The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12: America, Part IHakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12: America, Part I
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
[Sidenote: They were driuen West sixe points out of their course in 67.
degrees, 45. minutes.] The 14. wee had the wind at South. The 15. there was
some fault either in the barke, or the set of some current, for wee were
driuen sixe points beyond our course West. The 16. wee fell with the banke
of yce West from vs. The 17. and 18. were foggie. [Sidenote: Mount
Raleigh.] The 19.at one a clocke after noone, wee had sight of the land
which we called Mount Raleigh, and at 12. of the clocke at night, we were
thwart the streights which we discouered the first yeere. The 20. wee
trauersed in the mouth of the streight, the wind being at West, with faire
and cleare weather. The 21. and 22. wee coasted the Northerne coast of the
streights. [Sidenote: The Earle of Cumberlands Isles.] The 23. hauing
sayled threescore leagues Northwest into the streights, at two a clocke
after noone wee ankered among many Isles in the bottome of the gulfe,
naming the same The Earle of Cumberlands Isles, where riding at anker, a
Whale passed by our ship and went West among the Isles. [Sidenote: The
variation of the compasse 30. deg. Westward.] Heere the compasse set at
thirtie degrees Westward variation. The 23. wee departed, shaping our
course Southeast to recouer the Sea. The 25. wee were becalmed in the
bottome of the gulfe, the ayre being extreme hot. Master Bruton and some of
the Mariners went on shoare to course dogs, where they found many Graues
and Trane split on the ground, the dogs being so fat that they were scant
able to run.
The 26. wee had a prety storme, the winde being at Southeast. The 27. and
28. were faire. The 29. we were cleare out of the streights, hauing coasted
the South shore, and this day at noone we were in 62. degrees of latitude.
[Sidenote: The land trendeth from this place Southwest and by South. My
Lord Lumleys Inlet.] The 30. in the afternoone wee coasted a banke of yce,
which lay on the shore, and passed by a great banke or Inlet, which lay
between 63. and 62. degrees of latitude, which we called Lumlies Inlet. We
had oftentimes, as we sailed alongst the coast, great ruttes, the water as
it were whirling and ouerfalling, as if it were the fall of some great
water through a bridge.
[Sidenote: Warwicks Forland.] The 31. as we sayled by a Headland, which we
named Warwicks Foreland, we fell into one of these ouerfals with a fresh
gale of wind, and bearing all our sailes, wee looking vpon an Island of yce
betweene vs and the shoare, had thought that our barke did make no way,
which caused vs to take markes on the shoare: [Sidenote: A very forcible
current Westward.] at length wee perceiued our selues to goe very fast, and
the Island of yce which we saw before, was carried very forcibly with the
set of the current faster then our ship went. This day and night we passed
by a very great gulfe the water whirling and roaring as it were the
meetings of tydes.
August
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