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Isles, and should know no ccitaintie and hope of 

 passage coidd be none." He adds, " Now seeing 

 that wee had made an end of our discovery, and 

 the year being too farre spent to goe for the 

 bottome of the bay to search for drest finnes,* 

 therefore wee determined to goe for the coast of 

 Gfoneland to see if we could get some refreshing 

 for our men." Their crew, it seems, were very weak 

 and sickly, one had died and three laid up in their 

 hammocks. They therefore stood for the shore, 

 and anchored in a place called Cochin Sound, in 

 latitude 65° 45'. And here on a little island they 

 found abundance of scurvy-grass, which they 

 boiled in beer, and mixing it with sorrel and orpen, 

 both very plentiful, made good sallads ; the men 

 in the course of eight or nine days perfectly re- 

 covered. They also received, after continuing a 

 few days, " salmon peale" from the natives. It is 

 also stated, that in this sound " were such great 

 scales of salmon swimming to and fro, that it is 

 much to be admired." 



They left this bay on the 6th August, and on the 

 25th of the same month came in sight of the coast 

 of Ireland, and on the 50th anchored safely in 

 Dover Road, "for the which," says Baffin, "and 

 all other his blessings, the Lord make us thankful." 



This voyage, which ought to have been, and 

 indeed may still be, considered as the most interest- 



* Whalebone. 



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