A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



After they had delivered this relation unto our 

 captaine under their handes, then wee b^an to travell 

 for our lives, and wee built up a smiths forge, and made 

 a colepit, and burnt coles, and there wee made nailes, 

 boltes, and spikes, others made ropes of a peece of our 

 cable, and the rest gathered musldes, and tooke smeltes 

 for the whole companie. Three leagues from this 

 An Isle mure harborou^h there is an Isle with foure small Isles about 

 ^ZL^i?^ ^^- ^^^^^ there are great abundance of seales, and at 

 vhk seJes ^^ xiTCiQ of the veere the penguins come thither in 

 odferngMiM:. great plentie to breede. Wee concluded with the pin- 

 nesse, that she should sometimes goe thither to fetch 

 seales for us; upon which condition wee would share 

 our victuals with her man for man ; whereunto the 

 whole companie agreed. So wee parted our poore store, 

 and shee laboured to fetch us seales to eate, wherewith 

 wee lived when smeltes and muskles failed : for in the 

 nepe streames wee could get no muskles. Thus in 

 most miserable caiamitie wee remained untill the sixt 

 of Au2^st, stid keeping watch upon the hils to looke for 

 our GeneraU, and so great was our vexation and anguish 

 of soule, as I thinke never desh and blood endured more. 

 Thus our miserie dayly increasing, tim.e passing, and 

 our hope of the Generall being very colde, our Captaine 

 and Master were fully perswaded, that the Generall might 

 perhaps goe directly for The Streights, and not come to 

 this harborough : whereupon they thought no course more 

 convenient than to goe presently for The Streights, and 

 there to stay his comming, for in that place hee could 

 not passe, but of force wee must see him : whereunto 

 the companie most wiUino^ly consented, as also the 

 Captaine and Master of the pinnesse; so that upon 

 this determination wee made all possible speede to 



-'" - - 1:.z sixt of August wee set saile, and went to Penguin- 



7J^^.r!. ''-"^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^' ^7 ^^ salted twentie hogsheads of 



: :. which was as much as our salt could possibly 



;:, -.;. md so wee departed for The Streights the poorest 



40c 



