222 VOYAGES OF 1603 to 



of formal possession being taken of it in the name 

 of the IMuscovy Company ; of the extraordinary 

 quantity of bears seen and slain ; of the multitude 

 of foxes; of good sea coal, and three mines of lead 

 ore being discovered on Gull Island ; and for their 

 meeting with no less than three other ships at the 

 island, making with theirs a little fleet of five 

 vessels, and one hundred and eighty-two men ; the 

 whole of which vessels, being caught in a cove by 

 the drift-ice, had nearly been crushed to atoms. 



In consequence of the possession taken of Cherry 

 Island, on the part of the Muscovy Company, the 

 ship Amitie, of seventy tons, was fitted out by that 

 company in the year I6IO for a further discovery 

 to be made towards the North Pole, either for 

 trade or a passage that way, of which ship Jonas 

 Poole, who had been on all the former voyages, 

 was appointed master. He passed the North Cape 

 on the 2d of May, " after many stormes, much 

 cold, snow and extreame frosts." He made the 

 latitude of Cherry Island on the 6th, but could not 

 approach it on account of the vast quantity of ice, 

 among which '' the ship had many a knocke." 

 He stood on to the northward, and, on the l6th of 

 Mav, saw land in 70^ 50', which was, of course, a 

 part of Spitzbergen. The boat was sent on shore, 

 and the people finding a deer's horn they gave the 

 name of Horn Sound to the bay in which they 

 landed ; and to the land first seen, about four 

 leagues to the southward of the bay, that of 



