in high ddoYtheYYi Latitudes* 9 ^ 
latitude 63°. 20'. He had been Tent on a voyage 
of difeovery with two (hips, well provided with 
neceffaries, the crews of which amounted to 
fixty four perfons. The fliips being locked up 
in the ice, they landed, and erefted huts for 
pafTing the winter, which they occupied in 
September, 1619. At the beginning of their 
abode here, they got abundance of wild-fowl, 
and fome other frefti provifion ; but the cold 
foon became fo intenfe, that nothing further was 
to be procured abroad, and they were obliged 
to take to their Ihip-ftores. The feverity of 
the cold may be conceived, from their feeing 
ice three hundred and fixty feet thick; and from 
their beer, wine, and brandy being all frozen to 
the very centre. The people foon began to be 
fickly, and their ficknefs increafcd with the cold. 
Some were affe&ed by gripes and looienefs, which 
continued till they died. At the approach of 
fpring, they were all highly fcorbutic, and their 
mouths were fo extremely fore, that they were 
unable to eat any thing but bread foaked in 
water. At laft, their bread was exhaufted ; and 
the few furvivors chiefly fubfifled on a kind of 
berry dug out from beneath the fnow. When 
the fpring was far advanced, no frefli vegetables 
could yet be found. In June, the Captain 
crawled out of his hut, and found the whole 
company reduced to two men befides himjelf. Thefe 
melancholy relifts fupported themfelves in the 
