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THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. 
[chap. 
home to Holland, fully convinced that the question of the 
possibility of a north-east passage to China was now solved. 
It was shown indeed, in the following year, that this supposition 
rested on quite too slight a foundation, but the voyages of Nay 
and Tetgales deserve in any case an honoured place in the 
South. 
North. 
MAP OF FRKTUM NASSOVICUM OR YUOOR SCHAR. 
After Linschoten. 
history of navigation, for they extended considerably the know¬ 
ledge of the northern regions through the discovery, or at least 
through the first passage of, Yugor Schar, and, like Barents, 
these seafarers must get the credit of carrying out the task 
assigned to them with skill, insight, resolution, and resource. 
The Second Dutch Expedition, 1595.^ After the return 
of the first expedition a report of the discoveries which had 
1 Accounts of this expedition are given both by De Veer and Linschoten 
in the above-named works. 
