Attack by three polar bears on the sloops, 1597, Anonymous, After Gerrit de Veer, 1598 print The sloops were taken out of the water at Kaap Nassau and are attacked by three polar bears, 28 and 29 June 1597. In the foreground, two of the polar bears eat a shot third polar bear. Opposite page 103 in: 'Warhafftige Relation. Der Dreyen Newen Unerhörten Seltzamen Schiffart So Die Holländischen und Seeländischen Schiff .... Anno 1594, 1595 und 1596 performed '(1598). Nuremberg paper engraving New Zembla


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