The wind was little and very variable, and this day was a calm, so that they could advance very little in their voyage.  In the evening the wind grew fresh, and increased till three o’clock the next morning, so that they made good way in their course; but these deep seas began to rise, and the ship to roll and toss so much, that some of Whitelocke’s people, sensible of it and of the increasing of the wind and waves, and of the mariners’ labour and disorder, began to be afraid and sick.  But Whitelocke cherished and comforted them the best he could, and gave order for attendance upon them, and that they should want nothing which the ship could afford; the which was the more in his power, the command of it being wholly left to him by the Queen; and by his kindness, and ceasing of the storm, they began to recover their courage, the wind changed, and it grew more calm after the ruffling.

June 4, 1654.

[SN:  The voyage.—­Bornholm.]

The Lord’s Day.—­Still Whitelocke was toiling on the Baltic Sea.  After three o’clock in the morning he advanced a good way in his course; but about ten o’clock they discovered land, which was the isle of Bornholm, distant from the point of south of Oeland eighteen German leagues.  It seemeth a plain and flat ground, about eight Swedish miles in length, and about five in breadth; this isle is fruitful and well peopled, abounding in pastures, so that it yields a good revenue in butter.  Many witches are affirmed to be in this isle, and no place in this sea hath more shipwrecks than upon Bornholm.  Some give the reason thereof from the strait pass between this isle and the continent; yet is the coast clean and without rocks, and hath good roads; others attribute the cause of these shipwrecks to the great and dangerous sands about this and the other isles of this sea, which (especially about this isle of Bornholm) do lie out far and shallow in the sea, on which many ships have been struck and lost; and here Whitelocke’s ship was in some peril, but it pleased God still to preserve him.  He floated in sight of this island almost all this day, the wind veering into most points of the compass, and he was turned back from his course and lost more than he gained of his way.

About nine o’clock in the morning the ship’s company, having a minister on board with them, were at their exercises of devotion, which they have every morning, beginning with singing a psalm, as we do; then the minister prays, but not long, and the conclusion is to sing about two verses of another psalm, and so they part; except on the Lord’s Day, as this was, their chaplain preached a short sermon in the morning in Swedish, but none in the afternoon.  Whitelocke for his own company had the usual exercises of praying and preaching by his chaplain Mr. De la Marche, Mr. Ingelo being sick.