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no snow on them." " It may be objected against us 

 as a fault," continues Hudson, " for hauling so 

 westerly a course. The chiefe cause that moved 

 us thereunto, was our desire to see that part of 

 Groucland which (for ought that M^e knew) was to 

 any Christian unknowne; and we thought it 

 might as well have beene open sea as land, and by 

 that means our passage should have beene the 

 larger to the pole." This land lying m lat. 73"" 

 he named Hold with Hope. 



Hudson observes that this headland, unlike that 

 of Young's Cape, had little or no snow on it, and 

 the air, on their approach to it, was very temperate 

 to their feeling; the rain fell in great drops, like 

 the thunder showers in England. From this part 

 of the east coast of Greenland, so seldom ap- 

 proached, he continued to steer away to the north- 

 east in the hope of falling in with the body 

 of Nezvland, the name given by the Dutch to 

 Spitzbcrgcn ; and accordingly, on the 27th, they 

 made this land, then nearly covered with fog, the 

 ice lying very thick along the shore for fifteen or 

 sixteen leagues. They reckoned themselves to be 

 in 78° and near to Vogel Hoek; and it is remarked, 

 that in running along near to the shore they found 

 no great cold, yet there was great store of ice to 

 the westward, which obliged them to stand to the 

 southward between the land and the ice. 



On the 1st of July they were embayed in the 

 ice, and, by observation, it appeared they were 



