The tenth of August, being Saterday, the ice began mightily to breake, [665] and then wee first perceiued that the great peece of ice wherevnto wee had made our shippe fast, lay on the ground; for the rest of the ice draue along by it, wherewith wee were in great feare that wee should be compassed about with the ice, [666] and therefore wee vsed all the diligence and meanes that wee could to get from thence, for wee were in great doubt: [667] and being vnder sayle, wee sayled vpon the ice, because it was all broken vnder us, [668] and got to another peece of ice, wherevnto wee made our shippe faste againe with our sheate anchor, [669] which wee made fast vpon it, and there wee lay till euening. And when wee had supped, in the first quarter [670] the sayd peece of ice began on a sodaine to burst and rende in peeces, so fearefully that it was admirable; for with one great cracke it burst into foure hundred peeces at the least: wee lying fast to it, [671] weied our cable and got off from it. Vnder the water it was ten fadome deepe and lay vpon the ground, and two fadome above the water: and it made a fearefull noyse both vnder and aboue the water when it burst, and spread it selfe abroad on all sides. And being with great feare [672] gotten from that peece of ice, we came to an other peece, that was size fadome deepe vnder the water, to the which we made a rope fast on both sides. Then wee saw an other great peece of ice not farre from vs, lying fast in the sea, that was as sharp aboue as it had been a tower; whereunto wee rowed, and casting out our lead, wee found that it lay 20 fadome deepe, fast on the ground vnder the water, and 12 fadome aboue the water. The 11 of August, being Sunday, wee rowed to another peece of ice, and cast out our lead, and found that it lay 18 fadom deepe, fast to the ground vnder the water, and 10 fadome aboue the water. The 12 of August we sailed neere [673] vnder the land, ye better to shun ye ice, for yt the great flakes that draue in the sea [674] were many fadome deepe under the water, and we were better defended from them being at 4 and 5 fadome water; and there ran a great current of water from the hill[s]. There we made our ship fast againe to a peece of ice, and called that point the small Ice Point. [675] The 13 of August in the morning, there came a beare from [676] the east point of the land, close to our ship, and one of our men with a peece shot at her and brake one of her legs, but she crept [677] vp the hill with her three feet, and wee following her killed her, and hauing fleaed her brought the skinne aboard the ship. From thence we set saile with a little gale of winde, [678] and were forced to lauere, but after that it began to blow more [679] out of the south and south south-east.