The conquest of the great Northwest; being the story of the Adventurers of England known as The Hudson's Bay CompanyNew pages in the history of the Canadian Northwest and Western States . o blow the fellows brainsout before he would help to moor the ship. Withthe soil of Europe once more firmly under their feet,the poor Danes could no longer restrain their fell on their knees thanking God for the de-liverance from the icebergs and dreadful stormsand foaming seas. As Munck did not record the latitude of his win-tering harbor—presumably to keep his ship in hidingtill he could go for i
The conquest of the great Northwest; being the story of the Adventurers of England known as The Hudson's Bay CompanyNew pages in the history of the Canadian Northwest and Western States . o blow the fellows brainsout before he would help to moor the ship. Withthe soil of Europe once more firmly under their feet,the poor Danes could no longer restrain their fell on their knees thanking God for the de-liverance from the icebergs and dreadful stormsand foaming seas. As Munck did not record the latitude of his win-tering harbor—presumably to keep his ship in hidingtill he could go for it—doubt arose about the portbeing Churchill. This doubt was increased- by anerroneous account of his voyage published in France,but the identity of Muncks Cove with Churchillhas been trebly proved. The drawing which Munckmade of the harbor is an exact outline of , eighty years afterward when the HudsonsBay Fur Company established their fort at Church-ill, brass cannon were dug from the river flats stampedwith the letter C 4—Christian IV. Strongest con-firmation of all were the Indian legends. The sav-ages called the river. River of Strangers, because when 90. The Adventures of the Danes on Hudson Bay they came down to the shore in the summer of 1620,they found clothing and the corpses of a race theyhad never seen before. When they beheld the shipat ebb tide, they could hardly believe their senses,and when they found it full of plunder, their wonderwas unspeakable. But the joy was the cargo above their fires, kegs of gunpowdercame in contact with a spark. Plunder and plun-derers and ship were blown to atoms. Henceforth,Churchill became ill omened as the River-of-the-Strangers. The same erroneous French account records thatMunck suicided from chagrin over his failure. Thisis a confusion with Muncks father. The Dane hadseen enough to know while there was no NorthwestPassage, there was an unclaimed kingdom for Den-mark, and he had planned t
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