The Three Voyages of William Barents to the Arctic Regions (1594, 1595, and 1596)

by Gerrit de Veer

CONTENTS.

• [Postscript.]
• PAGE
• [Introduction to the Second Edition] i
• [Introduction to the First Edition] lxiii
• [The True and Perfect Description of Three Voyages] clxxv
• [The Fyrst Part of the Nauigation into the North Seas] 1
• [A Briefe Declaration of a Second Nauigation] 40
• [The Third Voyage Northwarde to the Kingdomes of Cathaia and China] 70
• Appendix. [Letter from John Balak to Gerard Mercator] 261
• Appendix.,, [Henry Hudson’s Visit to Novaya Zemlya] 265
• Appendix.,, [Writings of William Barents] 273
• [Index] 275

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ILLUSTRATIONS.

• PAGE
• [Clock found in the Barents’ House in Novaya Zemlya] i
• [Relics found in the Barents’ House] xlix
• [Relics,, found,, in,, the,, Barents’,, House,, ] ib.
• [Instrument for finding Longitude] lvi
• [How a frightful, cruel, big bear tare to pieces two of our companions] 63
• [A wonder in the heavens, and how we caught a bear] 77
• [How a bear came unto our boat, and what took place with him] 78
• [How our ship stuck fast in the ice, whereby three of us were nearly lost] 99
• [How the ice heaved up the fore part of our ship] 100
• [How we built a house of wood, wherein to keep ourselves through the winter] 108
• [The exact manner of the house wherein we wintered] 128
• [How we shot a bear, wherefrom we got a good hundred pounds’ weight of grease] 154
• [How we made ready to sail back again to Holland] 180
• [How we prepared a way whereby we brought our boats and goods to the sea] 188
• [How we were nearly wrecked, and with great danger had to betake ourselves to the ice] 196
• [True portraiture of our boats, and how we nearly got into trouble with the seahorses] 218

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MAPS.

• [Caerte van Nova Zembla] to face Title
• [Caerte van’t Noorderste Russen, Samojeden, ende Tingoesen landt] lxxxvii

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ERRATA.