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1556. 

 [I. 280.] We had not runne past two houres Northwest, the 



wind being at Northnortheast and Northeast and by 

 North a good gale, but we met againe with another heape 

 of ice : we wethered the head of it, and lay a time to the 

 seawards, and made way West 6 leagues. 



24 Friday at a Southeast sunne we cast about to the 

 Eastwards, the wind being at Northnortheast : the 

 latitude this day at noone was 70 degrees 15 minutes. 



25 On S. James his day bolting to the windewardes, we 

 had the latitude at noone in seventy degrees twentie 

 minutes. The same day at a Southwest sunne, there was 

 a monstrous Whale aboord of us, so neere to our side 

 that we might have thrust a sworde or any other 

 weapon in him, which we durst not doe for feare hee 

 should have overthrowen our shippe : and then I called 

 my company together, and all of us shouted, & with 

 the crie that we made he departed from us : there was 

 as much above water of his backe as the bredth of 

 our pinnesse, and at his falling downe, he made such 

 a terrible noyse in the water, that a man would greatly 

 have marvelled, except hee had knowen the cause of 

 it : but God be thanked, we were quietly delivered of 

 him. And a little after we spied certaine Islands, with 

 which we bare, and found good harbor in 15 or 18 

 fadome, and black oze : we came to an anker at a North- 



5. James east sunne, & named the Island S. James his Island, 



Island. where we found fresh water. 



26 Sunday, much wind blowing we rode still. 



27 Munday I went on shoare and tooke the latitude, 

 The variation w j 1 j c j| was y Q degrees 42 minutes : the variation of the 

 7 degreeTand compasse was 7 degrees and a halfe from the North to the 

 a halfe. West. 



28 Tuesday we plyed to the Westwards alongst the shoare, 

 The relation tne w ' mc [ being at Northwest, and as I was about to come 

 of Loshak. tQ anker, we saw a sayle comming about the point, 



wherunder we thought to have ankered. Then I sent a 

 skifFe aboord of him, and at their comming aboord, they 

 tooke acquaintance of them, and the chiefe man said hee 



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