CHAPTER VII. 
* * * O Piloto, desta nao era Inglez, bom CJosmografo, e com algum 
'conhecimento da Astrologia; se servira o principe de Orange * * * * 
e que da derradeira vez, qne foi o anno de noventa e sinco (1595) 
-chegara a oitenta e dons graos do norte ; e qne com ser a forya do verao, e 
os dias quasi continuos, por nao haver noite, senao se era de duas horas, 
nchou os frios tao excessivos e tantos caramolles e neves, qne se des 
faziam por aquelle estreito abaixo, que dando de rosto na sna nao, a 
fizeram voltar.”— Diogo de Couto, Decad. xii. cap. ii. 
That the Greenland whaling men also experience 
the kind of disasters recorded in the Smith Sound 
expeditions we had ample opportunity of collecting. 
One out of many such we give. 
Here is the account of a vessel in search of Sir 
John Franklin in the year 1851, furnished by Captain 
Cator, who kindly gave us the information. He was 
at this time in company with Captain Sherard Osborn. 
The Intrepid was moored to some land ice ; a sudden 
gale came on; for a long time the hawsers held, and 
the ship was likely to ride out the storm, when sud¬ 
denly the land floe they were fastened to broke with 
a loud crash and bore down, taking the ship with it. 
There was no time to extricate themselves, and as it 
came, crushing all before it (a tongue of ice jutting out 
