AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



halfe way into it, it runneth right foorth without any 

 windings or turnings : and from thence about eight or 

 tenne leagues towards the ende, it hath some boutes and 

 windings, among the which there is one so great a hooke 

 or headland, that it seemed to runne into the other land : 

 and there it is lesse then a league broad from one land to. 

 the other : and from thence forward it runneth straight out 

 againe : And although you finde some crookings, yet they 

 are nothing to speake of. The issue of the Streight lieth 

 Westward, and about eight or tenne leagues before you 

 come to the ende, then the Streight beginneth to bee 

 broader, and it is all high land to the ende thereof, 

 after you are eight leagues within the Streight, for the 

 first eight leagues after you enter is low flat land, as I sayd 

 before : and in the entrie of the Streight you find the 

 streame to runne from the South sea to the North sea. 



And after they began to saile in with the Eastnortheast 

 wind, being entred they passed along without any let or 

 hinderance either of wind or weather : and because the 

 high land on both sides lay covered with snow, and that 

 all the Streight is faire and cleare, they helde their course a 

 [III. 744.] harquebuse-shot in length from off the North side, having 

 nine and tenne fathome depth, with good ground, as I 

 said before, where (if neede require) a man may anker: 

 the hilles on both sides being full of trees, some of the 

 hilles and trees reaching downe to the sea side in some 

 places having plaine and even land : and there they sawe 

 not any great rivers, but some small rivers that issued 

 out of the rifFes and breaches of the land : and in the 

 countrey where the great Cape or crooking is, on the 

 South side they saw certaine Indian fishermen in their 

 Canoas or skiffs, being such as they saw first on the North 

 side, but more people they saw not on the South side. 



Being out of the Streight on the other side, upon 

 the sixt of September of the aforesaid yeere, they held 

 their course Northwest for the space of three dayes, and 

 the third day they had a Northeast wind, that by force 

 drave them Westsouthwest, which course they held for 



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