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with all her force goeth towards the boate, (whereby 

 our men were once in no small clanger, for that 

 the sea-horse had almost stricken her teeth into 

 the Sterne of their boate,) thinking to overthrow it, 

 but by meanes of the great crie that the men made, 

 she was afraide, and swomme away againe, and 

 tooke her young ones againe in her armes. They 

 have two teeth sticking out of their mouthes, on 

 each side one, each being about halfe an ell long, 

 and are esteemed to bee as good as any ivorie or 

 elephant's teeth.''* 



The ice now came floating down in such quan- 

 tities, and the weather was so misty, cold and tem- 

 pestuous, that the crew first began to murmur and 

 then refused to proceed any farther. Accordingly 

 on the 1st August, Rarentz consented to return to 

 the southward, by the same way they had ad- 

 vanced. In coasting along till they came into lat. 

 71° 33', a large inlet was discovered which Barentz 

 judged to be the place where Oliver Brunei f had 

 been before, called Costine sarca. They landed 

 farther south on Sions Point, where they perceived 

 some Europeans must have been, for they there 

 found six sacks of rye-meal, a cross, a heap of 

 stones, and a large cannon shot, and three houses 

 built of wood, near which stood five or six coffins 



* Three Voyages made by the Dutch into the Northern Seas. 

 Trans, hy Phillip, 1607. 



f An Englishman, of whom a vague mention only is made by 

 the Dutch. 



