The conquest of the great Northwest; being the story of the Adventurers of England known as The Hudson's Bay CompanyNew pages in the history of the Canadian Northwest and Western States . h was to play such animportant part with Nansen three hundred yearslater. Icebergs were floating against the wind, too,laboriously, with apparently aimless circlings roundand round, but circles that carried them forwardagainst the wind, and the ship was presently mooredto a great icepan drifting along with the undertow. Then the curse of all Arctic voyagers fell on thesea—fog thick to the touch as wool, throu
The conquest of the great Northwest; being the story of the Adventurers of England known as The Hudson's Bay CompanyNew pages in the history of the Canadian Northwest and Western States . h was to play such animportant part with Nansen three hundred yearslater. Icebergs were floating against the wind, too,laboriously, with apparently aimless circlings roundand round, but circles that carried them forwardagainst the wind, and the ship was presently mooredto a great icepan drifting along with the undertow. Then the curse of all Arctic voyagers fell on thesea—fog thick to the touch as wool, through whichthe icebergs glided like phantoms with a great crashof waters, where the surf beat on the floes. Nevermind! Their anchor-hold acts as a are sheltered from the turmoil of the wavesoutside the ice. And they are still headed they are up to Seventy-three along a coast, whichno chart has ever before recorded, no chart but themyths of deaths realm. As the coast might provetreacherous if the ice began thumping inland, Hud-son names the region Hold Hope, which may beinterpreted, Keep up your Courage. Ice and fog, fog and ice, and the eternal silences lO. Prince Rupert, from a Photograph in the Ottawa Archives, afterPainting by Vandyke. Henry Hudsons First Voyage but for the thunder of the floes banging the ports;up to Seventy-five by noon of June 25, when thesailors notice that the floundering clumsy grampusare playing mad pranks about the ship. The glisten-ing brown backs race round the prow and somersetbodily out of the water in a very deviltry of sauciness!Call it sailors superstition, but when the grampusschools play, your Northern crew looks for storm, andby noon of June 26, the storm is there pounding thehull like thunder and shrieking through the a good place to be, between land and ice in hurri-cane! Hudson scampers for the sea, still north,but driven out east by the trend of Greenlandscoast along an unbroken barrier of ice that s
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