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JACOB VAN HEEMSKERK. 



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at Kola, as a memorial of tlie journey — the first memorial of 

 a, Polar expedition was thus raised at Kola ! — they went on 

 board Rijp's vessel, and sailed in it to Holland, arriving there 

 the '--ii—. Sixteen men had left Holland with Barents, 

 twelve men returned in safety to their native land, and among 

 them Jacob van Heemskerk, a man who during the whole 

 voyage had played a prominent part, and afterwards lived long 

 enough to see the time when the Dutch were a match at sea 



JACOB VAN HEEMSKKBK, 



Born in 1567 at Amsterdam, died in 1607 at Gibraltar. 

 After a contemporary engraving by N. de Clerck. 



for the Spaniards. For he fell as commander of the Dutch fleet 

 which defeated the Spanish at Gibraltar on April 25, 1607. 



During Barents' third voyage Bear Island and Spitzbergen 

 were discovered, and the natural conditions of the high northern 

 regions during winter first became known. On the other 

 hand, the unfortunate issue of the maritime expeditions sent 

 out from Holland appears to have completely deterred from 



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