VOYAGE INTO SPITZBERGEN, 



CHAP. I. 



Of the Voyage from the Elbe to Spitzbergen. 



AVe set sail the 15tli of April 1671, about noon, from the 

 Elbe. The wind was north-east ; at night, when we came by 

 the Hilge-land,^ it bore to north-north-east. The name of the 

 ship was Jonas in the IV/uile,^ Peter Peterson, of Friscland, 

 master. 



The 2Tth, we had storms, hail and snow, with very cold 

 weather, the wind north-east and by east; we were in 

 seventy-one degrees, and came to the ice, and turned back 

 again. The Island of JoJwi Maien bore from us south-west 

 and by west, as near as we could guess within ten miles. 

 We might have seen the island plain enough, but the air 

 was haizy, and full of fogs and snow, so that we could not 

 see far. About noon it blew a storm, whereuj)on we took 

 down our topsails, and, furling our mainsail, drove with the 

 missensai] towards south-east. 



The 29th, it was foggy all day, the wind north-east, and 

 l)y north ; we came to the ice, and sailed from it again. 



^ " Heilige-land," the " Heligoland" of British maps. 



^ In the original German there is given here a portion of the log of the 

 " Jonas im Walfsch'" ; similar passages are occasionally omitted in the 

 translation. 



