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Excerpt from A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay and the Gulf of Boothia: And an Account
Moreover, several of our predecessors in Arctic exploration gave their lives for the service of the East India Company.
John Davis fell fighting for it in the Sea of Japan, and that glorious old navigator Baffin was killed whilst taking sights on an island in the Persian Gulf. Indian and Arctic navigators united very heartily in the olden times, and the connec tion between India and the far north at the present day is, if possible, even more intimate.
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