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Under the Great Bear

CHAPTER III
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Bai d'espair, for instance, has become Bay Despair.

Blanc Sablon and Isle du Bois up on the Labrador coast have been Anglicised as Nancy Belong and Boys' Island.

Cape Race, which is almost within sight, was the Capo Razzo of its Portuguese discoverer.

Cape Spear was Cappo Sperenza, and Pointe l'Amour is now Lammer's Point." While taking part in conversations of this kind both Cabot and Mrs.
Phinney, who were the only passengers now left on the ship, kept a sharp lookout for icebergs, which, as they had learned, were apt to be met in those waters at that season.

Finally, during the afternoon of the last day they expected to spend on shipboard, a distant white speck dead ahead, which was at first taken for a sail, proved to be an iceberg, and from that moment it was watched with the liveliest curiosity.


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