The 20 of May it was foule weather with a north-east wind, whereby the ice began to come in [strongly] againe; and at noone we spake vnto the maister, and told him that it was time to make preparation to be gon, if he would euer get away from thence; [1121] whereunto he made answeare that his owne life was as deere vnto him as any of ours vnto vs, neuerthelesse he willed vs to make haste to prepare our clothes and other things ready and fit for our voiage, and that in the meane time we should patch and amend them, that after it might be no hinderance vnto vs, and that we should stay till the mounth of May was past, and then make ready the scute and the boate and al other things fit and conuenient for our iourney. The 21 of May it was faire weather with a north-east wind, so that the ice came driuing in againe, yet we made preparation touching our things that we should weare, that we might not be hindred thereby. The 22 of May it was faire weather with a north-west wind; and for that we had almost spent all our wood, we brake the portall of our dore [1122] downe and burnt it. The 23 of May it was faire weather with an east wind; then some of [us] went againe to the place where the wood lay, to wash our sheets. [1123] The 24 of May it was faire weather with a south-east wind, whereby there was but little open water. The 25 of May it was faire weather with an east wind. Then at noone time we tooke the higth of the sunne, that was eleuated aboue the horizon 34 degrees and 46 minutes, his declination 20 degrees and 46 minutes, which taken from the higth aforesaid, there rested 14 degrees, which taken from 90 degrees [1124] resteth 76 degrees for the higth of the Pole. [1125] The 26 of May it was faire weather with a great north-east wind, whereby the ice came [drifting] in againe [with great force]. The 27 of May it was foule weather with a great north-east wind, which draue the ice mightely in againe, whereupon the maister, at the motion [1126] of the company, willed vs [immediately to begin] to make preparation to be gon. The 28 of May it was foule weather with a north-west wind; after noone it began to be somewhat better. Then seuen of vs went vnto the ship, and fetcht such things from thence as should serue vs for the furnishing of our scute and our boate, as the old fock sayle [1127] to make a sayle [1128] for our boate and our scute, and some tackles and other things necessarie for vs. [1129]