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

Note 41 — THE FYRST PART OF THE NAUIGATION INTO THE NORTH SEAS.

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From Cape Bapo to the west point of Lombsbay north-east and by north are 5 [20] miles, and betweene them both there are 2 creekes. Lombsbay is a great wide bay, on the west side thereof hauing a faire hauen 6, 7, or 8, fadome deepe, black sand: there they went on shore with their boate, and vpon the shore placed a beacon, made of an old mast which they found there; calling the bay Lombsbay, because of a certaine kind of beares41 so called, which they found there in great aboundance.

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