1 74 Mr, W AFE RV Voy^gi* &e. 



Courfe to ftecr, having but very indifferent 

 Seamen aboard. It was now about the 

 heigth of Summer here 5 for I remember that 

 upon Chriflmas day, 1687. we were jufl: 

 clear of the Storm, and in the Latitude we 

 mention'd, off Cape Horn. Running hence 

 to the Northward again, being now got 

 iriahds of out °f the South Sea, we met fever al Iflands 

 ice. of Ice 3 which at firft feem'd to be real 

 ' t&efL- Some of them feemed a League 

 or two in length, and fome not above 

 half a Mile; The biggeft feem'd, as we 

 fail'd by them, which we did before the 

 Wind for feveral Days, to be about four or 

 five hundred Foot high. We founded near 

 them, but found no Ground $ fo that it 

 may reafonably be concluded they were 

 afloat ^ and perhaps reached as deep into the 

 Water, as their heighth was above it. Wet 

 faw no fuch lfland of Ice as I went into* 

 the South Sea with Mr. Dantpter * neither 

 did I ever hear that Capt. Sharp met with 

 any in his return out of that Sea. Thefe 

 Iflands appear'd to us fo plain at Night, 

 that we could e'afily fee how to fteer clear 

 of them .- But there were forne which lajc 

 under Water, which we could not poffibly 

 flhun, but fometimes they would lhake our 

 Ship : Yet they never did us much Dam- 

 age. From thefe Hills of Ice came very 

 cold Blafts of Wind j infomuch that our 



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