[177] Freuchen, who came from Nykjøbing on the island of Falster, went on a voyage to West Greenland as a stoker in order to obtain preliminary training.
[178] The easternmost point is in 81° 24′ N. and 12° W.
[179] Peary’s point at the place he calls “Navy Cliff,” where he says he saw the sea and called it “Independence Bay,” is over a hundred miles from the sea or any bay. He may have seen the end of the long narrow fjord which Erichsen discovered. But his channel across Greenland does not exist, and there is continuous land between the position Peary gives to his Navy Cliff and his Heilprin Land to the north.
[180] Book of the Knowledge of all the Kingdoms, p. 35 (Hakluyt Society, Series II, vol. XXIX, 1912.)
[181] Burney II, 198.
[182] Dalrymple and Burney take it seriously. I included it among the documents in my Voyages of Quiros, but I now quite agree with my old friend Benjamin Vicuña Mackenna that it is a fabrication. (See Vicuña Mackenna’s Historia de Juan Fernandez.)
[183] Cook and Ross searched for this small island in vain, but several of Mr Enderby’s sealing vessels found and visited Bouvet Island.
[184] Elder brother of Madame D’Arblay.
[185] This chronometer is now in the museum of the United Service Institution.
[186] Mr Poynter, Master’s Mate, Mr Blake and Mr Bone, Midshipmen. Blake was eventually Admiral Patrick Blake, who did excellent service in the first China war, and was afterwards Captain of the Juno in the Pacific 1845–49.