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thp: voyage of the vega. 
[CflAP. 
a, Polar expedition was tlms raised at Kola!—they went on 
board Pijp’s vessel, and sailed in it to Holland, arriving there 
the Sixteen men had left Holland with Barents, 
twelve men returned in safety to their native land, and among 
them Jacob van Heemskerk, a man who during the whole 
JACOB VAN HEEMSKERK, 
Born in 1567 at Amsterdam, died in 1607 at Gibraltar. 
After a contemporary engraving by N. de Clerck. 
voyage had played a prominent part, and afterwards lived long- 
enough to see the time when the Dutch were a match at sea 
for the Spaniards. For he fell as commander of the Dutch fleet 
which defeated the Spanish at Gibraltar on April 25, 1607. 
