A.D. 

 1577 



The Stirrage 

 oftheMichaell 

 broken by 

 tempest. 



The first en - 

 trance of the 

 straights. 



[in. 63.] 



Halles liana* 



The descrip- 

 tion of the 

 straights. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



being the first that ever passed beyond 58 degrees to the 

 Northwardes, for any thing that hath beene yet knowen 

 of certaintie of New found land, otherwise called the 

 continent or firme lande land of America, discovered the 

 saide straights this last yere 1576. 



Betweene Frisland and the straights we had one great 

 storme, wherein the Michaell was somewhat in danger, 

 having her Stirrage broken, and her toppe Mastes blowen 

 over boord, & being not past 50 leagues short of the 

 straights by our account, we stroke sayle & lay a hull, 

 fearing the continuance of the storme, the winde being 

 at the Northeast, and having lost companie of the Barkes 

 in that flaw of winde, we happily met againe the seven- 

 teenth day of July, having the evening before seene 

 divers Hands of fleeting yce, which gave an argument 

 that we were not farre from land. Our Generall in the 

 morning from the maine top (the weather being reason- 

 able cleare) descried land, but to be better assured he 

 sent the two Barkes two contrarie courses, whereby they 

 might discry either the South or North foreland, the 

 Ayde lying off and on at Sea, with a small sayle by an 

 Hand of yce, which was the marke for us to meete 

 togither againe. And about noone, the weather being 

 more cleare, we made the North forland perfite, which 

 otherwise is called Halles Hand, and also the small Hand 

 bearing the name of the sayde Hall whence the Ore was 

 taken up which was brought into England this last yeere 

 1576 the said Hall being present at the finding & taking 

 up thereof, who was then Maister in the Gabriell with 

 Captaine Frobisher. At our arrivall here all the Seas 

 about this coast were so covered over with huge quantitie 

 of great yce, that we thought these places might onely 

 deserve the name of Mare Glaciale, and be called the 

 Isie Sea. 



This North forland is thought to be devided from the 

 continent of the Northerland, by a little sound called 

 Halles sound, which maketh it an Hand, and is thought 

 little lesse then the He of Wight, and is the first entrance 



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