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Enkhuysen ships, on their return. It appears that 

 these vessels had passed the Strait of Waigatz 

 and discovered a large sea beyond, now called 

 the sea of Kara : by the Russians, Karskoa, which 

 they supposed to be near the river Obe, and 

 found the coast of Tartary, stretching from thence 

 far to the N.E. They did not, however, attempt 

 to pass this promontory, which we now know 

 separates the sea in which they then were from the 

 river Obe, but, thinking they had done enough 

 for that year, and being desired by their Instruc- 

 tions to return home before the winter set in, 

 they put back, and on their way to Matfloe 

 discovered an island, which they called States 

 Island. The ships left Matfloe together on the 

 16th August and arrived in the Texel on the 

 18th September. 



BARENTZ' SECOND VOYAGE. 



A.D. 



1594. 



The favourable report of the state of the sea I595 ^ 

 to the eastward of Nova Zembla, which Lins- 

 choten, who made the voyage in one of the 

 Enkhuysen ships, gave to Prince Maurice and 

 the States General, determined them to send 

 out another expedition. It consisted of seven 



