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

Note 61 — THE FYRST PART OF THE NAUIGATION INTO THE NORTH SEAS.

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From the Island of Crosses to the point of Cape Nassawe,61 they sailed east, and east and by north, about 8 [32] miles: it is a long62 flat point which you must be carefull to shunne, for thereabouts at 7 fadome there were flats or sholes, very farre from the land: it lyeth almost under 76 degrees and a halfe. From the west end of Williams Island to the Island with the Crosses is 3 [12] miles, the course north.63

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