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1553. appears, that he, and most of his Com- of Separation, for Wardhoufe, in Nor-pany, were alive in January 1554. we way. He waited there seven Days,

Tire at a .Loss to know. For Want of in vain, for their Coming; But hearingthe Continuation of this, or any other nothing of them in that Time, he de-Journal, we know nothing how, in termined to proceed alone, on the in~what Order of Time, or in what Man- tended Voyage. While he was pre-ner, they died. All that we can suppose paring to depart, he got acquaintedis, in general, that his Ships were clos- with some Scotchmen , who, understand-ed in by the Ice, and he, with his Peo- ing his Design, used their best Endea-ple, frozen to Death ; For so theywere vours to dissuade him from prosecutingfound the next Spring. The Compiler it, by amplifying the Dangers he wasof the Collection of Voyages, in six Vo- going to run into: But their Argumentslumes in Folio, fays, in his Introduction, had no Effect either upon him, or histhat Sir Hugh Willoughby lost the Com- Ship’s Company, who unanimously re-pany of both his other Ships, the Ed- solved to share his Fate, and to live andward Bonaventure, and the Conjidenza ; die with him.

But as we find, by Sir Hugh ’’s Journal, In the Pursuit of his Voyage, to- j nf iputs'that they came up with the latter, the wards the unknown Part of the World, his VoyNnext Morning, after th ^Bonaventure was which he was in Search of, he sailedseparated, and we find no Account of so far, that he came to a Place whereher afterwards, it is most probable, that he found no Night at all; But theIhe shared the same Fate with the Bona Light of the Sun shining continually1 Speranza. upon the Surface of the vast Ocean.

On the Back of Sir Hugh Willoughby's Having the Benefit of this perpetualJournal were written the two following Light, for several Days, he came, atMemorandums. Length, into a great Bay, which was

1. The Proceedings of Sir Hugh Wil- a Hundred Miles over. Sailing pretty jj e a rN\

loughby , after he was separated from the deep into this Bay, he came to Anchor, in the ^ jSiEdw ar d-Bonav ensure. and feing a Fisher-boat at a Distance, St.Nid 10

2. Our Ship being at an Anchor, in the Captain, with some of his Men,

the Harbour called Sterfier, in the I- went in the Boat after them. The Fi-sland Lofoot. ' sliermen fled, but being overtaken by

The River or Haven, where Sir Chanceller they prostrated themselvesHugh Willoughby , with the Company of at his Feet, being amazed attheGreat-his two Ships, perished for Cold, is cal- ness of his Ship, the like of whichled Arzina , in Lapland , near unto Ke- had never before been seen in thosegor. Seas, and having from thence conceiv- u

Some Authors, who have given an ed a high Idea of his Person. Chan- AnifP^Account of this Voyage, only in general celler sliewed them all imaginableTerms, fay ; that Sir Hugh Willoughby , Courtesy, and dismiss’d them in such ^ attwith his two Ships, failed far to the Manner, that the Report of theArri-North, and discovered that Part of val of a strange Nation, aboundingGreenland , which the Dutch have since with Courtesy and Goodness, was soondistinguished by the Name of Spitzberg. spread abroad.

But that the Severity of the Cold oblig- By this Time they got an Account,ing him to turn again to the Southward, that the Country was called RuJJia, orbad Weather drove him into the River Muscovy , and that their Prince, or Era-or Haven of Arzina. perour, whose Name was Juan Bajili-

It is now Time to return to Captain wick , ruled far and wide in those Parts.

Richard Chanceller. We have seen a- They informed x\\QRuJians whence theybove how he was separated from Sir were, and what their Business in thoseHugh Willoughby, in a Storm, in the Parts was. They told them, that theyNight of the second of Augufl. The had Presents to deliver to their Empe-Hackluyt Continuance of his Voyage I shall give rour, from the King of England , andP. I.p. 246. the Reader from the Account taken that they came, in Amity, to traffickfrom his own Mouth, by Clement Adams, with his Subjects. They desired Provi-and published by him in Latin. sions, and other Necessaries, for their

Capt. Chan- Captain Richard Chanceller (fays Mony, which the Govern our of theceller ar- my Author) being thus left alone, Place, who came on Board, with seve-WatahLse • wkh his Shi P and Company, leaped ral of his People, after some Difficulty,

'his Course, as had been agreed, in Case granted ; But would not enter any far-ther