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$4 - FIRST VOYAGE OF THE DUTCH
their being able to kill a fingle one, or to obtain any other advantage than that of feizmg
one of their teeth which was broken.
This ill fuccefs did not difcourage the failors. "They refolved to return on board and
to brig guns; which they were not able to accomplifh on account of the vialence of
the wind, which became very impetuous, feparating the ice in large flakes.
At the fame time they found a large white bear afleep, and firmg upon him they
vounded him. Notwithftanding this he ran away, and threw himfelf into the water,
where they followed him, fteering the thallop after him. He was killed, and dragged
on the ice, upon which he was fiabbed witha demi-lance, in order to return and take
him, if the wind which continued ftrengthening, and the ice which was {till breaking
into flakes had not prefented an infurmountable obftacle.
After thefe adventures, and this navigation to the Orange Ifles, Witham Barentfz
perceived that it was not in his power toadvance further, nor to difcover more diftant
countries. The crew themfelves began to appear fatigued, and little difpofed to con-
tinue the voyage. He refolved therefore to return, in order to rejoin the other two
veffels which had directed their courfe towards the Weygats or {trait of Naflau, in order
to learn what difcoveries they had made.
On the firft of Auguit they refumed the fame route by which they had come, and
having doubled the Capes of Trooft and Naffau, and feveral others, they arrived on
the eighth at a very low and finall ifle, lying at the diftance of half a league from the
main land, and which they called Black Ifland on account of its furface having a black
appearance. Barentfz having obferved the altitude here, found the ifland to lie in
latitude 71° 45’. There wasa large creek, and the pilot was of opinion that it was in
that place Oliver Beunel had formerly been: and that confequently the ifland fhould be
ealled Conftintfarch.
At the diftance of three leagues from this ifle, they difcovered befides another little
point, upon which there was a crofs. They afterwards ranged the coaft for four
leagues, and doubled another little point, behind which was a great creek, and they
vamed it the Fifth Cape, or the Cape of St. Laurence.
Baftion Cape is alfo three leagues diftant from this latter. There is a black rock
quite clofe to the fhore, upon which was feen acrofs. Some failors having landed were
certain there had been men who had fled at their coming: for they found fix facks of
rye flour buried, and a heap of ftones about the crofs.
Within gun fhot of this latter place, there was another crofs, with three houfes
conftructed of wood, after the northern fafhion, where they faw feverat barrel ftaves ;
which induced them to think it probable there might be a falmon fithery at that place.
‘There were alfo five or fix coffins on the ground, near as many ditches, and they were
all filled with ftones.
‘The haven is very good, and fheltered from every wind. They named it Flour
Port, on account of the flour which they had found. Betwixt this portand Cape Baf-
tion, is the bay of St. Laurence, alfo very good, and fheltered from the N. E. and N. W.
winds. ‘They obferved the altitude in Flour Port and found themfelves in latitude
Or Al5’s
Onis twelfth of Auguft, two {mall iflands were difcovered, the latter of which was
only a league from the land, which they named St. Clara. On the fifteenth, at three
in the afternoon, Barentfz having obferved the altitude found himfelf in latitude 69° 15’.
They failed two leagues more to the eaft and obferved the ifles of Matfloe and Delgoi,
where the veflel in the morning rejoined thofe of Zealand and Enchuifen, which had
alfo arrived the fame day from the {trait of Naflau.
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