[89] Des selfden nachts—the same night. The sun was then constantly above the horizon. [↑]
[90] Metten graedtboogh, astrolabium ende quadrant. [↑]
[91] De aldernoordelijckste hoeck van Nova Sembla genaemt Ys hoeck—the northernmost point, etc. [↑]
[92] Most probably marcasite or iron pyrites. Frobisher’s third voyage to “Meta Incognita”, with fifteen vessels, was principally for the purpose of bringing home an immense quantity of this mineral, which he had discovered on his former voyages, and fancied to be rich in gold.—See Hakluyt’s Voyages, vol. i, pp. 74, 91; and Admiral Sir Richard Collinson’s edition of Sir Martin Frobisher’s Three Voyages. (Hakluyt Society, 1867.) [↑]
[94] Oost wel so zuydelijck—east a little south. [↑]
[95] Laveerden—“laveered”, i.e., advanced by repeated short tacks. [↑]
[96] “Baste”—Ph. A misprint. [↑]
[97] Een schots ys—a piece of drift ice. [↑]
[98] A critical history of this animal is given in “Anatomische und Zoologische Untersuchungen über das Wallross (Trichechus Rosmarus) &c. von Dr. K. E. v. Baer”—Mémoires de l’Acad. Imp. des Sc. de St. [[26]]Pétersb., 6me Sér., Sciences Math., Phys. et Nat., tom. iv, 2de part., Sc. Nat. (1838), pp. 97–235.