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76 VOYAGES OF SIR HUGH WILLOUGHBY AND OTHERS,
did every day increafe upon us, yet putting our truit in God, we hoped to be delivered
out of it in good time.
The fifth “day a ll the morning it rained with very much wind, being at S.S.E, About
three in the afternoon we fet fail, and prefently it became ésim for the fpace of one
hour, then the wind came to the N. N. E., and here we had thirty-three fathoms; thus
we made way arzong the ice S. W., and S. S. W., and W., as we might find our way,
for the fpace of three hours: then we met with a whole land of ice, “fo that we could
go no further; here we moored our fhip to tarry for a further opening : here we found
oe fathoms oze, and all the night was very dark with fog.
Vhe fixth day having no opening of the ice we lay flill, the wind being at W., and
- W.byS.: here we had { fixty-three fathoms oze: all the fame night the wind was at
the W. N. W. :
The feventh day the wind was at W., and W. and by N. all day. All this day we
lay {till being enclofed with ice that we could not ftir, la :bouring only to defend the ice
as z came upon us: here we had fixty-eight fathoms oze.
Che eighth aay was very fair and ‘calm but fogey. This day towards night there
was little wind by the S.S. W.; then the ice began a little to open, and here we had
feventy fathoms oze: all the night was fogey.
The ninth day the wind was at N. W. and by W.: ‘all the afternoon we lay ftill be-
aufe of the ice, which did ftill inclofe us. ‘Vhis day we found the pole elevated 70° 4’,
we had fixty-three fathoms oze. This night was a very fair night, but it freezed: in
the morning we had much ado to go through the fame; and we were in doubt that if
it fhould have freezed fo much the night following, we fhould hardly have paffed out of
it. This night there was one ftar that appeared to us.
The tenth day the wind was at E. N. E. witha very fmall gale: we with fail and oars
made way through the ice. About five in the morning we fet fail; fometime we lay
5. W., and fometime S., and fometine W., as we might beft find” the way. About
three in the afternoon the gale began to frefh. About fix in the afternoon the wind
was at N. E. with for: here we had eighty-eight fathoms: we bare fail allthe fame
night, and it fnowed very much.
The eleventh day we were much troubled with ice, and by great force we made our
way through it, which we thought a thing impoffible ; ; but extremity doth caufe men
to do much, and i in the weaknefs of man God’s ftrength moft appeareth : this day we
had ninety-five fathoms. At three in the afternoon the wind came to the S. W.; ; we
were forced to make our fhip faft to a piece of ice, for we were enclofed with it, and
tarried the Lord’s leifure : this night we had ninety-feven fathoms.
The twelfth day the wind was at the S. E., not very much, but in a manner calm.
At eleven of the clock the wind came to the W.S. W.; all the day was very dark
with fnow and fog. At fix in the afternoon we fet fail, the wind being at the N. N. E.
All this night we bare away S. W. and S.5S. W., as well and as near "as the ice would
give us leave. All this night we found the ice fomewhat favourable to us more than it
was before, whereupon we ftood in good hope to get out of it.
The thirteenth day, at feven in the morning, the wind was at the N. E., and N. E,
and by E. All this day we were much troubled with the ice, for with a blow againft a
piece of ice we brake the {tock of our anchor, and many other great blows we had
again{t the ice, that it was marvellous that the fhip was able to abide them: the fide of
our boat was broken with our fhip which did recoil back, the boat being betwixt a great
piece of ice and the fhip, and it perifhed the head of our rudder. This day was a very
hard day with us: at night we found much broken ice; and all this night it blew very
much
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