A true description of three voyages by the north-east towards Cathay and China : undertaken by the Dutch in the years 1594, 1595 and 1596 . n other countries. Item, there is marble stone of all colours, also zeuell stoneor the load stone, which the fire cannot hurt, whereof theymake many vessels, as pots, and other great vessels. Item, in Groneland runneth great strcames, and there ismuch snow and ice : but it is not so cold as it is in Islandor Norway. 280 APPENDIX. Item, there grow on the high hills, nuts, and acornes,which are as great as apples, and good to eate. Theregroweth also the best
A true description of three voyages by the north-east towards Cathay and China : undertaken by the Dutch in the years 1594, 1595 and 1596 . n other countries. Item, there is marble stone of all colours, also zeuell stoneor the load stone, which the fire cannot hurt, whereof theymake many vessels, as pots, and other great vessels. Item, in Groneland runneth great strcames, and there ismuch snow and ice : but it is not so cold as it is in Islandor Norway. 280 APPENDIX. Item, there grow on the high hills, nuts, and acornes,which are as great as apples, and good to eate. Theregroweth also the best wheate, that can grow in the wholeland. This sea card was found in the iles of Fero or Farre,lying betweene Shot-lant and Island, in an old reckoningbooke, written aboue one hundred yeeres agoe : out ofwhich this also was all taken. Item, Punnus and Potharse hauc inhabited Island certapieyeeres, and some times haue gone to sea, and haue had theirtrade in Groneland. Also Punnus did giue the Islanderstheir lawes, and caused them to bee written; which lawesdoe continue to this day in Island, and are called by namePunnus lawes. THE INDEX. Adams (Clement), his account of thefirst attempt to discover a north-eastpassage to China, ii Admiralty Island, xcv, 13, 90, 218 Afgoden Hoeck, see Idol Cape. Alferius (or Oliver), the beai-er of aletter from John Balak to GerardMercator, xxxvii; a captive in Rus-sia, sent by Yacovius and Unekiusto Antwerp, xxx\aii; had visited theriver Ob, ib.; his proposal for avoyage of discovery to the noilh-east, xxxix; assumed to be the sameas Oliver Brunei, xlii, 1 Amsterdam (the city of), on the firstexpedition sends Barents round bythe north of Novaya Zemlya, liv; onthe second expedition sends twoships in company with the othersthrough the Strait of Nassau, Ixiii;alone equips two ships for the thirdexpedition, 70 Andriesz. (Claes), one of the thirdexpedition, dies, 198 Anian (Strait of), 149 Anikyi, see Uneldus Archangel, flist called Novo Kholmo-g
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