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i4 VOYAGES OF SIR HUGH WILLOUGHBY AND OTHERS, ‘
The tenth day we founded, and could get no ground, neither yet could fee any land,
whereat we wondered; then the wind coming at the N. E. we ran S. E. about 48
leagues.
The eleventh day, the wind being at S., we founded and found 40 fathoms and
fair fand.
The twelfth day, the wind being at S. and by E. we lay with our fail E. and E. and
by N. 30 leagues.
The fourteenth day, early in the morning, we defcried land, which land we bare with
all, hoifting out our boat to difcover what land it might be; but the boat could not
come to land the water was fo fhoal, where was very much ice alfo, but there was no
similitude of habitation, and this land lieth from Seynam I. and by N. 160 leagues,
being in latitude 72 degrees. Then we plied to the northward the fifteenth, fixteenth,
and feventeenth day.
The eighteenth day, the wind coming at the N.E., and the Confidence being troubled
with bilge water, and ftocked, we thought it good to feek harbour for her redrefs : then
we bare room the 18th day 5S.S. E. about 70 leagues.
The twenty-firft day we founded and found 10 fathom, after that we founded again
and found but 7 fathom, fo fhallower and fhallower water, and yet could fee no land,
where we marvelled greatly: to avoid this danger, we bare roomer into the fea all that
night N. W. and by W.
The next day we founded and had twenty fathoms, then fhaped our courfe, and ran
W.S. W. until the twenty-third day: then we descried low land, unto which we bare
as nigh as we could, and it appeared unto us unhabitable. ‘Then we plied weftward
along by that land, which lieth W.S. W. and E.N. E, and much wind blowing at the
W. we haled into the fea N. and by E. 30 leagues. “Then the wind coming about at the
N. E. we failed W.N. W.: after that the wind bearing to the N. W. we lay with our
fails W.S. W. about 14 leagues, and then defcried land, and bare in with it, being the
28th day, finding fhoal water, and bare in till we came to three fathom, then perceiving
it to be fhoal water, and alfo feeing dry fands, we haled out again N. E. along that land
until we came tothe point thereof. ‘That land turning to the weftward, we ran along
16 leagues N. W : then coming into a fair bay, we went on land with our boat, which
place was unhabited, but yet it appeared unto us that the people had been there, by
croffes and other figns: from thence we went all along the coaft weftward.
The fourth day of September we loft fight of land, by reafon of contrary winds, and
the eighth day we defcried land again. Within two days after we loft the fight of it:
then running W. and by S. about thirty leagues, we got the fight of land again, and
bare in with it until night: then perceiving it to bea lee fhore, we got us into the fea, to
the end to have fea room.
The twelfth of September we hailed to fhoreward again, having then indifferent wind
and weather: then being near unto the fhore, and the tide almoft fpent, we came to an
anchor in 30 fathoms water.
The thirteenth day we came along the coaft which lay N. W. and by W. and 5S. E.
and by E.
The fourteenth day we came to an anchor within two leagues of the fhore, having
60 fathoms. .
‘There we went afhore with our boat, and found two or three good harbours, the land
being rocky and high, but as for people could we fee none. The fifteenth day we ran
ftill along the coaft until the feventeenth day: then the wind being contrary unto us,
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