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
This boystrous storme so seuered vs from one another, that one shippe knewe
not what was become of another. The Admirall knewe not where to finde the
Viceadmirall or Rearadmirall, or any other ship of our company. Our
Generall being on land in Beares sound could not come to his shippe, but
was compelled to goe aboord the Gabriel where he continued all the way
homeward: for the boystrous blasts continued so extreamely and so long a
time, that they sent vs homewarde (which was Gods fauour towardes vs) will
we, nill we, in such haste as not any one of vs were able to keepe in
company with other, but were separated. And if by chance any one Shippe did
ouertake other, by swiftnesse of sayle, or mette, as they often did: yet
was the rigour of the wind so hidious, that they could not continue company
together the space of one whole night.
[Sidenote: Our entring the coastes dangerous.] Thus our iourney outward was
not so pleasant, but our comming thither, entering the coasts and countrey,
by narrow Streights, perillous yce, and swift tides, our times of aboade
there in snowe and stormes, and our departure from thence the 31. of August
with dangerous blustering windes and tempests, which that night arose, was
as vncomfortable: separating vs so as we sayled, that not any of vs mette
together, vntill the 28. of September, which day we fell on the English
coastes, betweene Sylley and the landes ende, and passed the channell,
vntill our arriuall in the riuer of Thames.
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The report of Thomas Wiars passenger in the Emanuel, otherwise called the
Busse of Bridgewater, wherein Iames Leech was Master, one of the ships in
the last Voyage of Master Martin Frobisher 1578. concerning the
discouerie of a great Island in their way homeward the 12. of September.
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