JUNE. HAD June 1: AVING bin part of yesterday, and all the last night, 1654. uppon the water, this morning, about seven a'clocke, Whitelocke and all his company came to the Dollars, and, without fetting foot on fhoare, they went on board the ship Amarantha, lying there to expect them. And although this was not ufuall, butt passengers generally ftay fometime att this place till their ships be ready, and to make provifions for their voyage, and spend some money att the cabaret heer; yett Whitelocke, seeing the wind fayre, and having all his company togither in the boates, was unwilling to lett them be fcattered by going on shoare, which might be troublesome and retard his voyage by getting them all togither agayne. For these reasons he commaunded all his people to goe forthwith aboard the ship, as he himselfe did, att which vice-admirall Clerke wondered, and fayd, he had not feen the fame done before. This fhip, the Amarantha, had never yett bin att fea, and therfore the more daungerous to adventure in her first voyage; butt fhe was well built, a fayre fhip, of a good burden, and had mounted in her forty pieces of braffe cannon, two of them demy cannon, and fhe was well manned, and of good force and ftrength for warre: she was a good fayler, and would turne and tacke about well; fhe held 100 perfons of Whitelocke's followers, and most of his baggage, befides her own marriners, about 200. ·1654. ཆ་ད་ཡོད་ June 1. The cabbins wherin Whitelocke was, were of an hanfome make; the breadth of the fhip was the length of his bedcabbin, and it was fix or feven paces broade, and high enough for the tallest man: it was hung with red cloath, the furniture of the bed was rich cloath of gould and filver ; on the table was a rich carpet, and all over it a canopy with broade fringes of filke and gould and filver. Within the bed-cabbin was another roome for him to retire into, with a table and benches covered with red cloath. All the gentlemen had accommodations as the fhip could afoard. Being all fettled in the fhip, they were faine to stay for the fhip-boate, which the captain had fent for water; and as foon as it was returned, about ten a'clocke in the morning, they weighed anchor, and putt the fhip under fayle; recommending themfelves to the mercy and protection of him, who rules uppon the waters as well as on drye land, and of whofe goodnes they had fo great experience. They fayled by the place called the Scares, that is, the ifles of rockes which are there in the water, and on both fides of the fhoare, of a strange craggynes, largenes, and number: those in the fea are full of daunger, and often afford butt a very freight paffage for the fhips to goe between them; and no other courfe is to avoyd them. From hence the fea begins to widen herfelfe towards the furthest point of land, which they call the Land's Ort, anfwearable to our english point of land, called the Land's End in Cornwall. The Land's Ort is eight fwedish leagues from the Dollars, and hither they reached by the evening, the wind being caft and fouth-eaft all this day. About About eleven a'clocke the last night the wind came about 1654. more to the fouth, yett Whitelocke advanced in his courfe, June 2. and gained fome way, butt not much, the wind being almost against him; and fo it continued in this morning, when there appeared a chayne of rockes, advancing themfelves more then a fwedish mile into the fea, and not farre from the ifle of Oeland, to which rockes it is not good to approach too neer. They could not maintaine their course, butt to very smalle advantage, and by veering up and downe to gaine a little of the wind; and in this manner they spent this whole day: the wind continuing att fouth fouth-eaft, they did not advance much all this day, only kept what they had gained before, and held plying up and. downe in that daungerous fea; their fupport was, that this was the good pleasure of their God, whofe will the wind and waters doe obey. Though the weather was not fowle, yett it was thicke with fogge, which arofe att the foote of the horyfon; and the marryners faid, this weather was ordinary in these feas, butt very dangerous. In the evening fome of the company made them paftime, to divert the tediouines of the way and weather. About midnight the wind came about fomwhat fayrer then before, and Whitelocke gained a little in his course ; att fun rifing he discovered the ifle of Gotland, eight leagues diftant to the eat from the iile of Qeland; afterwards the wind returned to the fame quarter wherin it was yefterday.. The isle of Oeland is neer the continent, extending itselfe in length by the thore eighteen fwedish miles, butt hath not in breadth, in any place, above two fwedifh miles. This is the place where the prince of Sweden, now king, ufed to make June 3. 1654. make his refidence, in a fayre caftle, built of ftone of this ifland, not inferior to marble: these ftones are in great requeft for pavements, pillars, and other ufes and ornaments in building. The pillars of the king's chappell att Stockholme, great and high, well polished, and of divers colours, were brought from this ifland, and they have many of thefe stones in the buildings of the great lords. This island is a place of the most field pleasure of any in this countrey, being open, and stored with red and fallow deer, with hares, and conies, and with partridges, which are scarce in other parts; butt heer the game is preferved for the prince's pleasure. The ifle of Gotland is about fourteen fwedish miles in length, and five in breadth. It antiently belonged to the Swedes, till the Danes tooke it from them, and kept the poffeffion of it, till the late warres between thofe two crownes, when the Swedes recovered it from the Dane; and, by the peace after that warre, the treaty left it to the Swede, and allowed for it the ifle of Burnholme to the Dane, being neerer his dominions. They report, that heertofore Gotland (belonging to the Gothes, from whom it hath the name) was famous for the traffique of all thefe quarters, and had in it a large towne called Wifby, where formerly certaine lawes were inftituted touching the fea, which are obferved to this day. Butt Lubec, and other towns on that fide, having gott the trade from hence, and the fea, by inundations, having much diminished this ifle, both it and the towne are become butt of fmalle confideration. 7 The The wind was little and very variable, and this day was 1654. a calme, fo that they could advance very little in their June 3. voyage. In the evening the wind grew fresh, and increased till three a'clocke the next morning, fo that they made good way in their courfe: butt thefe deep feas began to rise, and the fhip to rowle and toffe fo much, that fome of Whitelocke's people, fenfible of it, and of the increafing of the wind and waves, and of the marriners labour and diforder, began to be afrayd and ficke. Butt Whitelocke cherished and comforted them the best he could, and gave order for attendance uppon them, and that they should want nothing which the ship could afforde; the which was the more in his power, the commaund of it being wholly left to him by the queen; and, by his kindnes, and ceafing of the storme, they began to recover their courage, the wind changed, and it grew more calme after the ruffling. The Lord's day. Still Whitelocke was toyling on the Baltick fea; after three a'clocke in the morning he advanced a good way in his course; butt about ten a'clocke they dif covered land, which was the ifle of Burnholme, diftant from the point of fouth of Oeland eighteen German leagues. It feemeth a plain and flatte ground, about eight fwedifh miles in length, and about five in breadth: this ifle is fruitfull, and well peopled, abounding in paftures, fo that it yields a good revenue in butter. Many witches are affirmed to be in this ifle, and no place in this fea hath more fhipwracks then uppon Burnholme. Some give the reafon therof from the ftreight paffe between this ifle and the continent; yett is the coaft clean and without rockes, and hath good roades: others attribute the caufe of these fhip-wrackes to the great and daungerous fands about this, and the other ifles of this fea, which (efpecially about this ifle of Burnhelme) doe lye out farre and thallow in the fea, on which many |