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W. J. Gordon. Round About the North Pole
Round About the North Pole
Table of Contents
PREFACE
SECTIONAL MAPS
CHAPTER I. SPITSBERGEN
CHAPTER II. SPITSBERGEN
CHAPTER III. NOVAYA ZEMLYA
CHAPTER IV. FRANZ JOSEF LAND
CHAPTER V. CAPE CHELYUSKIN
CHAPTER VI. THE LENA DELTA
CHAPTER VII. BERING STRAIT
CHAPTER VIII. THE AMERICAN MAINLAND
CHAPTER IX. THE PARRY ISLANDS
CHAPTER X. BOOTHIA
CHAPTER XI. BAFFIN BAY
CHAPTER XII. SMITH SOUND
CHAPTER XIII. GREENLAND
INDEX
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W. J. Gordon
Published by Good Press, 2021
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They were evidently suspicious of the Dutchmen, who did their best to be friendly. The chief had placed sentinels all round to see what the new-comers were about and note everything that was bought and sold. One of the sentinels was offered a biscuit, which "he with great thanks took and ate, and while he ate it he still looked diligently about him on all sides, watching what was done." Their reindeer sledges were kept ready—"that run so swiftly with one or two men in them that our horses were not able to follow them." They were unacquainted with firearms, and, when a musket was fired to impress them, "ran and leapt like madmen," but calmed down as soon as they saw there was no malicious intention, to wonder much more, however, when the man with the gun aimed at a flat stone he placed as a mark, and, fortunately, hit and broke it. The meeting ended satisfactorily; "after that we took our leaves one of the other with great friendship on both sides, and when we were in our pinnace we all put off our hats and bowed to them, sounding our trumpet; they in their manner saluting us also, and then went to their sledges again."
