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or sound, at the ])ottom of which the mate and 

 boatswain went on shore, where they found a pair of 

 morses' teeth, whale bones, deer's horns and the foot- 

 marks of other beasts ; they also met with much 

 drift-wood and streams of fresh water. " Here 

 they found it hot on shoore, and drunke water to 

 coole their thirst, which they also commended." 

 Hudson made the northernmost part of the land 

 then in sight to be in about 81° N. latitude; but 

 on attempting to sail farther north he saw more 

 land joining to the same, "trending north in our 

 sight, by meanes of the cleernesse of the weather, 

 stretching farre into 82 degrees; and by the 

 bowing or shewing of the skie much farther." 

 This nmst either be a mistake, or he stood over so 

 far to the west as to have fallen in again with 

 Greenland extending to this latitude, which would 

 rather seem to be the case, as he some time after- 

 wards mentions, from an " icy skie and neerenesse 

 to Groneland, there is no passage that w^ay; which, 

 if there had beene, I meant to have made my 

 returne by the north of Groneland to Davis his 

 Streights, and so for England." It might, how- 

 ever, have been the ice- blink that deceived him, 

 which was then not so easily, as it now is, dis- 

 tinguished from what is called the land-blink. 



On the 31st of July, being in want of all man- 

 ner of necessaries, the weather thick and foggy, 

 and the season being too far advanced to make 

 further discovery that year, Hudson bore up in his 



