Het overwinteren der Hollanders in Nova Zemla geschiedt in de Jaeren MDXCVI en MDXCVII . Four scenes from the Dutch expedition led by Willem Barentsz searching for a north-east passage to India, forced to spend the winter of 1596/97 in Novaya Zemlya: top left, two men of the shore party savaged by a polar bear. In left foreground, others attacked by another bear, in the background ships anchored off-shore; top right, ship ice-bound and raised by shifting floes, crew off-loading stores and towing boat across ice; bottom left, look-out in chimney of make-shift hut on watch for bears, crew butchering bear in foreground; bottom right, off-loading stores from ice-bound boat; illustration to Pieter Christiaensz Bor's "Nederlandsche Oorlogen" (Am
Jan Luyken.
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