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interruption. Afterwards, however, they experi- 

 enced considerable inconvenience from ice, being 

 occasionally beset, (yet never passing a day with- 

 out making some progress,) until the 1st of Ju- 

 ly, when, in latitude 75° 40', they got into an open 

 sea. Here they stood twenty leagues off shore, be- 

 fore they fell in with ice, and the hope of a passage 

 was again revived ; but, on trying the tide on their 

 return to the coast, this hope was again depressed. 



The wind, on the 2d of July, veered to the south- 

 east, and blew hard ; and though the weather was 

 thick, they were bold enough to run along the land 

 to the northward. On the morning of the 3d, they 

 passed a headland, in latitude 76° 35', which they 

 called Sir Dudley Diggs' Cape; and twelve leagues 

 beyond it, they opened a bay, having an island in 

 the midst, under which they anchored ; but, in two 

 hours time, the wind still blowing very hard, the 

 ship drove, with two anchors down, and obliged 

 them to set sail. This bay, which Baffin reckons 

 a fit place for killing whales, he named Wosten- 

 holme Sound. 



On the 4th, the storm veered to W. by S., and 

 was so furious that it blew away their fore-sail, and 

 obliged them to lie adrift. Finding themselves 

 embayed when the weather cleared a little, they 

 set sail, and stretched across to the south-eastward, 

 into a little cove, where they attempted " to bring 

 up ;" but the squalls from the hills being violent. 



