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posely to visit the Hollanders. It is remarked in 
Linschoten, that there were no settled inhabitants at 
Waigatz Island, and that the Samoyedes resorted to it 
only at times proper for the chase, which in this cold 
country would scarcely be done (as with the New 
Hollanders) without boats. At taking leave of the 
Hollanders, they took off their hats and bowed, so 
taught doubtlessly by the Kussians, and also clapped 
their hands. The Hollanders, in return, bade them 
adieu with the sound of trumpets. 
From Kruyz Hoek the coast of Waigatz Island 
lies N.N.E. (by the chart to Linschoten, true), three 
Dutch leagues to a Cape, which on account of some 
dispute was named Twist Hoek, and is the outer 
Eastern Cape on the Waigatz side of the Strait 
between that Island and the Continent. The opposite 
outer point was on a small Island a cannon shot distant 
from the continent, and was named Ton Hoek. The 
distance between these two points, or breadth of this 
entrance of the Strait, is little more than a Dutch 
mile or league (15 to the degree). The ships anchored 
about a quarter of a league from Ton Hoek, in seven 
fathoms good holding ground. 
From abreast Kruyz Hoek, extending north-eastward 
to nearly abreast Twist Hoek, lies a bank of sand, or a 
range of sand-banks and rocks, some level with the 
