. The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years . f April, 1610. His one ship was pro-visioned for six months, and had been fitted out byeminent Englishmen. On the 11th of May he de«scried the eastern part of Iceland, and was envelopedin a thick south fog—^hearing the sea dashing againstthe coast without seeinsr it. He was thus obli^red tocome to anchor; but, as soon as the weather cleared,he proceeded westward along the coast till he IeachedSnow Hill (Snaefell,) which rears
. The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years . f April, 1610. His one ship was pro-visioned for six months, and had been fitted out byeminent Englishmen. On the 11th of May he de«scried the eastern part of Iceland, and was envelopedin a thick south fog—^hearing the sea dashing againstthe coast without seeinsr it. He was thus obli^red tocome to anchor; but, as soon as the weather cleared,he proceeded westward along the coast till he IeachedSnow Hill (Snaefell,) which rears its a^vful headabove the sea that leads to the frozen shores of Green-land. On their way the navigators sa^v^ Hecla, thevolcano of which was then in activity, vomiting tor-rents of fire down its snowy sides, with smoke ascend-ing to the sky—an object not only feaiful in itself,but AN^hicli struck them mth alarm as an indication ofunfavorable weather. Lea^dng the Icelandic coast tliey now sailed west-ward, and, after being deceived by illusoiy a2:>pear-ances of land, at length saw the white cliffs of Green-land towering behind a mighty wall of ice. Without. KSQUIMAUX SNOW HOUSKi Hudsons last voyage. 95 attempting to approach the coast, Hudson sailed to-wards the south-west, and passed what he imagined tobe Frobishers Strait, which in fact long continued tobe laid down on the coast of Greenland. Hudson nowrounded Cape Farewell, and raised the Desolations,making careful observations of those coasts, which hefound not well laid down on the charts. The marin-ers soon began to descry, floating along, the mightyislands of ice,—a sight which appalled all but thestoutest hearts. Onward they sailed, however, some-times enjoying a clear and open sea, but often encom-passed by these mighty masses, or by the small anddrifting heaps; and at length they had to steer as itwere between two lands of ice. They sometimesmoored themselves, on occasions of peril, to these ice-bergs ; but s
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