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| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Goldgar, Anne |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | Readers in the 1660s were treated to a pathetic vision when they read an account of the travails of employees of the Noordsche Compagnie, the monopoly whaling company, as they struggled to survive the winter on Spitsbergen in 1633–4. Andries Jansz and his six men, who had been ordered to investigate the possibility of year-round occupation of the whaling station in northwest Spitsbergen, did in fact survive, and Jansz's journal, which he had been required to keep by the company, was apparently published. Given the success of this first attempt, a different set of seven volunteers remained behind when the fleet departed Spitsbergen at the end of the summer of 1634. But this group, like a similar party on Jan Mayen Island the previous year, was more ill-fated: everyone in each party died of scurvy. Despite the apparently greatly shortened text ('I have left out a lot of unnecessary material on weather and winds'),$ ^{1}$ their abbreviated journal of merely three pages, produced by the Amsterdam publisher Gillis Joosten Saeghman, provided heart-tugging details about their deaths. The last lines written by the strongest of the men, on February 26, 1635, readers were told, recorded that 'The four of us who are still alive are lying flat in our bunks/We should eat/Was there one so brave that he could come out of his bunk to lay a fire/We cannot move for the pain/we pray to God with folded hands/that he will free us from this oppressive world/if it pleases him we are ready/because we cannot go on much longer without food or fire/and we cannot help each other/each must carry his own burden'.$ ^{2}$ Book Name: Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies |
| Related Links | https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download?dac=C2018-0-94123-1&isbn=9780429270222&format=googlePreviewPdf |
| Ending Page | 227 |
| Page Count | 25 |
| Starting Page | 203 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429270222-8 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2020-12-28 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies Cultural Studies Literary Reviews Previous Year |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
