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and Enkhuysen sailed together on the 5th June, 

 reached Kilduyn in Lapland on the 23d, left it on 

 the 2d July, passed Kolgoy on the 3d, and soon 

 after fell in with much ice and numerous seals. 

 Proceeding to the eastward, they found the 

 weather, about the middle of July, as warm as in 

 Holland during the dog days, and the musquitoes 

 were exceedingly troublesome. 



On approaching the island and strait of Way- 

 gatz or Waigatz, they met with great quantities of 

 drift- wood, and on the shores of the island whole 

 piles of it, heaped up as if by art, some of which 

 were large trees that had been torn up by the 

 roots. The face of the island is described as being 

 covered with verdure, and embellished with a 

 multitude of beautiful flowers. In passing round 

 the south part of the island they observed from 

 three to four hundred wooden idols, of men, wo- 

 men, and children, their faces generally turned 

 towards the east. To this point the Dutch gave 

 the name of Afgoden hoek or Idol Point ; but by 

 the Russians it is called IVaigqti Noss, or Cape of 

 Carved Images ;* and hence the name Waijatz or 

 Waigatz, which by many has been supposed, 

 erroneously as it would seem, of Dutch origin, 

 wai-gat signifying in that language windy or 

 stormy strait or hole ; but the former is undoubt- 

 edly the proper derivation, as the name Avas known 



* Forster's Northern Voyages, p. 413. 



