There Had Been An Error Of Something Like Forty
Miles In Our Dead Reckoning, In Consequence - As I Afterwards
Found - Of A Current That Sets To The Northward, Along
The West Coast Of Norway, With A Velocity Varying From
One To Three Miles An Hour.
The island upon which we had
so nearly run WAS Roost.
We were still nearly 200 miles
from our port. "Turn the hands up! Make sail!" and away
we went again in the same course as before, at the rate
of ten knots an hour.
"The girls at home have got hold of the tow-rope, I think,
my Lord," said Mr. Wyse, as we bounded along over the
thundering seas.
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By three o'clock next day we were up with Vigten, and
now a very nasty piece of navigation began. In order to
make the northern entrance of the Throndhjem Fiord, you
have first to find your way into what is called the Froh
Havet, - a kind of oblong basin about sixteen miles long,
formed by a ledge of low rocks running parallel with the
mainland, at a distance of ten miles to seaward. Though
the space between this outer boundary and the coast is
so wide, in consequence of the network of sunken rocks
which stuffs it up, the passage by which a vessel can
enter is very narrow, and the only landmark to enable
you to find the channel is the head one of the string of
outer islets.
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