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The Three Voyages of William Barents to the Arctic Regions (1594, 1595, and 1596)

Note 126 — THE FYRST PART OF THE NAUIGATION INTO THE NORTH SEAS.

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Ende een gotelincks schoot van daer stont noch een cruijs—and a falconet-shot from thence stood another cross. Lütke (p. 20) criticises Barrow for saying (p. 141) that the Hollanders found here, among other things, “a large cannon shot”; but it is clear that the latter has merely modernized Phillip’s words “a bullet for a great piece”. ↑

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