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which increased our admiration was, for that wee knew they 

 had not victuals sufficient aboard to serve them (by propor- 

 tion) homewards bownd ; which made vs againe to wonder 

 what shoukl be the reason of their so sudden departure. 



Perceiving our selves thus frustrated of our expectation, 

 and having now but bare three dayes (according to appoint- 

 ment) to the uttermost expiration of our limited time for our 

 departure out of the Country, wee thought it our best course 

 to make all possible speed to get to Bell Sownd unto our 

 Cajataine ; fearing that a little delay might bring a great 

 deale of danger. For the lightening therefore of our shal- 

 lop, that she might make the better way through the waters, 

 wee heaved our Venison overboard and cast it all into the 

 sea. Having thus forsaken Green-harbour with a longing 

 desire to recover Bell Sownd (from thence distant some six- 

 teene leagues to the Southward), that night wee got halfe 

 way about the point of the Nesse, or point of land called 

 Low-Nesse : but the darknesse or niistie fogge increasing so 

 fast upon us, that it was impossible for us to get further ; even 

 there, betweene two rocks, we coved from the seventeenth 

 day at night vntill the eighteenth day at noone. At which 

 time, the weather being somewhat clearer (though very thicke 

 still), wee left the Nesse behinde us, still desirous to recover 

 Bell Sownd ; but having never a Compasse to direct our 

 course by, nor any of our company that was Pilot sufficient 

 to know the land when he saw it, we were faine to grabble 

 in the darke (as it were) like a blind man for his way, and 

 so over-shot Bellpoint at least tenne leagues to the South- 

 ward towards Home Sownd. 



Some of us in the meane time knowing that it was impos- 

 sible to bee so long a rowing and sayling of eight leagues 

 (for wee did both row and sayle), made enquirie How the 

 harbour lay in ? whereunto there was a ready answer made. 

 That is, lay East in. Taking the matter therefore into our 

 better consideration, some of us judged, that it could not 



