An account of several late voyages and discoveries

, 2 Sir John ~arbtough's Voyage in E11glaHJ in the height of Winter, and che.Air rather fbarper and dryer; .J ha•e now twelvc Men lame witb the cold, a·nd tbcir Legs árld Thighs are turncd as black as a black H1t, in ípots 1 thc cold having chiJled the Bloo<l ; yet tht!y ufe b¡. thing and fluping thofe places, a11d all that they can to prevent, but it rather encre:tfcth on them than otherwife : Thefe are fuch Pcoplc ~s 1 could not make fiir by any meaos ; they that fritare as well as any Mcn in the \Vorld can be. ruejday,Augu/11.. Clofe \Veather,\Vind atSouth, weft, a gale ':lnd cold Air. We fall on fitting oí our Rigging ami getting the Ship fit: Herc are hundreds of Guianacoes in companies near t ,va ter- íide: my Grcyhound is lame; fo that I ca not make her run ; aifo here are many Ofiriche; 1 togethcr w ith man y green P lovcrs a t the \\' a ter fide,and fome Swans but not full fo large as óurs They are white, favea :1Jack Hcad, an<l balf Neck and Legs bfack: Here are fome white Geel as Europe:rn Gctfc; thc Brant-Geefe are fo white, fome black and grey; The Malfards a Ducks are grey; and the TeaJs are grey. T11efday, Augu/1 :z.. CJofe Weather, Wind \.Veil: and at North-weft, a fine gale. I fent Boat for Water to a Swaíh on tite Eaft-tide; t of my Men faw two of the People of the Co try on the Eaft-.fide behind t Bufh ; my i1cn \\' toward them; they went away and left a bun of Skins u·nder the iufh ¡. my Meo made fig11s fpeak with them, but thcy would not ftay; Men did not go aftcr them but fat down, t would not fiay; they were but of a middle ,u