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VOYAGE TO GREENLAND.
the winter's severity, but fell a sacrifice to the effects of scurvy; for, on the island being visited in the following summer, their dead bodies were found in their huts. A journal was discovered which they had kept from August the 26th, until April the 31st, and it was therefore supposed, that the last died about that time, as it contains some interesting remarks on the state of the wind, a copy of which is given by Churchill as follows:
1633. | Winds. | Remarks. | |
Aug. | 26 | NE | Strong breeze. The fleet sailed for Holland |
27 | NE | ||
28 | NE | Snow | |
29 | Clear | ||
30 | NW, at night NE | ||
31 | NE | Fresh gale, clear | |
Sept. | 1 | NW to NE | Snow |
2 | NE | Snow | |
3 | NE | Some snow | |
4 | NE | Some snow | |
5 | NE | Some snow | |
6 | NE | Rainy | |
7 | NE | Fair. At night SEbS rainy | |
8 | SE | Rainy Morning | |
9 | SE | Clear and warm | |
10 | SE | Very stormy, rainy | |
11 | SEbS to SW and NE | Foggy, rainy | |
12 | NE | Blowing hard, clear |