60 NOVAYA ZEMLYA 



as Barents's Journal. The journal proved to be a 

 manuscript Dutch translation of the story of the 

 voyage in 1580 of Arthur Pet and Charles Jackman. 



In 1608, eleven years after Barents died, Henry 

 Hudson, in the Muscovy Company's service, was sent 

 to China by the north-east. He sailed on the 22nd of 

 April from St. Katharine's, near the Tower of London, 

 and on the 3rd of June passed the North Cape on his 

 way to Novaya Zemlya, which he reached near Cape 

 Britwin twenty-three days afterwards. For some con- 

 siderable distance he had skirted the ice pack, vainly 

 endeavouring to get through to the northward and 

 enter the Kara Sea round the Orange Islands. 



This being impracticable he ranged southwards look- 

 ing for a passage through at Kostin Shar, which in the 

 Dutch map he had with him was marked as a strait 

 and proved to be a bay. Had he been able to go a 

 little further north than Cape Britwin he might have 

 found that Matyushin Shar, like a rift in the rocks, 

 divides the long island in half, though at that early 

 season the ice would have probably been blocking it. 

 From Kostin or thereabouts he departed for home, his 

 voyage failing almost at the outset, owing to his being 

 two months too early. 



While off the coast he sent his boat ashore several 

 times. " Generally," he says, " all the land of Nova 

 Zembla that we have yet seen is to a man's eye a 

 pleasant land ; much main high land with no snow on 

 it, looking in some places green, and deer feeding 

 thereon ; and the hills are partly covered with snow 

 and partly bare " rather a different picture from that 

 given by De Veer of what it was like in the winter. 



