occupied in other necessarie affaires, concerning our comming thither.

After this order we marched through the Countrey, with Ensigne displaied,
so farre as was thought needfull, and now and then heaped vp stones on high
mountaines, and other places in token of possession, as likewise to
signifie vnto such as hereafter may chance to arriue there, that possession
is taken in the behalfe of some other Prince, by those who first found out
the Countrey.

[Sidenote: Yce needfull to be regarded of sea faring men.] Who so maketh
nauigations to those Countreys, hath not onely extreme winds, and furious
sea to encounter withall, but also many monstrous and great Islands of yce;
a thing both rare, wonderfull, and greatly to be regarded.

We were forced sundry times, while the ship did ride here at anker, to haue
continuall watch, with boats and men ready with halsers to knit fast vnto
such yce, as with the ebbe and flood were tossed to and fro in the
harborough, and with force of oares to hale them away, for endangering the
ship.

Our Generall certaine dayes searched this supposed continent with America,
and not finding the commodity to answere his expectation, after he had made
triall thereof he departed thence with two little barks, and men sufficient
to the East shore being the supposed continent of Asia, and left the ship
with most of the Gentlemen, souldier, and sailers, vntill such time as he
either thought good to send or come for them.

[Sidenote: Stones glister with sparkles like gold.] The stones of this
supposed continent with America be altogether sparkled, and glister in the
Sunne like gold: [Sidenote: A common prouerb.] so likewise doth the sand in