Voyages and Works of John Davis, the Navigator

The seventh day of May, I departed from the porte of Dartmouth for the discovery of the Northwest passage, with a ship of an hundred and twentie tunnes named the Mermayde, a barke of 60 tunnes named the Sunneshine, a barke of 35 tunnes, named the Moonelight, and a Pynace of ten tunnes named the Northstarre.

And the 15 of June I discovered land in the latitude of 60 degrees, and in longitude from the meridian of London westward 47 degrees, mightily pestered with yce and snow, so that there was no hope of landing: the yce lay in some places 10 leagues, in some 20, and in some 50 leagues off the shore, so that we were constrayned to beare into 57 degrees to double the same, and to recover a free sea, which, through God's favourable mercy, we at length obtayned. The nine and twentieth of June, after many tempestuous stormes, wee againe discovered lande, in longitude from the Meridian of London, 58 degrees 30 minutes, and in latitude 64, being East from us : into which course, sith it pleased God, by contrary windes, to force us, I thought it very necessary to beare in with it, and there to set up our Pynnace, provided in the Mermayde.