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ceeded in their boats along shore. The want of 

 shelter and proper clothing, exposed them to dread- 

 ful fatigue and suffering, being often under tlie ne- 

 cessity of walking to and fro on a sheet of ice during 

 the obscurity of night, to save themselves from be- 

 ing frozen to death. At length, after experiencing 

 several acts of kindness from the native Greenland- 

 ers, about 140 of the men reached the Danish settle- 

 ments on the west coast of Greenland ; the remain- 

 der, consisting of about 200 persons, perished*. 



Thus, it appears, that the ship which survived to 

 the latest period, set with the ice in a south-wester- 

 ly direction from the usual fishing-station, (proba- 

 bly in latitude 78"" to 80°) to the latitude of about 

 62° ; and, at the same time, from the longitude, per- 

 haps, of 5° to 6° east, to about 40° west ; and that 

 the ice still continued to advance along the land to 

 the southward. This extensive (bift, at the lowest 

 calculation, must have embraced a distance of about 

 1300 miles, on a course S. 43° W. (true), and ha- 

 ving been performed in about 108 days, averages 

 twelve miles a-day exclusive of the advance that was 

 made towards the east, from the 25th to the 28th 

 of July. 



That remarkable agitation produced in the surface 

 of the sea by the action of the wind, called Waves, 



* Bescliryving der Walvisvaiigst, vol. iv. p. 1S.-32. &c. 



