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to repair their two boats, for their ship was so crippled and 
strained by the ice that she was injured beyond their ability 
to repair. 
‘On the 14th of June they quitted the place of their 
long captivity; Barents, before they set out, drawing up 
in writing a. list of their names, with a brief record of their 
experiences, and depositing it in the wooden hut. He 
himself was so reduced with sickness, want, and anxiety 
that he was unable to stand, and had to be carried into 
the boat. On the 16th, the captain, hailing from the other 
boat, inquired how the pilot fared. “Quite well, mate,” 
Barents replied ; “I still hope to mend before we get to 
Wardhouse,’— Wardhouse being an island on the coast of 
Lapland. But he died on the 19th (or, as some authorities 
say, on the 20th), to the great grief of his comrades, who 
appreciated his manly character, and placed great reliance 
on his experience and skill. 
‘The adventurers met with many difficulties from the 
ice,—sometimes being carried out far from the ice-belt, 
and at others being compelled to haul the boats for long 
distances over the rough surface of the floes to reach open 
water. It has been well observed that there are many 
instances on record of long ocean-voyages performed in 
open boats, but that, perhaps, not one is of so extraordinary 
a character as that which we are describing,—when two 
small and crazy craft ventured to cross the seas for eleven 
hundred miles, continually endangered by huge floating 
ice-masses, threatened by bears, and exposed for forty 
days to the combined trials of sickness, famine, cold, and 
fatigue. 
‘At length they arrived at Kola, in Lapland, towards 
the end of August; and, strangely enough, were taken on 
beard a Dutch vessel commanded by the very Cornelizoon 
Rijp, who had commanded the sister discovery ship in the 
previous year. They reached the Maas in safety in 
October 1597. 
‘No voyager appears to have sailed in the track of 
