[425] So verde—in so far as; i.e., assuming that. [↑]
[426] Daer boven zijnde—having passed beyond it. [↑]
[427] De Strate Anian. The passage between the continents of Asia and America, now known as Behring’s Strait, was formerly so called. It was supposed to be in about 60° N. lat., and the northern coast of America was imagined to stretch from thence to Hudson’s Strait in a direction nearly east and west. Maldonado is said to have visited the Strait of Anian in 1588. A translation of the narrative of this pretended discovery is given in Barrow’s Chronological History, Appendix ii, p. 24 et seq. See also the Quarterly Review, vol. xvi, p. 144 et seq. [↑]
[428] Wat nu dan belanght dat men verstaen sal van tghene verhaelt is, dat wy de sonne … verloren—Now, as regards the understanding of what has been related as to our having lost the sun, etc. [↑]
[429] Disputiren—discussed. [↑]
[430] Dattet ons in den tijdt niet ghemisten heeft—that we were not mistaken with respect to the time. [↑]
[431] Een banck oft donckeren wolck—a fog-bank or a dark cloud. [↑]
[432] Een langh suer legher ghehabt—long lain seriously ill. [↑]
[433] Seyden hem wat goets voor—spoke kindly to him. [↑]
[434] Daer nae deden wy een maniere van een lijck-predikinghe met lesen ende psalmen te singhen—after that, we made a sort of funeral discourse, read prayers and sang psalms. [↑]