ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1587. 



favour, I arrived at the place of fishing, and there 

 according to my direction I left the two ships to follow 

 that busines, taking their faithful promise not to depart 

 untill my returne unto them, which should be in the fine 

 of August, and so in the barke I proceeded for the 

 discoverie : but after my departure, in sixeteene dayes the 

 two shippes had finished their voyage, and so presently 

 departed for England, without regard of their promise: 

 my selfe not distrusting any such hard measure proceeded 

 for the discoverie, and followed my course in the free 

 and open sea betweene North and Northwest to the 

 latitude of 67 degrees, and there I might see America 

 West from me, and Gronland, which I called Desolation, 

 East : then when I saw the land of both sides 1 began 

 to distrust it would proove but a gulfe : notwithstanding 

 desirous to know the full certainty I proceeded, and in 

 68 degrees the passage enlarged, so that I could not see 

 the Westerne shore : thus I continued to the latitude 

 of 73 degrees, in a great sea, free from yce, coasting the 

 Westerne shore of Desolation : the people came con- 

 tinually rowing out unto me in their Canoas, twenty, 

 forty, and one hundred at a time, and would give me 

 fishes dryed, Salmon, Salmon peale, Cod, Caplin, Lumpe, 

 Stone-base and such like, besides divers kinds of birds, 

 as Partrige, Fesant, Guls, Sea birds and other kindes of 

 flesh : I still laboured by signes to know from them what 

 they knew of any sea toward the North, they still made 

 signes of a great sea as we understood them, then I 

 departed from that coast, thinking to discover the North 

 parts of America : & after I had sailed towards the 

 West 40 leagues, I fel upon a great banke of yce : 

 the winde being North and blew much, I was con- 

 strained to coast the same toward the South, not seeing 

 any shore West from me, neither was there any yce 

 towards the North, but a great sea, free, large very 

 salt and blew, & of an unsearchable depth : So coasting 

 towards the South I came to the place where I left 

 the ships to fish, but found them not. Then being 



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