ward in \V niter ; wiiichisallo obferv'd in all 
 other cold Countries, as well as (Jrontland. 
 
 All rciibns, that have been there, give a 
 wondeiiul and flrange account of a certain 
 Norih-li^k, as they call it, not eaiily con- 
 ceived bv them who liave not i'een ' it. It 
 appears ulually about the time of the new 
 Moon, and tho' only in the North, yet M\ 
 it eniightcn the whole Country ; fometimcs 
 alio Aorivajj Ifeland^ and even thefe Regions 
 of curs, as C -(fendus (zita Firesk^ c^ exfrcn. 
 In doctorem ') faith, himfelf obferved, and 
 at large defciibes. Nor fhould I much doubt 
 to affirm, that it is that which is Ibmetimcs 
 feen in England^ and cfpecially m the Nor- 
 thern parts, call'd Strt\imih>g, It is faid to be 
 like a great Pillar (ox Beam) of Fire, yet dart- 
 ing out Rays and Streams every way, niovin;^ 
 alu) from place to place, and leaving beiiuid 
 it a Mill or Cloud ; continuing alfo till ihe 
 Sun-beams hide it. 
 
 The Country feems to be inhabited by ilr 
 vers Nations, difteing in Habit, Manners and 
 Language. Thofc whom 'J.imes Kt// found 
 
 • - wild 
 
the Korth'EaJl Voya^es^ ' ^ ' 5 
 and brought with him, differed much from 
 thofc witli whom Godske Ltndenaw had to do; 
 That part which tlie Norwegians are faid to 
 have anciently poffclTcJ, was an inconfidcra- 
 ble part of that wholcCountry,and they found 
 fcveral Nations there befides themielves, go- 
 vern d by feveral Kings; tho' tliey write not 
 that they had Wars one with another, but 
 only againft them. Our (ate Diicovcrers in 
 66 deg. 50 min. found a Country which the 
 Natives (as tlicy could underliand thcm^ 
 called Secanunga^ who alfo faid, that they 
 had a great King, carrried on Mens Shoul- 
 ders, and they called him Cachico, But more 
 Particulars than tliefe, I find not. 
 
 The Inhabitants are generally of a low 
 Statuie, black Hair, flat nos'd, broad fac'd, 
 Lips turn'd up, and ot a ripe Olive colour, 
 fome of them alfo quite black. Their Wo- 
 m^n (for their greater Ornament doubtlcfs) 
 itain their Faces in blue, and fomcdiiie in 
 black Streaks, which colour they let into the 
 Skin, by pricking it with a Hiarp Bone, that 
 it will never be taken or worn out. In all 
 things they refemble the Samoieds and Lap- 
 la/ide'^s. They are very aftive and flrong,yet 
 could fome of our EngUfJj run fwifter, and leap 
 farther than any of them , but they were 
 hard enough for any of ours at w refiling, 
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 Men, they will throw themfelves doWn the 
 Rocks and Mountains. Extreamly thieviflj, 
 treacherous, and revengeful they proved ^ 
 nor could any kindnefs or fair-dealing win 
 them ; but as true Barbarians, never omit- 
 ted any Opportunity of fulfilling their Dc- 
 fires; they would fte»l when they faw the 
 Mariners look upon them. After they had 
 been well ufed and treated at their Tables, 
 they would fhoot at, fling Stones, wound and 
 .kill our Men, if they could. Yet are they 
 apprehenfive enough, and quickly conceive 
 yours, and exprefs their own meaning. If 
 they had not feen what was asked them, they 
 winked, or covered their Eyesj if they un- 
 derftood not, ftopt their Ears, and the like. 
 They deliftht exceedingly inMufick,to vhich 
 they would keep time both with their Voice, 
 Hands and Feec^ wonderful alfo affeftionaie 
 one to another, and to thcu* Country. In 
 one Voyage there went a Ddnijb Manner, 
 with black Hair, flat Nos'd, ani other, tlio' 
 not very exact refemblances of a Groneland^.r • 
 as foon as they faw him, they came vaboiit 
 him, kifled him, hung upon him, and (liewcd 
 to him all poflible demonftrations of Kind- 
 nefs and Affeftion. And thole who were in 
 Denmark never enjoyd themfelves, nor had a- 
 ny content, but continually pined away, and 
 Janguifh'd with Dilcontent for their Conditi- 
 on, and love of their Country. Their Keh- 
 
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 gion, fucli as it is, feems to be unto the Sun ; 
 tor when our People invited them to Con- 
 verfation, Bartering, drc they held up their 
 Hands towards the Sun and cried Totan ; nor 
 would they come near us till our Men had done 
 the like. But Jolm Mumk and divers others, 
 having gone farther into the Country, found 
 Images, fuch as we make of Devils, with 
 Horns. Beaks, Claws, cloven Feet, &c. very 
 ill made; Altars alfo, and quantities of Bones 
 of Beafts, as of Deer, Foxes, Dogs and the 
 like, near unto them. I'hey feemalfo, as all 
 Idolatars, given to Enchantments and Sorce- 
 ries Our Men have feen them lying flat 
 upon the Earth, and muttering their Pray- 
 ers or Ciiarms into the Ground, worfliip- 
 ping the Devil, whofe proper Habiiation 
 they conceive to be under them. In fomc 
 Dileafes they tyc a ftick to a great Stone, 
 to which they pay their Devotions, and if 
 they can lift it up eafily and lightly, they think 
 their Prayers are heard and Recovery granted. 
 In Winter they retire from the Sea fide to the 
 warmer Valleys^ where they have their 
 Houfes and Towns, which are commonly 
 Caves at the foot of an Hill, round like an 
 Oven, clofe to one another, and PalTages in 
 the inner Parts from one to another ^ their 
 Doors, which are low and round, open to 
 tlie South ; and they dig Trenches alfo to 
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 from the Hill. The entrance and fome part 
 of their Houlc ftands without the Cave,\vhich 
 tlicy Frame very hajpdfomely and commode 
 oufly of the RibsAof Whales join'd ar- 
 tificially at the top,%nd cover'd with Seals- 
 skins. They raife alfo one part of their 
 Floor higher than another, which they ftrow 
 with Mofs to lleep upon. But in their 
 Filhing-time they have Tents, which they 
 remove from Place to Place in their larger 
 Boats. They fet up four Poles and cover 
 them with Skins, which ferves very well in 
 Summer ; when fifhing is done they return 
 with them to their Houles. Their manner 
 of bartering is to make two heaps, one of 
 fuch things as they dch^re, the other of whai 
 they would part with ; and they ceafe not 
 to take away from the • one or other till 
 the Trade is balianced. The chielcll: things 
 of ours wliich they valued, were Knives, 
 Needles, little pieces of Iron, Looking- 
 ^lalTes, drc. for thefe they would fell their 
 Bows and Arrows, their Boats, and Ibip 
 ihemfelves of their Clothes, but never, like 
 fome other Barbarians, fell their Wives and 
 Children. 
 
 Their Clothing is either of Birds-skins, 
 with the Feathers and Down upon them, 
 or Seals, Dog-fifli, or the like. Seals they 
 ufc molf in thcur Fifliing, becaufe that Fiili 
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 feeing one clad in their own Livery ; befides 
 that thefe kind of Furs are not fo apt to be 
 wet, though dippM in Water. They wear 
 th( -lair fide outward in Summer, inward 
 in Vv inter, and in great Colds carry two or 
 more Suits one upon another. They drefs 
 their Skins very well, making them dry, fofr. 
 and durable, and fow them alfo very lirong 
 with Sinews of Beafts, and Needles made of 
 Filh-bones. 
 
 But in nothing do they fliew fo much Art 
 as in their Boats or Canoes. They are made 
 of that we call Wlialebone, about an inch 
 thick and broad, and thefe not fet like Ribs, 
 but all along from Prow to Poop, fall fowed 
 to one another with frrong Sinews^ and co- 
 ver'd over with Seals-skin. They are from 
 ten to twenty Foot long, and about two 
 Foot broad, made like a Weaver's Shuttle, 
 fharp at both ends, fo that he can row ei- 
 ther way ; and in making this pointednefs 
 they are of all tilings moll: curious, for there- 
 in confilis the (length of their Veifel. In 
 the middle of it are the Ribs, both to keep 
 the fides afunder, and to make the Hole in 
 the covering, wiierein the Rower iits. They 
 have a Deck made of the fime Materials, 
 wliich is clofely faftcn'd to the fides, in the 
 midil: whereof is a round Hole, as big as the 
 middle of a Man ; fo that when he coes 
 to Sen, he fets himfeU in that Hole, ilretch- 
 
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 the Boat ; he flops up the Hole fo clofe with 
 his Frock, or loofe upper Garment, that no 
 "Water can enter, though it were in the 
 bottom of the Sea. His Frock is ftrait tyed 
 at the FLmd-wrifts, and to his Neck, and his 
 Capouch lowed aifo dole to it ; lb that it' the 
 Boat be overturned or overwhelmed in the 
 Sea, he rifes again without any wet either 
 upon his Skin or in his Boat. They have 
 but one Oar, which is about ^\y. loot lonii, 
 with a Paddkj fix Indies broad at either end; 
 this ferves him both to ballancc his Boat 
 and move it ; which he doth with that in- 
 credible fcelerity, that one of our Boats with 
 ten Oars is not able to keep company with 
 them ; The Danilh relation faith, that they 
 rowed fo fwifc, that they even dazled the 
 Eyes of the Spe8:ators^ and the' they c roiled 
 frequently, yet never interfered or hit one a- 
 nother. 
 
 Their FiOilng ordinarily is darting, their 
 Darts are long, Ifrongly barbed, and at the 
 oiher end have Bladders fiften'd to them, 
 that when they have (truck a Fifh, he may 
 fpcnd him fdf with ft niggling to get under 
 Water, which yet he cannot do, and fo i3 ci- 
 lily taken. 
 
 Befides thefe, they have greater Boats 
 for the removing their Tents and other Utcii- 
 fils, as alfo to carry their Fifh they have cauglit 
 
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the North'EaJl Voyages, 2 1 1 
 
 to their Houfes ; thefe are thirty and forty 
 foot long, and have fometimes ten, and 
 fometime more feats for Rowers.- Cardinal 
 Bembjs (in his Venenan Hiftory) faith, that 
 in his tiiiie one of tliefe, withVeven Ferfons 
 in it, was by a Storm caft upon the Coafl: 
 of Britany, I know not whether it be 
 worth mentioning that they have Kettles 
 and Pans made of Stone, (fome fay of Load- 
 llone) that endures the Fire wonderfully, 
 but not having Tools fit to hollow them fuf- 
 ficiently, they make up the Edges of Whale- 
 bone. 
 
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 Lleth in Co deg. more Wcilerly than 
 any Part of Euroi^e ^ diftant from IfeU?7d 
 Leagues. It is reported in bignefs not 
 to be much Iciler than EngUmi-, a ragged 
 and high Land, ihc Mountains cover'd with 
 Snow, and the Coall lb full of dvifc Ice, that 
 it is ahnoll inaccclTiblc. 
 
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 It was firft difcovered to us by Ntcolso 
 and Antonio ^Lmi^ two Vemtixn Gentlemen, 
 that were here ihipwrackd. I'hey defcnbc 
 the Inhabitants to be good Chriitians, very 
 civil, and to be governed by a great Lord 
 whofc Name was Zjchm^ty^ whofe mighty 
 Conquells, and llrange Accidents may be 
 read in Hacklutt. It is not our buiiuLfs to 
 write or repeat Romances. Thole xVIca 
 whom our Seamen, f touching there accidcn- 
 tallyj faw, were like in all things to the 
 GroneUnders^ both in Features of Body, and 
 manner of Living, as much as they could 
 judge ^ fo like, that many of them thought 
 it continued to Groneland ; in which Opinion 
 alfo they were confirmed by the multitudes 
 of the Iflands of Ice which coming trom the 
 North, argued Land to be that Way ; for ma- 
 ny of our Mariners hold, that fait Water 
 doth not freeze, but that all the Ice-they find 
 in the Sea comes from the Bays, and Mouths 
 ot frefh Water Rivers ; for the Ice it lelf is 
 fweet and frefh, being difTolved, and ferves 
 for all purpofes, as well as Spring or River 
 Water. Befides the fait Sea (they fay; is 
 always in motion, and fo cannot freeze. 
 But the Dutcby who wintered in Novx 
 Zembla^ took Notice, that the fait Water 
 freez'd, and that two Inches thick in one 
 Night. 
 
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 3cntlemcn, 
 z^ dcfcnbc 
 Itians, very 
 great Lord 
 ofe mii;hty 
 Its may be 
 buiineb to 
 riiofe iVk'ii 
 lere acc'ulcn- 
 ngs to the 
 Body, and 
 they could 
 em thought 
 lich Opinio a 
 ■t multitudes 
 ng ti'Oin the 
 ''ay ; for ma- 
 t lalt Water 
 Ice- they find 
 and Mouths 
 Ice it lelf is 
 1, and ferves 
 ng or River 
 ;they fay; is 
 nnot freeze. 
 r'd in Novx 
 ; fait Water 
 thick in one 
 
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 There fccms to be ^ood Filhing every 
 where upok-^ the Coaft. In their foundings 
 they brought up a fort of pale Coral, and lit- 
 tle Stones clear as Cryftal. They call it IVef} 
 EngUnd^ and one of the higheft Mountains 
 they called ilharing-CroJs. 
 
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 Meetings of the Illuftrious . Royal Society. In which 
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 difcourfed of, with the Methods of rendering it more 
 certain and beneficial. II. The Nature, Motion and 
 EfFeds of Light are treated of, particularly that of the 
 Sun and Comets. III. An Hypothetical Explication of 
 Memory ; how the Organs made ufeof by the Mind 
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 IV. An Hyputhcfis and Explication of the caule of 
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 Hiftories of feveral ; to which are annext^ Phyfical 
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 terpreters. VI. LecHiures for improving Navigation 
 ani ARronomy, with the Difcription of feveral new 
 aiidufcful Inftrumcnts and Contiivances ^ the whole 
 fall of curious Difquifitionsand Experiments, llluftra- 
 ted with Sculptures. To thefe Difcourfes is prcfixt 
 the Author's Life, giving an Accoiincof his Studies 
 and Employments, with an F numeration of the main 
 Experiments, Inllrumcnts, Contrivances and Inventi- 
 ons by him made and produc'd as Curator of Experi- 
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 : of by the Mind 
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 3uncof his Studies 
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 :urator of Expcn- 
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