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Night was closing in when Erik summoned his three friends and counselors / to hold a serious consultation.
"I have reflected a great deal," he said to them, "upon the / circumstances which have made our voyage memorable since we left / Stockholm. I have been forced to arrive at one conclusion, which is that / we must expect to meet with obstacles or accidents during our voyage. / Perhaps they may befall us at Gibraltar or at Malta. If we are not / destroyed, it appears to me certain that we shall be delayed. In that / case we can not reach Behring's Straits during the summer, which is the / only season when it is practicable to navigate the polar sea!"