This Mount Was Named Mount Raleigh; The Road Where Our Ships Lay At Anchor Was Called Totnes Road; The Sound Which Did Compass The Mount Was Named Exeter Sound; The Foreland Towards The North Was Called Dier's Cape; The Foreland Towards The South Was Named Cape Walsingham.

So soon as we were come to an anchor in Totnes Road under Mount Raleigh we espied four white bears at the foot of the mount.

We, supposing them to be goats or wolves, manned our boats and went towards them, but when we came near the shore we found them to be white bears of a monstrous bigness; we, being desirous of fresh victual and the sport, began to assault them, and I being on land, one of them came down the hill right against me. My piece was charged with hail-shot and a bullet; I discharged my piece and shot him in the neck; he roared a little, and took the water straight, making small account of his hurt. Then we followed him with our boat, and killed him with boars' spears, and two more that night. We found nothing in their maws, but we judged by their dung that they fed upon grass, because it appeared in all respects like the dung of a horse, wherein we might very plainly see the very straws.

The 7th we went on shore to another bear, which lay all night upon the top of an island under Mount Raleigh, and when we came up to him he lay fast asleep.

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