An account of several late voyages and discoveries

ef a North,Eaft Pajfage. 18~ undcr our Lec Bow. Hut füch was our Misfor– tm1c ck1t it prov'd not fo, for about 10 of thc Clock Capt,lin f1awes bc.:ing npon our \V cathcr Qgarcc.:r, fir'd a Gun and bon.: to me, and call'd out chat thcrc was Ice a Hc:ad ; thc.:n I looking out a Hca<l, faw fomc.:thing whitc: juíl undcr thl: Bow which prcfcntly I pcrcdv'd to be a Breach, 3nJ ~10 Ice.; now, if I h.. 1d {by'd with thc: Ship~ C:ipcain Flawcr bcing to \Vindward, I füould havc bccn 011 Board of him, and ~hc.-n ccrtainly wc had bccn both lofi, !o I was torc'd ro bcar up with hope that I might gct ckar of it ; but thc Ship bcin.g a grcat whik wcaring firuck on 1hc Rock, her Hcad Jying to Scaw:. 1.rd, . which if ít ha<.I not, bt1t tlut thc Broadii<.lc had bccn to 1hc Sea wc had a~! pcriih'd, wirhout God's grc.:at Merey. Capr.1i11 flawe..-, in thc mean tim~ (bC'– ing a íliortc.:1· .Ship) worc round, an<l c·.um: clofo 1mdcr our Sn:rn, and wid1 grca.t Provicknc.: c– f,;tp'd,.and Hood off to Sea ; hcrc w:.:. by bcating onthc Rock in a mofi cruel nunncr J-orth(; Spac~ of 3 or 4 h.ours,ufing all potlibk mcans to fave hc:r, hut ~t11 in v;1in, for ir bkw fo hard tlut it w.1s im– pollihlc to c:trry out an Anchor c:ipablc to do us any Scrvic:-:, tho' wc had ~m Opportunity to c.1r. y a fnull Anchor, and w~trp to hall anothcr ont by, rhichfignify'J lmt littk, thc Ship all rhis whiL: by~ and at rhc cnd of 4 or 5 hours, W:.! faw Lmd clo!cundcr our Sccrn, to the gL·.:at Amazcn1~nt of ? 11, which .h::forcwccould notfrc for ch:.: foggy kul1cr ; to I commandcd thc fvfan to g(:t out ur Bo.1ts bcfi.H·c our Ivfafi e.un ~ b>· thc l~oan.i, 1ti.:h w.1s don;:. I frnr ch~ Bo,tti\ c.rain t ow.1rd N 4 th ·.;