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to them, the more painful became the idea of the 

 necessity which was likely to exist, of ultimately 

 having recourse to them as provisions for ourselves." 



On the 14th of May the Hecla rounded Hak- 

 luyt's Headland, and met with such a tremendous 

 gale of wind and gusts from the high land, as almost 

 to lay the ship on her beam-ends, and oblige them 

 to reduce the canvas to the main-top sail and storm- 

 sails, and let her drive to leeward. Parry suggests 

 it might have been such a storm as this that gave 

 the name of this headland, in an old Dutch chart, 

 the DuyveVs Hoek. From this time till the em- 

 barkation in boats, which did not take place till 

 after " a close and tedious * besetment' of twenty- 

 four days," that is, from the 14th of May till the 

 8th of June, may be looked on as so much lost time. 

 Indeed, after being released, it required a long, 

 anxious, and tedious search for a properly secure 

 harbour in which to leave the Hecla, where she 

 might conveniently be found on the return of the 

 boats from the northward. Such a spot was at 

 length discovered. 



" On the evening of the 18th June, while stand- 

 ing in for the high land to the eastward of Vorlegen 

 Hoek, which, with due attention to the land, may 

 be approached with safety, we perceived from the 

 crow's-nest what appeared a low point, possibly 

 affording some shelter for the ship, and which 

 seemed to answer to an indentation of the coast 



