but it bath some trees (yea albeit it be sandie) or else is full of wilde corne, that hath an eare like vnto Rie:  the corne is like oates, and smal peason as thicke as if they had bene sowen and plowed, white and red Roses, with many other flouers of very sweet and pleasant smell.  There be also many goodly medowes full of grasse, and lakes wherein great plentie of salmons be.  They call a hatchet in their tongue Cochi, and a knife Bacon:  we named it The bay of heat....

The Saturday following, being the first of August, by Sunne rising, wee had certaine other landes, lying North and Northeast, that were very high and craggie, and seemed to be mountaines:  betweene which were other low lands with woods and riuers:  wee went about the sayd lands, as well on the one side as on the other, still bending Northwest, to see if it were either a gulfe, or a passage, vntill the fift of the moneth.  The distance from one land to the other is about fifteene leagues.  The middle between them both is 50 degrees and a terce in latitude.  We had much adoe to go fiue miles farther, the winds were so great and the tide against vs.  And at fiue miles end, we might plainely see and perceiue land on both sides, which there beginneth to spread it selfe.

After we had sailed along the sayd coast, for the space of two houres, behold, the tide began to tame against vs, with so swift and raging a course, that it was not possible for vs with 13 oares to row or get one stones cast farther, so that we were constrained to leaue our boates with some of our men to guard them, and 10 or 12 men went ashore to the sayd Cape, where we found that the land beginneth to bend Southwest, which hauing scene, we came to our boats againe, and so to our ships, which were stil ready vnder salle, hoping to go forward; but for all that, they were fallen more then four leagues to leeward from the place where we had left them, where so soone as we came, wee assembled together all our Captaines, Masters, and Mariners, to haue their aduice and opinion what was best to be done; and after that euery one had said, considering that the Easterly winds began to beare away, and blow, and that the flood was so great, that we did but fall, and that there was nothing to be gotten, and that stormes and tempests began to reigne in Newfoundland, and that we were so farre from home, not knowing the perils and dangers that were behind, for either we must agree to reture home againe, or els to stay there all the yeere.  More ouer, we did consider, that if the Northerne winds did take vs, it were not possible for vs to depart thence.  All which opinions being heard and considered, we altogether determined to addresse our selues homeward.  Nowe because vpon Saint Peters day wee entred into the sayd Streite, we named it Saint Peters Streite....