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foggy foul weather. On the 15th of August "we 

 heard dogs houle on the shoare, which we thought had 

 bene Wolves, and therefore we went on shoare to kil 

 them ; when we came on lande, the dogs came presently 

 to our boate very gently, yet we thought they came to 

 pray upon us, and therefore we shot at them and killed 

 two : and about the necke of one of them we found 

 a letheren coller, whereupon we thought them to be 

 tame dogs. Then wee went farther and founde two 

 sleads made like ours in Englande. The one was made 

 of firre, spruse and oken boards, sawen like inch 

 boards ; the other was made all of whale bone, and 

 there hung on the toppes of the sleds three heads of 

 beasts, which they had killed. We saw here larkes, 

 ravens, and partriges " probably rock ptarmigan. 



Searching about, it was agreed that the place was all 

 islands, with sounds passing between them ; that the 

 water remained of the same colour as the main ocean, 

 whereas in every bay they had been into it became 

 blackish ; that a shoal of whales they saw must have 

 come from the west, because to the eastward no whale 

 had been seen ; that " there came a violent counter 

 checke of a tide from the southwest against the flood 

 which we came with, not knowing from whence it was 

 maintayned " ; that the further they ran westward the 

 deeper was the water, " so that hard abord the shoare 

 among these yles we could not have ground in 330 

 fathoms " ; and that, lastly, there was a tide range of 

 six or seven fathoms, " the flood comming from 

 diverse parts, so as we could not perceive the chiefe 

 maintenance thereof." For which six reasons it was 

 determined to continue the voyage to the westward if 



