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THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. 



[chap. v. 



destroy all vessels that seek to pass through, did not form an 

 obstacle ; that the great number of rocks and reefs scarcely 

 permitted the passage of a vessel ; and finally, that the Grand 

 Duke had ordered three vessels to attempt tlie passage, but 

 that they had all been crushed by ice. 



JAN HUYGHEN VAN LINSCHOTEN, 



Born in 15G3 at Haarlem, died in 1611 at Enkhuizen. 



After a portrait in liis work, Navigatio in Orientalem sive Lusitanorum Indiam, 



Hagre Comitis, 1599. 



On the p'^','' July there came to Toxar hunters from the White 

 Sea, who spoke another language than the Russians, and 

 belonged to another race of men — they were evidently Finns or 

 Karelians. A large number of whales were seen in the haven, 

 which gave occasion to a remark by Linschoten that whale-fishing 



