. The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years . other land on the east side, as far as 78^ pinnace was a boat of twenty tons, wath a crewof twelve men. She is portrayed on the curious oldchart of Spitzbergen in Purchases Pilgrimes, pullingup Stor Fiord. The pinnaces crew killed a thou-sand sea-horses on Edge Island, and got 1,300 tons(barrels?) of oil. In 1613, the Dutch followed theexample, and the Dutch and English seamen oftencame to blows over the exclusive r
. The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years . other land on the east side, as far as 78^ pinnace was a boat of twenty tons, wath a crewof twelve men. She is portrayed on the curious oldchart of Spitzbergen in Purchases Pilgrimes, pullingup Stor Fiord. The pinnaces crew killed a thou-sand sea-horses on Edge Island, and got 1,300 tons(barrels?) of oil. In 1613, the Dutch followed theexample, and the Dutch and English seamen oftencame to blows over the exclusive right of the of the English expeditions of this period discov-ered a large island to the eastward of Spitzbergen,which was never visited again until three Norwegiansealing vessels reached it in 1872. This discovery isthus recorded in Purchas :— In the yeare 1617 the Company set out for Green-land fourteene sayle of ships, and their two pinnasses,furnished with a sufficient number of men and allother provisions fitting for the voyage, under the com-mand of Thomas Edge. . They employed a ship ofsixtie tunnes, with twenty men in her, who discovered. ANCIENT MAP OF SPITZBEKGEN-FUOM TUIiCUAS IIIS TILGUIMS. DUTCH ENTERPRISE A DESERTED VILLAGE. 127 to the eastward of Greenland, as far to the north-wards as seventie-nine degrees, an iland which henamed Wiches Iland, and divers other ilands as bythe map appeareth, and killed store of sea-horsesthere, and then came into Bel Sound, where he foundhis lading of oyle left by the captayne, which hetooke in. This yeare the Hull men set a small shipor two to the eastwards of Greenland, for the Hullmen still followed the steps of the Londoners, and ina yeare or two called it their discoverie, which is false,and untrue, as by oath in the Admiraltie doth ap-peare. The Dutch likewise practice the same course. The Dutch whale-fisheries, unlike those of theEnglish, became the source of great national immense capital was investe
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