Betty B.
speaker
748 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 23 Aug
Betty B.’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The second in the morning, close weather, the wind at south in the morning from twelve until two o'clock.
We steered north northwest, and had sounding one and twenty fathoms, and in running one glass we had but sixteen fathoms, then seventeen, and so shoulder and shoulder until it came to twelve fathoms.
We saw a great fire but could not see the land.
Then we came to ten fathoms, whereupon we brought our tacks aboard, and stood to the eastward, east, southeast to the
Four glasses.
Then the sun arose and we steered away north again.
and saw the land from the west by north to the north west by north.
All like broken islands, and our soundings were eleven and ten fathoms.
Then we loofed in for the shore, and fair by the shore we had seven fathoms.
The course along the land we found to be northeast by north.
From the land which we had first sight of, until we came to a great lake of water, as we could judge it to be, being drowned land, which made it to rise like islands, which was in length ten leagues.
The mouth of that land hath many shoals, and the sea breaketh on them as it cast out of the mouth of it.
And from that lake or bay, the land lieth north by east.
And we had a great stream out of the bay.
And from thence our sounding was ten fathoms two leagues from the land.
At five o'clock we anchored, being little wind, and rode in eight fathoms water.
The night was fair.
This night I found the land to hail the compass eight degrees and
Far to the northward off us we saw high hills.
For the day before we found not above two degrees of variation.
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