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Identifier: frozenzoneitsexp00hyde (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Hyde, Alexander, 1814-1881 Baldwin, Abraham Chittenden, 1804-1887, joint author Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889, joint author Shields, Charles W. (Charles Woodruff), 1825-1904
Subjects: Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 Polaris (Ship)
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. (etc.) Columbia book company
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e theirwidows and fatherless children to give him bittercurses. Davis was willing to consider their case; yet,anxious not to abandon so great an enterprise, he de-termined to leave behind him the Mermaid, and topush on in the Moonshine with the boldest part of hiscrew. Having found a favorable breeze, he at last,on the 1st of August, turned the ice, and in lat. 66°,33 reached land ; along which he now coasted south-ward for about ten degrees, entangled among a num-ber of islands, and missing, in his progress, the inletsto Hudsons Bay. On the coast of Labrador, ^vemen who landed were beset by the natives, and twoof them killed and two wounded. Davis then re-turned to England. Through the influence of his friend Mr. Sanderson,Davis sailed on a third expedition with the Sunshine,the Elizabeth, and a pinnace, and on the 16th of June,1587, arrived among his old friends on the coast ofGreenland. The natives received him as before Aviththe cry of iUaout and the exhibition of skins, but lost
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DESERTION OF TWO SHIPS. 83 no time in tlie renewal of their former system oftliieving. It was now arranged that the two large vesselsshould remain to fish, while Davis in the pin-nace should stretch out into a higher latitude with aview to discovery. In pursuance of this plan hetook his departure, and, continuing to range thecoast to the northward, on the 28th he reached a pointwhich he named Sandersons Hope, in upwards of72^, still finding a wide open sea to the west andnorth. Here, the wind having shifted, Davis resolv-ed to hold on a western tack across this sea, andproceeded for forty leagues without sight of land orany other obstruction, when he was arrested by theusual barrier of an immense bank of ice. Temptedby an apparent opening, Davis involved himself in abay of ice, and was obliged to wait the momentwhen the sea beating and the sun shining on thismighty mass should effect its dissolution. At length, on the 19th of July, he came in viewof Mount Ealeigh, and at midnight foun

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