96 Fremmwlle's Voyage to the North Pole. 



The Bay of Patrix Fiord is one of the most convenient 

 points for the navigator ; water, fish, and mutton, are in the 

 greatest plenty; excellent game may be had, in several different 

 sorts of sea-fowl ; but wood is not to be procured at any price. 



During our stay we set up some tents for our sick men, 

 who very soon recovered, more especially from the use of the 

 antiscorbutic vegetables that grow spontaneously in the island, 

 and are frequently to be met with. The sea in this bay does 

 not rise above eight feet in the highest tides. The variation 

 of the needle was 33 deg. 45 min. to the N. W. 



July 30, we hoisted sail, and leaving the Bay of Patrix Fiord, 

 we bpre away for the south, till we began again to distinguish 

 Mount Jeugel ; soon after, bidding a final adieu to Iceland, 

 we thought only of hastening our return to France. 



Once more we passed over the point wherein the ancient 

 charts placed the Isle of Bus, which we had before explored 

 in vain ; we were not more fortunate this time ; but, as on the 

 former occasion, we had to encounter a broken, rippling water, 

 the usual indication of shoals and shallows. 



On August the 18th, we were on the coast of Ireland ; we 

 cruised there several days, at the entrance of the Bay of Don- 

 negal ; we then steered for Cape Clear, which we doubled, 

 to cruise on the Soles; at last we entered the Channel; 

 and, on the 27th of September, cast anchor in the Road of 

 the Isle of Brehut. 







