"We should never get on our polar voyage at that rate.

If we are going into all this expense, let's go up as far as the 'Banks' of Newfoundland, anyway." "And why not a little farther," said Raed, "if the weather was good, and we met with no accident?
If everything went well, why not sail on up to the entrance of Hudson Straits, and get a peep at the Esquimaux ?" "Raed never'll be satisfied till he gets into Hudson Bay," laughed Wade.

"What is there so attractive about Hudson Bay?
I can't imagine." "Because," said Raed, "it's an almost unknown sea.

Ever since it was first discovered by the noble navigator, who perished somewhere along its shores, it has been shut up from the world in the hands of a few selfish individuals, who got the charter of the Hudson-bay Company from the King of England.

They own it and all the country about it and run it for their own profit only.