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CHAP. II - Of our home voyage from Spitzbergen to the Elbe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2011

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On the 22nd day of July, in the morning, when the sun was north-east, we waied our anchors, and sailed out of the Southhaven. We had a fogg all day long, and sunshine at night; in the night we saw abundance of fin-fishes.

On the 24th, it was so warm with sunshine, that the tarr wherewith the ship was daubed over melted; we drove, it being calm, before the haven or Bay of Magdalen.

On the 25th, it was cloudy and sunshine, but cold withal; at night we came to the Forelands, the night was foggy, the wind south-west.

On the 26th, we had the very same weather all day, the sun was very low in the night.

On the 28th, we turned from the side of the North Foreland towards the west, when the sun was south-east; and we did sail south-west and by west towards the sea; then we changed our course southwards and stood south-east.

On the 29th, 30th, and 31st, we sailed south-east and by south all along by the land, the south side of the Foreland was eight leagues from us, bearing north-east; then we sailed south-west and by south, it was very cold, with a north-west wind. We saw daily abundance of fin-fishes, but no more whales.

On the 9th of August it was windy all day, with a gloomy sunshine in the forenoon; it cleared up towards noon: the wind was south-east when we took the meridian height of the sun, and were at sixty-six degrees forty-seven minutes; we sailed south-westward all along the northern shoar of the country.

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A Collection of Documents on Spitzbergen and Greenland
Comprising a Translation from F. Martens' Voyage to Spitzbergen, a Translation from Isaac de La Peyrère's Histoire du Groenland, and God's Power and Providence in the Preservation of Eight Men
, pp. 13 - 15
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1855

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