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mation of future navigators. They then dragged, with infinite 

 labor, the boats to the water, together with barrels and boxes 

 of such stores as their now impoverished ship could yield. 

 They bade adieu to their winter quarters on the 14th, at early 



morning, " with a west wind and under the protection of Heaven." 

 Barentz, who had been a long time ill, died on the 20th, while 

 opposite Icy Cape, the northernmost point of Nova Zembla. 



