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Early Dutch and English Voyages to Spitsbergen in the Seventeenth Century

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Early Dutch and English Voyages to Spitsbergen in the Seventeenth Century book

Including Hessel Gerritsz. 'Histoire du pays nommé Spitsberghe,' 1613 and Jacob Segersz. van der Brugge 'Journael of dagh register,' Amsterdam, 1634

Early Dutch and English Voyages to Spitsbergen in the Seventeenth Century

DOI link for Early Dutch and English Voyages to Spitsbergen in the Seventeenth Century

Early Dutch and English Voyages to Spitsbergen in the Seventeenth Century book

Including Hessel Gerritsz. 'Histoire du pays nommé Spitsberghe,' 1613 and Jacob Segersz. van der Brugge 'Journael of dagh register,' Amsterdam, 1634
ByBasil H. Soulsby, J.A.J. de Villiers
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2010
eBook Published 15 May 2017
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315578378
Pages 264 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315578378
SubjectsHumanities, Language & Literature
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Soulsby, B., Villiers, J., Conway, S. (Ed.). (2010). Early Dutch and English Voyages to Spitsbergen in the Seventeenth Century. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315578378

'Early Dutch and English Voyages' translated into English, for the first time, by Basil H. Soulsby, F.S.A., of the British Museum; Segersz's text translated into English, for the first time, by J. A. J. de Villiers, of the British Museum. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Sir W. Martin Conway, F.S.A. With affidavits by English merchants and seamen relating to happenings at Spitzbergen in 1618, and two documents telling of events there in 1634-5, taken from Public Record Office, State Papers Domestic. Including a bibliography of Spitzbergen, pp. ix-xiv. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1904.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |7 pages

du Pays nomme

Monstrant comtnent qu'i1 est trouvee, son nature] & ses avecques.

chapter |4 pages

thenorthernmostsituated

chapter |18 pages

theand

chapter |2 pages

and found the big island of Spitsbergen, and that in the year of the reign of King Edward the Sixth, which

chapter |2 pages

With regard to the second argument of the English, that the N. belong to their King, both

chapter |1 pages

toJanandthat

chapter |1 pages

the first time printed. We possess

chapter |2 pages

I6 I

HELEY of London, mer-

chapter |2 pages

Dragon nowe? you thinke to doe as you did the last yeare, but we are fitted f0r you nowe and wilbe even with you the last yeares work"; which being spoken by divers

chapter |2 pages

and sent to him to that end, which, upon report of

chapter |4 pages

Heley and Stephen Smith aboorde the

chapter |4 pages

theythatThey

chapter |6 pages

and J ohns0n, of farr better oarriadge

chapter |1 pages

theofbyRotterdam ,

chapter |2 pages

to the Hollanders in the yeare 1614 by Captaine Josep. The English answered them that was more then Captaine do or had power, he beeinge but a servante,

chapter |3 pages

they said that presently after wards newes

chapter |2 pages

next season, all the eight men were found

chapter 70|2 pages

and the casks floated off and hoisted on

chapter 72|2 pages

by the English, Monier Bay by the Dutch; this is Van

chapter 74|2 pages

There "they landed, and took, pillaged, and stole

It was decided to follow his involuntary example.

chapter |2 pages

~ lutt

chapter |10 pages

76takentheother

chapter |2 pages

and uninhabited places to the real service and

chapter |2 pages

theofand

chapter 86|6 pages

and l'Heremite.But, as far as we

chapter 92|1 pages

[Sept.

chapter |2 pages

gottroubleupthe

chapter 95|2 pages

or as necessity demanded, in order then to regale

chapter 97|2 pages

did they drag it ashore, and await there better

chapter |1 pages

On the 22nd, the wind N.E., with fog and drift-snow that in melting the snow for cooking-water,

chapter |1 pages

[Sept.

chapter |2 pages

take greater care another time. In the night,

chapter |2 pages

communitynotthatif

chapter |2 pages

our storehouse had been built only one plank thick,

chapter |2 pages

bottom whilst standing in our hut, about eight feet frmn the fire. This barrel we again broke open, hacked the ice and melted it ; but found it no better, indeed worse

chapter 10|2 pages

t; on the way, we still went in pursuit

chapter 3|2 pages

oftheWest

chapter |2 pages

and bitter cold. Late in the evening we found that not much snow had yet fallen.

chapter 5|2 pages

of being frozen. To-day we broke open our

chapter |1 pages

the moon was in the E., and proceeded

chapter 8|3 pages

( Dec .

chapter |2 pages

but since we sank deep into the snow every

chapter |2 pages

not seek him further. In the night we

chapter |2 pages

They kept together in troops ; of the three bears shot that one was a female, from which we

chapter |2 pages

andby

chapter |2 pages

that we could depart with the approaching season ;

chapter |2 pages

the W. wind, they had made

chapter |4 pages

T o -d ayof

chapter |2 pages

die opSpitsbergenOverwinte . r t zijn . .

chapter |1 pages

Wethentoourour

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[Feb.

chapter |3 pages

139oftoAsthe

chapter |3 pages

[Feb.

chapter |2 pages

the men skinned the bear killed the day before. In

chapter |1 pages

our reckoning. During the first quarter the wind rose, with that I feared the dog would not find

chapter |1 pages

[ March

chapter |2 pages

manyto

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ate

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J634] JOURNAL. yard long and whereof they have only two in the upper and with which they had knocked several holes in the

chapter 1634|1 pages

] hamandpreparingofhot

chapter i|1 pages

\ pril

chapter |1 pages

OntheanInthe

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[May

chapter |1 pages

On the 4th, the frost and the weather continue9 as The bay remained ice-bound, so that we could

chapter |2 pages

I6o [May

chapter |1 pages

[May

chapter |1 pages

by the mother,

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[May

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theof

chapter 6|5 pages

S i x

chapter |62 pages

but one among us that could stir out ot

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