JOHN DAVIS ad 



1587. 



THE DISCOURSE. 



This day being in the Streights, we had a very quicke storme. 



Being still in the Streight, we had this day faire weather. 

 At this present we got cleere of the Streights, having coasted the South 

 shore, the land trending from hence S. W. by S. 



This day we coasted the shore, a banke of ice lying thereupon. Also 

 this 30 of July in the afternoone we crossed over the entrance or mouth 

 of a great inlet or passage, being 20 leagues broad, and situate betweene 

 62 & 63 degrees. In which place we had 8 or 9 great rases, currents or 

 overfals, lothsomly crying like the rage of the waters under London 

 bridge, and bending their course into the sayd gulfe. 



This 3 1 at noone, comming close by a foreland or great cape, we fell 

 into a mighty rase, where an island of ice was carried by the force of the 

 current as fast as our barke could saile with lum wind, all sailes bearing. 

 This cape as it was the most Southerly limit of the gulfe which we 

 passed over the 30 day of this moneth, so was it the North promontory 

 or first beginning of another very great inlet, whose South limit at this 

 present wee saw not. Which inlet or gulfe this afternoone, and in the 

 night, we passed over : where to our great admiration we saw the sea 

 falling down into the gulfe with a mighty overfal, and roring, and with 

 divers circular motions like whirlepooles, in such sort as forcible streames 

 passe thorow the arches of bridges. 



The true course, &c. This first of August we fell with the promon- 

 tory of the sayd gulfe or second passage, having coasted by divers courses 

 for our savegard, a great banke of the ice driven out of that gulfe. 



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This day seeking for our ships that went to fish, we strooke on a rocke, 

 being among many iles, and had a great leake. 



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