An account of several late voyages and discoveries

184, A Voyage for the Difcovery t4c Shore in the Pinnace., to fee if there was any poffihility of Ianding, which I f!lUCh fearcd, be. ~aufe the Sea ran fo high. In half an hour he rcmri~c~ with this Anfwcr; chat it was impoffiblc ~o fo.ve a Man, the Sea ran fo high, and the Snow bcing in high Clifts on Shorc was unaccctlible whkh was bue bad Tidings; fo then it was higl~ time to think on the Safcty of our Souls, and we wcm ali togcther to Praycrs, to befecch God ro haye Merey on us, for now nothing but indi. .vidual Jluin appcarcd bcfore our Eycs; aftcr Praycrs bcing done, it proved a litde cle:ircr \V cather; and I looking ovcr the Stcrn, faw a fmall Beach dh-eétly wich thc Stern of the Ship> :where I thought might he fome poffibility of lan<li~g? fo'l frnt che Pinnace again with fome Men to be l.mdcd, but thev durfi not \'enture on Shorc; í~ I fc~1t thc Lo~g-hoat wich f~:m,e 2c :Men to Land, who attcmpted it, and got fafe on Shorc: ; fo they in thc Pinnace fedng th:.t, fol– lowed thcm ami thcir Mcn likcwif e, and both r ,: turncd on Bo:ird ag.lin, now thc Mcn on the Shcrc fcn·t to me to ddirc fome Firc-Arrns and Ammunítion,for th~rc was 1nany Ikars on Shorc; fo I caufec_\ to be put into thc Pinnacc two Bar– rels of powdcr that wc had fa ved dry, beforc th~ Ship WJS bclgcd, and fome fmall Arms, and fom~ Proyiíion, with . my own P¡tpcrs, an~ Moncy¡ hm a~ füc p1-1t off from thc Ship SiJe, a s~a o\·er– frt her., fo that all was loíl:, with thc Lifr of one J'vfan, by Nan~c .9.ohn Bo(mrm., bdng· Cooper·s M:ae., and fc~rcrai ~thcn ta}(cn up for de.id; th~ l~0ng-fü)lf b~i!)g thcn on Shon: to fancl m 1 orc rv ,·u .. ... 1