The North-west and North-east passages 1576-1611 . towards the Wey-gats, although we used all the means and industry wecould, to get forward; but when we had passed by theIce Haven, the ice began to drive with such force, thatwe were enclosed round about therewith, and yet wesought all the means we could to get out, but it wasall in vain. And at that time we had like to have lostthree men, that were upon the ice to make way for theship, if the ice had held the course it went; but as wedrove back again, and that the ice also, whereon ourmen stood, in like sort drove, they being nimble, asthe sh
The North-west and North-east passages 1576-1611 . towards the Wey-gats, although we used all the means and industry wecould, to get forward; but when we had passed by theIce Haven, the ice began to drive with such force, thatwe were enclosed round about therewith, and yet wesought all the means we could to get out, but it wasall in vain. And at that time we had like to have lostthree men, that were upon the ice to make way for theship, if the ice had held the course it went; but as wedrove back again, and that the ice also, whereon ourmen stood, in like sort drove, they being nimble, asthe ship drove by them, one of them caught hold of William Barents. Third Voyage Northward 125 the beak head, another upon the shrouds, and thethird upon the great brace that hung out behind, andso by great adventure, by the hold that they took, theygot safe into the ship again, for which they thankedGod with all their hearts: for it was much likelierthat they should rather have been carried away withthe ice, but God, by the nimbleness of their hands,. How our ship stuck fast in the ice, whereby three of us werenearly lost delivered them out of that danger, which was a pitifulthing to behold, although it fell out for the best,for if they had not been nimble, they had surely diedfor it. The same day in the evening we got to the westside of the Ice Haven, where we were forced, in great 126 William Barents. Third Voyage Northward cold, poverty, misery, and grief, to stay all that winter;the wind being then east north-east. The 27 of August the ice drove round about theship, and yet it was good weather; at which time wewent on land, and being there, it began to blow south-east with a reasonable gale, and then the ice came withgreat force before the bow, and drove the ship up four
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