This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...with the great doubt they had of the fleet's safety, thinking it an impossibility for them to pass unto their port, as well for that they saw themselves as for that they heard by the former 15/8 The Anne Francis and her consorts. 167 report of the ships which had proved before, who affirmed that the Straits were all ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...with the great doubt they had of the fleet's safety, thinking it an impossibility for them to pass unto their port, as well for that they saw themselves as for that they heard by the former 15/8 The Anne Francis and her consorts. 167 report of the ships which had proved before, who affirmed that the Straits were all frozen over within, they thought it now very high time to consider of their estates and safeties, that were yet left together. And hereupon the captains and masters of these ships desired the captain of the Anne Francis to enter into consideration with them of these matters. Wherefore Captain Tanfield, of the Thomas of Ipswich, with his pilot Richard Cox, and Captain Upcote, of the Moon, with his master, John Lakes, came aboard the Anne Francis the 8. of August to consult of these causes. And being assembled together in the captain's cabin, sundry doubts were there alleged. For the fearfuller sort of mariners, being over-tired with the continued labour of the former dangers, coveted to return homeward, saying that they would not again tempt God so much, who had given them so many warnings and delivered them from so wonderful dangers; that they rather desired to lose wages, freight and all, than to continue and follow such desperate fortunes. Again, their ships were so leak, and the men so wear', that, to amend the one and refresh the other, they must of necessity seek into harborough. But on the other side it was argued again to the contrary that to seek into harborough thereabouts was but to subject themselves to double dangers. If happily they escaped the dangers of the rocks in their entering, yet, being in, they were nevertheless subject there to the danger of the ice; which with the swift tides and currents is carried in and out in most har...
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