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ancestors to bee travelled unto, by reason of the 

 extreame cold which they supposed to be here) I 

 find the ayre temperate in the lands, and nothing 

 so cold as I have found at Cherry Island in five 

 severall vovao-es. Moreover, in this land I have 

 scene ereat store of deere, which have neither bark 

 nor tree to shelter them from the nipping cold of 

 winter, nor yet any extraordinarie pasture to 

 refresh them. If then (I say) having nothing but 

 the rockes for a house, and the starry canopie for 

 a covering doe live here, why may not man, which 

 hath all the gifts of God bestowed upon him for 

 his health and succour ?" * 



The farthest latitude reached in this voyage was 

 79° 50', in which parallel was situated a part of 

 land, to which Poole gave the name of Gurnerd's 

 Nose, leading into Faire Ha'ven, where he also 

 met with and killed several deer, which were in 

 such excellent condition that both these and most 

 of them which had before been killed had two and 

 three inches thick of fat upon them. In Deer 

 Sound thev found sea-coal, which burned very 

 well. Towards the end of July he stood to the 

 southward with the intention of calling at Cherry 

 Island, but the ice was so thickly packed that he 

 gave up the attempt and proceeded homewards, 

 arriving in London on the last day of August. 



This voyage, as appears by the commission given 



* Journal of Jonas Poole in Purchas, vol. iii. p. 703. 



