ABSTRACT
Island,inordertokeepacontinuousoccupationofthose places."1
WearenothereconcernedwiththefortunesormisfortunesoftheJanMayenwinterers.Theyalldied, leavingbehindthemapatheticjournal,whichwaspublished underthefollowingtitle:-"TweeJournalen,HetEerste gehoudenbydeSevenMatroosen,OphetEylandtMauritius,inGroenlandt,IndenJare1633en1634inhaer Overwinteren,dochsijnalt'samengestorven:Enhet tweedegehouden·bydeSevenMatroosen,dieopSpitsbergenZijnOverwintert,enaldaerghestorven,indenJare 1634."Amsterdatn(Saeghman),s.d.(1635)4to.English translationsofthisbookareprintedinChurchill'sCollectz"on ofVoyages,vol.ii,andinPinkerton'sCollection,vol.i.The secondjournalintheabovebookisnotthatofVander Bruggeof1633-4,butofthesevensailorswhowintered anddiedatSpitsbergeninthefollowingwinter,1634-5, atranslationofwhichisprintedinthepresentvolume.
