Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His - Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others #271192

The eight day it was very foggie, the winde at North and by East, with Snow and Frost: I stood to the East wards, in hope to get the Easter end of the Ice, and so to Chery Island; and I ranne into a Channel] betweene two firme bankes of Ice, and could finde no way through, but lay in the Ice till the ninth day at a South Sunne. Then I observed, and found the Ship in the altitude 74. Degrees and 17. Minutes, the winde being at North North-west, very faire weather, but frostie.