JOHN DAVIS ad. 



r 5 8 5- 

 we discovered certaine Islands standing in the midst 



thereof, having open passage on both sides. Wherupon 



our ships divided themselves, the one sailing on the 



North side, the other on the South side of the sayd 



Isles, where we stayed five dayes, having the winde at 



Southeast, very foggy and foule weather. 



The 14 we went on shoare and found signes of people, 

 for we found stones layed up together like a wall, and 

 saw the skull of a man or a woman. 



The 1 5 we heard dogs houle on the shoare, which we 

 thought had bene wolves, and therefore we went on 

 shoare to kill them. When we came on land the dogges 

 came presently to our boat very gently, yet we thought 

 they came to pray upon us, and therefore we shot at 

 them, and killed two : and about the necke of one of 

 them we found a leatherne coller, wherupon we thought 

 them to be tame dogs. There were twenty dogs like 

 mastives with prickt eares and long bush tailes : we 

 found a bone in the pizels of their dogs. Then we went 

 farther, and found two sleads made like ours in England : 

 the one was made of flrre, spruse and oken boords sawen Timber 

 like inch boords : the other was made all of whale bone, sawen - 

 & there hung on the tops of the sleads three heads of 

 beasts which they had killed. We saw here larks, ravens, Fozvle. 

 and partridges. 



The 17 we went on shoare, and in a little thing made 

 like an oven with stones I found many small trifles, as a 

 small canoa made of wood, a piece of wood made like an 

 image, a bird made of bone, beads having small holes An image. 

 in one end of them to hang about their necks, & other 

 small things. The coast was very barren without wood 

 or grasse : the rocks were very faire like marble, full of 

 vaines of divers colours. We found a seale which was 

 killed not long before, being fleane, and hid under stones. 



Our Captaine and Master searched still for proba- Probabilities 

 bilities of the passage, and first found, II that this place fir the passage. 

 was all Islands, with great sounds passing betweene 

 them. 



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