[Sidenote: The Description Of The Sound Of Denmarke.] And He Shall Saile All The Way Along The Coast, Hauing On His Steereboord, First Iutland And The Islands Which Lie Betwixt This Countrey & Iutland, Still Along The Coast Of This Countrey, Till He Came To Scirings Hall Hauing It On His Larboord.

At Scirings hall there entreth into the land a maine gulfe of the Sea, which is so broad, that a man cannot see ouer it:

[Sidenote: Gotland.] and on the other side against the same, is Gotland, and then Silland. This sea stretcheth many hundreth miles vp into the land. [Sidenote: Vandals.] From Scirings hall he sayd that be sailed in 5. dayes to the port which is called Hetha, which lieth betwixt the countries of Wendles, Saxons, and Angles, whereunto it is subiect. And as he sailed thitherward from Scirings hall, he had vpon his steereboord Denmarke, and on his leereboord the maine sea, for the space of 3. dayes: [Sidenote: Hetha but two dayes sayling from Seland.] and 2. dayes before, he arriued in Hetha, [Footnote: It seemeth to be Wismer or Rostocke - Original note.] he had Gotland on leerboord, and Silland. with diuers other Islands. In that countrey dwelt English men, before they came into this land. And these 2. days he had vpon his leereboord the Islands that are subiect to Denmarke.

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Wolstans nauigation in the East sea, from Hetha to Trusco, which is about Dantzig.

Wolstan sayd, that he departed from Hetha, and arriued at Trusco, in the space of 7.

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