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Hudson, Baffin, Cook, Nelson, Parry, Franklin, and a score of others among the dead; McClintock, Nares, and Markham, and last, but not least, the man whose name was oftenest on our lips when praying for relief during the past terrible winter Bedford Pim. What those men have done the whole world knows.
Several large black high-sided ships lay at anchor, with numerous boats hanging to the davits, and mostly barque-rigged. They were whalers, belonging to Hull and other English and Scotch ports, on their way to Baffin Bay, or the shores of Greenland. Archy found a boat just about to cross the sound to Lerwick, and, asking for a passage, he jumped in.
It was at the entry of Davis' Strait, that their discoveries came to an end for this year. They returned to Plymouth on September 9th, without having lost a single man. So strong were the hopes entertained by Byleth and Baffin, that they obtained permission to put to sea again in the same vessel the following year.
The ancients called it 'fool's gold. Martin Frobisher brought back four shiploads of it from Baffin Land thinking that he had discovered an Eldorado.
"As much as Balin as much as Baffin, his chief." And he added an old office joke, and laughed more than ever: "It would not even do to send them by water to inspect the Point-du-Jour, for they would be sick on the penny steamboats on the Seine."
"Why?" asked the doctor, who always liked to get information from anybody who understood what they were talking about. "Because whales are always found in great quantities in green water." "What's the reason of that?" "Because they find plenty of food in them." "Are you sure of that?" "I've seen it a hundred times, at least, in Baffin Sea; why shouldn't it be the same in Melville Bay?
This was the shore of what is now called Baffin Island, in latitude 66° 40', and hence considerably to the north of the strait which Frobisher had entered. At this season the sea was clear of ice, and Davis anchored his ships under a great cliff that glittered like gold. He called it Mount Raleigh, and the sound which opened out beside it Exeter Sound.
He had dropped in late after a big dinner where he had been introduced to some one as the fellow who was going to inherit sixty millions some day. Phew! but he was sore! He walked miles in ten-foot laps about my den, while he cursed his father's money from Baffin Bay to Cape Horn.
Her name, the Discovery, was of good augury. She carried, as pilot, the famous William Baffin, whose renown has eclipsed that of his captain.
It may be an inlet only; but it is also very possible that by this channel ships might get into the Polar Sea and sail by the north shore of Greenland to Spitzbergen. Turning that corner, and descending along the western coast of Baffin's Bay, there is another inlet called Jones' Sound by Baffin, also unexplored.
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