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VOYAGE TO GREENLAND.
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| 1634. | Winds. | Remarks. | |
| April | 13 | NE | Do. bay full of ice |
| 14 | NE, | A south wind at night carried theice away | |
| 15 | W | Calm mild day, 4 whales seen in the bay | |
| 16 | W | Clear. The clerk died | |
| 17 | W | Cloudy, bay full of ice | |
| 18 | (No remark) | ||
| 19 | W | The men much afflicted, having no refreshment left | |
| 20 | S | At night E.erly, with snow; ice drifted away | |
| 21 | SE | A calm day | |
| 22 | NE | Ice closed to the shore; S wind at night | |
| 23 | S | Ice off land, rain. All the survivors but one rendered helpless by disease; the captain struggling with death | |
| 24 | S | Cloudy | |
| 25 | S | Sunshiny, some ice whales seen; A W wind at night brought the ice in | |
| 26 | W | Cloudy day, calm | |
| 27 | E | Mild weather, killed a dog for food | |
| 28 | E | Cloudy weather, ice went out of sight, N wind at night | |
| 29 | NE | Blowing hard at night | |
| 30 | NE | A fine clear day |
Here the journal terminates with the word die; alluding perhaps to other observations which the writer in his usual way had been about to set down. The first man of this unfortunate party died on the 16th of April, the other six seem to have expired in the beginning of May. The scurvy was evidently the cause of their death, which, it appears, arose more from the want of fresh provisions than from the cold, as they could generally stir abroad at least once in three or four days.
We found that the ice had now totally disappeared, and as we observed neither whales, nor
