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and our ship now in the Offing, some foure leagues from 

 Bhicke-point and about five from the Maydens pappes 

 (which is a pLace famous, both for very good, and for great 

 store of venison), our ^Master sent us eight men here named 

 ahogether in a shallop, for the hunting and killing of some 

 Venison for the ships provision. Wee thus leaving the ship, 

 and having taken a brace of dogs along with us, and fur- 

 nisht our selves with a snap-hance, two lances, and a tinder- 

 boxe, wee directed our course towards the shoare, where in 

 foure houres wee arrived, the weather being at that time 

 faire and cleare, and every way seasonable for the perform- 

 ance of our present intentions. That day we laid fourteene 

 tall and nimble Deere along, and being very weary and 

 throughly tyred (first with rowing, and now with hunting), 

 wee fell to eate such victuals as wee had brought along, 

 agreeing to take our rest for that night, and the next day to 

 make an end of our hunting, and so fairely to returne to our 

 ship agaiue. But the next day, as it pleased God, the wea- 

 ther falling out something thicke, and much yce in the Offing 

 betwixt the shoare and the ship (by reason of a Southerly 

 winde driving alongst the coast), our ship was forced so 

 farre to stand off into the sea to be cleare of the yce that wee 

 had quite lost the sight of her ; neither could wee assure 

 our selves whether shce were inclosed in the drift yce or 

 not ; and the weather still growing thicker and thicker, we 

 thought it our best course to hunt alongst the shoare, and so 

 to goe for Green-harbour, there to stay abord the ship with 

 the rest of our men vntill our own ship should come into the 

 Port. 



Coasting thus along towards Greene-harbour, wee kill'd 

 eight Deere more ; and so at last having well loaden our 

 Shallop with Venison, Avee still kept on our course towards 

 Green-harbour, where, arriving upon the seventeenth day, 

 wee found (to our great wonderment) that the ship was de- 

 parted thence, together with our twenty men aforesaid. That 



