. 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. ;i '. fcl- / 'M Ml ,'â "1:. L, ;!'' i I n 134 NORTH-EAST VOYAGES. oil; the tickets were drawn, the gunner was crowned King of Nova Zembla, and the evening passed as merrily as if they had been at home round their own firesides. Nothing can more strikingly illustrate the salutary effects produced even in the most depressing circum- stances by mental occupation and amu
. 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. ;i '. fcl- / 'M Ml ,'â "1:. L, ;!'' i I n 134 NORTH-EAST VOYAGES. oil; the tickets were drawn, the gunner was crowned King of Nova Zembla, and the evening passed as merrily as if they had been at home round their own firesides. Nothing can more strikingly illustrate the salutary effects produced even in the most depressing circum- stances by mental occupation and amusement,âan ex- pedient of which Captain Parry afterwards made so happy a use. About the middle of January the crews began to ex- perience some abatement of that deep darkness in which they had been so long involved, and which prevented the exercise and amusement so necessary to their health. ! ) Soon after, about mid-day, a faint flush was seen to tinge the horizon ; and this first dawn of the annual morning revived in their hearts the hope which was almost ex- tinguished. On the 24th, De Veer and two others ran in to say that they liad seen a portion of the sun's disc. Barentz demonstrated, on astronomical principles, that this could not take place for fifteen days to come. Many, however, trusted more to the eyes of their com- panions than to scientific deductions; and bets were taken, that could not be decided in the two following days, in consequence of ri heavy fog with which the air was oppressed. The 27th, however, being clear, they went out in a body, and saw ascending above the horizon the full orb of that great luminary. Joy took possession of their hearts, and Barentz in vain continued to prove that this appearance was contrary to every j rinciple of science, lie was not aware of the extensive power of refraction in that northern atmosphere, which, in Cap- tain Parry's expedition, produced a similar abridgment in the duration of the Polar winter. Affairs now assumed
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