An account of several late voyages and discoveries

into Spitibergen antl Qreenland. 3 The sth in the foreaoon it was moderately cold and Sun-fbine, but toward noon darkHh and 'c1oudy, with fnow and great frofi, rhe win:l North-wefi and by North. We faw dai– ly man}' Ships failing abom: the fce, I obfer– vcd that as they paffed by one another, they haled one another, crying Holla, and askecl each other how many fi(h they had caught, bur they would not fiick fometimes to tell more rhen they had. When it was windy, that they could not hcar one another; they waved their Hars, to fignífie the numbet caught. But when 1hey have theit foil Fraigbt of Whale.r, they put up their great Flag as a figo thereof; then if any hath a Metfage to be fent, he delivers it to .them, as you may fee in the Plate .A by A. The 7th we .had moderare froft, clouds and ÍDOlV with rain. In the evening we failed to thcIce, the wind was quitt contrary to us, and the Ice too fmalJ; wherefore we failed fro:n it. In the afternoon we faw Spitzhergen, the South ,point of the Nortb-fore,land, we fuppofed it 1be true Harbour. The Land appeared like a dark Cloud. foil of white ftreeks; we turned to 1he Weft again, that is, according to the 'Compafs, which is alfo to be undcrfiood of thc Ice and Harbour. . The 9th was the fame weather, and cola as beforc, the Wind Sooth-wefi and by weíc. In the aíternoon a Fin-fifb, fwam by our Ship, which we took at firft to be a lfhale, befare w.e fiw the high fins of bis Tail, and carne ·near to rr. We had Jet down our Sloop from the Ship, B ~ but