possint.  Hyeme quam frigidum sit, magnae moles glaciei in medio mari nos docuere.  Relatum est a comitibus mense Maio sexdecim totos dies interdum se inter tantam glaciem haesisse, vt 60. orgyas altae essent insulae:  quarum latera soli apposita cum liquescerent, liberatione quadam vniuersam molem ita inuersam, vt quod ante pronum erat, supinum euaderet, magno praesentium discrimine, vt consentaneum est.  Aer in terra mediocriter clarus est:  ad orientem supra mare perpetuae nebulae:  Et in ipso mari circa Bancum (sic vocant locum vbi quadraginta leucis a terra fundus attingitur, et pisces capi incipiunt) nullus ferme dies absque pluuia.  Expeditis nostris necessitatibus in hoc loco, in Austrum (Deo iuuante) progrediemur, tanto indies maiori spe, quo plura de iis quas petimus regionibus commemorantur.  Haec de nostris.  Cupio de vobis scire:  sed metuo ne incassum.  Imprimis autem quomodo Vntonus meus absentiam meam ferat, praeter modum intelligere velim:  Habebit nostrum obsequium et officium paratum, quandiu vixerimus.  Reuera autem spero, hanc nostram peregrinationem ipsius instituo vsui futuram.  Nunc restat, vt me tuum putes, et quidem ita tuum, vt neminem magis.  Iuuet dei filius labores nostros eatenus, vt tu quoque participare possis.  Vale amicissime, suauissime, onrnatissime Hakluyle, et nos ama.  In Newfundlandia apud portum Sancti Iohannis 6.  Augusti 1583.

STEPHANVS PARMENIVS
Budeius, tuus.

The same in English.

To the worshipfull, Master Richard Hakluit at Oxford in Christchurch Master
  of Arts, and Philosophie, his friend and brother.

I had not purposed to write vnto you, when the promise of your letters came to my mind:  You thought in Iune last to haue followed vs your selfe, and therefore I had left order that you should be aduertised of my state, by Master Doctor Humfrey:  but so you would not be satisfied:  I will write therefore to you almost in the same words, because I haue no leasure at this time, to meditate new matters, and to vary or multiply words.

The 11. of Iune we set saile at length from England in good earnest, and departed leauing the hauen and land behind vs at Plimmouth:  our Fleete consisted of fiue shippes:  the greatest, which the Admirals brother had lent vs, withdrew her selfe from vs the third day, wee know not vpon what occassion:  with the rest we sailed still together till the 23 of Iuly:  at which time our view of one another being intercepted by the great mists, some of vs sailed one way, and some another:  to vs alone the first land appeared, the first of August, about the latitude of 50. degrees, when as before we had descended beyond 41 degrees in hope of some Southerly windes, which notwithstanding neuer blew to vs at any fit time.