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VOYAGE TO GREENLAND. 
the winter’s severity, but fell a sacrifice to the ef- 
fects of scurvy ; for, on the island being visited in 
the following summer, their dead bodies were 
found in their huts. A journal was discovered 
which they had kept from August the 26th, until 
April the 31st, and it was therefore supposed, that 
the last died about that time, as it contains some 
interesting remarks on the state of the wind, a copy 
of which is given by Churchill as follows : 
STATE OF THE WIND AND WEATHER, FROM AUGUST TO 
MAY, IN THE ISLAND OF JAN MAYEN, AS COLLECTED 
FROM THE JOURNAL OF SEVEN SAILORS OF HOLLAND 
WHO WINTERED THERE IN THE YEAR 1633-4. 
1633. Winds. Remarks. 
Aug. 26 NE Strong breeze. The fleet sailed 
for Holland 
27 NE 
28 NE Snow 
29 Clear 
.30 NW, at night NE 
31 NE Fresh gale, clear 
Sept. 1 NW to NE Snow 
2 NE Snow 
3 NE Some snow 
4« NE Some snow 
5 NE Some snow 
6 NE Rainy 
7 NE Fair. At night SEbS rainy 
8 SE Rainy Morning 
9 SE Clear and warm 
10 SE Very stormy, rainy 
1 1 SEbS to SW and NE Foggy, rainy 
12 NE Blowing hard, clear 
