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dam, and a fishing-bark; the two first under the 
command of Cornelis Cornelisz Nay, who had served 
as pilot with the Muscovites in the Northern seas. In 
the ship of Enchuysen Jan Huygens van Linschoten 
went as commis, or agent for the merchants. The 
ship of Amsterdam and the small bark were under 
Willem Barentsz, a seaman of great reputation. 
On the 5th of June, 1594, the four vessels departed 
in company from the Texel, and, the 23rd of the same 
month, arrived at Kilduyn, an island and port near the 
entrance of the river Kola, in Lapland. From this 
place W. Barentsz sailed with the Amsterdam ships 
and the small bark for the North of Nova Zembla. 
The other vessels directed their course for the Waigatz 
Strait. In the navigation between Kilduyn and the 
Northern part of Nova Zembla, 140 fathoms depth of 
water was found; and at one time of sounding, the 
depth was more than 150 fathoms, that length of line 
not reaching to the bottom. 
On the 29th of July, Barentsz was in latitude by 
observation 77° N., the most Northern point of Nova 
Zembla, then bearing due East. Large impenetrable 
bodies of ice prevented him from advancing beyond 
this Cape, and it was therefore named Ys-hoek, or Ice 
Cape. 
The two vessels under Cornelisz Nay, sailed from 
Kilduyn to the Waigatz. In this passage they had 
