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returned back to his house, and Lief set sail with his thirty- five companions, among whom was one of his father’s ser vants, a native of the South-countries, named Tyrker (Die- terich-Dirk), probably a German. “ They first discovered what they supposed to be one of the countries seen by Bjarne, the coast of which was a flat, stony land, and the back ground crowned with lofty moun tains, covered with ice and snow. This they named Hel- luland, or the flat country. Pursuing their voyage farther south, they soon came to another coast, also flat, covered with thick wood, and the shores of white sand, gradually sloping towards the sea. Here they cast anchor and went on shore. They named the country Mark-land, or the coun try of the wood, and pursued their voyage with a north east wind for two days and nights, when they discovered a third land, the northern coast of which was sheltered by an island. Here they again landed, and found a country, not mountainous, but undulating and woody, and abounding with fruits and berries, delicious to the taste. Prom thence they re-embarked, and made sail to the west to seek a har bour, which they at last found at the mouth of a river, where they were swept by the tide into the lake from which the river issued. They cast anchor, and pitched their tents at this spot, and found the river and lake full of the largest salmon they had ever seen. Finding the climate very tem perate, and the soil fruitful in pasturage, they determined to build huts and pass the winter here. The days were nearer of an equal length than in Greenland or Iceland, and when they were at the shortest, the sun rose at half past seven, and set at half past four o’clock.* “ It happened one day soon after their arrival, that Tyr ker, the German, was missing, and as Leif set a great value upon the youth, on account of his skill in various arts, he ♦Supposing this computation to be cor- Boston, the present capital of New Eng- rect, it must have been in the latitude of land.