18 VOYAGE INTO 



great quantity of white foam. The names of the havens yoii 

 find all in order one after another in the map of Spitzhergen, 

 as far as we have been. 



These havens they reckon to be the safest, viz., the Safe 

 Harhour, and the South and North Bay, which arc the most 

 known of any in Sjntzhcrgen. 



The other havens, of what name soever, we commonly 

 sail by, because they lie open to the sea. Others we pass by 

 because of the constant ice that is in them, and the hidden 

 rocks. 



In the South or North Haven or Bay, ride commonly the 

 most ships ; I told several times ten, twenty, nay thirty ships 

 that lay at anchor. 



Concerning the birds, we saw abundance more of them by 

 and on the land than among the ice, chiefly when they hatch 

 their eggs : we do not find they make up their nest with far 

 fetcht things, neither do they gather anything for them from 

 Norway, Schetland, or the like. 



The seeds of several herbs might grow in Spitzhergen, but 

 the herbs nature hath bestowed on those countries are such 

 as are fit for the diseases and distempers that are common 

 there. 



We saw abundance of sea-horses by Spitzhergen on the 

 low land, and upon the ice ; but we saw very few scales on 

 the ice thereabout. 



The country (as is aforesaid) is stony, and quite through- 

 out it are high mountains and rocks. 



Below, at the feet of the mountains, stand the hills of ice 

 very high, and reach to the tops of the mountains ; the cliffs 

 are filled up with snow, wherefore the snoAV mountains show 

 very strange to those that never saw them before ; they ap- 

 pear like dry trees with branches and twigs, and when the 

 snow fallcth upon them they get leaves, as it were, which 

 soon after melt, and others come in the room of them. 



There are seven larae Ice-mountains in a line in these 



