Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society Volume 96 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...off the Land (our Captaine and Companie being so obstinate and willfull that I could by no meanes get them to worke after my will), the ship draue into the mid-foord, where wee could haue no ground at an hundred fathoms, till the Tyde of flood came, when the flood set the ship to the shoare; but I, laying out a Cage-anchor,1 got the ship off and, setting our foresaile, stood for another roade vp the Riuer.2 The eight day, about foure in the morning, wee came to an anchor in twentie fathomes, sandie ground, hauing very faire shoalding within vs. About noone, the Urin came and anchored by vs.3 It floweth in this Riuer South-east 1 A " kedge-anchor" was a small anchor, capable of being carried in a boat for such purposes as that here mentioned. 2 Fos Bay we identify with Ikertok. Bruun (who has no entry for the 5th) relates the incident of the sixth in the following manner: "On the 6th, towards evening, we left that harbour with Trost and Ournen and came the same evening in another harbour; in the same night, Trost drifted away from us about a mile further up the harbour, dragging both cable and anchor." 3 According to Bruun, this happened on the 7th. In his Journal it is stated, in continuation of the above: "On the 7th, we weighed anchor and sailed up the river to where Trost was lying." As Bruun was Captain of Ornen, he cannot be supposed to have made a mistake in this respect; nor is it likely that he would have waited more than a whole day before joining the Admiral. As there is no mention of the 7th in Hall's account, as it stands in Purchas, "eight" may very well be supposed to have been substituted by the abbreviator for 7th, as it probably was in Hall's own MS. and North-west, and it standeth in the latitude of 66...