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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 8 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
ore his return, circumnavigated Java. In the same year Jacob van Heemskerk, the great mariner and naval hero, aided by Barentsen, renewed the search on the north-east, but attempted in vain to pass to the south Chap. XV.} of Nova Zembla. The repused to fit out another expedition; but the city of Amsterdam, in 1596, despatched two 1596. ships under Heemskerk and Barentsen to look for the open sea, which it had been said was to be found to the north of all known land. Braver men never battd with arctic dangers; they discovered the jagged cliffs of Spitzbergen, and came within ten degrees of the pole. Then Barentsen sought to go round Nova Zembla, and when his ship was hopelessly enveloped by ice, had the courage to encamp his crew ooats, were tossed for three months by storms and among icebergs, before they could reach the shelter of the White Sea. Barentsen sunk under his trials, but was engaged in poring over a sea-chart as he died. The expeditions of the Dutch were withou