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II - AN ACCOUNT OF HENRY HUDSON'S VISIT TO NOVAYA ZEMLYA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2010

Gerrit de Veer
Translated by
William Phillip
Edited by
Charles T. Beke
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Extracted from “A Second Voyage or Employment of Master Henry Hudson, for finding a Passage to the East Indies by the North-East: written by himselfe.”

Printed in Purchas his Piigrimes, vol. iii, pp. 577–579.

[June, 1608.] The sixe and twentieth, fairc sun-shining weather, and little wind at east north-east. From twelue a clocke at night till foure this morning we stood southward two leagues, sounding wee had sixtie sixe fathome oaze, as afore. From four a clocke to noone, south-east and by south foure leagues, and had the sunne on the meridian on the south-east and by south point of the compasse, in the latitude of 72 degrees 25 minutes, and had sight of Noua Zembla foure or five leagues from vs, and the place called by the Hollanders Swart Cliffe bearing off south-east. In the after-noone wee had a fine gale at east north-east, and by eight of the clocke we had brought it to beare off vs east southerly, and sayled by the shoare a league from it.

The seuen and twentieth, all the fore-noone it was almost calme. Wee being two mile from the shoare, I sent my mate Robert Iuet and Iohn Cooke my boat-swainc on shoare, with foure others, to see what the land would yeeld that might bee profitable, and to fill two or three caskes with water.

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A True Description of Three Voyages by the North-East towards Cathay and China
Undertaken by the Dutch in the Years 1594, 1595 and 1596
 , pp. 265 - 272
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1853

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