The next day, being the 6th of August, the people came unto us without fear, and did barter with us for skins, as the other people did: they differ not from the other, neither in their canoes nor apparel, yet is their pronunciation more plain than the others, and nothing hollow in the throat.

Our miscreant aboard of us kept himself close, and made show that he would fain have another companion.

Thus being provided, I departed from this land the 12th of August at six of the clock in the morning, where I left the _Mermaid_ at anchor; the 14th sailing west about 50 leagues we discovered land, being in latitude 66 degrees 19 minutes: this land is 70 leagues from the other from whence we came.

This 14th day, from nine o'clock at night till three o'clock in the morning, we anchored by an island of ice 12 leagues off the shore, being moored to the ice.
The 15th day, at three o'clock in the morning, we departed from this land to the south, and the 18th of August we discovered land north-west from us in the morning, being a very fair promontory, in latitude 65 degrees, having no land on the south.

Here we had great hope of a through passage.
This day, at three o'clock in the afternoon, we again discovered land south-west and by south from us, where at night we were becalmed.