They haue corne, bigge, and oates, with which they pay their Kings rent, to the maintenance of his house.  They take great quantitie of fish, which they dry in the wind and Sunne.  They dresse their meat very filthily, and eate it without salt.  Their apparell is after the rudest sort of Scotland.  Their money is all base.  Their Church and religion is reformed according to the Scots. [Sidenote:  Fisher men of England haue daily traffique to Orkney.] The fisher men of England can better declare the dispositions of those people then I:  wherefore I remit other their vsages to their reports, as yeerely repaires thither, in their course to and from Island for fish.

[Sidenote:  In Iune and Iuly no night in those West and Northwest regions.] We departed herehence the 8. of Iune, and followed our course betweene West and Northwest, vntill the 4. of Iuly:  all which time we had no night, but that easily, and without any impediment we had when we were so disposed, the fruition of our bookes, and other pleasures to passe away the time:  a thing of no small moment, to such as wander in vnknowen seas, and long nauigations, especially, when both the winds and raging surges do passe their common and wonted course.  This benefite endureth in those parts not 6. weekes, while the sunne is neere the Tropike of Cancer:  but where the pole is raised to 70. or 80. degrees, it continueth much longer.

[Sidenote:  Great abundance of Firre trees floting in the sea.] All along these seas, after we were sixe dayes sailing from Orkney, we met floting in the sea, great Firre trees, which as we iudged, were with the furie of great floods rooted vp, and so driuen into the sea.  Island hath almost no other wood nor fuell, but such as they take vp vpon their coastes. [Sidenote:  Inquire further of this current.] It seemeth, that these trees are driuen from some part of the New found land, with the current that setteth from the West to the East.[50]

The 4. of Iuly we came within the making of Frisland.[51] From this shoare 10. or 12. leagues, we met great Islands of yce, of halfe a mile, some more, some lesse in compasse, shewing aboue the sea, 30. or 40. fathoms, and as we supposed fast on ground, where with our lead we could scarse sound the bottome for depth.

[Sidenote:  Yce, snow, and haile in Iune and Iuly.] Here, in place of odoriferous and fragrant smels of sweete gums, and pleasant notes of musicall birdes, which other Countreys in more temperate Zones do yeeld, wee tasted the most boisterous Boreal blasts mixt with snow and haile, in the moneths of Iune and Iuly, nothing inferior to our vntemperate winter:  a sudden alteration, and especially in a place or Paralelle, where the Pole is not eleuate aboue 61. degrees:  at which height other Countreys more to the North, yea vnto 70. degrees, shew themselues more temperate then this doth.