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KERGUELEN’S VOYAGE TO THE NORTH, 791
one to the other, Hiftorians informs us, that this mode of navigating is common
among all the northern peoplethat have been difcovered. Scheffer cites feveral examples
in his work, De Militia Navali Veterum. The Mu/feum Regium Danicum, and the
authors which M. Hafzeus refers to in his diflertation de Leviathan Jobi may be con-
fulted. I have obferved that the Greenlanders had no knowledge of arts and {ciences.
They are unable to count farther than twenty-one. They count by moons. It is by
the courfe of that planet they compute the return of the whales, and other fifh to their
coatt.
The fifteenth of June, I failed from Patrixfiord to go to Norway ; it was during this run
that I founded, and made the obfervations on the Shetland iflands, and the Orcades,
which I have before detailed to the reader; I paffed fouth of Fair ifle in the little Tuns,
and afterwards directed my courfe towards the fhores of Norway.
The firft of July, in the morning I made land. I took the latitude at noon, five
leagues north of the rocks or iflands which are called Utfires ; and found thefe iflands
to be placed too far fouth by 15’ in the Neptune. On the Utfires, pilots are
to be met with for the Berghen roads. I fhall not enter into any further account of
the bearings of this coalt, all that was neceffary to fay having been mentioned before.
At two o’clock in the afternoon, being about three leagues from fhore, Norwegian
pilots came on board, who made me luff up to make the paflage of Rooth-holm; but
the wind, which blew but gently from the north, at length entirely died away, and we
had calm all the night long.
The fecond, at three o’clock in the morning, a feeble wind arofe in the N. E., with
a thick fog: we luffed under the land, keeping always a league from fhore ; and by ten
o’clock it clearing up, we entered the above-mentioned paflage of Rooth-holm, through
which I paffed the year before ; but inftead of proceeding up it as far as Ingefon, as on
our firft voyage, we anchored in the port of Brandfoom, which is weft of Ingefon : it is
larger, and the entrance more commodious. The entrance of Brandfoom is known by
an ifland, in the fhape of a pye, at the opening of the port, and whichis very healthy :
three veflels of war may moor there in fafety. ‘There is always a fine fea, and no wind
is felt there. his port, is to ftarboard on paffing to the north of Bomel; it is pof-
fible to enter it by any wind from the N. W. to the E. A veffel mooring there fhould
eaft anchor in fifteen to twenty fathoms, with gravelly bottom, and fend a {mall anchar
with a tow-line on fhore from the ftern, fouth of the ftream-anchor.
The third, it rained, the fky was overcaft, and the wind blew frefh from the fouth,
I failed at two in the afternoon to get up to Berghen. After proceeding three or four
leagues a calm came on, and we were obliged to be towed by all our boats to. get to an
anchorage.
The fourth, in the morning, a light wind arofe from the S.S. W.: I got under fail,
and anchored at Berghen at half pa{t two, in the fame place J had done in the frigate
La Folle. After having taken in what provifions and refrefhments I required, I left
Berghen on the twenty-fourth of July, and went out through the northern paflage, as I
had done the year before to return to Iceland.
The thirtieth, at night, confidering myfelf twelve leagues S. E. of Langernefs, the
wind northerly, with fog, I founded, but found no bottom, and brought-to. I ordered
the officer of the watch to found every two hours during the fog, and to fteer W.N.W.
if it difperfed fufficiently for difcerning the diftance of three leagues.
The thirty-firft, at five in the morning, we faw land; I continued my courfe to get
near it, but the wind blew very faintly from the north. At noon I found the latitude
66° 26’. We faw in the afternoon a number of doggers, or fifhing veffels, all of whom
that
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