The 5 of October it blew hard north-west, and the sea was very open [764] and without ice as farre as we could discerne; but we lay still frozen as we did before, and our ship lay two or three foote deepe in the ice, and we could not perceiue otherwise but that we lay fast vpon the ground, [765] and there [766] it was three fadome and a halfe deepe. The same day we brake vp the lower deck of the fore-part [767] of our ship, and with those deales [768] we couered our house, and made it slope ouer head [769] that the water might run off; at which time it was very cold. The 6 of October it blew hard west [and] south-west, but towardes euening west north-west, with a great snow [so] that we could hardly thrust our heads out of the dore by reason of ye great cold. The 7 of October it was indifferent good wether, but yet very cold, and we calk’t our house, and brake the ground about it at the foote thereof: [770] that day the winde went round about the compasse. The 8 of October, all the night before it blew so hard and the same day also, and snowed so fast that we should haue smothered if we had gone out into the aire; and to speake truth, it had not beene possible for any man to haue gone one ships length, though his life had laine thereon; for it was not possible for vs to goe out of the house or ship. The 9 of October the winde still continued north, and blew and snowed hard all that day, the wind as then blowing from the land; so that all that day we were forced to stay in the ship, the wether was so foule. The 10 of October the weather was somewhat fairer and the winde calmer, and [it] blew south-west and west southwest; [771] and that time the water flowed two foote higher then ordinary, which wee gest to proceede from the strong [772] north wind which as then had blowne. The same day the wether began to be somewhat better, so that we began to go out of our ship againe; and as one of our men went out, he chaunced to meete a beare, and was almost at him before he knew it, but presently he ranne backe againe towards the ship and the beare after him: but the beare comming to the place where before that we killed another beare and set her vpright and there let her freeze, which after was couered ouer with ice [773] and yet one of her pawes reached aboue it, shee stood still, whereby our man got before her and clome [774] vp into the ship in great feare, crying, a beare, a beare; which we hearing came aboue hatches [775] to looke on her and to shoote at her, but we could not see her by meanes of the exceeding great smoake that had so sore termented vs while we lay vnder hatches in the foule wether, which we would not haue indured for any money; but by reason of the cold and snowy wether we were constrained to do it if we would saue our liues, for aloft in the ship [776] we must vndoubtedly haue dyed. The beare staied not long there, but run away, the wind then being north-east.