November 5, 1612 [at Truce Sound/Sunnyside]

The fifte day John Guy & ten with him went from the barke by land to the top of a very high hill to take a full view of the bay of Placentia and all the country about. In their way they waded over the river that runneth into Passage Harbour [Come By Chance]. It is five times greater then any other river or brooke yet seen to the Southwards.

Because the fogginess of the weather hindered the prospect they remayned there all nighte. About sunset yt cleered up from the SSW to the Northwards by the weste & then the wester side of the bay of Placentia was seene to lie W. WSW & SWBW & SW. About 10 leagues of[f] there was ane opening into the maine sea, noe land appearing. In [the] sound were small Islands in a righte line. SWBS there was land by which I thinke that all that lyeth betweene the said opening & Cape St. Lawrence, which is the Cape on the wester side of the bay of Placentia, are Islands & that Passage harbour, before spoken of, is in the bottome of the bay of Placentia.

Crout's entry for this date.