In particular, for the polar seas, both Arctic and Antarctic ships requiérense purposely. The needed value, which, like Cabot, Brentz and Willoughby, mounted on small boats reportedly going up the stream of ice, faced the Spitzberg, Greenland opened its funereal entry, Cape Farewell, introduced up to that corner where even in our days have been hundred whaling ships to crash.

The sublime side in these heroes of old, is his own ignorance, their blind courage, desperate resolution. They knew the sea, having to challenge frightening phenomena whose cause or even suspected, the same ignorance in regard to the things of heaven. North was his only compass. There was no talk of any of those physical instruments that guide us and give us the most accurate formulas, for they were with their eyes closed and shrouded in darkness. They were as terrified confiésanlo frankly, though there was no one capable of desaferrarlos of their ideas. Sea storms, whirls in the atmosphere, the tragic dialogue of the two Oceans, magnetic storms called aurora borealis, all this phantasmagoria of Nature seemed to them furiously upset and irritated, the struggle of Satan.