1607. HENRY HUDSON. ISl 



then in 78° 42', which made Hudson conclude they 

 were opposite the great Indraught, into which he 

 afterwards entered very far, finding no bottom, 

 with one hundred fathoms.* The next day tliey 

 observed in 78° 56', and on the 3d in 7^6° 33'. On 

 the 4th, the wind being at north, it was very cold, 

 and the shrowds and sails were frozen ; and on the 

 5th they returned to the mouth of the inlet. Hav- 

 ing sailed about in different courses to get free from 

 the ice, with which the httle vessel was fre- 

 quently beset, they had an observation on the 

 11th, which gave the lat. 79° 17'. Among the 

 ice was much drift-wood. They saw plenty of 

 seals, and some bears, one of which was killed, and 

 many of the people made themselves sick with 

 eating bear's flesh, unsalted. 



It was Hudson's intention to cross over from 

 hence and pass round the southern extremity of 

 the land called Newland, or Spitzbergen ;t but the 

 wind being south, and coming into a green sea, 

 which he states to be always freest of ice, whereas 

 a blue sea is always most pestered with ice, he 

 stood to the northward, and in 80° 23' saw the 

 land to the southward. They entered a deep bay, 



* This was ihe deep fiord or firth within Charles Foreland. 



t Among the numerous blunders of Forster is that of ascribing 

 the honour of the discovery of Spitzbergen to belong to Hudson ; 

 forgeUing that in his own volume he had observed that " Hudson 

 saw Spitzbergen in I607, which had been discovered eleven year§ 

 before hy the DntcK' I—Voy. and Dis. in the North, p. 421, 



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