This shelter, however, was sufficient in the long summer day of the Arctic regions.

Regularly at that season several English ships cast anchor in the bay.

A fair was held on the beach.

Traders came from a distance of many hundreds of miles to the only mart where they could exchange hemp and tar, hides and tallow, wax and honey, the fur of the sable and the wolverine, and the roe of the sturgeon of the Volga, for Manchester stuffs, Sheffield knives, Birmingham buttons, sugar from Jamaica and pepper from Malabar.

The commerce in these articles was open.