PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY IN THE NORTH. 8l 



of the proceedings of these poor people, as Mr Bar- 

 row beautifully observes, " during their cold, com- 

 fortless, dark and dreadful winter, is intensely and 

 painfully interesting. No murmuring escapes them 

 in their most hopeless and afflicted situation ; but 

 such a spirit of true piety, and a tone of such mild 

 and subdued resignation to Divine Providence, 

 breathe through the whole narrative, that it is im- 

 possible to peruse the simple tale of their suffer- 

 ings, and contemplate their forlorn situation, with- 

 out the deepest emotion *." 



Part of the sufferers m.ade their escape in two 

 open boats from this dismal country in the follow- 

 ing summer ; and, after a perilous and painful voy- 

 age of above 1100 miles, arrived in safety at Cola; 

 but Barentz, with some others, was overcome by the 

 severity of the climate, and the extraordinary exer- 

 tions which he was obliged to make, and died. 



George Weymouth, who was sent out by 

 the IMusGovy and Turkey Companies, with two 

 vessels, in the year 1 602, found an inlet in the 

 land to the northward of the Labrador coast, in lati- 

 tude 61° 40', into which he said he sailed W. by S. 

 a hundred leagues. If so, he must have been in the 

 channel now called Hudson's Sti^ait, and of course 

 was the discoverer of it. 



VOL. I. F 



* " Chronological History of Voyages into the Arctic Re- 

 gions," p. 151. 



