after noone I caused my boate to be hoysed out, being hard by a great
Island of yce, and I and foure men rowed to that yce, and sounded within
two Cables length of it, and had sixteene fathome, and little stones, and
after that sownded againe within a Minion shot, and had ground at an
hundreth fathome, and faire sand: we sownded the next day a quarter of a
myle from it, and had sixtie fathome rough ground, and at that present
being aboord, that great Island of yce fell one part from another, making a
noyse as if a great cliffe had fallen into the Sea. And at foure of the
clocke I sownded againe, and had 90. fathome, and small blacke stones, and
little white stones like pearles. The tide here did set to the shoare.

The tenth I tooke foure men, and my selfe, and rowed to
shoare to an Island one league from the maine, and there the
flood setteth Southwest alongest the shoare, and it floweth as
neere as I could iudge so too, I could not tarry to prooue it,
because the ship was a great way from me, and I feared a fogge:
but when I came a shoare, it was a low water. I went to the top
of the Island, and before I came backe, it was hied a foote water,
and so without tarrying I came aboord.

[Sidenote: They enter the Streit in the latitude of 63. deg. and 8. min.]
The 11. we found our latitude to be 63. degr. and eight minutes, and this
day we entred the streight.

The 12. wee set saile towardes an Island, called the Gabriels Island, which
was 10 leagues then from vs.

We espied a sound, and bare with it, and came to a Sandie Baye, where we
came to an anker, the land being East southeast off vs, and there we rode
al night in 8. fathome water. It floweth there at a Southeast Moone. We