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The Shallop on Hudson Bay / June 22, 1611
One sail in sight upon the lonely sea, / And only one! For never ship but mine / Has dared these waters. We were first, / My men, to battle in between the bergs / And floes to these wide waves. This gulf is mine; / I name it! and that flying sail is mine!