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
The twentieth day wee wayed, and went to the Eastside of this island, and I
and the Captaine, with foure men more went on shoare, and there we sawe
their houses, and the people espying vs, came rowing towards our boate:
whereupon we plied toward our boate: and wee being in our boate and they
ashoare, they called to vs, and we rowed to them, and one of their company
came into our boate, and we carried him a boord, and gaue him a Bell, and a
knife: [Sidenote: 5 of our men taken by the people.] so the Captaine and I
willed fiue of our men to set him a shoare at a rocke, and not among the
company, which they come from, but their wilfulnesse was such, that they
would goe to them, and so were taken themselues, and our boate lost.
The next day in the morning, we stoode in neere the shoare, and shotte off
a fauconet, and sounded our trumpet, but we could hear nothing nothing of
our men: this sound wee called the fiue mens sound, and plyed out of it,
but ankered againe in thirtie fathome, and ooze: and riding there all
night, in the morning, the snow lay a foote thicke vpon our hatches.
The 22. day in the morning we wayed, and went againe to the place we lost
our men, and our boate. We had sight of foureteene boates, and some came
neere to vs, but wee could learne nothing of our men: among the rest, we
intised one boate to our ships side, with a Bell, and in giuing him the
Bell, we tooke him, and his boate, and so kept him, and so rowed downe to
Thomas Williams Island, and there ankered all night.
[Sidenote: They returne.] The 26. day we waied, to come homeward, and by
12. of the clocke at noone, we were thwart of Trumpets Island.
The next day we came thwart of Gabriels Island, and at 8. of the clocke at
night, we had the Cape Labrador as we supposed West from vs, ten leagues.
The 28. day we went our course Southeast.
We sailed Southeast, and by East, 22. leagues.
The first day of September in the morning we had sight of the land of
Friseland being eight leagues from vs but we could not come neerer it, for
the monstrous yce that lay about it. From this day, till the sixth of this
Moneth, we ranne along Island, and had the South part of it at eight of the
clocke, East from vs ten leagues.
The seuenth day of this moneth we had a very terrible storme, by force
whereof, one of our men was blowen into the sea out of our waste, but he
caught hold of the foresaile sheate, and there held till the Captaine
pluckt him againe into the ship.
The 25 day of this moneth we had sight of the Island of Orkney, which was
then East from vs.
[Sidenote: The Sheld.] The first day of October we had sight of the Sheld,
and so sailed about the coast, and ankered at Yarmouth, and the next day we
came into Harwich.
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