12 VOYAGE INTO 



it was so dark and foggy, that we could hardly see the ship's 

 length ; wc might have got sea-horses enough, but we were 

 afraid of loosing our ships, for we had examj)les enough of 

 them that had lost their ships, and could not come to them 

 again, but have been forced to return home in other ships. 

 When after this manner any have lost their ships, and cannot 

 be seen, they discharge a cannon from the ship, or sound 

 the trumpets, or hautboys, according as they arc provided 

 in their ships, that the men that are lost may find their ship 

 again. 



On the 13th, we had cloudy sunshine, the wind tow'rds 

 night turned to north-east and by east. The ice came afloat- 

 ing down apace, we sailed from the south-east land to the 

 west, and we could but just get through by the north side 

 from the Bear Ilarhcmr or Bay. "We sailed on to the 

 ReJienfelt (or Deer Field J, where the ice was already fixed 

 to the land, so that we could but just get through ; we sailed 

 further to the Vogelsanck ( BircV s-song ) . Then we turned 

 to the east with a north-east wind, in company with twelve 

 ships more, to see whether there were any more ivhales left, 

 with George and Cornelius Mangelsen, and Michael Appel, 

 who sailed in four fathoms water, and touched upon the 

 wreck of a ship that was lost there. 



On the 14th, in the morning, we sailed still among the ice, 

 the wind being north-cast and by east ; we had a fog all that 

 day with sunshine, with a rainbow of two colours, white and 

 pale yellow, and it was very cold, and we saw the sun a 

 great deal lower. 



On the 15th, it was windy, cold, and foggy the whole day ; 

 the wind turned north-west, and the ice came on in abund- 

 ance, so that Ave could hardly sail, for it was everywhere full 

 of small sheets of ice. At this time there were many ships 

 beset with ice in the Deer or Muscle Bay. We sailed all 

 along near the shear ; at night we entered the Soufh-harhour, 

 where twenty-eight ships lay at anchor, eight whereof were 



