v.] JAN IIUYGHEN VAN LINSCHOTEN. 181 



Matotschkin Schar is often marked with some perversion of the 

 word Kostin Schar. 



South of " St. Laurens Bay," i in 70|°, Barents, on the ?lf^ 

 August, found upon a headland across erected, and in the neigh- 

 bourhood of it three wooden buildings, the hull of a Russian 

 vessel and several sacks of meal, and at the same place some 

 graves, all clearly remains of some Russian salmon-fishers. On 

 the fgth August he arrived at Dolgoi Island, where he fell in 

 with the two other vessels from Zeeland and Enkhuizen that 

 had come thither shortly before. All the four vessels sailed 

 back thence to Holland, arriving there in the middle of 

 September. The narrative of this voyage closes with the 

 statement that Barents brought home with him a walrus, which 

 had been fallen in with and killed on the drift-ice. Barents 

 during this journey discovered and explored the northern part of 

 Novaya Zemlya, never before visited by West-European seafarers. 



The two other vessels, that left the Texel at the same time as 

 Barents, also made a remarkable voyage, specially sketched by 

 the distinguished voyager Jan Huyghen van Linschoten.^ 



The vessels were manned by fifty men, among them two 

 interpreters — a Slav, Christoffel Splindler, and a Dutch 

 merchant, who had lived long in Russia, Fr. de LA Dale. 

 Provisions for eight months only were taken on board. At first 

 Nay and Tetgales accompanied Barents to Kilduin, which island 

 is delineated and described in considerable detail in Linschoten's 

 work. 



On the —■ July Nay and Tetgales sailed from Kilduin for 

 Vaygats Island. Three days afterwards they fell in with much 

 drift-ice. On the ||th they arrived at Toxar, according to 

 Linschoten's map an island on the Timan coast, a little west of 

 the entrance to Petchora. They there met with a Russian 

 lodja whose captain stated that he believed, after hearsay, that 

 the Vaygats Sound ^ was continually covered with ice, and that, 

 when it was passed, men came to a sea which lay to the south 

 of, and was warmer than, the Polar Sea. Some other Russians 

 added, the following day, that it was quite possible to sail 

 through Vaygats Sound, if the whales and walruses, that 



^ Probably the Saclianich Bay of the Russians. 



- Voi/af/ie, ofte ScJiip Vaert, van Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, van hy 

 Xoorden om lancjes Noorwegen de Noortcaep, Lapkmt, Vinlunt, Ruslandt 



. . , tot voorby de revier Ohy, Franeker, 1601. Another edition at 

 Amsterdam in 1624, and in abstract in Saeghman's collection of travels in 

 1665. The voyage is also described in Blavii Atlas Major, 1665. Lin- 

 schoten was " commis " on board, a post which included both the employ- 

 ment of supercargo and that of owners' commissioner. 



"* That is Yugor Schar. This name also occurs, though in a somewhat 

 altered form, as " Wegorscoi tzar," on Isaac Massa's map of 1612, which, 

 according to the statement of the i^ublisher, is a copy of a Russian chart. 



