Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Barentz” in alphabetic letter N, entry group 4, entry northeastern-passage-to-india of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
...Holland that there was an open polar sea, where perpetual summer reigned, and that a happy, cultivated people existed there.
To find these people and this northeastern marine route to India, Willem Barentz (q. v.), a pilot of Amsterdam, sailed (June, 1594), with four vessels furnished by the government and several cities of the Netherlands, for the Arctic seas.
Barentz's vessel became separated from ...
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