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7° YOYAGES OF SIR HUGH WILLOUGHBY AND OTHERS,
wealth, Fare you well, moft learned friend. At Duifburg in Cliveland, twenty-eighth
of July, the year 1580.
At Arthur his return, I pray you learn of him the things I have requefted, and whe-
ther any where in his voyage he found the fea frefh, or not very falt ; for I fuppofe the
fea between Nova Zembla and Tabin to be frefh.
Yours wholly to my power to be commanded,
GERARD MERCATOR.
Tue Difcovery made by M. Arthur Pet, and M. Charles Fackman of the north-eaft Parts,
beyond the Iland of Vaigatz, with two Barks ; the one called the George, the other the
William, in the Year 1580*. Written by Hucu Smtr.
(From Haxtuyt, Vol. I. p. 445.)
UPON Monday the thirtieth of May we departed from Harwich in the afternoon,
the wind being at S. and to the eaftward. The ebb being fpent we could not double
the pole, and therefore were conftrained to put in again until the next day in the morn-
ing, being the laft of May ; which day we weighed our anchors about three o’clock in
the morning, the wind being W.S.W. ‘The fame day we pafled Orfordnefs at an eaft
fun, and Stamford at a weft fun, and Yarmouth at a W.N. W. fun, and fo to Winterton,
where we did anchor all night; it was then calm, and the flood was come.
The next day being the firft of June, we fet fail at three o’clock in the morning, and
fet our courfe north, the wind at the S. W. and at S.S. W.
The tenth day, about one of the clock in the afternoon, we put into Norway, to a
place where one of the headlands of the found is called Bottel ; the other headland is
called Moile. There is alfo an ifland called Kene. Here I did find the pole to be ele«
vated 62°: it doth flow there S., and it hieth feven or eight feet, not above.
The eleventh day in the morning the wind came to the S. and to the S. E.: the fame
day at fix in the afternoon we fet fail and bare along the coaft ; it was very foul weather
with rain and fog.
The twenty-fecond day the wind being at W. we did hall the coaft E.N. FE. and FE.
The fame day, at fix in the morning, we did double the North Cape. About three in
the afternoon we paffed Skitesbearenefs, and hald along the coaft E. and E.S. E.; and
all the fame night we halled S. E. and S. E. by E,
The twenty-third day, about three in the morning, we came to Wardhoufe, the
wind at the N. W. The caufe of our coming in was to feek the William, whofe com-
pany we loft the 6th day of this month, and to fend letters into England. About one
of the clock in the afternoon the’ William alfo came into Wardhoufe to usin good fafety,
and all her company in good health.
The twenty-fourth the wind came to the E.N.E. This day the William was hald
aground, becaufe fhe was fomewhat leaky, and to mend her fteerage. This night, about
twelve of the clock, fhe did hale afloat again,
The twenty-fifth day the wind was at E. N. E.
* This narrative is inferted, though fomewhat prolix, as the voyage was of great expectation, and the
navigators had the merit ef making a moft obftinate and perfevering attempt for a northeeaft paflage to
China,
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