The Three Voyages of William Barents to the Arctic Regions

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Excerpt from The Three Voyages of William Barents to the Arctic Regions: 1594, 1595 and 1596 The yacht Glow-worm left Hammerfest (norway) on June 23rd, and made her first ice on the 4th of July, being about twenty-five miles to westward of Goose Land (novaya Zemlya). The approach to the land was found to be obstructed by solid icefields, but two days afterwards, Mr. Gardiner succeeded in reaching the land-water, and shaping his course north, he tried to get as far as Cape Nassau. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.