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A whale caught in sea of Tuntury near Pacific Ocean with a Dutch harpoon with "W.B." upon it. This harpoon belonged to William Bastiaans, Admiral of the Dutch Greenland fleet & had been struck into the whale in the Spitzbergen Sea [[encircled]] 9 [[/encircled]] Scorsby Arctic Regions Vol I Many instances cited by Scorsby [[encircled]] 10 [[/encircled]] [[encircled]] 11 [[/encircled]] do. Martin Frobisher, a seaman of Queen Elizabeth's time was the 1st to call attention to the possibility of reaching the [[underlined]] East, Cipango, [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] Cathay [[/underlined]] in passing the North of America. [[encircled]] 6 [[encircled]] North West Passage McClure [[end page]] [[start page]] "Good old seaman [[strikethrough]] AB [[/strikethrough]] Baffin said As God is Greater than ice an tide always delivered us" [[encircled]] 83 [[/encircled]] "Franklin & the Arctic Regions" Schoolcraft [[insertion]] L.L.D. [[/insertion]] (Henry R) The great Indian Historian married a highly educated lady whose grandfather was a distinguished aboriginal chief-regnant, or King VIII Preface of Inst 1st Schoolcraft U.S. work Y.M.M.L. Faith has furnished the Christian martyr with motives to sustain him at the stake; but the NA Indian has endured the keenest torments of fire without the consolations of the Gospel. Civilized natives are cheered on their way to face