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Стивен Ликок. Adventurers of the Far North: A Chronicle of the Arctic Seas
Adventurers of the Far North: A Chronicle of the Arctic Seas
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
THE GREAT ELIZABETHAN NAVIGATORS
CHAPTER II
HEARNE'S OVERLAND JOURNEY TO THE NORTHERN OCEAN
CHAPTER III
MACKENZIE DESCENDS THE GREAT RIVER OF THE NORTH
CHAPTER IV
THE MEMORABLE EXPLOITS OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN
CHAPTER V
THE TRAGEDY OF FRANKLIN'S FATE
CHAPTER VI
EPILOGUE. THE CONQUEST OF THE POLE
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
INDEX
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Stephen Butler Leacock
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The new enterprise was carried out in the following year (1577). The Gabriel and the Michael sailed again, and with them one of the queen's ships, the Aid. This time the company included a number of soldiers and gentlemen adventurers. The main object was not the discovery of the passage but the search for gold.
The expedition sailed out of Harwich on May 31, 1577, following the route by the north of Scotland. A week's sail brought the ships 'with a merrie wind' to the Orkneys. Here a day or so was spent in obtaining water. The inhabitants of these remote islands were found living in stone huts in a condition almost as primitive as that of American savages. 'The good man, wife, children, and other members of the family,' wrote Master Settle, one of Frobisher's company, 'eat and sleep on one side of the house and the cattle on the other, very beastly and rude.' From the Orkneys the ships pursued a very northerly course, entering within the Arctic Circle and sailing in the perpetual sunlight of the polar day. Near Iceland they saw huge pine trees drifting, roots and all, across the ocean. Wild storms beset them as they passed the desolate capes of Greenland. At length, on July 16, the navigators found themselves off the headlands of Meta Incognita.
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