A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . take as to the birds they saw in such numbers. That particular duckwas as familiar to them, no doubt, as to the modern Greenlanders and Icelanders, to whomthe down has long been held as so precious an article of traffic that the bird is under uni- 48 THE NORTHMEN IN AMERICA. [Chap. III. so plentiful tliat it was difficult to walk without treadin
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . take as to the birds they saw in such numbers. That particular duckwas as familiar to them, no doubt, as to the modern Greenlanders and Icelanders, to whomthe down has long been held as so precious an article of traffic that the bird is under uni- 48 THE NORTHMEN IN AMERICA. [Chap. III. so plentiful tliat it was difficult to walk without treading on their eggs,they called Stream Island, and the bay beyond — Buzzards Bay —Stream Frith, because of the, rapid currents around their shores. Onthe shores of this bay they spent the first winter. And with this winter their troubles began. They had improvidentlyneglected to lay in a sufficient stock of provisions, and when,Krco?* the next summer, the fishing was poor there came absolute°^ scarcity. Now in Thorvards ship was one Thorhall, who had been the huntsman in summer, and in winter the steward of Ericthe Red. He was, it is said, a large man, and strong, black, andlike a giant, silent, and foul-mouthed in his speech, and always egged. Scots Returning to the Ship. on (^eggjadi) Eric to the worst; he was a bad Christian. Perhapsit was only hunger that first drove him to desert; but he pretended,after three days absence in the wilderness, and the others behevedhim, that while they were praying to God for food without an answer,his invocations to Thor had caused a whale to be cast upon the beachduring this season of scarcity, of which they all eat, and were all madesick. But he was insubordinate as well as morose and impious, forwhen soon after it was proposed to seek a new and better habitation,and Karlsefne thought it best that they should go southward, Thor-hall refused, and would go northward. It was made plain presently versal protection. See Letters on Iceland, dur
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