The Three Voyages of William Barents to the Arctic Regions (1594, 1595, and 1596)Veer, Gerrit de
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The Three Voyages of William Barents to the Arctic Regions (1594, 1595, and 1596)
Veer, Gerrit de
Barentsz, Willem, approximately 1550-1597; Northeast Passage
From the black rocke or cliffe with the crosse, 2 [8] miles south
south-east, there lay a low island a little into the sea, from whence
they sailed 9 [36] or 10 [40] miles south south-east; there the height
of the sunne [361] was 70 degrees and 50 minutes, when it was south
south-west.
From that island they sailed along by the land 4 [16] miles south-east
and by south; there they came to 2 islands, whereof the uttermost lay a
mile [4 miles] from the land; those islands they called S. Clara.
Then they entered into the ice again, and wound inward to sea, in the
wind, [362] and sailed from the island [363] vntill evening, west
south-west 4 [16] miles, the wind being north-west; that evening it was
very mistie, and then they had 80 fadom deepe.
Then againe they sailed south-west and by west, and west south-west 3
[12] miles; there they had 70 fadome deepe, and so sayled till the
thirteenth of August in the morning, south-west and by west foure [16]
miles; two houres before they had ground at fiftie sixe fadome, and in
the morning at fortie five fadome, soft muddy ground.
Then they sayled till noone sixe [24] miles south-west, and had twentie
foure fadome deepe, black sandie ground; and within one houre after
they had two and twentie fadome deepe, browne reddish sand; then they
sailed sixe [24] miles south-west, with fifteene fadome deepe, red
sand; after that two [8] miles south-west, and there it was fifteene
fadome deepe, red sand, and there they sawe land, and sayled forward
south-west untill evening, till we were within halfe a mile [2 miles]
of the land, and there it was seven fadome deepe, sandy ground, the
land being low flat downes reaching east and west.
Then they wound from the land and sailed north, and north and by east 4
[16] miles; from thence they wound to land againe, and sayled til the
14 of August 5 [20] or 6 [24] miles south-west, sailing close by the
land, which (as they gesse [364]) was the island of Colgoyen; [365]
there they sailed by the lād east-ward 4 [16] miles; after that 3 [12]
miles east, and east and by south; then the weather became mistie,
whereby they could not see the land, and had shallow flat water [366]
at 7 or 8 fadome; then they took in the marsaile [367] and lay in the
wind [368] till it was cleare weather againe, and then the sunne was
south south-west [¾ p. 11 a.m.], yet they could not see the land: there
they had 100 fadome deepe, sandy ground; then they sailed east 7 [28]
miles; after that againe 2 [8] miles east south-east, and south-east
and by east; and againe till the 15 of August in the morning, 9 [36]
miles east south-east; then from morning till noone they sailed 4 miles
east south-east, and sailed over a flat or sand of 9 or 10 fadome
deepe, sandy ground, but could see no land; and about an houre before
noone it began to waxe deeper, for then wee had 12 and 13 fadome water,
and then wee sayled east south-east 3 [12] miles, till the sunne was
south-west [1 p.m.].
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