After that, we rowed with our scute about a mile [4 miles] inward to the land, [606] where there was a good hauen and good anchor ground, on the east-side being sandie: there wee cast out our leade, and found 16 fadome deepe, and after that 10 and 12 fadom; and rowing further, we found that on the east-side there was two islands that reached east-ward into the sea: on the west-side also there was a great creeke or riuer, which shewed also like an island. Then we rowed to the island that lay in the middle, and there we found many red geese-egges, [607] which we saw sitting vpon their nests, and draue them from them, and they flying away cryed red, red, red: [608] and as they sate we killed one goose dead with a stone, which we drest and eate, and at least 60 egges, that we tooke with vs aboard the shippe; and vpon the 22 of June wee went aboard our shippe againe. Those geese were of a perfit red coulor, [609] such as come into Holland about Weiringen, [610] and euery yeere are there taken [Red geese breed their yong geese under 80 degrees in Green-land.] in abundance, but till this time it was neuer knowne where they [laid and] hatcht their egges; so that some men haue taken vpon them to write that they sit vpon trees [611] in Scotland, that hang ouer the water, and such egges as fall from them downe into the water [612] become yong geese and swimme there out of the water; [613] but those that fall vpon the land burst in sunnder and are lost: [614] but this is now found to be contrary, and it is not to bee wondered at that no man could tell where they breed [615] their egges, for that no man that euer we knew had euer beene vnder 80 degrees, nor that land vnder 80 degrees was neuer set downe in any card, [616] much lesse the red geese that breed therein. It is here also to be noted, that although that in this land, which we esteeme to be Greene-land, lying vnder 80 degrees and more, there groweth leaues and grasse, and that there are such beasts therein as eat grasse, as harts, buckes, and such like beastes as liue thereon; yet in Noua Zembla, under 76 degrees, there groweth neither leaues nor grasse, nor any beasts that eate grasse or leaues liue therein, [617] but such beastes as eate flesh, as beares and foxes: and yet this land lyeth full 4 degrees [further] from the North Pole as Greeneland aforesaid doth.