THE REPORT OF THOMAS WIARS,
Passenger In The "Emmanuel," Otherwise Called The "Busse Of
Bridgewater," Wherein James Leeche Was Master, One Of The Ships In
The Last Voyage Of Master Martin Frobisher, 1578, Concerning The
Discovery Of The Great Island In Their Way Homeward, The 12th Of
September.
The Busse of Bridgewater was left in Bear's Sound, at Meta
Incognita, the 2nd day of September, behind the
Fleet, in some
distress, through much wind riding near the lee shore, and forced
there to ride it out upon the hazard of her cables and anchors,
which were all aground but two. The 3rd of September being fair
weather, and the wind north-north-west, she set sail, and departed
thence and fell with Friesland, on he 8th day of September, at six
of the clock at night, and then they set off from the south-west
point of Friesland, the wind being at east and east-south-east; but
that night the wind veered southerly, and shifted oftentimes that
night. But on the 10th day, in the morning, the wind at west-north-
west, fair weather, they steered south-east and by south, and
continued that course until the 12th day of September, when about 11
o'clock before noon they descried a land, which was from them about
five leagues, and the southernmost part of it was south-east-by-east
from them, and the northernmost next north-north-east, or north-
east. The master accounted that Friesland, the south-east point of
it, was from him at that instant, when he first descried this new
island, north-west-by-north fifty leagues.
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