[Sidenote:  A fruit like corinths.] We found an herbe growing vpon the rocks whose fruit was sweet, full of red iuice, and the ripe ones were like corinths.  We found also birch and willow growing like shrubbes low to the ground.  These people haue great store of furres as we iudge.  They made shewes vnto vs the 30 of this present, which was the second time of our being with them, after they perceiued we would haue skinnes and furres, that they would go into the countrey and come againe the next day with such things as they had:  but this night the winde comming faire, the captaine and the master would by no meanes detract the purpose of our discouery.  And so the last of this moneth about foure of the clocke in the morning in God’s name we set saile, and were all that day becalmed vpon the coast.

[Sidenote:  August.] The first of August we had a faire winde, and so proceeded towards the Northwest for our discouery.

[Sidenote:  Land in 66 degrees 40 min.] The sixt of August we discouered land in 66 degrees 40 minuts of latitude, altogether void from the pester of ice:  we ankered in a very faire rode vnder a braue mount, the cliffes whereof were as orient as golde.  This Mount was named Mount Raleigh.  The rode where our ships lay at anker was called Totnes rode.  The sound which did compasse the mount was named Exeter sound.  The foreland towards the North was called Diers cape.  The foreland towards the South was named Cape Walsingham. [Sidenote:  Foure white beares.] So soone as we were come to an anker in Totnes rode vnder Mount Raleigh, we espied foure white beares at the foot of the mount:  we supposing them to be goats or wolues, manned our boats and went towards them:  but when we came neere the shore, we found them to be white beares of a monstrous bignesse:  we being desirous of fresh victuall and the sport, began to assault them, and I being on land, one of them came downe the hill right against me:  my piece was charged with hailshot and a bullet:  I discharged my piece and shot him in the necke; he roared a litle, and tooke the water straight, making small account of his hurt.  Then we followed him with our boat, and killed him with boare-speares, and two more that night.  We found nothing in their mawes:  but we iudged by their dung that they fed vpon grasse, because it appeared in all respects like the dung of an horse, wherein we might very plainly see the very strawes.

The 7 we went on shore to another beare which lay all night vpon the top of an Island vnder Mount Raleigh, and when we came vp to him he lay fast asleep. [Sidenote:  A large white beare.] I leuelled at his head, and the stone of my piece gaue no fire:  with that he looked vp, and layed downe his head againe:  then I shot being charged with two bullets, and strooke him in the head:  he being but amazed fell backwards:  wherevpon we ran all vpon him with boare-speares, and thrust him in the body:  yet for that he gript away our boare-speares, and went towards the water;