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A VOYAGE TO SPITZBEBGEN. 
weather would permit them. On the 28th of July they 
had the good fortune to meet two Russian loddies, and 
to obtain from them a supply of provisions. They 
also learnt that three Dutch ships were lying at Kola; 
and after a fatiguing navigation, having been ob¬ 
structed by ice from entering the White Sea, on the 
25th of August they arrived at Kilduyn. Here, not 
less to their surprise than satisfaction, in a short time 
came to them with provisions and refreshments, Jan 
Cornelisz Rijp, who commanded one of the Dutch 
ships then lying at Kola, and who the year before had 
sailed from Holland in company with Jacob Heems- 
kerk and W. Barentsz, from whom (as related) he had 
separated to seek by a more northerly route, a passage 
to India. He had not succeeded in that attempt, and 
had returned to Holland ; and was now again home¬ 
ward bound from a trading voyage to the White 
Sea. 
Jacob Heemskerk and his remaining companions 
embarked with Rijp, and they arrived at Amsterdam 
on the 1st of November, 1597. 
Of the seventeen men cast on Nova Zembla, the car¬ 
penter and another man died there; Willem Barentsz 
and two other men died whilst navigating in the 
small boats along the coast of Nova Zembla; and 
twelve lived to return to their native country. What 
