Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . THE SEA. them with ceremony to the Merchants House, or Town-Hall,where they dedicated them to the memory of their long voyageof four hundred leagues over a tract never traversed before, andwhich they had accomplished in open boats. They started atonce for home, and. arrived on the 1st of November at Amster-dam, twelve in number. The city was greatly excited by thenews of their return, for they had long since been given up fordead. The chancellor and the ambassado
Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . THE SEA. them with ceremony to the Merchants House, or Town-Hall,where they dedicated them to the memory of their long voyageof four hundred leagues over a tract never traversed before, andwhich they had accomplished in open boats. They started atonce for home, and. arrived on the 1st of November at Amster-dam, twelve in number. The city was greatly excited by thenews of their return, for they had long since been given up fordead. The chancellor and the ambassador of the very illus-trious King of Denmark, Norway, the Goths and the Vandalswere at that moment at dinner. The voyagers were summonedto narrate their adventures before them,—which they did, cladin white fox-skin caps. No voyage had hitherto been so fruitful in incident, peril,and displays of persevering courage and fortitude. Though itresulted in no discovery except that of the western coast ofNova Zembla, it served the useful purpose of demonstratingthe difficulty, if not the impossibility, of effecting a THE FUNERAL OF MAHU AT BRAVA ISLAND. CHAPTER XXXII. THE FIVE SHIPS OF ROTTERDAM—BATTLE AT THE ISLAND OF BRAVA—SEBALDDE WEERT—DISASTERS IN THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN—THE CREW EATUNCOOKED FOOD—THE FLEET IS SCATTERED TO THE WINDS—ADVEN-TURES OF DE WEERT—A WRETCHED OBJECT—RETURN TO HOLLAND—VOYAGEOF OLIVER VAN NOORT—BARBAROUS PUNISHMENT—THE EMBLEM OF HOPEBECOMES A CAUSE OF DESPAIR—FIGHT WITH THE PATAGONIANS—ARREST OFTHE VICE-ADMIRAL—HIS PUNISHMENT—DESCRIPTION OF A CHILIAN BEVE-RAGE—CAPTURE OF A SPANISH TREASURE-SHIP—A PILOT THROWN OVER-BOARD—SEA-FIGHT OFF MANILLA—RETURN HOME, AFTER THE FIRST DUTCHVOYAGE OF CIRCUMNAVIGATION. The Dutch, who had now succeeded the Portuguese in thepossession and control of the East Indies, had, up to the year1598, made all their voyages thither by the Portuguese route,—the Cape of Good Hope. In
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