Book contents
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- CORRIGENDA ET ADDENDA
- Map
- Title page
- Dedication
- THE FYRST PART OF THE NAUIGATION INTO THE NORTH SEAS
- APPENDIX
- I A LETTER FROM JOHN BALAK TO GERARD MERCATOR
- II AN ACCOUNT OF HENRY HUDSON'S VISIT TO NOVAYA ZEMLYA
- III WRITINGS OF WILLIAM BARENTS, PRESERVED BY PURCHAS
- INDEX
- Plate section
III - WRITINGS OF WILLIAM BARENTS, PRESERVED BY PURCHAS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- CORRIGENDA ET ADDENDA
- Map
- Title page
- Dedication
- THE FYRST PART OF THE NAUIGATION INTO THE NORTH SEAS
- APPENDIX
- I A LETTER FROM JOHN BALAK TO GERARD MERCATOR
- II AN ACCOUNT OF HENRY HUDSON'S VISIT TO NOVAYA ZEMLYA
- III WRITINGS OF WILLIAM BARENTS, PRESERVED BY PURCHAS
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
I thought good to adde hither for Barents or Barentsons sake, certaine notes which I have found (the one translated, the other written by him) amongst Master Hakluyts Paper.
This was written by William Barentson in a loose paper, which was lent mee by the Reuerend Peter Plantius in. Amsterdam, March the seuen and twentieth, 1609.
The foure and twentieth of August, stilo nouo, 1595, wee spake with the Samoieds, and asked them how the land and sea did lye to the east of Way-gates. They sayd, after fiue dayes iourney going north-east, wee should come to a great sea, going south-east. This sea to the east of Way-gats they sayd was called Marmoria, that is to say, a calme sea. And they of Ward-house haue told vs the same. I asked them if at any time of the yeere it was frozen ouer? They sayd it was. And that sometimes they passed it with sleds. And the first of September 1595, stilo nouo, the Eusses of the lodie or barke affirmed the same; saying, that the sea is sometimes so frozen, that the lodies or barkes going sometimes to Gielhsidi from Pechora, are forced there to winter; which Gielhsidi was wonne from the Tartars three yeeres past.
For the ebbe and flood there, I can finde none; but with the winde so runneth the streame. The third of September, stilo nouo, the winde was south-west, and then I found the water higher then with the winde at north north-east. Mine opinion is grounded on experience: that if there bee a passage, it is small, or else the sea could not rise with a southerly winde.
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- A True Description of Three Voyages by the North-East towards Cathay and ChinaUndertaken by the Dutch in the Years 1594, 1595 and 1596, pp. 273 - 280Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1853