Meta incognita. Snares set to catch birds withall.] He brought egges,
foules, and a young Seale aboord, which the companie had killed ashore, and
hauing found vpon those Ilands ginnes set to catch fowle, and stickes newe
cut, with other things, he well perceiued that not long before some of the
countrey people had resorted thither.

Hauing therefore found those tokens of the peoples accesse in those parts,
and being in his first voyage well acquainted with their subtill and cruell
disposition, hee prouided well for his better safetie, and on Friday the
nineteenth of Iuly in the morning early, with his best companie of
Gentlemen and souldiers to the number of fortie persons, went on shore,
aswell to discouer the Inland and habitation of the people, as also to
finde out some fit harborowe for our shippes. And passing towardes the
shoare with no small difficultie by reason of the abundance of yce which
lay alongst the coast so thicke togither that hardly any passage through
them might be discouered, we arriued at length vpon the maine of Halles
greater Iland, and found there also aswell as in the other small Ilands
good store of the Ore. [Sidenote: The building of a Columne, called Mount
Warwicke.] And leauiug his boates here with sufficient guarde we passed vp
into the countrey about two English miles, and recouered the toppe of a
high hill, on the top whereof our men made a Columne or Crosse of stones
heaped vp of a good heigth togither in good sort, and solemnly sounded a
Trumpet, and saide certaine prayers kneeling about the Ensigne, and
honoured the place by the name of Mount Warwicke, in remembrance of the
Right Honorable the Lord Ambrose Dudley Earle of Warwicke, whose noble mind
and good countenance in this, as in all other good actions, gaue great
encouragement and good furtherance. This done, we retyred our companies not
seeing any thing here worth further discouerie, the countrey seeming barren
and full of ragged mountaines and in most parts couered with snow.