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TO THE NORTH OF EUROPE. 11g
warmth; fo that there was room for wonder how thefe eggs could be brooded and
hatched on account of the great cold which reigned there.
When they had again fet fail in order to depart from the coaft, the wind became per-
fe€tly contrary. Befides the fea was fo covered with ice, that after much difficulty, and
making different tacks, they found themfelves again entangled. The mafter who was
in the fchuyt farther in the fea, feeing the others in the mid{t of the ice, and that they
continually advanced, imagined they perceived open water farther off, in which he was
not deceived; and that were they willing to reach it. Under this idea he tacked about
and fteered in the fame direction, and both together bore towards the coaft, where they
met with a good harbour fheltered almoft from every wind. They landed there and
brought wood in order to cook the birds.
On the twenty-third the weather being cloudy and foggy, and the wind blowing
from the north, they were conftrained to remain in that creek. In the mean time
fome of the crew advancing farther into the ifland, they found fome {mall ftones of
good gold. On the twenty-fourth they obferved the altitude and found themfelves in
latitude 73° 10’. The weather continuing unfavourable, they were obliged to remain
longer in that place, where they went to feek for fmall golden ftones, and they brought
away handfomer than they had obferved before.
On the twenty-fixth at noon,.they again fet fail, and as the creek in which they were,
was of great extent, it was already full midnight by the time they were without. On
the twenty-feventh they failed along the coaft through the broken ice, and at fix in the
evening they arrived at a place where was a very rapid current, which induced them to
think they were near Coftinfarch ; for they fawa great gulf as they imagined extending
to the feaof Tartary. About midnight, they doubled the Cape of the Croffes, and
entered a channel between the main land and an ifland.
On the twenty-eighth of July, they failed along the coaft, and came at three in the
afternoon to the Abbey of St. Laurence, or under Baftion Cape, where they found
beyond the point, two Ruffian barks which were at anchor. It would be difficult to
defcribe the joy of the whole crew at having arrived at a place where they had the
fight of men. Neverthelefs this joy was damped by the reflection, that thefe men who
were to the number of thirty, were not Hollanders but perhaps favages, or at leaft
other people with whom they were unacquainted, and who might treat them as
enemies.
In the mean time they approached the fhore with much difficulty, and the Ruffians
perceiving them quitted their work, and advanced towards them unarmed. Approach-
ing one another they made falutations each according to his manner. Some of the
Ruffians recollected the Hollanders,. and beheld them with compaffion; and fome of
the Hollanders alfo remembered them: to be the fame they had feen in the preceding
voyage, when they had paffed the Weigats, and who had entered their veffel.. It was
ealy to obferve on the countenances of the Ruffians,. the aftonifhment they were in, at
beholding the others, and feeing them fo.meagre and.caft down, wandering in fmall
veffels without decks, and quite expofed; while before they, had feen them. in fo bean.
tiful a {hip and fo well equipped.
Two of them laid their hands in a friendly manner on the fhoulders of the mafter
and De Veer, in order to let them know they remembered them ; for of all the Dutch
crew which was there, only thefe two had been in thé preceding voyage, in which the
had feen the Ruflians. ‘They afked, as well as could be comprehended, where theiy
crabble was, that is to fay, their veflel, As they had no interpreter they made them
underftand in the beft manner they could, that they had loftit in the ice ; upon which
they
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