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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)
believing that the coast of Siberia fell away to the south-east, hoped to shorten the voyage at least eight thousand miles by using 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 1595. visited India, Malacca, China, and even Japan. Of these Cornelius Houtman, in April, 1595, sailed for India by way of the Cape of Good Hope, and before 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 republic, disheartened by the repeated failure, refused to fit out another expedition; but the city o