The
Captain, Rowing Towards The Shore, Willed The Master To Bear In With
The Land After Him; And Before He Came Near The Shore, By The Space
Of A League, Or About Two Miles, He Found So Much Ice That He Could
Not Get To Land By Any Means.
Here our mariners put to their lines
to see if they could get any fish, because there were so many seals
upon the coast, and the birds did beat upon the water, but all was
in vain:
The water about this coast was very black and thick, like
to a filthy standing pool; we sounded, and had ground in 120
fathoms. While the captain was rowing to the shore our men saw
woods upon the rocks, like to the rocks of Newfoundland, but I could
not discern them; yet it might be so very well, for we had wood
floating upon the coast every day, and the Moonshine took up a tree
at sea not far from the coast, being sixty foot of length and
fourteen handfuls about, having the root upon it. After, the
captain came aboard, the weather being very calm and fair, we bent
our course toward the south with intent to double the land.
The 23rd we coasted the land which did lie east-north-east and west-
south-west.
The 24th, the wind being very fair at east, we coasted the land,
which did lie east and west, not being able to come near the shore
by reason of the great quantity of ice.
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