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of the ice towards the shore, to leave eight of his crew 

 who were engaged in hunting rein-deer for provision 

 for the passage home, in the year 1630. These men, 

 like the former, were abandoned to their fate ; for, 

 on their proceeding to the usual places of resort and 

 rendezvous, they perceived with horror, that their 

 own, together with all the other fishing ships, had 

 departed. By means of the provisions procured by 

 hunting, the fritters of the whale left in boiling the 

 blubber, and the accidental supplies of bears, foxes, 

 seals and sea-horses, together with a judicious ap- 

 plication of the buildings which were erected in 

 Bell Sound, where they took up their abode, they 

 were enabled not only to support life, but even to 

 maintain their health little impaired, imtil the ar- 

 rival of the fleet the following year *. 



The preservation of these men, revived in the 

 Dutch the desire of establishing permanent colo- 

 nies, and confirmed them in the idea of the possi- 

 bility of effecting this desideratum. It was, how- 

 ever, necessary that other trials should be made, be- 

 fore the project could be carried into execution. 



In consequence, therefore, of certain encoiu*age- 

 mcnts proclaimed in general throughout tlie fleet, 

 seven men ^ oluntcered their services, were landed 



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* Pelham's Narrative in Churchill's Collection, vol. iv. 

 aiid Clarke's Naufragia, vol. ii. p. 1 79. 



