"gone north about" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1827, William Bennett, Owain Goch",
          "text": "..And he's gone on a cruise he liked better than the one you'd have had him; but that's no matter; I had better have gone north about twenty times over than come athwart you.",
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        "Dead, of sailor or seaman whose cause of death was anything except by drowning."
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        "(idiomatic, obsolete, nautical) Dead, of sailor or seaman whose cause of death was anything except by drowning."
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        "(idiomatic) Dead."
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