ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1586. 



and purses made of leather, and knoppes on them of 



copper, and hatchets, and other small tooles as necessary 



as we have. They drie their fish in the Sun, and when 



they are dry, they packe them up in the top of their 



houses. If we would goe thither to fishing more then we 



doe, we should make it a very good voyage : for wee got 



an hundreth greene fish in one morning. Wee found 



heere two English men with a shippe, which came out of 



England about Easter day of this present yeere 1586, 



and one of them came aboord of us, and brought us two 



M. John Roy- lambs. The English mans name was M. John Roydon 



donoflpszvich. Q f Ip SW ich marchant : hee was bound for London with 



his ship. And this is the summe of that which I 



They departed observed in Island. We departed from Island the 



from Island sixteenth day of June in the morning, and our course 



Northwest. xt 1 1 ^1 1 \ 11 i_ 1 



was Northwest, and we saw on the coast two small barkes 



going to an harborough : we went not to them, but saw 

 them a farre off. Thus we continued our course unto 

 the end of this moneth. 



July. The third day of July we were in betweene two firme 



lands of yce, and passed in betweene them all that day 

 untill it was night : and then the Master turned backe 

 againe, and so away we went towards Groenland. And 



G rone land dis- the seventh day of July we did see Groenland, and it was 



covered. ver y high, and it looked very blew : we could not come 



to harborough into the land, because we were hindered by 

 a firme land as it were of yce, which was along the shoares 

 side : but we were within three leagues of the land, 

 coasting the same divers dayes together. The seventeenth 

 day of July wee saw the place which our Captaine M. 



The land of John Davis the yeere before had named The land of 



Desolation. Desolation, where we could not goe on shore for yce. 

 The eighteenth day we were likewise troubled with yce, 

 and went in amongst it at three of the clocke in the 



Groenland morning. After wee had cleared our selves thereof, wee 



coasted from ran pr ec [ a u along the coast of Desolation untill the ende 



the 7. till the r ?, r 5 *u 



last of July. °f tne aforesayd moneth. 



August. ' The third day of August we came in sight of Gilberts 



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