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who lived there. The Russian also said that it was an easy 
matter to sail from Vaygats to the mouth of the Ob." 
1612. The whaling captain Jan Cornelisz. van Hoorn 
endeavoured to sail north of Novaya Zemlya towards the east, 
but met with ice in 77° N.L., which compelled him to return 
{Witsen, p. 906). 
1625. CORNELIS Bosman, at the instance of the Northern 
Company of the Netherlands, with a vessel of 90 tons, manned 
by 24 men, and provisioned for two and a half years, passed 
through Yugor Schar eastwards, but fell in with so much ice in 
the Kara Sea that he was compelled to seek for a harbour in 
that sound. There he waited for more favourable conditions, 
but was finally compelled by storm and ice to return with his 
object unaccomplished. (S. Muller, Gcscliiedenis cler Noordsclie 
Compagnie, Utrecht, 1874, p. 185.) 
1653.‘ This year a Danish expedition was sent out to the 
North-east. An account of the voyage was given by De la 
Martini^re, surgeon to the expedition, in a work published for 
the first time at Paris in 1671, with the following title : Voyage 
dcs Pais Septentrionaux. Dans lequel sc void les moeurs, manUre de 
vivre, & superstitions des Noriveguiens, Lappons, Kiloppes, Bor an- 
diens, Syheriens, Saniojedes, Zemhliens, & Islandois, enriclii de 
plusieurs figures.^ This work afterwards attained a considerable 
circulation, doubtless in consequence of Martiniere’s easy style, 
contrasting so strongly with the common dry ship’s-log manner, 
and the large number of wonderful stories he narrates, without 
^ The year is incorrectly given as 1647 by F. von Adeliing {Kritisch- 
Litterdrische Uebersicht, &c.). 
2 The following editions are enumerated : four French, Paris, 1671, 1672, 
1676, and Amsterdam, 1708; six German, Hamburg, 1675, Leipzig, 1703, 
1706, 1710, 1711, and 1718; one Latin, Gliickstadt, 1675; two Dutch, 
Amsterdam, 1681 and 1685; one Italian, printed in Conte Aurelio degli 
Anzi’s II Genio Vagante, Parma, 1691 ; two English, one printed separately 
in 1706, the other in Harris, Navigantium atque Itwerantium Bihl., 3rd 
edition. London, 1744-48, Vol. IT. p. 457. 
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