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Identifier: conquestofgreatn01lautuoft (find matches)
Title: The conquest of the great Northwest; being the story of the Adventurers of England known as The Hudson's Bay Company. New pages in the history of the Canadian Northwest and Western States
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina), 1871-1936
Subjects: Hudson's Bay Company Northwest, Canadian Hudson Bay -- History
Publisher: New York Outing Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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of the North seemed to touch the men as withthe hands of the dead whom she had slain. The report that the two men carried back to Hud-sons boat did not raise the spirits of the crew. Onenight the entire ships company but Hudson andhis son had gone ashore to hunt walrus. Suchillimitable fields of ice lay north that Hudson knewhis only chance must be between the south end ofNova Zembla (he did not know there were severalislands in the group) and the main coast of Asia. Itwas three oclock in the morning. The ice began todrive landward with the fury of a whirlpool. Twoanchors were thrown out against the tide. Fenderswere lowered to protect the ships sides. Captainand boy stood with iron-shod poles in hand to pushthe ice from the ship, or the ship from the ice. Themen from the hunt saw the coming danger andrushed over the churning icepans to the rescue.Some on the ice, some on the ship, with poles andoars and crowbars, they pushed and heaved awaythe icepans, and ramming their crowbars down
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HlUSOXS VOIACES 01 IGOi-lGUH, To Pass across The Pole EVROPE 10 ASl.V. pi-w h£alhilah(th scnihiill h: ISis•wda:watln r c; 0 t Hudsons Second Voyage crevices wrenched the ice to splinters or swerved itoff the sides of the ship. Sometimes an icepanwould tilt, teeter, rise on end and turn a somerset,plunging the sailors in ice water to their arm pits.The jam seemed to be coming on the ship from bothdirections at once, for the simple reason the shipoffered the line of least resistance. Twelve hoursthe battle lasted, the heaving ice-crush threateningto crush the ships ribs like slats till at last a channelof open water appeared just outside the ships prison.But the air was a dead calm. Springing from ice-pan to icepan, the men towed their ship out of danger.Rain began to drizzle. The next day a cold windcame whistling through the rigging. The ship layin a land-locked cove of Nova Zembla. Hudsonagain sent his men ashore to hunt, probably also topluck up courage. Then he climbed the looko

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  • bookauthor:Laut__Agnes_C___Agnes_Christina___1871_1936
  • booksubject:Hudson_s_Bay_Company
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  • booksubject:Hudson_Bay____History
  • bookpublisher:New_York_Outing_Pub__Co
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