The 8 of January it was faire weather againe, the wind north. Then we made our [traps and] springes ready to get more uenison, which we longed for. And then we might [sometimes begin to] see and marke day-light, which then began to increase, that the sunne as then began to come towards vs againe, which thought put vs in no litle comfort. The 9 of January it was foule wether, with a north-west wind, but not so hard wether as it had bin before, so yt we might [933] go out of the doore to make cleane our springes; but it was no need to bid vs go home againe, for the cold taught vs by experience not to stay long out, for it was not so warm to get any good by staying in the aire. [934] The 10 of January it was faire weather, with a north wind. Then seuen of vs went to our ship, well armed, which we found in the same state we left it in, and [in] it we saw many footsteps of beares, both great and small, whereby it seemed that there had bin more than one or two beares therein. And as we went under hatches, we strooke fire and lighted a candle, and found that the water was rysen a foote higher in the ship. The 11 of January it was faire weather, the wind north-west [935] and the cold began to be somewhat lesse, so that as then we were bold to goe [now and then] out of the doores, and went about a quarter of a mile [one mile] to a hill, from whence we fetched certaine stones, which we layd in the fire, therewith to warme vs in our cabans. The 12 of January it was faire cleare weather, the wind west. [936] That euening it was very cleare, and the skie full of stars. Then we tooke the height of Occulus Tauri, [937] which is a bright and well knowne star, and we found it to be eleuated aboue ye horison twenty nine degrees and fifty foure minutes, her declination being fifteene degrees fifty foure minutes on the north side of the lyne. This declination being substracted from the height aforesaid, then there rested fourteene degrees; which substracted from ninety degrees, then the height of the pole was seuenty sixe degrees. And so by measuring the height of that starre and some others, we gest that ye sun was in the like height, [938] and that we were there vnder seuenty sixe degrees, and rather higher than lower. The 13 of January it was faire still weather, the wind westerlie; and then we perceaued that daylight began more and more to increase, and wee went out and cast bullets at the bale of ye flag staffe, which before we could not see when it turnd about. [939] The 14 of January it was faire weather and a cleare light, [940] the wind westerlie; and that day we tooke a fox. [941]