Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Grotius” in chapter 5 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition.:
...g a north-eastern route.
A double expedition was therefore sent forth on discovery; two flyboats vainly tried to pass through the straits of Veigatz, while, in a large ship, William Barentsen, whom Grotius honored as the peer of Columbus, coasted Nova Zembla to the seventy-seventh degree, without finding a passage.
Netherlanders in the service of Portugal had visited India, Malacca, China, and eve...
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