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this exigency was to let the brandy-bottle go round, 

 which kept them always foxVl, till the 8th July 

 (the ninth day after we had been on shore) Captain 

 Flawes came so seasonably to our relief." From 

 this time the journal is continued by Captain 

 Flawes : but as it contains only the courses steered 

 and the distances run in the homeward voyage, it 

 is unnecessary to take any further notice of it. 



Captain Wood, having thus lost his ship without 

 making the smallest advancement of new dis- 

 covery, and without having approached by many 

 degrees, either in latitude or longitude, the points 

 aheady reached by former navigators, boldly de- 

 cides that he was led into error by following the 

 opinion of William Barentz ; that all the Dutch 

 and English relations were false; that Nova Zembla 

 and Greenland (Spitzbergen) are one and the 

 same continent ; and that it is unknown hitherto 

 whether Nova Zembla be an isle or acljoining to 

 the continent of Great Tartary. " In justice, 

 however," says Daines Barrington, " to the me- 

 mories of both English and Dutch navigators, I 

 cannot but take notice of these very peremptory 

 and ill-founded reflections made by Wood, and 

 which seem to be dictated m.erely by his disap- 

 pointment in not being able to effect his dis- 

 covery." ^ 



From a memorandum in Evelyn's Diary, recently 



* Fossibility of approaching the North Pole, 



