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during the Reign os §tyeen Elizabeth.
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The Names of the Ships, with their se-veral Captains.
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The Aid, Admiral/!Thomas Allen,Vice-Admiral,Judith, Lieute-nant-General.Ann-Francis,
Hopewell ,
Bear,
Thomas, of Ips-wich,
Emanuel, of Ex- 7 Capt.eter,
Francis, of Foy,
Moon,
Emanuel, ofBridgwater,
Solomon, of Wy-mouth,
Bark Dennis,
Gabriel,
Michael, j
s Forbijher.York.
Fenton.
Best.
Carew.
Filpot.
Tanseld.
^ Courtney.
J Moyles.TJpcot,Newton,
Randal.
Kendal.
Harvey.
JKinnersy.
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I have not anywhere found whatBurden, or Force, these Ships were of,or what Number of Men they carried.They assembled at Harwich, fromwhence they set Sail, on the thirty-firstX of May.
sfrive The twentieth of June, they wente Wd. astioar on Friseland, which they namedWejl-England. They saw several Tents,and People like to those of Met a Incog-nita. The People fled, at their Ap-proach; But in their Tents they founda Box of small Nails, some Red-Her-rings, and Deal-boards, well cut, withseveral other Things, artificiallyWrought; by which they were sensible,that these People, either were Work-men themselves, or traded with others,4 jj. who were so.
^ A s they departed from hence the
X. a Salamander, (or, perhaps, Solomon, forI find no such Name as Salamander, inthe whole List,) one of their Ship, be-ing under both her Courses and Top-sails, happen’d to strike, with her fullStern against a Whale, with such Forcethat the Ship stood still, and neithermoved backwards nor forwards. TheWhale made a hideous Noise, and afterhaving appeared, with it’s Tail, andPart of it’s Body above Water, funk.Two Days after they found a Whaledead, which they supposed to be thesame.
They arrived at Forbisoer's Streight, 1578.on the second of July, and found itchoaked up with Ice. As they strug- zr’ssl-r eightgled to work thro’ it, a sudden Storm a-rose, and so enclosed them with Moun- But aresor-tains of Ice, that it was wonderful they cei . toSea a ~did not all perish. One Vessel, of a^"'Hundred Tuns, {Purehas fays aBark cal- A Ship top jled the Dennis ) was lost, but the Mensaved ; Two others had not been seen intwenty Days before, and four, whichwere farthest out at Sea, best escaped ,the Danger of the Ice, clearing them- distress'!*selves of it, in Time. Being got out ofthis Danger, by the Wind turning tothe Northwest, an d into Sea-room, theywere driven down, by the Current, tothe Southward of Forbijher' s Streight,and run into another about sixty Leagues,without knowing where they were, the Rentercloudy Weather obstructing their mak- Ttr eight oring anObservation. Returning out of this Bay }Streight or Bay, whatever it was, mostof the scattered Fleet met, and made forForbijher' s Streight, in Hopes of thoseGolden Mountains; But found others ofIce to obstruct their Pasiage.
After many other Difficulties, For-bijher, with most of the Ships, workedhis Way thro’, and, on the thirty-first ofJuly, reached his long desired Port ofWarwick's Sound, now named, by theQueen, Met a Incognita.
Here they landed, and thought oferecting the House or Fort, brought Sound-from England ; But Part of it being lost,in the Ship which was cast away, andmore of it, as also of the Provisions, notyet come, being in Four Ships, theDesign of wintering in those Parts waslaid aside. The other Ships that hadbeen miffing, after hard strugling withIce and Storms, joined the Fleet. Wehave, in Hackluyt, particular Accounts,of what happened to each Ship, aftertheir Separation, to the Time of theirfinding the Admiral again; But, asthey contain little more, than what iscommon to Sea-faring Men in a Storm, Ishall pass them by.
The whole Fleet being now together Aheyfstagain, they set their Miners to work, Iffy 1 *'who, after having made several Essays, WOf y .and, at least as they pretended, foundhe Ore to answer their Expectations, tss^fpstoaded a vast Quantity of it on Board W j tfj 0r Jlheir Ships. The Time they had spenttn the mistaken Strejghts or Bay, andiafterwards, in struggling with the Stormsand Ice, before the Flees could assem-ble