Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Pages ...
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
rig THIRD VOYAGE OF THE DUTCH
give to the fick who moft earneftly afked for fome: but they were not able to find any,
and only brought back four birds.
On the nineteenth they were more inclofed in the ice than before, and no more bee
held any part open, fo that they thought they had only prolonged their lives for fome
days, unle’s God fhould deliver them by fome frefh miracle. On the twentieth at nine
m the morning, the mate came on board the fhallop, and faid that one of the crew, called
Nicolas Andii{z, appeared to be drawing near to his end. Barentfz told hin that he
firmly belicved his was not far off. The crew who perceived at the fame time that Barentfz
was looking over a chart, which De Veer had drawn of the places they had feen during
the voyage, had not the leaft idea of his being in that ftate. ‘They remained feated
and conver‘ed together of many other matters, until Barentfz putting afide the chart,
faid to De Veer, give me fome drink. When he had drunk he found himfelf very bad,
his eyes rolled in his head, and he expired fo fuddenly that they had not time to call the
mafter who was in the fchuyt. Nicolas Andrifa alfo expired immediately after. But
the death of Barentfz extremely afflicted the whole crew, for they poffeiled great con-
fidence in him, and he was very experienced in the art of pilotage and navigation.
On the twenty-fecond the wind blowing frefh from the S. E., the fea began to open.
Yet it was neceffary to drag the veflels more than fifty paces on the ice, and after
having launched them, to draw them again on other ice, and to drag them for more
than thirty paces before arriving at a free and navigable part. Having performed this
labour, they fet fail between four and five in the morning, and at noon got again en-
tangled in the ice: but a little time after it feparated in a manner that it had the ap-
pearance of the opening ofa fluice. They then navigated a little along the coaft, and
afterwards fuddenly found themfelves again completely inclofed, and notwithftanding
all their efforts to feparate the ice, they could not accomplifhit. At length the waters
having again opened of themfelves, they continued to fail along the coatt.
On the twenty-third at nine in the morning, they came to Cape Trooft, from which
they could not depart on account of the frefh ice which furrounded them. On the
fame day they obferved the altitude and found themfelves in latitude 76° 39°. Here
the fun fhone clear ; but it was not of fufficient ftrength to. melt the fnew, for which
they would have had great occafion in order to have water to drink, all of them fuffer-
ing a great thirit.
On the twenty-fourth at noon they difengaged themfelves from the ice by means of
their oars, and having gained the fea, they failed onward well till they came to Cape
Naffau which they difcovered, and from which they were according to their computa-
tion at the diftance of three leagues. ‘Three failors landed, and brought a little wood,
which ferved them to boil fome meat, in order to have fome warm aliment for their
ftomachs, of which they ftood in very great need.
On the twenty-fifth and and twenty-fixth there arofe a heavy tempelt from the fouth
during which the part of the ice to which the veflels were moored broke and feparated.
The veffels being unmoored drifted out to fea, without their being able to row towards
the firm ice, and they were a hundred times in danger of perifhing. As they found
they could not regain the land by means of the oars, they hoifted up the forefail, and
_ftood towards the coaft. But the fore-maft of the fchuyt broke twice ; fo that they
were conftrained notwitk{tanding the violence of the wind, to make ufe of the main fail.
Scarcely was it hoifted up when the wind took it in fuch a manner, that if it had not been
immediately lowered the veffel would have been funk; for it already admitted the water
every where by the fide, and this accident, with the violence of the tempeft, occafion-
ed thofe expofed to them to regard death as certain. But the time appointed by pees
or
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
