[191] This was probably Martha's Vineyard.
[192] The first narrative says substantially the same thing, that Thorhall died in Ireland.
[193] The first narrative speaks of the shoals. The islands and shoals both doubtless existed then. Since that time great changes have taken place in the physical aspects of that region.
[194] This might have been the case on some remarkable season.
[195] This range extends to the Blue Hills of Massachusetts, which indicates considerable activity in exploration.
[196] Also called the Irish sea, and the sea before Vinland.
[197] There were three ships in the expedition, and this was doubtless the company that went in one of them.
[198] These could be easily carried, especially as their cattle were small. All the early Portuguese expeditions carried their live stock with them. See Prince Henry the Navigator.
[199] The different events are here stated with some rapidity, and we seem to reach Leif's booths or huts sooner than necessary. According to the two previous accounts, they did not reach the locality of Leif's booths until the summer after they found the whale. These booths were at Mt. Hope Bay. This is either the result of confusion in the mind of the writer, or else it is founded on the fact that Leif erected habitations at both places. In the two first accounts of Thorfinn Karlsefne's expedition, they are not alluded to. There may be no real contradiction after all.
[200] The other accounts say that the whale made them sick; but that was not because the flesh of the whale was spoiled. Beamish, in his translation of the song of Thorhall, indeed makes that disagreeable pagan tell his comrades, that, if they wish, they