a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1585. 



according to our appoyntment, left off shooting muskets, 

 and began to shoote falkonets, for they feared some 

 mishap had befallen us, but before night we came aboord 



Yceturnedinto againe with our boat laden with yce, which made very 



water. good fresh water. Then wee bent our course toward 



the North, hoping by that meanes to double the land. 

 The 20. as we sayled along the coast the fogge brake 

 up, and we discovered the land, which was the most 

 deformed rockie and mountainous land that ever we saw : 

 The first sight whereof did shew as if it had bene in 

 forme of a sugar-loafe, standing to our sight above the 

 cloudes, for that it did shew over the fogge like a white 

 liste in the skie, the tops altogether covered with snow, 

 and the shoare beset with yce a league off into the Sea, 

 making such yrkesome noyse as that it seemed to be the 

 true patterne of desolation, and after the same our 



The land of Captaine named it, The land of Desolation. 



Desolation. T\\z 2i. the winde came Northerly and overblew, so 



that we were constrained to bend our course South 

 againe, for we perceived that we were runne into a very 

 deepe Bay, where wee were almost compassed with yce, 

 for we saw very much toward the Northnortheast, West, 

 and Southwest : and this day and this night wee cleared 

 our selves of the yce, running Southsouthwest along 

 the shoare. 



Upon Thursday being the 22. of this moneth, about 

 three of the clocke in the morning, wee hoysed out our 

 boate, and the Captaine with sixe saylers went towards 

 the shoare, thinking to find a landing place, for the night 

 before we did perceive the coast to be voyde of yce to 

 our judgement, and the same night wee were all per- 

 swaded that we had seene a Canoa rowing along the 

 shoare, but afterwards we fell in some doubt of it, but we 

 had no great reason so to doe. The Captaine rowing 

 towards the shoare, willed the Master to beare in with 

 the land after him, and before he came neere the shoare 

 by the space of a league, or about two miles, hee found 

 so much yce, that hee could not get to land by any 



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