a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1576. 



to that yce, and sownded within two Cables length of 

 it, and had sixteene fathome, and little stones, and after 

 that sownded againe within a Minion shot, and had 

 ground at an hundreth fathome, and faire sand : we 

 sownded the next day a quarter of a myle from it, and 

 had sixtie fathome rough ground, and at that present 

 being aboord, that great Island of yce fell one part from 

 another, making a noyse as if a great cliffe had fallen 

 into the Sea. And at foure of the clocke I sownded 

 againe, and had 90. fathome, and small blacke stones, 

 and little white stones, like pearles. The tide here did 

 set to the shoare. 



10. The tenth I tooke foure men, and my selfe, and rowed 

 to shoare to an Island one league from the maine, and 

 there the flood setteth Southwest alongest the shoare, 

 and it floweth as neere as I could judge so too, I could 

 not tarry to proove it, because the ship was a great way 

 from me, and I feared a fogge : but when I came a 

 shoare, it was a low water. I went to ye top of the 

 Island, and before I came backe, it was hied a foote 

 water, and so without tarrying I came aboord. 



"• The 11. we found our latitude to be 63. degr. and 



ey en er e e j~ nt minutes, and this day we entred the streight. 

 Streit in mc & ' J & 



latitude of '6 3. The 12. wee set saile towardes an Island, called the 

 deg.and%.min. Gabriels Island, which was 10. leagues then from us. 



12. \\ T e espied a sound, and bare with it, and came to a 

 r n j -j 1 ^' sandie Baye, where we came to an anker, the land bearing 



East southeast off us, and there we rode al night in 8. 



fathome water. It floweth there at a Southeast Moone. 



We called it Priors sownd, being from the Gabriels Island, 



tenne leagues. 



14. The 14. we waied, and ranne into another sownde, 

 where wee ankered in 8. fathome water, faire sand, and 

 blacke oaze, and there calked our ship, being weake from 

 the wales upward, and tooke in fresh water. 



15. The 15. day we waied, and sailed to Priors Bay, being 

 a mile from thence. 



16. The 16. day was calme, and we rode still, without yce, 



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