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north part of Japan, from whence, or from Yedzo, 

 if you can so compasse it without clanger, we 

 would have you to hring home one of the men of 

 the countrey ; and so God blessing you with all 

 expedition to make your return home againe."* 



On the 26th March the Discovery, with seven- 

 teen persons on board, set sail from Gravesend ; but 

 the weather being boisterous, they were compelled 

 to seek shelter, first in Dartmouth and then in 

 Plymouth. They got away from the latter place 

 on the 19th April, and, " after a good passage, the 

 first land we saw was in Fretum DaviSy on the 

 coast of Greenland, in the latitude of 65° 20." 

 They proceeded northerly, without obstruction, to 

 latitude 70° 20', and anchored in a fair sound near 

 the Londo7i Coast of Davis. The natives all ran 

 away, leaving their dogs behind them. Here the 

 small rise of the tide being only eight or nine feet, 

 gave Baffin " some dislike of the passage." 



On the 30th May they reached Hope Sanderson, 

 the extreme point of Davis's progress, lying be- 

 tween 72° and 73°, and fell in with much ice, 

 which on the 1st June they got clear of, and, the 

 wind being contrary, put in among a cluster of 

 islands ; but on the natives seeing their ship they 

 fled away, leaving their tents behind. They found 

 ^several women, however, who had hidden them- 

 selves among the rocks, some of them young and 

 others old, one of the latter being from her ap- 



* Purchas's Pilgrims, vol. iii. p. 842. 



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