ABSTRACT
ThefactthatthesevenmenleftatSpitsbergenall survived,whilstthemenatJanMayendied,ledtothe erroneousconclusionthatthewinterclimateofSpitsbergen washealthierthanthatofJanMayen.Accordingly,it wasfoundeasytoenlistanotherseventospendthe winterof1634-5atSmeerenburg,whereasJanMayenwas abandoned.ThenewpartysettleddownintheMiddelburghut,"providedwithallmannerofnecessaries."Ifthey hadhuntedrcindeerassoonastheshipshadsailedaway, theywouldnodoubthavepreservedtheirhealthaswellas theirpredecessors;buttheyseemtohavebeenlazy. Beforelongscurvyattackedthem,andbytheendof Februaryallweredead.TheirJournalwasonlypublished inanabbreviatedform,anddoesnotcontainmuchlocal information.Thetranslationherereprintedistakenfrom pp.359,360,vol.ii,of"ACollectionofVoyagesand Travels,someNowfirstPrintedfromOriginalManuscripts, othersNow"firstPublishedinEnglish.InSixVolumes .....TheThirdEdition.London.Printedby AssignmentfromMessrs.Churchill,forHenryLintotand
three whales. "On the 26th our one sea-fisher came to us in the Bay,
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2.7.May,Anno1634.
