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standing very thicke upon the shoare • the Privie Corisel, they 
lookt out at the windowes of the court, and the rest ran up to 
the toppes of the towers; the shippes hereupon discharge their 
ordinance, and shoot off their pieces after the maner of warre, and 
of the sea, insomuch that the tops of the hides sounded there¬ 
with, the valleys and the waters gave an echo, and the mariners 
they shouted in such sort, that the skie rang again with the noise 
thereof/’ ^ All was joy and triumph ; it seemed as if men fore¬ 
saw that the greatest maritime power, the history of the world 
can show, was that day born; 
The voyage itself was, however, very disastrous for Sir Hugh 
and many of his companions. After sailing along the east coast 
of England and Scotland the three vessels crossed in company 
to Norway, the coast of which came in sight the fftli July in 
66° JST. L. A landing was effected and thirty small houses were 
found, whose inhabitants had fled, probably from fear of the 
foreigners. The region was called, as was afterwards ascertained, 
''Halgeland,” and was just that part of Norway from which 
Othere began his voyage to the White Sea. Hence they sailed 
on along the coast. On the they anchored in a harbour, 
“Stanfew” (perhaps Steenfjord on the west coast of Lofoten), 
where they found a numerous and friendly population, with no 
articles of commerce, however, but dried fish and train oil. In the 
middle of September the Edward Bonaventure, at Senjen during 
a storm, parted company with the two other vessels. These now 
endeavoured to reach Vardoehus, and therefore sailed backwards 
and forwards in different directions, during which they came 
among others to an uninhabited, ice-encompassed land, along 
whose coast the sea was so shallow that it was impossible for 
a boat to land. It was said to be situated 480' east by north 
^ “ Vibrantur bombardarum fiilmina, Tartarise volvuntur niibes, Martem 
sonant crepitacula, reboant summa montinm juga, reboant valles, reboant 
undse, claraque Nautarum percellit sydera clamor.” Clement Adams’ 
account.— Hakluyt^ p. 272. 
