the needle two points and a halfe to the West.] I iudged the variation of
the Compasse to be 2. points and a halfe to the Westward.

[Sidenote: A great drift of yce.] The 21. day we had sight of a great drift
of yce, seeming a firme land, and we cast Westward to be cleare of it.

[Sidenote: The latitude of 62. degrees 2. min.] The 26. we had sight of a
land of yce: the latitude was 62. degrees, and two minutes.

[Sidenote: Sight of land supposed to haue been Labrador.] The 28. day in
the morning was very foggie: but at the clearing vp of the fogge, we had
sight of lande, which I supposed to be Labrador, with great store of yce
about the land: I ranne in towards it, and sownded, but could get no ground
at 100. fathom, and the yce being so thicke, I could not get to the shoare,
and so lay off, and came cleare of the yce. Upon Munday we came within a
mile of the shoare, and sought a harborowe: all the sownd was full of yce,
and our boate rowing a shoare, could get no ground at 100. fathom, within a
Cables length of the shoare: then we sailed Eastnortheast along the shoare,
for so the lande lyeth, and the currant is there great, setting Northeast,
and Southwest: and if we could haue gotten anker ground, wee would haue
seene with what force it had runne, but I iudge a ship may driue a league
and a halfe, in one houre, with that tide.

This day at 4. of the clocke in the morning, being faire and cleere, we had
sight of a head land, as we iudged, bearing from vs north, and by East, and
we sailed Northeast, and by North to that land, and when we came thither,
wee could not get to the lande for yce: for the yce stretched along the
coast, so that we could not come to the land, by fiue leagues.

[Sidenote: August.] Wednesday the first of August it calmed, and in the