a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1578. 

 A mountaine And as we thus lay off and on we came by a marveilous 

 of yce appear- huge mountaine of yce, which surpassed all the rest that 

 l "g tnsuna ever we saw . fo r we judged it to be neere fourescore 

 fathomes above water, and we thought it to be a ground 

 for any thing that we could perceive, being there nine 

 score fathoms deepe, and of compasse about halfe a mile. 

 d fog of long Also the fift of July there fell a hidious fogge and 

 continuance. mist, that continued till the nineteenth of the same : so 

 that one shippe could not see another. Therefore we 

 were faine to beare a small sayle and to observe the time : 

 A current to but there ran such a current of a tide, that it set us to 

 the Northwest. the Northwest of the Queenes foreland the backside of 

 all the Straights : where (through the contagious fogge 

 having no sight either of Sunne or Starre) we scarce 

 knew where we were. In this fogge the tenth of July 

 we lost the company of the Viceadmirall, the Anne 

 Francis, the Busse of Bridgewater, and the Francis of 

 Foy. 



The 16. day one of our small Barkes named the 

 The Gabriel Gabriel was sent by our Generall to beare in with the 

 land to descrie it, where being on land, they met with 

 [III. 42.] the people of the Countrey, which seemed very humane 

 The people and civill, and offered to traffike with our men, profering 

 offer to trafike them foules and skins for knives, and other trifles : whose 

 courtesie caused us to thinke, that they had small con- 

 versation with other of the Straights. 



Then we bare backe againe to goe with the Queenes 

 foreland : and the eighteenth day wee came by two 

 Islands whereon we went on shore, and found where the 

 people had bene : but we saw none of them. This day 

 wee were againe in the yce, and like to be in as great 

 perill as we were at the first. For through the darknesse 

 and obscuritie of the foggie mist, we were almost run on 

 rocks and Islands before we saw them : But God (even 

 miraculously) provided for us, opening the fogges that 

 we might see clearely, both where and in what danger 

 we presently were, and also the way to escape : or els 

 without faile we had ruinously runne upon the rocks. 



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