Fight with a polar bear, 1596, Anonymous, After Gerrit de Veer, 1598 print Fight with the polar bear, 11 and 12 June 1596. The crew in two sloops kills a polar bear. In the background impressions of the visits to Bereiland and Spitsbergen. Opposite page 48 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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