ABSTRACT
STATE PAPERS PREVIOUS TO THE FIRST VOYAOE.
I n the countrey o f America towardes the northe, aboute the sixtie degree, there is an elbowe o f a land lying verie farre into the sea, which is called the head o f Laborer. And on the southe side there is a verie broade bay lying towardes the weste, and of suche a breadth that it semeth, bothe in the verie entry and after, to be a greate sea, ffor yt lyeth oute aboute three or foure hundred myles, and hathe verie many ilandes, and all the yere throughe there are in the same huge heapes of ise, which bay is called Dusmendas.
