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inhabitants, and were greatly refreshed and com- A .». 



1597 



forted. They had also the good fortune to hear 

 from the inhabitants at Kilduyer that there were 

 three Dutch ships at Cola, which was not far 

 from them, and which they now became ex- 

 tremely anxious to reach before they should 

 depart for Holland. On the 2nd September, 

 they had the good fortune to arrive at this port, 

 and, to their great surprise and joy, found that 

 one of the vessels was the very one which, 

 under the command of Cornelison Ryp, had left 

 them off Cherie Island the preceding year, to 

 endeavour to get to the eastward by passing 

 along the eastern coast of Spitzbergen. Ryp 

 treated them with great kindness, and receiving 

 them all on board his vessel, conveyed them 

 safely to the Maes, where they arrived on the 

 29th October, after an absence of seventeen 

 months, ten of which had been passed in great 

 misery upon Nova Zembla, and three in much 

 wretchedness and peril upon the voyage from 

 that place to Cola. In all this voyage, and 

 under all their sufferings, they had lost but three 

 of their crew besides Barentz. 



The journal does not give any information as to 

 what was done by Cornelison Ryp, in his attempt 

 to the northward ; nor do we find any mention 

 of it in any book that I am acquainted with. 



