JOHN DAVIS a.d. 



water as it were whirling and overfalling, as if it were the 

 fall of some great water through a bridge. 



The 31. as we sayled by a Headland, which we named 

 Warwicks Foreland, we fell into one of those overfals Wartouks 

 with a fresh gale of wind, and bearing all our sailes, wee For ^ and - 

 looking upon an Island of yce betweene us and the 

 shoare, had thought that our barke did make no way, 

 which caused us to take markes on the shoare : at length 

 wee perceived our selves to goe very fast, and the Island 

 of yce which we saw before, was carried very forcibly 

 with the set of the current faster then our ship went. A very forcible 

 This day and night we passed by a very great gulfe, the curre J t ^ est ~ 

 water whirling and roaring as it were the meetings of 

 tydes. 



August. [III. 1 14-] 



THe first of August having coasted a banke of ice which 

 was driven out at the mouth of this gulfe, we fell 

 with the Southermost cape of the gulfe, which we named 

 Chidleis cape, which lay in 61 degrees and 10 minutes of Chidleys cape. 

 latitude. The 2 and 3 were calme and foggie, so were 

 the 4, 5, and 6. The 7 was faire and calme : so was the 

 8, with a litle gale in the morning. The 9 was faire, and 

 we had a litle gale at night. The 10 we had a frisking 

 gale at Westnorthwest. The 1 1 faire. The 1 2 we saw 

 rive deere on the top of an Island, called by us Darcies The lord Dar- 

 Island. And we hoised out our boat, and went ashore to aes lslan ' 1 - 

 them, thinking to have killed some of them. But when 

 we came on shore, and had coursed them twise about the 

 Island, they tooke the sea and swamme towards Islands 

 distant from that three leagues. When we perceived 

 that they had taken the sea we gave them over because 

 our boat was so small that it could not carrie us, and 

 rowe after them, they swamme so fast : but one of them 

 was as bigge as a good prety Cow, and very fat, their 

 feet as bigge as Oxe feet. Here upon this Island I killed 

 with my piece a gray hare. 



The 13 in the morning we saw three or foure white 



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