^42 DISCOVERIES. OF 1631. 



SwanVnest, and observes, that "every night here 

 are petti-dancers, and red fire flashes in the ayre 

 most fearfidl to behold." Proceeding to the north- 

 ward he passes a cape, to which he gives the name 

 of King Charles his Fromonioiie, and to another 

 Cape Maria, " in a most bounden and dutifull 

 remembrance of my King and Queene, drinking 

 their liealth with the young princes." The first 

 he estimates to be in about latitude 64" 46', and 

 the second eight leagues to the northward; and 

 he calls three islands, lying N.W. of the pro- 

 montory, The Trinitie Isles, " in the remem- 

 brance of the House of Decpeford Strand." To 

 a headland lying some miimtes within the arctic 

 circle he gives the name of my Lord JVestons 

 Portland, to another Cape Dorchester, and to the 

 land beyond this Fox his Farthest. On the 2oth 

 September he begins to think that they had made 

 but "a scurvie voyage of it," and that in his opinion 

 it was the best they could do to bear up home- 

 wards; and accordingly he made sail out of Hud- 

 son's Strait, and arrived in the Downs on the 31st 

 October, with all his men recovered and sound, 

 " not having lost one man nor boy, nor any 

 manner of tackling, having beene forth neere six 

 moneths, all glory be to God."* 



Fox complains that he got no reward for his 

 ti'ouble ; in fact, the result of the voyage evidently 



* North-west Fox. 



