b VOYAGE INTO 



On the 21st (which was the fourth Sunday after Easter), 

 we sailed into the ice in the forenoon, with another Ham- 

 burg her -ship, called the Lepeler, with eight Hollanders. We 

 fixed our ship with ice-hooks to a large ice-field, when the 

 sun was south-west and by south ; we numbered thirty ships 

 in the sea; they lay, as it were, in an harbour or haven. 

 Thus they venture their ships in the ice at great hazard. 



On the 30th, it was fair weather in the morning, snowy 

 about noon, the wind was south-west and very calm. We 

 rowed in the great sloop, before the ship, farther into the 

 ice. In the morning Ave heard a whale blow when the sun 

 was in the east, and brought the xohale to the ship when the 

 sun was at south-west and by east ; the same day we cut the 

 Fat from it, and filled with it seventy barrels (which they call 

 kardels). By this fish we found abundance of birds, most of 

 them were mallemucks^ (that is to say, foolish gnats), which 

 were so greedy of their food, that we killed them with sticks. 

 This fish was found out by the Birds, for we saw everywhere 

 by them in the sea where the whale had been, for he w\as 

 wounded by an harpooning iron that stuck still in his 

 flesh, and he had also spent himself by hard swimming ; he 

 blowed also very hollow, he stank alive, and the birds fed 

 upon him. This tvhale fermented when it was dead, and the 

 steam that came from it inflamed our eyes and made them 

 sore. This same night, Cornelius Seaman^ lost his ship by 

 the squeezing and crushing together of the ice ; for in this 

 place are very great sheets or islands of ice, and the seamen 

 call it West-ice, because it lieth toward the west. 



On the 2nd June, we had a severe frost in the forenoon, 

 and in the night we saw the moon very pale, as it used to 

 look in the daytime in our country with clear sunshine, 

 whereupon followed mist and snow, the wind north-east and 

 by north. 



^ " Mallomik'koii." The Fulmar Petrel {Piocdluria glacialis.) 

 ^ " Scman," orig-. 



