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these is the hai^, or ’Bade-sailur, which quit the 
seas of Iceland in March, and swim through the 
Straits of Davies, by some unknown opening, to the 
farthest north, bring forth their young, and return 
by the north of Greenland in May, extremely lean, 
to the north of Iceland, continue their route, and 
return to that island about Christmas, chiefly upon 
the drift-ice, on which they are either shot or har- 
pooned.” 
In describing the extreme northern coasts of 
Norway and Finmark, Pennant makes some inci- 
dental allusions to two of our early discoverers in 
those regions, and mentions a circumstance which 
appears to have given rise to the British Whale 
Fishery in the Arctic Seas. “ The most northern 
fortress in the world, and of unknown antiquity, is 
Wordhuys, situated in a good harbour, in the isle 
of Wardoe at the extremity of Finmark, probably 
built for the protection of the fishing trade, the 
only object it could have in this remote place. A 
little farther eastw'ard in Muscovitish Fimnark, is 
Arzina, noted for the sad fate of that gallant gentle- 
man, Sir Hugh Willoughby, who, in 1553, com- 
manded the first voyage on the discovery by sea of 
Muscovia, by the north-east ; a country at that time 
scarcely known to the rest of Europe. He unfor- 
tunately lost his passage, was driven by tempests 
into this port, where he and all his men were found 
the following year frozen to death. His more for- 
tunate consort, Richard Chancellor, captain and 
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