The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . rned home the same autumn. After the two boats, in which Barents companions hadtravelled with so many dangers and difficulties from their winterhaven to Russian Lapland, had been left in the merchants yard^ ^ Built along with a weigh-house intended for the Norwegians in 1582by the first vojvode in Kola {Hamel, p. 66). In Pontanus (JRerum cturbis Amstelodamensium Historia, Amsterodami, 1611, p. 142), there isa drawing of the inner yard of this house, and of the re
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . rned home the same autumn. After the two boats, in which Barents companions hadtravelled with so many dangers and difficulties from their winterhaven to Russian Lapland, had been left in the merchants yard^ ^ Built along with a weigh-house intended for the Norwegians in 1582by the first vojvode in Kola {Hamel, p. 66). In Pontanus (JRerum cturbis Amstelodamensium Historia, Amsterodami, 1611, p. 142), there isa drawing of the inner yard of this house, and of the reception ofshipwrecked men there. JACOB VAN HEEMSKERK. 195 at Kola, as a memorial of tlie journey—the first memorial ofa, Polar expedition was thus raised at Kola!—they went onboard Rijps vessel, and sailed in it to Holland, arriving therethe --ii—. Sixteen men had left Holland with Barents,twelve men returned in safety to their native land, and amongthem Jacob van Heemskerk, a man who during the wholevoyage had played a prominent part, and afterwards lived longenough to see the time when the Dutch were a match at sea. JACOB VAN HEEMSKKBK, Born in 1567 at Amsterdam, died in 1607 at a contemporary engraving by N. de Clerck. for the Spaniards. For he fell as commander of the Dutch fleetwhich defeated the Spanish at Gibraltar on April 25, 1607. During Barents third voyage Bear Island and Spitzbergenwere discovered, and the natural conditions of the high northernregions during winter first became known. On the otherhand, the unfortunate issue of the maritime expeditions sentout from Holland appears to have completely deterred from 0 2 196 THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [chap. further attempts to find a north-eastern commercial route toChina and Japan, and this route was also now less necessary,as Houtman returned with the first Dutch fleet from the EastIndies the same year that Barents companions came back fromtheir wintering. The problem was therefore seriously t
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