in height exceed them in a strange manner, reaching themselves above
their fellows so high, that between them did appear three regions of
clouds. These mountains are covered with snow. At both the southerly and
easterly parts of the Strait there are islands, among which the sea hath
his indraught into the Straits, even as it hath in the main entrance of
the frete. This Strait is extreme cold, with frost and snow continually;
the trees seem to stoop with the burden of the weather, and yet are
green continually, and many good and sweet herbs do very plentifully
grow and increase under them. The breadth of the Strait is in some
places a league, in some other places two leagues and three leagues, and
in some other four leagues; but the narrowest place hath a league over.

The 24th of August we arrived at an island in the Straits, where we
found great store of fowl which could not fly, of the bigness of geese;
whereof we killed in less than one day 3,000, and victualled ourselves
thoroughly therewith. The 6th day of September we entered the South Sea
at the cape or head shore. The 7th day we were driven by a great storm
from the entering into the South Sea, 200 leagues and odd in longitude,
and one degree to the southward of the Strait; in which height, and so
many leagues to the westward, the 15th day of September, fell out
the eclipse of the moon at the hour of six of the clock at night. But
neither did the ecliptical conflict of the moon impair our state, nor
her clearing again amend us a whit; but the accustomed eclipse of
the sea continued in his force, we being darkened more than the moon
sevenfold.[*]

[*] In this storm the Marigold went down with all hands.

From the bay which we called the Bay of Severing of Friends, we were
driven back to the southward of the Straits in 57 degrees and a tierce;