punishment consolation.

Thus we ioyfull wights being at libertie, tooke in all our sailes and lay a
hull, praysing God for our deliuerance, and stayed to gather together our
Fleete: which once being done, we seeing that none of them had any great
hurt, neither any of them wanted, sauing onely they of whom I spake before
and the ship which was lost, then at the last we hoised our sailes, and lay
bulting off and on, till such time as it would please God to take away the
yce that wee might get into the Straights.

[Sidenote: A mountaine of yce appearing in sundry figures.] And as we thus
lay off and on we came by a marueilous huge mountaine of yce, which
surpassed all the rest that euer we saw: for we iudged it to be neere
fourescore fathomes aboue water, and we thought it to be a ground for any
thing that we could perceiue, being there nine score fathoms deepe, and of
compasse about halfe a mile.

[Sidenote: A fog of long continuance.] Also the fift of Iuly there fell a
hidious fogge and mist, that continued till the nineteenth of the same: so
that one shippe could not see another. [Sidenote: A current to the
Northwest.] Therefore we were faine to beare a small sayle and to obserue
the time: but there ran such a current of a tide, that it set vs to the
Northwest of the Queenes foreland the backside of all the Straights: where
(through the contagious fogge hauing no sight either of Sunne or Starre) we
scarce knew where we were. In this fogge the tenth of Iuly we lost the
company of the Viceadmirall, the Anne Francis, the Busse of Bridgewater,
and the Francis of Foy.

[Sidenote: The Gabriel. The people offer to traffike with vs.] The 16. day
one of our small Barkes named The Gabriel was sent by our Generall to beare