777 Die wy op een schots ys nae dryvende, dan opraepten, ende op’t vaste ys brachten—which we then picked up by floating after them on a piece of drift ice, and brought upon the firm ice. ↑
789 Bergh-eenden—lit. mountain-ducks. This is the common shieldrake or burrow-duck (Tadorna vulpanser): Gould, Birds of Europe, vol. v, pl. 357. The trivial name “Bar-gander” (bergander) is manifestly a corruption of the Dutch name, and not of “Burrow-gander”, as has been supposed. ↑
790 Also dattet altemet kermis was tusschen onsen smert—so that there was sometimes a holiday in the midst of our sorrows. ↑
800 Ende dat ons voort aen tselvige niet meer gemoeten soude—and that thenceforth the same would not happen to us again. ↑
813 Capo Plancio—Cape Plancius. This headland is not anywhere named in the account of the first voyage, though it appears in the chart of Lomsbay. ↑
820 The habits of these birds are not much altered by the presence of men, or else they would not be called foolish Guillemots. See page 12, note 3. ↑