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He now had the Hopewell of 40 tons with Edward Gorrell 
as his mate, and sailed from Gravesend under the auspices 
of the Muscovy Company on the 18th April, 1606. Leaving 
the Orkneys on the 12th May, the first ice was sighted 
on the 3rd June and after a dangerous collision with an 
iceberg, the Hopewell reached the coast of Labrador near 
the position of Nain in 56 0 48' N. Here Knight's journal 
ends abruptly on June 26th 1 . 
It is from another source that we learn the remainder 
of the story. The Hopewell seems to have got as far as 
the entrance to Hudson's Strait, and was anchored in 
a bay. Captain Knight, his brother, the mate Gorrell, 
and three men landed on an island six miles from the 
ship. They were well armed and carried instruments to 
make a survey. It was in the forenoon. The boat was 
to wait for them, with two men, the trumpeter and one 
Oliver Brunei. The Captain's party walked over a hill 
and were never seen or heard of again. Presently a crowd 
of natives came over the hill and tried to seize the boat, 
but the two men shoved her off. Search was useless, 
and the survivors were in great distress, for the Hopewell 
had damaged her rudder and had sprung a serious leak. 
The crew constructed a temporary rudder with the 
pintles made of iron bands off the Captain's chest. For 
the leak they took the main bonnet, thrummed it with 
oakum and passed it over the place. Worn out with 
watching and hard work, they at length reached Dart- 
mouth in September 1606. This sequel of the sad story 
was written in the Captain's journal book by Oliver 
Brunei, one of the boat keepers 2 . 
Four years elapsed before Sir Thomas Smith could 
get his colleagues together to enter upon the risk of 
another expedition. But in 1610, together with his 
patriotic friends Sir Dudley Digges, Sir James Lancaster, 
1 I found Knight's Journal among some other papers thrown aside 
in a very damp place in the tower of the India Office, and printed it at 
the end of my volume of Sir James Lancaster's voyages, edited for the 
Hakluyt Society. A version of it is given by Purchas, but much is 
omitted. 
2 Brunei was a Dutchman. He had proposed to Christian IV to 
discover the lost colony of Greenland, and was probably in Hall's first 
voyage. A Cape on the Greenland coast was named after him. The 
story of Oliver Brunei was brought to light by S, Miiller and Koolemans 
Beynen, the very able young editor of the 2nd edition of the Barentsz 
voyages. 
