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*586. ing green Islands. Here they went onShoar, and found a tractable Sort ofPeople, of a middling Stature, withsmall Eyes and no Beards, with whomthey dealt for Seal’s Skins, and severalSorts of Leather, and Furs.

They came to them in great Num-bers, once seven and thirty Canoes at aTime j But never attempted to do themthe least Injury. The English, out ofCuriosity, bought five of their Canoes,and some of their Cloths from theirBacks. These Cloths were made someof Furs, and some of the Skins of Birds,dress'd with the Feathers on them ; Andall so artificially wrought, that theyplainly perceived they must have hadcurious and experienced Workmen a-mong them. When they perceivedthat the Englijh chiefly coveted Furs,they made Signs that they would bringa larger Quantity the next Day ; Butthe Wind coming fair that* Night, andDavis, being more intent upon his Dis-covery, than upon Traffick, did notwait their Return.

The first of August, he proceeded onhis Discovery, to the North-West, in aSea without Ice, and, on the sixth,came into sixty-six Degrees and fortyMinutes, where he landed under a Hill,the Cliffs whereof glistered like Gold.This Hill he called Mount Raleigh.Here they saw no Inhabitants; Butthey found a great Number of WhiteBears, some of which they killedand eat.

% Rovers The eighth they coasted on, theLandffssAt extending it self, by little and little, tost h,s the West and the eleventh found them-selves in a Streight, almost of an equalBreadth, and twenty Leagues wide,free from Ice. In this Streight, whichstill bears Davis 's Name, he failed sixty,(some fay but forty) Leagues, andsearching all about, found many Islands,and several Harbours, with all Appear-ances of a farther Passage. The four-teenth, fifteenth and seventeenth, theywent on Shoar, and found many Signs,not only of Inhabitants ; but of Arti-ficers ; But they saw none. All theseThings strengthned their Expectationsof making some considerable Discovery.But the Wind proving contrary to pro-ceed, towards the latter End of August ,\ they set Sail for England, and arrivedht ur ns . at Dartmouth, on the thirtieth of Sep-tember, pleased yvith the Hopes of per-fecting the Discovery another Time.

The Reasons which confirmed 1586.the Probability of there being such a ReasonsPassage, in this Place, which they dis-covered this Voyage, and upon which 'Relief of athey grounded their Hopes of a future R a JJ a S e -Success, were.

1. That this Place was all Islandswith great Sounds between them.

2. That the Water remained all ofthe fame Colour with the main Ocean,without altering. Whereas they nevercame into any Bay before or after, butthe Colour of the Water was alteredvery blacklist

3. Because they saw to th e West ofthose Islonds three or four Whales in aSkull, which they imagined came fromthe Western Sea ; Because to the East-ward they had seen no Whales.

4 Because, as they were rowing in-to a very greatSpund, lying South-West,-from whence these Whales came, therecame suddenly a violent Counter-checkof a Tide from 'the Southward, againstthe Flood which they came with, notknowing from whence it received itsSource.

5. Because in Sailing twentyLeagues within the Mouth of this En-trance, they had Sounding in ninetyFathoms, for a grey, and easySand, andthe farther they ran into the Westward,the deeper was the Water ; So that, a-mong the Islands, they had, near thethe Shoar, no Ground in three Hun-dred and thirty Fathom.

6. Because it ebb’d and flow’d.six or seven Fathom, the Flood comingfrom divers Parts, so that they couldnot discern the chief Source of it.

Da vis’s second Voyage.

M r. Davis failed the second Time, Davis de-on the seventh of May, 1586. with GnQp arts on hiiShip, two Barks, and a small Pinnacesupon the fame Discovery. These Ves- **sels were th ^Mermaid, of one Hundredand twenty Tuns, the Sun-Jhine, of fif-ty Tuns, the Moon-Jhine of five and thir-ty, and the North Star , a Pinnace ofTen Tuns.

The fifteenth of June, he discovered DiscoversLand, in the Latitude of sixty Degrees, Land 'and in Longitude, from the Meridian ofLotndon, Westward, seven and fortyDegrees > But could not come near itfor Ice. Here Mr. Davis thought fitto divide his little Fleet, and sent theSun-Jhine, with the Pinnace, to seek aPassage Northward, between Iceland

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