INTRODUCTION. 



get to the Weftward, and proceed on his voyage. He 

 found the ice to lie nearefl S W and S W b S and ran 

 along it about an hundred and twenty leagues. He had 

 no ground near the ice at i6o, i8o, or 200 fathoms r per- 

 ceiving the ice ftill to trend to the fouthvvard, he deter- 

 mined to return to Spitsbergen for the filliery, where he 

 loft his (hip. 



in the year 16 14, another voyage was undertaken, irr 

 which Baffin and Fotherby were employed. With much 

 difficulty, and after repeated attempts in vain with the 

 fhip, they got with their boats to the firm ice, which 

 joined to Red-Beach; they walked over the ice to that 

 place, in hopes of finding whale-fins, &c. in which they 

 were difappointed. Fotherby adds, in his account: " Thus, 

 *' as we could not find what we defired to fee, fo did we 

 " behold that which we wiffied had not been there to be 

 ** feen; which was great abundance of ice, that lay clofe 

 " to the (hore, and alfo off at fea as far as we could 

 *' difcern." On the eleventh of Auguft they failed from 

 Fair-Haven, to try if the ice would let them pafs to the 

 Northward, or Northeaftward ; they lieered from Cape 

 Barren, or Vogel Sang, N E b E eight leagues, where 

 they met with the ice, which lay E b S and W b N. 

 The fifteenth of Auguft they favv ice frozen in the fea 

 of above the thicknefs of an half-crown. 



Fotherby 



