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What befell the survivors of the "Discovery's" crew, on the ship's return to England, has remained until now unknown; and even now the account of them is inconclusive. In the Latin edition of the year 1613 of his "Detectio Freti" Hessel Gerritz wrote: "They exposed Hudson and the other officers in a boat on the open sea, and returned into their country.
This work is interesting, not merely from the particular subject which the title indicates, but also on account of the sketch it contains of the conquest of Siberia, and of the Russian commerce with China. Historia Navigationis Mar. Frobisberi, 1577. Nuremburg, 1580. 8vo. Descriptio novi Freti, recens inventi, ab Hen. Hudson. Amsterdam, 1613. 4to.
N.D. 2, 120 vites sic claviculis. ARS AGRICOLARUM: agricolae arte freti, a strong instance of the abstract put for the concrete. EIS: sc. sarmentis, those which have not been pruned away by the knife. EXSISTIT: 'springs up'. Exsistere in good Latin never has the meaning of our 'exist', i.e.
The only hint of explanation is the statement that the drug or juice of herbs preserved the Hirpi from harm. That theory may be kept in mind, and applied if it is found useful. Virgil's theory that the ministrants walk, pietate freti, corresponds to Mrs. Wesley's belief, when, after praying, she 'waded the flames' to rescue her children from the burning parsonage at Epworth.
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