0,l4i DISCOVERIES OF l6\6^ 



but he does not give their position, observing, that 

 " all which sounds and islands the map doth truly 

 describe." Of this map of Baffin hereafter. 



The wind being favourable they stood to the 

 south-westward, in an open sea, and with a stiff 

 gale of wind, till the 10th, when it became calm 

 and foggy ; they were then near the land, in the 

 entrance of a fair sound, which thev named Alder" 

 man Jones's Sound. The boat was sent on shore, 

 but it soon returned on account of the bad 

 weather ; no sign of people were seen, but abun- 

 dance of sea morses among the ice. Standing on 

 to the westward, they opened out, on the 12th, 

 another great sound in 74° 20', which they named 

 Sir James Lancaster's Sound, " Here," says Baf- 

 fin, *^ our hope of passage began to be lesse every 

 day than other, for from this sound to the south- 

 ward w^ee had a ledge of ice betweene the shoare 

 and us, but cleare to the seaward ; we kept close 

 by this ledge of ice till the 14th day in the after- 

 noone, by which time wee w^ere in the latitude of 

 71° 16', and plainely perceived the land to the 

 southward of 70° 3(/ ; then wee, having so much 

 ice round about us, were forced to stand more 

 eastward ;" and in this direction they ran amongst 

 the ice threescore leagues, nor could they approach 

 the land till they came to about 6%"", and being 

 then unable to get to the shore on account of the 

 ice, they drifted down to 6o° 40'. " Then," says 

 Baffin, "wee left off seeking to the west shoare, 

 because wee were in the indraft of Cumberland's 



