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5th I went on Top of a Hill, and efpying three 
“ Canoes under a Rock, went to them, and found in 
“ them Skins, Darts, ifc. whereof we diminiihed no- 
“ thing ■, but left upon every Boat a Silk Point, a Bullet 
“ of Lead, and a Pin. The next Day the People came 
“ to us without Fear, and bartered with us for Skins ; 
“ our Savage kept clofe, and made Shew that he would 
“ fain have another Companion. Being thus provided, I 
“ departed on the 1 2th, leaving the Mermaid at Anchor ^ 
“ her Crew finding many Occafions of Difcontent, and 
‘‘ being unwilling to proceed, here forfook me. 
“ The 14th, failing Weft fifty Leagues, we difcovered 
“ Land, in Latitude 66 Degrees 19 Minutes ; and 
“ the next Day we flood to the South ; and on the 
1 8th difcovered a very fair Promontory North-weft 
“ from us, in 65 Degrees, having no Land on the South, 
** which gave us great Hopes of a Paffage. The 20th 
“ I went to the Top of a high Hill, whence I perceived 
“ that this Land was all Hands ^ we coafted this Hand 
“ towards the South, from 67 to 57 Degrees. The 28th, 
“ having great Diftruft of the Weather, we arrived in a 
fair Harbour, and failed ten Leagues into the fame, 
‘‘ being two Leagues broad, with fair Woods on both 
“ Sides : Here we continued to the ift of September^ in 
“ which time we had two Very great Storms j I went 
“ fix Miles into the Country, and found the Woods were 
‘‘ Fir, Pine-apple, Elder, Yew, Withey, and Birch. Here 
we faw a black Bear, and Store of Birds, as Pheafants, 
“ Partriges, wild Geefe, Bucks, Blackbirds, Jays, 
“ Thruflies, and other ftnall Birds. The ift we fet 
« fail, and coafted the Shore with fair Weather. The 
4th we anchored in a good Road, among many 
“ Hands. Eight Leagues to the North of this Place we 
“ had ftrong Hopes of a Paffage, by reafon of a mighty 
Sea paffing between the two Lands, Weft *, we greatly 
defired to go into this Sea, but the Wind was diredlly 
againft us. 
“ The 6th we fent five young Men afhore to an 
Hand, to fetch fome Fifh which we had left there 
covered all Night. The Savages who lurked in the 
Woods fuddenly affaulted our Men, which we per- 
‘‘ ceiving let flip our Cable, and, under our Fore-fail, 
“ bore in to the Shore, and difcharged a double Mufket 
upon them twice ; at the Noife of which they fled, 
“ having killed two of our Men with their Arrows, and 
grievoufly wounded two more •, the other efcaped by 
fwimming, with an Arrow fhot through his Arm. 
“ This Evening it pleafed God farther to increafe our 
Sorrows with a furious Storm at North-north-eaft, 
which lafted to the loth : We unrigged our Ship, and 
intended to cut down our Mails j the Cable of our 
Sheet-Anchor broke, fo that we expedled to be driven 
on Shore, and become a Prey to the Cannibals •, yet, in 
this deep Diftrefs, God gave us Succour, and fent us a 
fair Sea, fo that we recovered our Anchor again, and 
new moored our Ship ; where we faw that God had 
manifeftly delivered us, for two Strands of our Cable 
were broken. The i ith, the Wind coming fair at 
Weft-north- weft, we departed with Truft in God’s 
Mercy, fhaping our Courfe for England^ and arrived 
in the Weft-country the Beginning of Odioher^ where 
the Sunfdm arrived a few Days before us ; fhe had been 
at Iceland, and from thence to Greenland, and fo to 
EJiotiland, and thence to Befolation, where fhe traf- 
licked with the People, flaying in the Country twenty 
Days. They loft Sight of the Pinnace, called the 
“ North-Star, on the gd of September, in a very great 
Storm, and lay a-hull to tarry for her all the next 
“ Day •, but fav/ her no more : The faid Pinnace never 
returned home.” 
We find annexed to this Account of Capt. D^w/sfecond 
Voyage, a Letter of his to Mr. William Sanderfon, who 
feems to have been his Patron •, in which he excufes 
his Want of Succeis in this Voyage, declares his confident 
Hope, that fuch a Paffage might yet be found, the Im- 
provement of his Knowledge by this laft Voyage, and his 
Refolution to profecute this Difcovery to the utmoft, 
though it fhould coft him the little paternal Fortune he 
had in the Weftj and concludes with an Affurance, that 
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he would communicate to him a fair and clear Chart of 
his Voyage, which would give him a perfeft Compre- 
henfion of the Arguments he had to offer in fupport of 
his Notion, that this Paffage, fo often attempted in vain, 
might ftill be found. This Letter is dated from Exeter, 
the 14th of OSloher, 1586 ; and it had all the good Effeflts 
that Capt. Davis could exped: from it, fmce his Friena 
ftill continued to have as good an Opinion of him as ever, 
and fo it appears the reft of his Owners had •, but it went 
no farther than the Approbation of his Condud; in his laft 
Voyage, for when he came to propofe a third Expedition, 
the Weft-country Merchants, and moft of thofe in Lon- 
don, grew weary of the Expence, and would be con- 
cerned no longer. He propofed, however, to the reft of 
the Adventurers, a new Scheme, which took Effect, and it 
was this: That they fhould fit out three Veffels, one of 
which only fhould be employed on the Difcovery, and the ^ 
other two in Fifliing ; by which he propofed to defray all, 
or at leaft the beftPart, of the Expence. It is very re- 
markable that Mr. Bruton, who ferved with Capt. Davh 
in his firft Voyage, accompanied him alfo in this, and fo 
did Mr. John Jane, who has been his Merchant or Su- 
percargo, and many of his old Seamen j which fhews the 
Confidence they had in his Skill, and how fenfible they 
were of his Care and good Ufage. 
The Veffels provided for this laft Voyage were the 
Elizabeth of Dartmouth, the Sunjhine of London, and the 
Ellen which was but very fmall. As for the Fliftory of 
the Voyage, which is but fhort, we fhall give it as we did 
the former, in ‘the Words of the Author. “ We de- 
“ parted from Dartmouth the i oth of May, and difcover- 
“ ed Land on the 14th of June. On the i6th we an- 
“ chored among many low Hands which lay before thq 
“ high Land •, the People came to us crying, Iliaout \ 
“ and fhewing us Seal-Skins. On the 20th I left the 
“ two Ships to follow their Fifhing, taking their faithful 
“ Promife not to depart till I returned unto them, which 
“ fhould be in the End of Auguji ; but they, finifhing 
“ their Voyage in fixteen Days, prefently returned for 
“ England, without regarding their Promife, whilft I, 
“ not diftrufting any fuch hard Meafure, proceeded on 
“ the Difcovery. On the 24th, in Latitude 67 Degrees, 
“ 40 Minutes, the Weather wasvfery hot, thirty Savages 
“ came to us in their Canoes, twenty Leagues from the 
“ Land, intreating us to go afhore. I coafted the Shore of 
“ Greenland, from the 2ift '-to the 30th, having the Sea all 
“ open towards the Weft, and the Land on the Starboard- 
“ fide, Eaft from me, the Weather extremely hot and 
“ very calm. The Sun was five Degrees above the Ho- 
“ rizon at Midnight, Latitude 72 Degrees 12 Minutes ; 
“ the Compafs in this Place varied 28 Degrees towards thq 
“ Weft. The '^didijuly we fell in again with Ice*, and on 
“ the 6th put our Bark through it, feeing the Sea free on the 
“ Weft fide j and when we had failed five Leagues Weft 
“ we fell in with another mighty Bank of Ice which we 
could not pafs ; therefore returning again, we got clear 
“ on the 8 th at Midnight, and recovered the open Sea 
“ through God’s Favour, by giving us fair Winds and 
“ and calm Weather. On the 15th, in Latitude 67 De- 
“ grees 45 Minutes, a great Current fet us to the Weft 
“ fix Points from our Courfe. 
“ On the 1 9th we had Sight of Mount Raleigh. On 
“ the 30th we Rroffed over a great Inlet or Paffage, 
“ being twenty Leagues broad, and fituate between 62 
“ and 63 Degrees, in which Place we had eight or nine 
“ great Races, Currents, or Over- falls, like the Water 
under London-bridge, and bending their Courfe into the 
“ Inlet. The 31ft, in Latitude 62 Degrees, coming 
clofe by a Foreland, we fell into a mighty Race, where 
an Hand of Ice was carried by the Force of the Cur- 
“ rent as faft as our Bark could fail with all Sails bearing. 
“ This Cape, as it was the Southern Limits of the Gulph 
“ we paffed over Yefterday, fo was it the North Pro- 
“ montory, or Beginning of another great Inlet which 
« we paffed over this Night, where we faw the Sea falling 
“ down towards the Inlet with a mighty Over-fall, and 
“ circular Motion, like Whirlpools, in the fame manner 
“ as forceable Streams force through the Arches of 
Bridges. On the loth of Auguft, as we were feeking 
