CHAPTER III 

 NOVAYA ZEMLYA 



Van Heemskerck and Barents reach Ice Haven The ship in the ice The 

 first crew to winter in the Arctic The house the Dutch built The bears 

 The foxes Intense cold Twelfth Eve rejoicings Preparations for 

 departure Death of Barents The boat voyage Meeting with Rijp 

 Admiral Jacob Van Heemskerck Carlsen at Ice Haven Finds the house 

 as described by De Veer The relics at the Hague Gardiner finds the 

 powder-flask Gundersen finds the translation of the voyage of Pet and 

 Jackman Second voyage of Hudson His third voyage De Vlamingh 

 Russian explorers. 



WE left Barents parting company with Rijp at 

 Bear Island, Rijp bound northwards. Barents, 

 taking his vessel eastwards, struck Novaya Zemlya at 

 Loms Bay, near Cross Bay, and bearing north-east- 

 wards reached the Orange Islands and rounded Cape 

 Mauritius. Steering south he got down into Ice Haven, 

 where at length, says De Veer, " the ice began to drive 

 with such force that we were enclosed round about 

 therewith, and yet we sought all the means we could to 

 get out, but it was all in vain : and at that time we had 

 like to have lost three men that were upon the ice to 

 make way for the ship, if the ice had held the course it 

 went ; but as we drove back again, and the ice also 

 whereon our men stood, they being nimble, as the ship 

 drove by them, one of them caught hold of the beak 

 head, another upon the shrouds, and the third upon the 

 mainbrace that hung out behind, and so by great 



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