Excerpt from Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His, Vol. 14 of 20: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others

The eight day it was very foggie, the winde at North and by East, with Snow and Frost: I stood to the East wards, in hope to get the Easter end of the Ice, and so to Chery Island, and I ranne into a Channel] betweene two firme bankes of Ice, and could finde no way through, but lay in the Ice till the ninth day at a South Sunne. Then I observed, and found the Ship in the altitude 74. Degrees and I7. Minutes, the winde being at North North-west, very faire weather, but frostie.

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