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Behind the Rehenfeld vive high mountains again, they arc not 

 pointed at top, they lye as it were in a line ; by the Rehenfeld 

 runs up a river into the country, it is called the Half-moon Boij 

 from its shape. On the other side of the river is a mountain, 

 flat at the top, and full of cracks all filled up with snow. 

 Then conieth the Liefde Bay f Bay oi LoveJ, where two hills 

 stand together very like unto Sjntzhergcn at Macjdalcns Bay, 

 and those two harbours are very much like one another. 



Then we come to the lower ground behind the Muscle- 

 harbour, where the grass was so high that it covered our 

 ankles as far as we went. 



Next is the Weighatt, or the Straights of Hindelopen. The 

 IVeighatt is so called from the winds (for iceihen signifieth 

 hloichuf), because a very strong south wind bloweth out of 

 it. Ou the Bear Haven, upon the land, are all red stones. 



Behind the Weighatt followeth the South-west Land, which 

 is also low ; it seemeth as if it was adorned with small hills ; 

 then follow the seven Islands which we could see. 



AVe saw no ships go any farther, neither could I understand 

 that ever any ships did go farther, nor can they go so far every 

 year towards the east, because of the danger of the ice that 

 swimmeth, and is brought from thence by the wind and stream. 



In May and June is the best fishing in the ice between the 

 Island of John Maxjen and Spitzbergen. In July and August 

 the whales run eastward by Spitzbergen, we saw at the latter 

 end many lohales that run to the Weigatt. It is unknown 

 whether the haven of this Weigatt goeth through the coun- 

 try or no. But this is not that Weigatt whereof so many 

 things are written.^ 



More I do not know of this country ; rocks and snow and 

 ice-hills Ave find in abundance there, and the creatures that 

 live upon them I shall describe hereafter. 



^ The "Weigatt whereof so many things are written," is the strait 

 separating Nova Zembla from the continent. See Gerrit de Veer^s " Three 

 Voyages hy the North-East,'''' edited for the Ilakluyt Society by Dr. Beke 

 (passim). ■* 



