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 . THE True and perfect De-scription of three Voy- ages, so strange and woonderfuU, that the like hath neuer beenheard of before : Done and performed three yeares,one after the other,by the Ships of Holland and Zeland, on the North sides of Norway, Muscoma, and Tartarla, towards the Kingdomes of Cathaia & China ; shewing the discouerie of the Straights of Weigates, Noua Zembla, and the Countrie lying vnder 80. degrees ; which is thought to he Greeidand: where
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 . THE True and perfect De-scription of three Voy- ages, so strange and woonderfuU, that the like hath neuer beenheard of before : Done and performed three yeares,one after the other,by the Ships of Holland and Zeland, on the North sides of Norway, Muscoma, and Tartarla, towards the Kingdomes of Cathaia & China ; shewing the discouerie of the Straights of Weigates, Noua Zembla, and the Countrie lying vnder 80. degrees ; which is thought to he Greeidand: where neuer any man had bin before: with the cruell Beares, and other Monsters of the Sea, and the vnsup- portable and extreame cold that is found to be in those places. And how that in the last Voyage, the Shippe was so inclosed by the Ice, that it was left there, whereby the men were forced to build a house in the cold and desart Countrie of Noua Zembla, wherin they continued 10. monthes togeather, and neuer saw nor heard of any man, in most great cold and extreame miserie; and how after that, to saue their hues, they were constrain
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