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FITTING OUT. “Vitailled was the shippe, it is no drede, Habundantly for hire a ful long space: And other necessaries that shuld nede She had ynow, heried be Godde’s grace: For wind and weather, Almig…
THE VOYAGE TO DISCO. “Now from the sight of land, our galleys move; With only seas around, and skies above. When o’er our heads descends a cloud of rain, And night with sable clouds involves the main…
THE GREENLAND SETTLEMENTS. “Behold I see the haven nigh at hand, To which I meane my wearie course to bend; Vere the maine shete and beare up with the land, The which afore is fayrly to be kend, And …
MELVILLE BAY AND THE NORTH WATER. “Embark with me, while I new tracts explore, With flying sails and breezes from the shore. Not that my song, in such a scanty space, So large a subject fully can emb…
SMITH SOUND. “Now far he sweeps, where scarce a summer smiles, On Behring’s rocks, or Greenland’s naked isles. Cold on his midnight watch the breezes blow, From wastes that slumber in eternal snow, A…
STRUGGLES WITH THE ICE. “On those great waters now I am, Of which I have been told, That whosoever hither came Should wonders there behold. “Trim thou the sails, and let good speed Accompany our hast…
WALRUS HUNT.—DOG DRIVING. “So Zembla’s rocks, the beauteous work of frost, Rise white in air, and glitter o’er the coast; Pale suns, unfelt, at distance roll away, And on the impassive ice the lightn…
SLOW PROGRESS THROUGH THE ICE. “He rose, the coast and country to survey, Anxious and eager to discover more. It looked a wild uncultivated shore, But whether human kind or beast alone Possessed the …
KENNEDY CHANNEL. 2nd Keeper. —“I’ll stay above the hill so both may shoot.” 1st Keeper. —“That cannot be: the noise of thy cross-bow will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost. Here stand we both, …
THE CROSSING OF THE THRESHOLD. “And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold. And ice, mast high, came floating by, As green as emerald. And through the drifts, the snowy cliffs D…
