To avoid it, we now bore away to the north-east, keeping for several days on a direct course for Iceland; then gradually--describing the arc of a circle--came round west into the latitude of Cape Farewell, the southern point of Greenland.
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Each day, as we got farther north, the sun set later, and rose earlier; till, on the 28th of June, its bright red disk was scarcely twenty minutes below the northern horizon.
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On the 3d of July we discerned Cape Farewell,--a mountainous headland, crowned with snow, at a distance of fifteen or twenty leagues.
From this point, Cape Resolution, on the north side of the entrance into Hudson Straits, bears west ten degrees north, and is distant not far from seven hundred miles.

The wind serving, we bore away for it.
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During June and July, Hudson Straits are full of ice driving out into the Atlantic.