ch. ix] Barentsz. Linschoten, De Veer 71 
in 1583. He remained at Goa until 1589, when he took 
ship at Cochin to return with his friend Dirk Gerritz, 
who had been 26 years in the East and had been to China 
and Japan as gunner of a Portuguese ship. Dirk Gerritz 
wrote notes upon China and India, and in 1598 he was pilot 
in the first Dutch voyage through the Straits of Magellan. 
Linschoten stopped on his homeward voyage at Terceira, 
Novaya Zemlya, showing entrances to Kara Sea. 
one of the Azores, for more than two years, which enabled 
him to give a full account of the memorable fight of the 
Revenge, At length he got back to Holland in September 
1592 and wrote his Itinerary, which was published in 
1596. He was an indefatigable collector of information 
of all kinds, and his book of travels is most fascinating 1 . 
But, while busily engaged upon it, Linschoten's attention 
was diverted by the project of de Moucheron for the 
1 An excellent English edition of the voyage of Linschoten to the East 
Indies in two vols, was printed for the Hakluyt Society in 1885; edited 
by Mr Arthur C. Burnell and Mr Tiele of Utrecht. 
