. Holland; . gave them some pro-visions and wine, and spoonwort, a remedy for scurvy—from which several of the sailors were suffering—which cured them immediately. At the entrance ofthe White Sea a thick fog separated the two boats,which, however, both rounded the cape Kaniniskasafely, and, favored by the wind, in thirty hours cov-ered a space of a hundred and twenty miles, afterwhich they met again with cries of joy. But a muchgreater pleasure awaited them at Kilduin. Therethey found a letter from Ryp, who was in commandof the other ship which had left the island of Texel,announcing his safe
. Holland; . gave them some pro-visions and wine, and spoonwort, a remedy for scurvy—from which several of the sailors were suffering—which cured them immediately. At the entrance ofthe White Sea a thick fog separated the two boats,which, however, both rounded the cape Kaniniskasafely, and, favored by the wind, in thirty hours cov-ered a space of a hundred and twenty miles, afterwhich they met again with cries of joy. But a muchgreater pleasure awaited them at Kilduin. Therethey found a letter from Ryp, who was in commandof the other ship which had left the island of Texel,announcing his safe arrival. After a short time theboat and the shallop rejoined the ship at Kola. Itwas the first time the shipwrecked sailors of NovaZembla had seen the flag of their own country sincethey left the island of Bears, and they saluted itwith a delirium of joy. The two crews threwthemselves into each others arms, recounted theirvarious vicissitudes, wept over lost friends, forgot Atx:hway of Monks Gate, Kampen. THE HELDER. 185 what they had suffered, and sailed together for Hol-land, where they arrived safe and sound on the 29thof October, 1597, three months after their departurefrom the hut. So ended the last enterprise conductedby the Dutch to open a new commercial way to Indiaacross the Arctic Sea. Almost three centuries later,in 1870, the captain of a Swedish vessel, which wasdriven by a tempest upon the coast of Nova Zembla,found the wreck of their ship and a hut containingtwo kettles, a clock, a gun-barrel, a sword, a hatchet,a flute, a Bible, and some cases full of tools and tat-ters of mouldy clothing. They were the last relicsof Barendz and Heemskerks sailors, and were car-ried in triumph to the Hague and exhibited in theMarine Museum as sacred relics. In the evening, as I stood on the summit of thegreat dyke of the Holder in the light of the moon,which would hide suddenly behind the clouds andthen as suddenly reappear in its splendor, all theseimages crowded into my min
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