and there stayed for the taking in of certaine victuals, vntill Friday
being the thirtieth of May, during which time came letters from the Lordes
of the Councell, straightly commanding our General, not to exceede his
complement and number appointed him, which was, one hundred and twentie
persons: whereupon he discharged many proper men which with vnwilling
mindes departed.

[Sidenote: The condemned men discharged.] He also dismissed all his
condemned men, which he thought for some purposes very needefull for the
voyage, and towards night vpon Friday the one and thirtieth of May we set
saile, and put to the Seas againe. [Sidenote: The first arriuall after our
departing from England.] And sailing Northward alongst the East coasts of
England and Scotland, the seuenth day of Iune we arriued in Saint Magnus
sound in Orkney Ilands, called in Latine Orcades, and came to ancker on the
South side of the Bay, and this place is reckoned from Blackwall where we
set saile first leagues.[64]

Here our companie going on lande, the Inhabitants of these Ilandes beganne
to flee as from the enemie, whereupon the Lieutenant willed euery man to
stay togither, and went himselfe vnto their houses, to declare what we were
and the cause of our comming thither, which being vnderstood after their
poore maner they friendly entreated vs, and brought vs for our money such
things as they had. [Sidenote: A Mine of siluer found in Orkney.] And here
our gold finders found a Mine of siluer.

Orkney is the principall of the Isles of the Orcades, and standeth in the
latitude of fiftie nine degrees and a halfe. The countrey is much subiect
to colde, answerable for such a climate, and yet yeeldeth some fruites, and
sufficient maintenance for the people contented so poorely to liue.