VOYAGES IN THE POLAR SEA 



sought the already discovered countries on the west and south- 

 west, and the Greenland settlements might then have formed 

 an important base for new undertakings, whereby a new 

 period of prosperity for Norwegian navigation and Norwegian 

 enterprise might have been introduced. This was not to be; 

 it was only reserved for the Norwegians to be the people who 

 showed the way to the other nations out from the coasts and 

 over the great oceans. 



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