1608. HENRY HUDSON. 185 



found whalebone and deers horns, and the party 

 brought on board two dozen of fowl and some eggs. 

 The sea was full of morses, whales and seals. 



Finding little hope of a passage between New- 

 land (Spitzbergen) and Nova Zembla, " my pur- 

 pose," says Hudson, '' was by the Way gats to 

 passe by the mouth of the river Ob, and to double 

 that way the North Cape of Tartaria, or to give 

 reason wherefore it will not be." The quantity of 

 morses, however, induced him to hope tliat they 

 might defray the cliarge of the voyage; in the 

 meantiuie a party was sent up a large river flowing 

 from the north-eastward, to see if a passage could 

 not be found that wav into a more easterly sea: 

 but having traced it to one fathom in depth they 

 returned. *' Generally," says Hudson, " all the 

 land of Nova Zembla that yet wee have scene, is 

 to a man's eye a pleasant land ; much mayne high 

 land with no snow on it, looking in some places 

 greene, and deere^" feeding thereon ; and the hills 

 are partly covered w^ith snow and partly bare." 

 He adds, " it is no marvell that there is so much 

 ice in the sea toward the pole, so many sounds and 

 rivers being in the lands of Nova Zembla and 

 Newland to ino-ender it; besides the coasts of 

 Pechora, Ilussia and Groenland, with Lappia, as 

 by proofes I finde by my travell in these parts ; by 

 meanes of which ice I suppose there will be no 

 navigable passage this way." He therefore stood 



* Hudson is the only navigator that mentions deer on Nova 

 ^embla; and he was probably mistaken. 



