a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1556. 



with Cape S. John againe, in which storme wee lost 

 our skiffe at our sterne, that wee bought at Ward- 

 house, and there we rode until the fourth of July. 

 The latitude The latitude of Cape S. John is 66 degrees 50 

 °{?*%/' minutes. And it is to be noted, that the land of 

 decrees co Cape S. John is of height from the full sea marke, 

 minutes. as I judge, io fadomes, being cleane without any 



trees growing, & also without stones or rockes, and 

 Earth swim- consists onely of blacke earth, which is so rotten, 

 ming above that j£ ^ j ntQ the it wi jj swimme as 



water like 

 wood. though it were a piece of wood. In which place, 



about three leagues from the shore you shall not 

 have above 9 fadom water, and clay ground. 



Julie. 



4 OAturday at a Northnorthwest sunne the wind came 

 O at Eastnortheast, & then we weied, and plied to 

 the Northwards, and as we were two leagues shot 

 past the Cape, we saw a house standing in a valley, 

 which is dainty to be seene in those parts, and by 

 and by I saw three men on the top of the hil. 

 Then I judged them, as it afterwards proved, that 

 they were men which came from some other place 

 to set traps to take vermin for their furres, which 

 trappes we did perceive very thicke alongst the shore 

 as we went. 



5 Sunday at an East sunne we were thwart off the 

 creeke where the Russes lay, and there came to an 

 anker, and perceiving the most part of the Lodias to 

 be gone we thought it not good to tary any longer 

 there, but weyed and spent all the ebbe, plying to the 

 windewards. 



6 Munday at a South sunne it was high water. All 

 alongst the coast it floweth little, onely a South moone 

 makes a full sea : and as we were a weying we espied 

 the Russe Lodias, which we first lost. They came out 

 of a creeke amongst the sandy hilles, which hilles 

 beginne 15 leagues Northnortheast from Cape S. John. 



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