106 THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA. [CHAP. LI. 
crustaceans, and sponges were very numerous in the 
cold area, the tangles often came up absolutely loaded, 
while there was but little within the dredge-bag. 
In the course of the last series of dredgings we 
crossed the position of the bank on which we got 
large specimens of Terebratula cranium in so great 
abundance the year before, but we could not find it. 
The bank appears to be of very limited area, and 
both on this occasion and on the previous one the 
sky was so overcast for several days together, just 
when we were in this neighbourhood, that it was im- 
possible to fix the position either of the ‘ Lightning’ 
or of the ‘ Porcupine’ by observation. A dead-reckon- 
ing is of course kept under great disadvantages when 
the vessel is drifting for the greater part of the time 
half anchored by a dredge. 
From Station 59 we proceeded northward to Thors- 
havn, where we were warmly received by our kind 
friend Governor Holten, who had been forewarned of 
our visit, and at once came off in his barge to welcome 
us. Governor Holten was uncommonly proud of this 
barge, and he had some reason. She wasa very hand- 
some trim boat; and, manned by a dozen stout Froese 
boatmen in their neat uniform, and with the Danish 
ensign flying at the stern, and our handsome friend 
muffled in his military cloak, and with a thick hood 
to keep out the somewhat palpable and intrusive ‘ cli- 
mate’ of Féroe, she looked all that could be desired. 
When the Governor came on board, he proposed to 
Captain Calver to try a race with him for the honour 
of old England and the white ensign. Some of us 
were going ashore, and when the Governor came up 
from the cabin our whale-boat was lying alongside 
