[Sidenote:  The latitude of 62. degrees 2. min.] The 26. we had sight of a land of yce:  the latitude was 62. degrees, and two minutes.

[Sidenote:  Sight of land supposed to haue been Labrador.] The 28. day in the morning was very foggie:  but at the clearing vp of the fogge, we had sight of lande, which I supposed to be Labrador, with great store of yce about the land:  I ranne in towards it, and sownded, but could get no ground at 100. fathom, and the yce being so thicke, I could not get to the shoare, and so lay off, and came cleare of the yce.  Upon Munday we came within a mile of the shoare, and sought a harborowe:  all the sownd was full of yce, and our boate rowing a shoare, could get no ground at 100. fathom, within a Cables length of the shoare:  then we sailed Eastnortheast along the shoare, for so the lande lyeth, and the currant is there great, setting Northeast, and Southwest:  and if we could haue gotten anker ground, wee would haue seene with what force it had runne, but I iudge a ship may driue a league and a halfe, in one houre, with that tide.

This day at 4. of the clocke in the morning, being faire and cleere, we had sight of a head land, as we iudged, bearing from vs north, and by East, and we sailed Northeast, and by North to that land, and when we came thither, wee could not get to the lande for yce:  for the yce stretched along the coast, so that we could not come to the land, by fiue leagues.

[Sidenote:  August.] Wednesday the first of August it calmed, and in the 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.