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which he determined the latitude of the island to 

 he 74° 30'. This island, though discovered by 

 Barentz several years before, and named by him 

 Bear Island, was now named bv Bennet, and has 

 since retained the name. Cherry Island, 



The following year Bennet proceeded on the 



same voyage, in the God Speed, of sixty tons, 



belonging to Mr. Thomas Welden. They left 



Wardhuys the 6th of July. On the 8th they saw 



Cherry Island, and, on going on shore, found " so 



many fowles that they covered the rockes, and 



flew in such great flockes that they shewed like a 



cloud;" and, in returning, " a huge morse putting 



his head above the water, made such a horrible 



noyse and roaring, that they in the boate thought 



he would have sunk it." On another part of the 



island they found " a multitude of these monsters 



of the sea, lying like hogges upon heaps." They 



shot at them in, vain till their muskets were spoiled 



and their powder was spent, when '' wee would 



blow their eyes out with a little pease-shot, and 



then come on the blind side of them, and with our 



carpenter's axe cleave their heads : but for all that 



wee could doe, of above a thousand wee killed but 



fifteene." They filled a hogshead with the loose 



teeth found on the island. In the interior they 



saw only fowls and foxes. On another side of the 



island were at least a thousand morses lying, and 



on the shore abundance of drift-wood, mostly fir. 



Having killed about fifty of the morses or wal- 



