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32) one may perhaps infer that Keelness was not west 

 of Wonderstrands. The story relates: "They sailed 

 north past Wonderstrands and Keelness and sought a 

 westerly course."^* From that description alone one 

 might consider that Keelness was either Cape Whittle 

 or Point Natashkwan. A further light is thrown on 

 Keelness later in the story: "Thorfinn went in one ship 

 to seek Thorhall the Hunter j the rest of his party 

 remained behind. They sailed to the northward 

 around Keelness and then bore to the westward with 

 land to the larboard. The country was a wooded 

 wilderness as far as eye could reach, not an open space 

 anywhere. When they had sailed a long time, they 

 came to a river that flowed out of the land from east 

 to west. They entered the mouth of the river and 

 made for the southern bank."^^ Then the Saga relates 

 the shooting of Thorwald Ericsson and continues: 

 "They then departed towards the north and were un- 

 der the impression that they sighted the Land of the 

 Unipeds. They did not risk going any farther. They 

 believed that the mountains that they saw there were 

 the same as those they saw in Hop, being at an 

 equal distance both ways from Streamfjord." On 

 two occasions, when they went to Hop and when they 

 went to seek Thorhall the Hunter, they sailed from 



^* Hauksbok, Copenhagen, 1892-96, p. 439. 

 ^* Ibid.y p. 442. 



