MARTIN FROBISHER ad. 



1576. 



The 18. day at a Southwest sunne I found the sunne 18. 

 to be elevated 33. deg. And at a Southsoutheast sunne 

 40. deg. So I observed it till I found it at the highest, 

 and then it was elevated 52. deg. I judged the variation The var ™tion 

 of the Compasse to be 2. points and a halfe to the fj^poTntfand 

 Westward. ^ a ha lfe to the 



The 21. day we had sight of a great drift of yce, West. 

 seeming a firme lande, and we cast Westward to be A & reat drt fi 

 cleare of it. '*** 



The 26. we had sight of a land of yce: the latitude The latitude of 

 was 62. degrees, and two minutes. 02. degrees 2. 



The 28. day in the morning was very foggie : but at 



the clearing up of the fogge, wee had sight of lande, Sight of land 



which I supposed to be Labrador, with great store of s "PP sedt0 



r r < * m o have bene La- 



yce about the land : I ranne in towards it, and sownded, hrador. 



but could get no ground at 100. fathom, and the yce 



being so thicke, I could not get to the shoare, and so 



lay off, and came cleare of the yce. Upon Munday 30. 



we came within a mile of the shoare, and sought a 



harborowe : all the sownd was full of yce, and our boate 



rowing a shoare, could get no ground at 100. fathom, 



within a Cables length of the shoare : then we sailed 



Eastnortheast along the shoare, for so the lande lyeth, 



and the currant is there great, setting Northeast, and 



Southwest : and if we could have gotten anker ground, 



wee would have seene with what force it had runne, but 



I judge a ship may drive a league and a halfe, in one 



houre, with that tide. 



This day at 4. of the cloke in the morning, being 31. 

 faire and cleere, we had sight of a head land, as we 

 judged, bearing from us north, and by East, and we 

 sailed Northeast, and by North to that land, and when 

 we came thither, wee could not get to the lande for yce : 

 for the yce stretched along the coast, so that we could 

 not come to the land, by five leagues. 



Wednesday the first of August it calmed, and in the August. 

 after noone I caused my boate to be hoysed out, being *■ 

 hard by a great Island of yce, and I and foure men rowed 



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