STEPHEN BUKROUGH a.d. 



1556. 



great cheere : and for very joy that he had to see the [I. 275.] 

 towardnes of our intended discovery, he entred into 

 the dance himselfe, amongst the rest of the young and 

 lusty company : which being ended, hee and his friends 

 departed most gently, commending us to the governance 

 of almighty God. 



Tuesday we rode still at Gravesend, making provision 28 

 for such things as we wanted. 



Wednesday in the morning we departed from Graves- 29 

 ende, the winde being at Southwest, that night we came 

 to an anker thwart our Lady of Hollands. 



Thursday at three of the clocke in the morning we 3° 

 weyed, and by eight of the clocke, we were at an anker 

 in Orwell wannes, and then incontinent I went aboord 

 the Edward Bonaventure, where the worshipfull company 

 of marchants appointed me to be, untill the sayd good 

 ship arrived at Wardhouse. Then I returned againe Note. 

 into the pinnesse. 



Friday the 15 of May we were within 7 leagues May 15. 

 of the shore, on the coast of Norway : the latitude at 

 a South sunne, 58 degrees and a halfe, where we saw 

 three sailes, beside our owne company : and thus we 

 followed the shoare or land, which lieth Northnorthwest, 

 North and by West, and Northwest and by North, as 

 it doth appeare by the plat. 



Saturday at an East sunne we came to S. Dunstans 16 

 Island, which Island I so named. It was ofF us East 

 two leagues and a halfe, the wind being at Southeast : 

 the latitude this day at a South sunne 59 degrees, 42 

 minutes. Also the high round mountaine bare East 

 of us, at a south sunne : and when this hill is East of 

 you, and being bound to the Northward, the land 

 lyeth North and halfe a point Westerly, from this 

 sayd South sunne, unto a North sunne twenty leagues 

 Northwest alongst the shoare. 



Upon Sunday at sixe of the clocke in the morning, the 17 

 farthest land that we could see that lay Northnorthwest, 

 was East of us three leagues, and then it trended to the 



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