Ocean's Story; or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries Maritime Adventures, Achievements, Explorations, Discoveries and Inventions; and of the Rise and Progress of Ship-Building and Ocean Navigation, from the Ark to the Iron Steamships

CHAPTER XXXIX.--The Dutch West India Company--Renewed Search for

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the Terra Australis Incognita--Jacob Roggewein--His Voyage of Discovery--Brush with Pirates--Arrival at Juan Fernandez--Easter Island--Its Inhabitants--Entertainment of one on board the Ship--A Misunderstanding--Pernicious and Recreation Islands--Glimpse of the Society Islands--A Famine in the Fleet--Arrival at New Britain--Confiscation of the Ship at Batavia--Decision of the States-General--Vitus Behring--Behring's Strait--Description of the Scene--Death of Behring--Subsequent Survey of the Strait 383