[7] Gerrit de Veer, son of Albert de Veer and Cornelia van Adrichem, belonged to an old and illustrious Dutch family. He was a younger brother of Ellert de Veer, who occupied the position of Councillor of Amsterdam, when Gerrit de Veer undertook his voyage to Novaya Zemlya. In April 1610, Ellert de Veer was sent to England as plenipotentiary, on which occasion he was knighted by James I. Gerrit de Veer died, unmarried, abroad.—Heraldic Library, 1874. [↑]
[8] This chart is also to be found, with a few additions, in Asher’s Hudson the Navigator, and in Pontanus’ History of Amsterdam, 1614. [↑]
[9] The south point of Prince Charles’s Foreland? [↑]
[10] The Red Bay and the Zeemosche Bay, with the Archipelago and the Mauritius Bay? [↑]
[11] Cloven Cliff, and the other islands of the archipelago? [↑]
[12] The north-western archipelago, with Amsterdam and Danish Islands? [↑]
[14] Sir Thomas Smith Bay. [↑]
[15] What is called in the chart, from Purchas’ His Pilgrimes, vol. iii, “The Barr”? [↑]
[16] Faire Forelaud, still known in the Dutch charts as Vogelhoek (Cape Bird)? [↑]