7t2 ACCOUNT OF THE ARCTIC REGIONS. 



on the 20th of May. The following day it passed 

 Greenwich with great display, in view of the Court, 

 who were then there,v and amid the warmest accla- 

 mations of a great number of people of all ranks, 

 who had assembled to witness its sailing. One of 

 the ships, the Edward Bonaventure, commanded by 

 Kichard Chancellor, pilot-major of the fleet, was se- 

 parated from the rest of the little squadron, in a 

 storm, on the 3d of August, when they were near 

 the northern termination of T^apland, called, by Ste- 

 phen Burrough, who accompanied Chancellor, the 

 North Cape ; on which Sir Hugh AVilloughby, in 

 the Bona Esperanza, accompanied by the Bona 

 Confidentia, proceeded in search of Wardhuus, the 

 place appointetl for a rendezvous ; but, missiug it, 

 stretched to the eastward, until the 14th of August, 

 when he discovered an unknov^n coast, lying in la- 

 titude 72°. On this coast, now called Nova Zem- 

 bla*, he was unable to land, from the shoalness of 



* As Sir Hugh Willoughby was l60 leagues^ by estimation, 

 E. by N. from Seynam, an island on the east coast of Norway, 

 in latitude 70°, when he discovered land ; and the distance to 

 Nova Zeinbla, according to Arrowsmith, is not more than 220 

 leagues, I have no doubt but the coast seen by him was Nova 

 Zembla. Besides, from the length of time he was in getting 

 to the westward, to his wintering harbour, it is evident he was 

 much farther to the eastward than he imagined. Indeed the 

 courses and distances given in his journal, imperfect as they 

 are, give sufficient westing for the distance between Nova 

 Zembla and Lapland. And had he been mistaken in his lati~ 



