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
After that we sayled north-ward tenne [40] miles, till the twenty-fifth
[409] of July at noone, and then north north-west eight [32] miles,
till mid-night; then wee wound about againe, and sayled east south-east
and south-east and by south, till the twenty sixe of July, the sunne
being south, and had the sunne at seauentie one degrees and ¼. [410]
The sunne being south south-west, wee wounde about againe and sayled
north-east and by north, till the seauen and twentie of July, the sunne
being south; being vnder 72 degrees and ⅓ partes. [411]
After that, wee sayled full north-east [412] 16 [64] myles, till the 28
of July, the sunne being east [½ p. 4 A.M.]. Then we wound about againe
south and by east, till the sunne was north-west, and sayled 8 [32]
miles. After that, south-east and by south 18 [72] miles, till the 29
[413] of July at midnight.
After that, we wound about againe, east and by north, and sayled eight
[32] miles, till the 30 of July, when the sunne was north [½ p. 10
P.M.]; then we wound south south-east, with [414] calme weather, till
the 31 of July, that the sunne was west north-west [415] [5 P.M.], and
sayled sixe [24] miles.
From thence wee sayled east-ward 8 [32] myles, till the first of August
about midnight, in calme faire weather, and saw Trumpsand [416]
south-east from vs, the sunne being north [½ p. 10 P.M.], and wee being
tenne [40] miles from the land; and so sayled till the sunne was east
[½ p. 7 P.M.], with a litle cold gale [417] out of the east north-east;
and after that, south-east 9 miles and a halfe [38 miles], till the
sunne was north-west.
Then we wound about againe, being halfe a mile [2 miles] from the land,
and sayled east and by north three [12] miles, till the 3 of August,
the sunne south-west [1 P.M.]; and then along by the land about 5 [20]
miles.
Then we wound about again, because there lay a rocke or sand, that
reached about a mile and a halfe [6 miles] out from the land into the
sea, whereon Isbrant, the uize-admiral, [418] stroke with his shippe:
but the weather being faire and good, he got off againe. When he stroke
vpon it, he was a litle before vs: and when we heard him cry out, and
saw his shippe in danger, wee in all haste wound about; and the wind
being north-east and by east, and south-east, and south-east and by
south, [419] wee sayled 5 [20] or 6 [24] myles along by the land, till
the sunne was south, vpon the 4 of August.
Then we tooke the height of the sunne, and found it to be seauentie and
one degrees and ¼. At which time till noone [420] wee had calme
weather: and hauing the wind southerly wee sayled east and by north,
till the fifth of August, the sunne being south-east [½ p. 7 A.M.], the
North Cape [421] lying about two [8] miles east from vs; and when the
sunne was north-west [½ p. 7 P.M.], the Mother and her Daughters [422]
lay south-ward from vs four [16] miles, and in that time we sailed
about fourteene [56] miles.
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