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On the 9th of October, Jean Cornbutte held a council to settle the plan / of his operations, to which, that there might be union, zeal, and / courage on the part of every one, he admitted the whole crew. Map in / hand, he clearly explained their situation.
The eastern coast of Greenland advances perpendicularly northward. The / discoveries of the navigators have given the exact boundaries of those / parts. In the extent of five hundred leagues, which separates Greenland / from Spitzbergen, no land has been found. An island (Shannon Island) / lay a hundred miles north of Gaël-Hamkes Bay, where the "Jeune-Hardie" / was wintering.