. 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. VOTAOEI. to observe, that ez< scale, and with the ed the most mirortu- net was ill calculated ed straits, and amid te floating over the i Queen's Foreland, trait, the navigators ) side, and barred, as mountains, and buN lad driven numerous ence the navigation soon became most vessel, on board of louse, received such itain of ice, that it men. This s
. 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. VOTAOEI. to observe, that ez< scale, and with the ed the most mirortu- net was ill calculated ed straits, and amid te floating over the i Queen's Foreland, trait, the navigators ) side, and barred, as mountains, and buN lad driven numerous ence the navigation soon became most vessel, on board of louse, received such itain of ice, that it men. This specta- rews, who felt that be their own. The n the gale increased 3, tossing in every St the sides of the iriously at work to )ored themselves to carried about along ;s blows which they . Others held sus- )ar8, planks, pikes, ilence of the shocks ided by the surging to break in pieces sher considers it as jf his poor miners such a scene, that nbled dangers that th, it pleased God )wn from heaven," ^rsed the ice, and hich to KARLV NORTll-WfiST VOVAOES. After a few days spent in repairing the vessels, and su^,)pmg up the lesiks, Frobisher bent afresh all his efforts to wnetrato inward to the spot where he was to lound his colony. After considorablo effort, he mad.; ins way into the strait, when he discovered that lie was sailing iMstween two coasts; but amid the gloomy mists, and the thick snow wliirh fell ii. liis northern midsummer, nothing could bo distii |y seen. As, however, clear intervals oc( asionally oc- curred, affording partial glimpses of the land, tlie surmise arose, that this was not the shore along which they had formerly sailed. Frobisher would not listen to a suggestion which would have con- victed him of having thrown away much of his time and labour. He still pressed onward. Once the manners imagined they saw Mount Warwick, but were soon undeceived. At length, Christopher Hall, ctuef pilot, stood up and declared, in hearing of all the crew, that
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