Chap. L and wintering in . ..42 7 
Lading of Wood, and the Wind fomething favouring, 
we weighed widi our Lead, feeking out a Channel 
amongft thofe dangerous Sholes. In the Evening the 
Wind oppofmg itfelf, we came to Anchor betwixt Charl- 
ton IJland^ and that Eland we named the laft Year, in 
memory of that honourable Gentleman Mr. Thomas Cary^ 
one of the Bed-chamber to the King, Cary’s IJland, where 
we rid all Night. On the 3d, at Break of Day, we 
weighed, with a bare Wind, and, founding up and 
down for ^ Channel, we v/ere many times in live and 
four Fathom Water. The Wind larging upon us, we 
flood away Weft by Noon ; we faw all the Ice South- 
ward of us, endeavouring therefore to cornpafs about 
the Weftern Point of Charlton IJland^ and fo to feek to 
the Southward, we found it all Sholes, Rocks, and 
Breaches. By four in the Afternoon v/e faw the Weftern 
Land, but all full of Ice *, whereupon, as the Wind 
favoured us, we ftood- along it in Sight to the North- 
ward. 
The fourth was calm, but fo very thick and foggy 
withal, that we could not fee a Piftol-Shot about us ; we 
knew not which Way to turn us. Now to avoid telling 
the fame thing twenty times, we were continually till 
the 2 2d fo peftered and tormented with Ice, that it 
would feem incredible to relate it ; fometimes v/e were 
fo blinded with Fog, that we could not fee about us ; and 
we did fo ftrike againft the Ice, that the Fore-part of the 
Ship would crack again, and make our Cook and others 
to run up all amazed, and think the Ship had been 
beaten all to Pieces. Indeed we did hourly ftrike fuch 
unavoidable Blows, that we left the Hatches open, and 
twenty times in a Day the Men would run down into the 
Hold to fee if fhe were bulged. Sometimes when we had 
made her faft in the Night to a great Piece of Ice, we 
Ihould have fuch violent Storms, that our faftning would 
break, and then the Storm would beat us from Piece to 
Piece moft dreadfully other times we fhould be faft in- 
clcfed among great Ice as high as our Poop : This was 
made, as I have formerly faid, by one Piece running 
upon another, which made it draw eight or ten Fathom 
Water ; befides which the Lowermoft would rife from 
underneath, and ftrike us under the Bulge with Pieces of 
five, fix, nay of eight Tons, that many times we have 
pumped clear Water for an Flour together, before we 
could make the Pump fuck. Among thele feveral and 
hourly Dangers, I overheard the Men murmur, and 
fiy. That they were happy that I had buried, and that if 
they had a thoiifand Pounds they would give it, fo they 
lay fairly by them •, for we, fiy they, are deftined to 
ftarve upon a piece of Ice. I was forced to fuffer all this 
with Patience, and to comfort them again, when I had 
them in a better Humour. 
34. The 2 2d, having been vexed with a Storm all 
Night, and this Morning with a thick Fog, we drove in 
thirteen Fathom Water. , About Noon it cleared, and 
we faw the Land, and at that Inftant had a good Obfer- 
vation, whereby we kney/ it to be the Cape Henrietta 
Maria. I made the Mafter ftand in with it, and in the 
mean Time we fitted a Crofs, and faftened the King’s 
Arms, and the Arms of the City of BrijJ,ol to it. We 
came to ah Anchor within a Mile of the Shore, in fix 
Fathom Water, fo we hoifted out our Boat, and took 
our Arms and our Dogs, and went afliore. Upon the 
moft eminent Place we erefted the Crofs ; and then feek- 
ing about we foon faw fome Deer, and by and by more 
and more. We.ftole to them with the beft Skill we had, 
and then put our Dogs on them, but the Deer ran clear 
away from them at Pleaftire, We tired the Dogs, and 
wearied ourfelves, but to no purpofe, neither could we 
come to fhoot at them. I faw, in all, about a Dozen 
old and young, very goodly Beafts. We took half a 
Dozen young Geefe on the Pools, by wading into them •, 
and fo returned to our Boat, vexed that we had found a 
Place where there were Refreftiments, and we could get 
none of them. Whereas we had kept our Dogs v/ith a 
great deal of Inconvenience aboard the Ship ail the Win- 
ter, and had pardoned them many Mifdemeanours (for 
they would fteal our Meat out of the keeping Tubs) in 
Hopes they might hereafter do us fome Service y and fee- 
ing they now did not, and that there were no Hopes they 
could hereafter, I caufed them to be left afirore. They 
v/ere a Dog and a Bitch, Buck Dogs, of a very good. 
Breed. The Dog had a Collar about his Neck, which, 
perhaps, hereafter may come to Light. 
I faw no' Sign of any Savages, nor could we find any 
Flerbs, or other Refrefhments here, In the Evening, 
being returned aboard, and the Wind blowing fair at 
South, I caufed the Mafter to weigli, and come to Sail, 
and to lofe no Time, for we hoped for an open Sea to 
the North-v/eft. This Cape has a very Shoie Point that 
lies off it, which we- endeavoured to compals. Sailing 
therefore upon ftiattered Ice, we came to very ftiole 
Water, four and five Fathom deep, and could not avoid 
it. At length, ftanding North, the Water deepened, but 
we came withal among great Pieces of Ice, which by rea- 
fon of fome open Water there were a pretty Sea. Thefe 
hard Pieces of Ice made a moft dreadful Noife. It prov- 
ed a fair Moonfliine Night, other v/ife it had gone ill 
with us. We turned among this Ice, ftaying the Ship, 
fometimes within her Length of great Pieces as bad as 
Rocks ; but by Reafon we were often forced to bear up, 
we let fail an Anchor, and ftood all on the Decks to' 
watch the Ice, ftieering off. the Ship to and again to 
avoid it. Thus having Poles and Oars to fend it, we 
could not keep ourfelves fo clear, but many Pieces came 
foul of us. We broke two of cur great Poles with it, 
which were made to be handled by four Men, befides 
fome other Damage. At Break of Day we v/eighed and 
fought all ways to clear ourfelves of Ice, but it was im- 
poftible. I conceive it impertinent to relate every parti- 
cular Day’s Paffage, fince they were much alike to us. 
Our Endeavours were fometimes with our Sails, giving 
and receiving five hundred dreadful Blows in a Day. 
Sometimes we flopped at an Anchor, when we could 
get a little open Water, and fo fuffer the Ice to drive to 
Leeward. Other times we Ihould be enclofed among it, 
and then it would fo break and rife, and leap up under 
us, that we expeffed every Hour to be beaten to Pieces. 
Befides we had fuch Storms in the dark Nights, as would 
break our Moorings we had made faft to fome pieces of 
Ice, for Security in the Night Seafon •, and then we were 
beat moft dangeroufty from Piece to Piece till Day-light, 
that we could fee to make her faft again. I forbear to 
fpeak of the Fogs "which we had daily, which froze our 
Rigging Day and Night j befides ail which, we Ihould 
come into moft uncertain Depths, fometimes twenty Fa- 
thom, next Caft ten, next fifteen, then nine, rocky foul 
Ground ; the great deep Ice withal, driving on thefe un- 
certain Depths, did fo diftrafl the Tides, and deceive us 
To much in our Account, that by the 30th we were 
driven back fo far to the Eaftward, and to the Southward 
of the Cape, that at five 0’ Clock in the Evening it bore 
North-weft of us fome three Leagues off, contrary to 
our Expeflations. 
With all thefe Mifehiefs, our Ship now became very 
leaky, that we pumped every half Watch. Here I cal- 
led a Confultation, and after confidering all dir Expe- 
rience, we were of Opinion that it was impoffible to get 
to the Northward, or to the Eaftward, by Reafon of the 
Ice j wherefore I refolved upon this Courfe ;i when the 
Wind blew South, it would blow the Ice off the South 
Shore, then we would feek to get to the Weftward, be- 
twixt it and the Shore. I muft confefs that this was a 
defperate Refolution, for all the. Coaft we knew to be 
fiiole and foul Ground, all Rocks and Stones j fo that if 
the Wind Ihould ftiift to the Northward, there would be, 
without' God’s Mercies, little Hopes of us. But here 
we muft not ftay, the Nights grew long, the Cold fo in- 
creafed, that betwixt the Pieces of Ice the Sea would be 
frozen. I caufed the Ship to be fitted, and Places again 
prepared to fink her a fecond Time, if fo be, we were 
put to Extremities. We prefently put our Projeft in 
Execution (the Wind being at South) and got about 
the Sholes of the. Cape, ftanding then into the Shore- 
ward, to get betwixt it and the Ice. We came into four 
Fathom Water (very foul rocky Ground) thinking to 
come to an Anchor all 'Night, and let the Ice drive to 
Leev/ard. But ftill there was fo much Ice betwixt us 
and 
