The Three Voyages of William Barents to the Arctic Regions - 1594, 1595 and 1596 #221960

The yacht Glow-worm left Hammerfest (norway) on June 23rd, and made her first ice on the 4th of July, being about twenty-five miles to westward of Goose Land (novaya Zemlya). The approach to the land was found to be obstructed by solid icefields, but two days afterwards, Mr. Gardiner succeeded in reaching the land-water, and shaping his course north, he tried to get as far as Cape Nassau.