1594. YSBRANTS, AND BARENTZ. 139 



the names of Latijenes^nd Bapo to two hcacllaiids, 

 and to a good bay, in which he anchored, that of 

 Lomsbay ; thus named from a species of penguin 

 so called by the Dutch, which was found here 

 in vast numbers.* The latitude of this bay was 

 observed to be 74° -|. He next passed Admirals 

 Island^ Cape Negro, Black Point, JVilUamss Island, 

 which is in 75° 55' ; and on the shores of which 

 was found much drift-wood, and a multitude of 

 sea-horses. Here also they met with a most 

 tremendous white bear of wonderful strength, 

 which, after \vounding with musket ball, they 

 endeavoured to get into the boat by throwing a 

 rope round her ; but the bear needed no such as- 

 sistance, having nearly succeeded in getting into the 

 boat of her own accord and driving all the people 

 therein to the opposite end, when luckily the rope 

 entangled her with the rudder and checked her 

 career ; one of the crew at this moment, em- 

 boldened by her helpless situation, stepped aft and 

 put her to death with a half-pike. 



From hence they still proceeded northerly, pass- 

 ing the Island of Crosses and Point Nassau, and 

 came to an extensive field of ice about the lat. 77'^ 

 25', of which they could see no end from the top. 



* Purchas, following the old translator Phillip, transforms these 

 birds into " a certayne kinde of beares." vol. iii. p. 474. But 

 a French editor has made a more absurd mistake, by metamor- 

 phosing the puffins, or " the northern parrots'* of the Dutch into 

 St. Louis. Hist. Gen. des Voy. torn. xxii. p; 128. 



