Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ... aboute one a clocke. Then with no smale trouble we got into the channell and stood away to the north ward.3 When we had past some distance from the ilande we had the sea more cleare of ice then it was since we came into 1 Along by the ile, on the east side thereof. P. 5 (Which ran one way and the stream another) our ship hailing met the ice with the first of the floud, which put her so neere the shoare, that she was in the partition betweene the ice, which the eddy caused to runne one way, and the streame the other, where she endured great distresse; but God, which is still stronger than either ice or streame, preserued vs and our shippe from any harme at all. P. 3 North-west-ward. P. 3 these straights; and sayled all the next day through an indifferent cleare sea, with the wind at south west: but towards 8 a clocke at night, we weare come agayne into much ice, it being thicker and bigger than any we came amonge yet. This place' is distant from Mill ilande som 26 leagues, and the tru course north west and by west.1 4 The next morne we sounded, and had ground at 120 fathoms, soft osey ground. Then standinge more north 5 erly, the fifth day in the forenoone we had ground at 80 fathoms, which day the winde came to the north, and we settinge som thinge more southward, had ground at 110 fathoms. Thus seeing this great aboundance of ice in this place, and notinge that the more we get to the northward? the more shoalder the water was, the ice also beinge foule and durtye, as not bred far from shore, our mr. determined to stand to the eastward, to be certainely informed of the tyde. 6 The sixth day in the forenoone (as we stood to the eastward) we broke in a planke and two tymbers in the ships bow, which after we had mended we proceeded4...
