Thursday & fryday ye wind full E: we were carried wth admiracon on or journey. By this wee were more then halfe way to new England. This day I saw a fish very straunge to mee, yy call it a caruell; wch came by ye ship side wafting along ye top of ye water. it appeared at ye first like a bubble aboue the water as bigg as a mans fist, but ye fish it selfe is about ye bignes of a mans thum, so yt ye fish it selfe & ye bubble resembleth a shipp wth sailes, wch therefore is called a caruell.
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[8]
Saturday wind direct E: still. The 4 Sabb: we kept at sea the wind full full Easterly till noone, & then it came full So: E: a strong gale yt night & ye next day till night.
[9]
Tewsday ye same wind held till 9 a clock in ye morning: & then a great showre wch lasted till about 7 at night, & then it was a very calme. There we sounded wth a dipled lyne aboue 100th fadome & found no bottome. This day we saw a fish called a turkle, a great & large shell fish swiming aboue ye water neere ye shippe.
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Wednesday wind northerly a fyne gale but calmish in ye afternoone.
[11 June]
Thursday ye wind at no: an easye gale & fayre morning we saw a mountayne of Ice shyning as white as snow like to a great rocke or clift on ye shoare. it stood still & therefore we thought it to be on ground & to reach ye bottome of ye sea. For though there came a mighty streame fro ye no: yet it mooued not, wch made vs sound, & we found a banke of 40 fathom deepe whereupo we judged it to rest: & ye height aboue was as much. Wee also saw 6 or 7 pieces of Ice, floating on ye sea, wch was broken off fro ye former mountayne, we also saw great store of water fowle swiming by ye shipp wthin musket shott, of a pyde colour & about ye bignes of a wild ducke, about 40 in a copany, the mariners call ym hag birds. Toward night came a fogge, yt ye lions whelp was lost till morning. And now we saw many bony toes porpuses and grampases every day more & more.