The 31 of August, by the force of the ice, the ship was driuen vp 4 or 5 foote high at the beake head, [712] and the hinder part thereof lay in a clift [713] of ice, whereby we thought that the ruther would be freed from the force of the flakes of ice, [714] but, notwithstanding, it brake in peeces staffe [715] and all: and if that the hinder part of the ship had bin in the ice that draue as well as the fore part was, then all the ship [716] would haue bin driuen wholly vpon the ice, or possibly haue ran on groūd, [717] and for that cause wee were in great feare, and set our scutes and our boate [718] out vpon the ice, if neede were, to saue our selues. But within 4 houres after, the ice draue awaye of it selfe, wherewith we were exceeding glad, as if we had saued our liues, for that the ship was then on float againe; and vpon that we made a new ruther and a staffe, [719] and hung the ruther out vpon the hooks, that if we chanced to be born [720] vpon the ice againe, as we had bin, it might so be freed from it. The 1 of September, being Sunday, while we were at praier, the ice began to gather together againe, so that the ship was lifted vp [bodily] two foote at the least, but the ice brake not. [721] The same euening [722] the ice continued in yt sort still driuing and gathering together, so that we made preparation to draw our scute and the boate ouer the ice vpon the land, the wind then blowing south-east. The 2 of September it snowed hard with a north-east wind, and the ship began to rise vp higher vpō the ice, [723] at which time the ice burst and crakt with great force, so that we were of opinion to carry our scute on land in that fowle weather, with 13 barrels of bread and two hogsheads [724] of wine to sustaine our selues if need were. The 3 of September it blew [just as] hard, but snowed not so much, ye wind being north north-east; at which time we began to be loose from the ice whereunto we lay fast, so that the scheck brake from the steuen, [725] but the planks wherewith the ship was lyned held the scheck fast and made it hang on; [726] but the boutloofe and a new cable, if we had falled vpon the ice, brake by the forcible pressing of the ice, [727] but held fast againe in the ice; and yet the ship was staunch, which was wonder, in regard yt ye ice draue so hard and in great heapes as big as the salt hills that are in Spaine, [728] and within a harquebus shot of the ship, betweene the which we lay in great feare and anguishe. The 4 of September the weather began to cleare vp and we sawe the sunne, but it was very cold, the wind being north-east, we being forced to lye still.