The weekly Placer herald., 1852-10-02

our our snMs modern ier Isles of Rhode Island. The
oidgsuthors thought shel baptism ljafifprsu-
uates tspiteSofggroyes and che halcyonyer-
dure of the fields: the old atithors were
right MAsffor the wild grape broke @ the prom 'n1
ises Of Iyrker.le .ai Us go .iimh ide'c
Lief returned in the spring to Green-
land; the winter hatlbeen far tnilder than
his men Mad ever known before, and SO
rapturous was the general report, that
Thorwald, Lef's brother embarked the
sameiyear. He passed his winter in the
cabins Of Lief, and in the ' summer
months made excursions into the country,
discovering :, an ' Archipelago Of y little
islands with 1eafy groves along the white
shelving beaches; but nowhere ,tracesIof
uran or beasts excepting a singular strange
wood pile, ,zni form like Pyramid 8 II
second winter was comfortable in theiiold
quarters, and When spring came again
the ship was found to be 50 much disabled
that half the summer was required for
repairing; a new keel was needed, tand
the place of the Sturdy shipwright's was
named Kienarnaes-the cape Of the keel.
AT length all was ready, and the helm
was put up for a cruise to the eastward.
They sailed along shores in calm summer
seas, and attracted, one day, by the beau
Of a deep ford the ship, was brought to
and anchored. lThorwald pulled ashore
with boats crew, and was amazed to
discover, moored inIa shady spot threc
birchen canoes, with a red man sleeping
ID each. : Imprudentiy and barbarodsly
he gave instant orders for their tdeath,7-
One however, dashed with swift paddle
strokes acIoss the ford, swifter than the
flghtof lThorwald's javelin; and when
the Mortimer reposed in their turn, fleets.
of cred men covered the little bays the
cliff.echoes rang startled with war songs,
barbed arrows and darts hurled through
the air, bnt fell harmless and lb!unted. ~
The Northmen braved the storm with
their stout buckers oflhide.1eG gjI ,TsG
ol The saxages,o whom Thorwald con
lemptuously names, Skrelingues, (puny
men, and who are thus knnwn in all the
Norwegian ballads and chronicles, believ-
ed itvain to contend against invulnerable
strangers, and, after an hours conflict,
were seized with panic and fled. They
had done more mischief however, than
was ever known to themseles. One fatal
ist....Y44-o- -.-<- r'rurucTeu comrades
and struck down Thorwald himself with
mortal wound. "Let the cross" said
the dying rover, (he chroniclers thus
make him christan,) ''let the cross of
MY Saviour be laid on my graye;" and his
tomb was built on the .headland, Kors-.
naes, the cape of the cross. setou .s!,G
The survivors bore home the sad'news'
to Greenland, whereupon T Thorwald's, son
Thorsten ,(both names are from the, Scan
dinavian god of war, resolved to recover
the body ofohisi father; He embarked
early in the year 1905, and took With him
! his wife. the, beauteous, Gpdrida, who
was destined, but not with young ThonsAi
ten,. 10 be the first of European females to
cross the ocean, and to bear upon its fur,
ther shore, q christian child. %, With
Thorsten, however, all was unfortunate.
Tempest tossed and ,driveha irrepocably
aorthward, his ship was, thrown far back
in Baffin's Bay, upon, aTcoast SO far re-.
mote that he was forced to winter in.
fatal climate. Thorsten himself and
more than half of his, crew JfeliSyictims, to
exposure; bit happily aGudridai returned
andlad her husbands body in the Chris
tian's tomb in Greenland. - tnb'l','0.
q, Next year the most considerable expe-
dition of all was,under'taken, by aIwealthy
Icelander, fI'horfn, whose genealogy is
carefully preserved hy the chroniclers -
He arrived il Greenland with a numerous
retinue, in, 1907, and having espodsed'the
desconsolate Gudrida, became possessed Of
Thorsten's right to all the establishments
in Narraganset Bay. He set sail propiti-
ousiy with BRIDE and five attendant brides
maids. His Cargo was pr 1prectiions tion col
lection of domestic. animals cattle and
sheen anil he had fools and xvoa ,,nns :" ond