don't fret
sea wet
mist and haze
come inland
come hell or high water
come home sick
come house wreck
come sea wrack and ruin strewn ashore
wind lift
spin drift
gale blown
spray sown
storm seeds
spoon drift
moon lifts
far flung
low slung
sea lung
a frozen tide
a breath suspended
sea lung wort
a plant of the borage family
with leaves with an oyster-like flavour
neither land nor sea nor vapour
impassable
impossible
impenetrable
legends warn of rip tides
shallows
shoals
reefs
ridges
spits
bars
stones
avoid a void inked-in
where sea monsters swim
beware
be where
be here
here be dragons
pure white octopi occupy obscure dark worlds
cracks beneath the surface
hydrothermal vents
mid-ocean smoke
a sudden sulphurous odour
a column of bubbles tunnels up from the deep
...
7 May: departed from Dartmouth
15 June: mightily pestered with ice and snow
no hope of landing
29 June: a company of isles
full of fair sounds
the sea void of ice
the land untroubled with snow
within the sounds we sent our boats
within the snowy mountains
earth and grass such as our moor and waste grounds of England
17 July: we fell upon a most strange quantity of ice
we supposed it to be land
we coasted this mass
our shrouds, ropes, and sails frozen
compassed with ice
2 August: much troubled with a fly which is called mosquito
15 August: here we had great hope of a through passage
this land is nothing in sight but isles
19 August: it began to snow
all night with foul weather
20 August: we bare in with the land
28 August: in this place we continued
1 September: six miles by guess into the country
this place yieldith
great store of birds
at the harbour mouth
great store of cod
6 September: purposed to depart
presently let slip our cables
11 September: a fair westnorthwest wind
we departed with trust
shaping our course
October 4th: I have now experience of much of the northwest part of the world
