A.D. 



1578 



An horrlbie 

 snozve fell in 

 July. 



The time of 

 our setting for- 

 ward, &c. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



bare in with the Westerne shore, where they found har- 

 bour, and there moared their ships untill the fourth of 

 August, at which time they came to us in the Countesse 

 of Warwicks sound. The Thomas of Ipswich caught a 

 great leake which caused her to cast againe to Seabord 

 and so was mended. 



We sailed along still by the coast untill we came to 

 the Queenes foreland, at the point whereof we met with 

 part of the gulfe aforesayd, which place or gulfe (as some 

 of our Masters doe credibly report) doeth flow nine 

 houres, and ebs but three. At that point wee discovered 

 certaine lands Southward, which neither time nor oppor- 

 tunitie would serve to search. Then being come to the 

 mouth of the Straights we met with the Anne Francis, 

 who had laine bulting up and downe ever since her 

 departure alone, never rinding any of her company. We 

 met then also the Francis of Foy, with whom againe we 

 intended to venture and get in : but the yce was yet so 

 thicke, that we were compelled againe to retyre and get 

 us on Sea-bord. 



There fell also the same day being the 26. of July, 

 such an horrible snow, that it lay a foot thick upon the 

 hatches which frose as it fell. 



We had also at other times divers cruell stormes both 

 of snow and haile, which manifestly declared the dis- 

 temperature of the Countrey : yet for all that wee were 

 so many times repulsed and put backe from our purpose, 

 knowing that lingering delay was not profitable for us, 

 but hurtfull to our voyage, we mutually consented to 

 our valiant Generall once againe, to give the onset. 



The 28. day therefore of the same July we assayed, 

 and with little trouble (God be praysed) we passed the 

 dangers by day light. Then night falling on the face 

 of the earth, wee hulled in the cleare, til the chearefull 

 light of the day had chased away the noysome darkenesse 

 of the night : at which time we set forward towards our 

 wished Port : by the 30. day wee obteined our expected 

 desire, where we found the Judith, and the Michael : 



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