IN THE YEAR 1613. 
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On the 21 st daie, wee had sight of land againe upon the 
coast of Norwaye, before wee came to the Baye of Rosse, 
heareing from us east and by north, and distant about 9 
leagues, in the latitude of 61 degrees and 20 minutes, found 
by obseruation. Then, on the 22 d , wee directed our course 
more easterlie, as north-and-by-east and nor-north-east. 
The 24 th , wee were in the latitude of 67 degr. and 36 
minutes, where the sunne was in the horison at the time 
of midnight; and, after that time, wee had continuall dailight 
dureing our voyage; till, in our retourne homeward, wee had 
the sunne againe in the circle of the horison, when he came 
to the north of our meridian, in the latitude of 75 degrees, on 
the 2 of August. 
The 30 th of Maye, about 4 a-clock in the morne- 
ing, wee discried our wisht-for coast of Greenland, 6 the coast of 
Greenland. 
being all our ships in company; and wee had bene 
but 17 daies at sea, — viz., from the 13 th till the 30 th of Maye : 
haueing sailed, according to the difference of latitude and 
longitude by an arch of a great circle, 500 leagues; and ac¬ 
cording to the ship’s way, by our account on dead reconeing, 
514 leagues. 
Then wee plied nearer to the shoare, and discerned the 
mountaines to be couered w th snowe: notwithstanding wee 
had no trouble w th ice all this while, as wee expected; for it 
was almost all voided er wee came ther. Nowe wee coasted 
along towards S r Thomas Smyth’s Baye, passing on the west 
side of Prince Charles his Hand, by reason of a barre that is 
betwixt the iland and the maine continent of the land, w ch 
hinders us to passe w th our ships that waie. 
The 1 st of June, wee were becalm’d on the south-west side 
of the iland, about 5 leagues from the shoare, where I ob- 
serued the north sunne at the time of midnight to be 11 degr. 
and 15 minutes high; so concludeing the latitude in that 
6 Spitzbergen. 
