to North- America.* j 



pence for the Rains, Foggs, and high Winds, that 

 we incounter'd by the way. There we faw an 

 Engagement between a Whale 

 and a * Sword- Fifh, at the di- * Efpadon, *k/&&* 

 ftance of a Gun-fhot from our ^ 10 and p Foot 



^ . xtt rn.11 51 long, being four Foot 



Fngat. We were perfe&ly charm d i n %i rcum f er ence, and 



when we faw the Sword-Fifh jump havi ng in its Snout a 



out of the water in order to dart its fa* of Saw which is 



Spear into the Body of the Whale, ^ Foot long Jour in- 



r x ... , , , ches and fist 



when obhg d to take breath. This Lines t y c ^ 

 entertaining fliow lafted at leaft 

 two hours, fometimes to the Starboard, and fome- 

 times to the Larboard of the Ship, The Sailors^ 

 among whom Superftition prevails as much as 

 among the Egyptians, took this for a prefage of fome 

 mighty Storm ; but the Prophecy ended in two or 

 three days of contrary Winds, during which time 

 we travers'd between the Iflandof Newfound- Land $ 

 and that of Cape Breton. Two days after we came 

 in fight of the Ifland of Fowls, by the help of a 

 North-Eaft Wind ; which drove us from the Mouth 

 of St. Laurence Bay , to the Ifle of Anticofti, upon the 

 bank of which, we thought to have been caft a~ 

 way, fey nearing it too much. In the Mouth of 

 that River we fell into a fecond calm, which was 

 followed by a contrary Wind, that obliged us to 

 lye bye for fome days. At laft we made Tadoujjac, 

 by gradual approaches, and there came to an An-* 

 chor. 



This River is four Leagues broad where we then 

 rode, and twenty two at its Mouth j but it contracts it 

 felf gradually, as it approaches to its fource. Two 

 days after, the Wind ftanding Eaft, we weighed An- 

 chor ; and being favoured by the Tyde, got fafe 

 through the Channel of the Red Ifland, in which 

 the Currents are apt to turn a Veffel on one fide, 

 as well as at the Ifland of Coudres, which lies fome 

 Leagues higher. But upon the Coaft of the laft 



B % Ifland, 



