[98] Egede was the author of two books, one on the history of the Greenland Mission, the other a description of Greenland.
[99] Paul Egede was afterwards a Professor at Copenhagen, and Provost of the Royal Danish Mission.
[100] “A cruel attack on the reputation of a skilful and intrepid navigator.” John Barrow.
[101] Ledyard was one of those remarkable men that Arctic service so often produces. He had been befriended by Sir Joseph Banks, who encouraged him in his enthusiasm for travel. Having been to Kamschatka by sea, Ledyard resolved to find his way there by land. He crossed to Ostend with no more than ten guineas in his pocket, made his way to Stockholm, and walked thence, round the Gulf of Bothnia, to St Petersburg. There he obtained permission to accompany a party with stores to Yakutsk and thence to Okhotsk. But, for some unknown reason, he was arrested, hurried back across Siberia, and put across the frontier near Königsberg. Quite destitute, he ventured to draw a small cheque on Sir Joseph Banks which enabled him to reach England. The African Association had just been formed, and Sir Joseph selected this resolute and fearless traveller as the best man to execute the instructions of the Association. Ledyard was to make his way from Senaar to the Niger. He set out in June 1788, but his career was brought to a premature close by fever at Cairo.
[102] Philosophical Transactions, LXVIII, p. 1057.
[103] Second edition 1818. Daines Barrington was also the author of Observations on the Statutes, 1766; Naturalist’s Calendar, 1767; Miscellanies, 1781; and of contributions to the Archaeologia and Philosophical Transactions. He died at the Temple on March 11th, 1800, aged 73.
[104] A Voyage towards the North Pole, 1773 (4to, pp. 76 and 177), Bowyer and Nichols, 1774. Sir Albert Markham also published the narrative of a midshipman named Floyd, who was serving on board the Racehorse, in a book entitled Northward Ho (Macmillan, 1879). Sir Albert obtained a correct list of the officers from the Admiralty.
[105] A Corresponding Member of the Royal Geographical Society, 1843. He died in 1876.
[106] F. Martens. Voyage to Spitzbergen. Translation edited for the Hakluyt Society by Adam White (1855).
[107] C. G. Zorgdrager. Bloeyende Opkomst der Aloude en Hedendaagsche Groenlandsche Visscherij (Amsterdam, 1720).