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Here a party going ashore climbed to the top of a rising ground, and to their infinite delight beheld an open sea entirely free from ice, stretching to the S. E. and E.S.E. as far as eye could reach. At last the game was won, the passage to Cathay was discovered. Full of joy, they pulled back in their boat to the ship, "not knowing how to get there quick enough to tell William Barendz."
The sky was bright, and the whole disk of the sun was most distinctly seen by all, although none were able to explain the phenomenon, and Barendz least of all. They had kept accurate diaries ever since their imprisonment, and although the clocks sometimes had stopped, the hour-glasses had regularly noted the lapse of time.
Certainly no men, could have exhibited more undaunted cheerfulness amid bears and foxes, icebergs and cold such as Christians had never conceived of before than did these early arctic pilgrims. Nor did Barendz neglect any opportunity of studying the heavens.
Commercial prospects of Holland Travels of John Huygen van Linschoten Their effect on the trade and prosperity of the Netherlands Progress of nautical and geographical science Maritime exploration Fantastic notions respecting the polar regions State of nautical science First arctic expedition Success of the voyagers Failure of the second expedition Third attempt to discover the north-east passage Discovery of Spitzbergen Scientific results of the voyage Adventures in the frozen regions Death of William Barendz Return of the voyagers to Amsterdam Southern expedition against the Spanish power Disasters attendant upon it Extent of Dutch discovery.
And in no individual of that day were those excellent qualities more thoroughly embodied than in William Barendz, pilot and burgher of Amsterdam.
Barendz sailed as far as latitude 77 deg. and to the extreme north-eastern point of the island. This, however, was the limit of his voyage. His ship was ill-provisioned, and the weather had been severe beyond expectation. He turned back on the 1st of August, resolving to repeat his experiment early in the following year.
Nevertheless, as the facts and the theory of refraction were not thoroughly understood, nor Tycho Brahe's tables of refraction generally known, pilot Barendz could not be expected to be wiser than his generation.
The opinions of Peter Plancius prevailed in this expedition at last; the main object of both Ryp and Barendz being to avoid the fatal, narrow, ice-clogged Waigats. Although identical in this determination, their views as to the configuration of the land and sea, and as to the proper course to be steered, were conflicting.
Barendz, with the Amsterdam ship and the yacht, soon parted company with the others, and steered, according to the counsels of Plancius and his own convictions; for the open seas of the north. And in that memorable summer, for the first time in the world's history, the whole desolate region of Nova Zembla was visited, investigated, and thoroughly mapped out.
And in no individual of that day were those excellent qualities more thoroughly embodied than in William Barendz, pilot and burgher of Amsterdam.
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