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Muscovy Mount. Leaving this part of the coast 

 he stood first to the westward, then to the north- 

 ward, and in lat. 77° 25' finds the weather on the 

 17th of May " very warnie and farre temperater" 

 than at the North Cape at the same period of the 

 year. On the 19th, however, he says, " it was 

 very thick fogges, with wind, frost and snow, and 

 cold, that I thinke they did strive here which of 

 them should have the superioritie." Such was the 

 continuance of fog that he complains of not being 

 able to see the sun on the meridian for five days, 

 and not at all for sixty hours, though constantly 

 above the horizon. In 78° 37' he named the head- 

 land of a small island Fa'u^ Foreland ; and here he 

 assures himself " that a passjige may be as soone 

 attayned this way, by the pole, as any unknowne 

 way whatsoever, by reason the sun doth give a 

 great heat in this climate ; and the ice that freezeth 

 here is nothing so huge as I have seen in 73 

 degrees." 



On a small island he killed a great number of 

 deer, and gave to the bay the name of Deer 

 Sound; after this they slew several bears, and a 

 multitude of the walrus or sea-horse. " The tenth 

 day," he goes on to say, " I ^vent on shoore and 

 slue five deeres, with the which and them that I 

 slue before, I have lengthened out my victuals, 

 blessed be the Creator of the world, which hath not 

 made any part thereof in vaine, but so that in 

 these parts (which hath seemed, impossible to our 



