. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history ; and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. Ill liflfu^, M\i. n I j 1 112 NORTH-EAST VOYAGES. be made. After another attempt to push to the north- ward, the mariners became sensible that Norway must be sought in an opposite direction. They turned to the south-west, and having followed that course for a number of days, saw the coast of Russian Lapland. At this point they must have been very near the opening of the W
. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history ; and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. Ill liflfu^, M\i. n I j 1 112 NORTH-EAST VOYAGES. be made. After another attempt to push to the north- ward, the mariners became sensible that Norway must be sought in an opposite direction. They turned to the south-west, and having followed that course for a number of days, saw the coast of Russian Lapland. At this point they must have been very near the opening of the White Sea, into which had fortune guided their sails, they would have reached Archangel, have had a joyful meeting with their comrades, and spent the whiter in comfort and security. An evil destiny led them westward, in the hope, probably, of reaching Wardhuys, the only point in those im- mense seas of which they had any distinct knowledge. The coast was naked, uninhabited, and destitute of shelter, except at one point, where they found it bold and rocky, but with some good harbours. Here, though it was only the middle of September, they felt already all the rigours of a northern season; intense frost, snow, and ice, driving through the air as though it had been the depth of winter. For these reasons, the officers conceived it inexpedient to search any longer along those desolate shores, but to take up their quarters in this haven till the ensuing spring. They were sur- prised by the appearances of rein-deer, foxes. Polar bears, and " divers beasts to them unknown, and there- fore ; The narrative here closes, and the darkest gloom involves the fate of tliis first English expedition, for neither the commander nor any of his brave com- panions ever returned tc their native land. After long suspense and anxiety, tidings reached home that some Russian sailors, as they wandered along those dreary tracts, had been astonished by the view of two large ships, which th
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