and as he was going downe, he came backe againe.  Then our Master shot his boare-spear, and strooke him in the head, and made him to take the water, and swimme into a coue fast by, where we killed him, and brought him aboord.  The breadth of his forefoot from one side to the other was fourteene inches ouer.  They were very fat, so as we were constrained to cast the fat away.  We saw a rauen vpon Mount Raleigh.  We found withies also growing like low shrubs and flowers like Primroses in the sayd place.  The coast is very mountainous, altogether without wood, grasse, or earth, and is onely huge mountaines of stone; but the brauest stone that euer we saw.  The aire was very moderate in this countrey.

The 8 we departed from Mount Raleigh, coasting along the shoare, which lieth Southsouthwest, and Eastnortheast.

The 9 our men fell in dislike of their allowance, because it was too small as they thought:  whereupon we made a new proportion; euery messe being fiue to a messe should haue foure pound of bread a day, twelue wine quarts of beere, six Newland fishes; and the flesh dayes a gill of pease more:  so we restrained them from their butter and cheese.

The 11 we came to the most Southerly cape of this land, which we named The Cape of Gods mercy, as being the place of our first entrance for the discouery.  The weather being very foggy we coasted this North land; at length when it brake vp, we perceiued that we were shot into a very faire entrance or passage, being in some places twenty leagues broad, and in some thirty, altogether void of any pester of ice, the weather very tolerable, and the water of the very colour, nature and quality of the maine ocean, which gaue vs the greater hope of our passage.  Hauing sailed Northwest sixty leagues in this entrance we discouered certaine Islands standing in the midst thereof, hauing open passage on both sides.  Wherupon our ships diuided themselues, the one sailing on the North side, the other on the South side of the sayd Isles, where we stayed fiue dayes, hauing the winde at Southeast, very foggy and foule weather.

The 14 we went on shoare and found signes of people, for we found stones layed vp together like a wall, and saw the skull of a man or a woman.

The 15 we heard dogs houle on the shoare, which we thought had bene wolues, and therefore we went on shoare to kill them.  When we came on land the dogges came presently to our boat very gently, yet we thought they came to pray vpon vs, and therefore we shot at them, and killed two:  and about the necke of one of them we found a leatherne coller, whereupon we thought them to be tame dogs.  There were twenty dogs like mastiues with prickt eares and long bush tailes:  we found a bone in the pizels of their dogs. [Sidenote:  Timber sawen.] Then we went farther, and found two sleads made like ours in England:  the one was made of firre, spruse and oken boords sawen like inch boords:  the other was made all of whale bone, and there hung on the tops of the sleads three heads of beasts which they had killed. [Sidenote:  Fowle.] We saw here larks, rauens, and partridges.