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geuing them nayles and knifes which of all things 

 they most desired, we departed, and finding the sea 

 free from yse supposing our selves to be past all 

 daunger we shaped our course West Nor West 

 thinking thereby to passe for China, but in the 

 latitude of sixtie sixe degrees, wee fell with an 

 other sliore, and there founde an other passage of 

 20. leages broade directly West into the same, 

 which we supposed to bee our hoped strayght, we 

 intercd into the same thirty or fortie leages, finding- 

 it neither to wyden nor straighten, then consider- 

 ing that the yeere was spent for this was in the 

 fyne of August, and not knowing the length of 

 this straight and dangers thereof, we tooke it our 

 best course to retourne w ith notice of our good 

 successe for this small time of search. And so 

 retourning in a sharpe fret of Westerly windes the 

 29. of September we arived at Dartmouth. And 

 acqu?.inting master Secretory with the rest of the 

 honorable and worshipfuU adventurers of all our 

 procedinges. I was appointed againe the seconde 

 yeere to search the bottome of this straight, 

 because by all likelihood it was the place and pas- 

 sage by us laboured for. In this second attempt 

 the merchants of Exeter, and other places of the 

 West became adventurers in the action, so that 

 being sufficiently furnished for sixe monthes, and 

 having direction to search this straighte, untill we 

 found the same to fall into an other sea upon the 

 West side of this part of America, we should 



