setteth Southeast, and the ebbe Northwest.

The 26. day hauing the winde at South a faire gale, sayling from Faire yle
to Swinborne head, I did obserue the latitude, the Island of Fowlay being
West Northwest from me 6. leagues, and Swinborne head East southeast from
me, I found my eleuation [Marginal note: By eleuation he meaneth the
distance of the sunne from the zenith.] to be 37. degr and my declination
22. degr. 46 min. So that my latitude was 59. degr. 46. min. [Sidenote: S.
Tronions.] At that present being neere to Swinborne head, hauing a leake
which did trouble vs, as also to take in fresh water, I plyed roome with a
sound, which is called S. Tronions, and there did ancre in seuen fathoms
water, and faire sande. You haue comming in the sounds mouth in the entring
17. 15. 12. 10. 9. 8. and 7. fathoms, and the sound lyeth in North
northwest, and there we roade to a West sunne, and stopped our leake, and
hauing refreshed our selues with water, at a North northwest sunne, I set
saile from S. Tronions the winde at South Southest, and turned out till wee
were cleare of the sound, and so sailed West to go cleare of the Island of
Fowlay. [Sidenote: Fowlay Island.] And running off toward Fowlay,[48] I
sounded, hauing fiftie fathome, and streamie ground, and also I sounded
Fowlay being North from mee one league off that Islande, hauing fiftie
fathome at the South head, and streamie ground, like broken otmell, and one
shell being redde and white like mackerell.

[Sidenote: Latitude 59. deg. 59. min. Here they begin to saile West and by
North.] The 27. day at a South sunne I did obserue the latitude, the Island
of Fowlay being from me two leagues East Northeast: I found my selfe to be
in latitude 59. degrees, 59. min truly obserued, the winde at South
Southwest: I sailed West and by North.

From 12. to foure a clocke afternoone, the wind at South, a faire gale the