198  THE    NAVIGATION

aud  when  the  sunne  was  south-east  [^  p.  7  a.m.]  Claes  Adri-
ansou1  began  to  be  extreme  sicke,  whereby  we  perceiued
that  he  would  not  Hue  long,  and  the  boateson2  came  into  our
scute3  and  told  vs  in  what  case  he  was,  and  that  he  could  not
long  continue  aliue;  whereupon  William  Barents  spake  and
said,  I  thinko  I  shal  not  liue  long  after  him  ;4  and  yet  we  did
not  ivdge  William  Barents  to  be  so  sicke,  for  we  sat  talking
one  with  the  other,  and  spake  of  many  things,  and  William
Barents  read  in  my  card  which  I  had  made  touching  our
voiage,5  [and  we  had  some  discussion  about  it];  at  last  he  laid
away  the  card  and  spake  vnto  me,  saying,  Gerrit,  give  me
some  drinke  ;6  and  he  had  no  sooner  drunke  but  he  was
taken  with  so  sodain  a  qualme,  that  he  turned  his  eies  in  his
head  and  died  presently,  and  we  had  no  time  to  call  the
maister  out  of  the  [other]  scute  to  speake  vnto  him  ;  and  so
he  died  before  Claes  Adrianson  [who  died  shortly  after  him].
The  death  of  William  Barents  put  vs  in  no  small  discomfort,
as  being  the  chiefe  guide  and  onely  pilot  on  whom  we  reposed
our  selues  next  vnder  God  ;7  but  we  could  not  striue  against
God,  and  therefore  we  must  of  force  be  content.
The  21  of  June  the  ice  began  to  driue  away  againe,  and
God  made  vs  some  opening  with  [a]  south  south-west  wind;
and  when  the  sunne  was  [about]  north  west  the  wind  began
to  blow  south-east  with  a  good  gale,  and  we  began  to  make
preparations  to  go  from  thence.
