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laid down in an old Dutch chart, and there called 

 Treurenburg Bay ;" and a fine sheltered bay they 

 found it, warped in the Hecla with the greatest 

 alacrity, and dropped anchor in Hecla Cove, in 

 thirteen fathoms. 



The neighbourhood of this bay, like most of the 

 northern shores of Spitsbergen, appeared to have 

 been much visited by the Dutch at a very early 

 period; of which circumstance, records were fur- 

 nished at almost every spot where the party landed, 

 by the numerous graves they met with. Thirty of 

 these were found on a point of land on the north 

 side of the bay. The bodies had been generally 

 deposited in oblong wooden coffins, not buried, but 

 merely covered with large stones; a board near 

 the head records the name of the deceased, the 

 ship, her commander, and her date ; one was so far 

 back as 1690. Parry is right in supposing the 

 name of the bay to be from treuren, to lament, on 

 account of the mortality that has occurred there. 



Having now made his final arrangements, and 

 given proper directions to Lieutenants Foster and 

 Crozier, Captain Parry left the ship, with his two 

 boats, which he named the Enterprise and the 

 Endeavour, Mr. Beverly being attached to his own, 

 and Lieutenant Ross, accompanied by Mr. Bird, in 

 the other. As the season had so far advanced, he 

 took only seventy-one days' provisions ; and as it 

 appeared highly improbable, from what had been 



