50 MEMOIR OF 



editor of his principal works, ins constant com- 

 panion, and protegee in science, the Rev. Mr 

 Ray, in his preface to the English edition of Mr 

 Willughby's Ornithology. " He was endowed 



account of the various bafflings which were met with in 

 the endeavour to sail in the given direction. 



The last entry is dated September 18, in these words : 

 " The next day, being the 18th of September, we entered 

 into the haven, and there came to an anker at 6 fadoms. 

 This haven runneth into the maine about two leagues, and 

 is in. bredth halfe a league, wherein were very many seatle 

 fishes, and other great fishes : and upon the maine we 

 saw beare?, great deere, foxes, with divers strange beasts, 

 and gulloines, (in the margin, ellons,) and such other, 

 which were to us unknown and wonderful. Thus re- 

 maining in this haven by the space of a weeke, seeing the 

 yeare farre spent, and also very evill wether, as frost, 

 snow, and haile, as though it had been the deepe of 

 winter, we thought best to winter there. 



" Wherefore we sent out three men south-east, three 

 daye's journey, who returned without finding of people, or 

 any similitude of habitation.'* 



Hakluyt states that " the two following notes were 

 written on the outside of the pamphlet or booke :" 



1. " The proceedings of Sir Hugh Willoughbie after 

 he was separated from the Edward Bonauenture. 



2. " Our shippe being at anker in the barber called 

 Sterfier in the island Lofoote. " 



There is also a marginal note in Hakluyt as follows : 



" Here endeth Sir Hugh Willoughbie his note which 

 was written by his own hand." 



Then follows this statement : 



" The river, or haven, wherein Sir Hugh Willoughbie, 

 with the companie of his two ships, perished for cold, is 

 called Arzina, in Lapland, neere unto Kezor. But rt 

 -appeareth, by a will found in the ship, that Sir Hugh 



