Editing Willem Barentsz (section)

===Second voyage===
[[File:Aanvaring tussen de schepen van Barentsz en Van Linschoten, 1595, NG-1979-564-7 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Barentz flagship ''Gulden Windthunde'' nearly collided with that of the Vice Admiral on the second voyage 6 August 1595]]
[[File:Polar bear, Gerrit de Veer (1596).jpg|thumb|Crew of Willem Barentsz fighting a polar bear]]

The following year, [[Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange|Prince Maurice of Orange]] was filled with "the most exaggerated hopes"<ref name="maine" /> on hearing of Barentsz' previous voyage, and named him chief pilot and conductor of a new expedition, which was accompanied by six ships loaded with merchant wares that the Dutch hoped to trade with China.<ref name="lights">{{cite web|url=http://www.ub.uit.no/northernlights/eng/wbarentsz.htm|title=The Northern Lights Route – Willem Barentsz|website=www.ub.uit.no|access-date=17 July 2017}}</ref>

Setting out on 2 June 1595,<ref name="maine" /> the voyage went between the Siberian coast and [[Vaygach|Vaygach Island]]. On 30 August, the party came across approximately 20 [[Samoyedic peoples|Samoyed]] "wild men" with whom they were able to speak, due to a crewmember speaking their language.<ref name="diary" /> 4 September saw a small crew sent to [[States Island]] to search for a type of [[crystal]] that had been noticed earlier. The party was attacked by a polar bear, and two sailors were killed.<ref>Beechey, F.W. [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_MKwNAAAAQAAJ/page/n265 <!-- p=240 quote=barentz. --> "A Voyage Of Discovery Towards The North Pole, In The Majesty's Ships"], 1843.</ref>

Eventually, the expedition turned back upon discovering that unexpected weather had left the [[Kara Sea]] frozen.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Van Der Werf|first= Siebren Y.|date=November 1997 |title= Astronomical Observations During Willem Barents's Third Voyage to the North|journal= Arctic|volume= 51|issue= 2|url= http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic51-2-142.pdf|doi=10.14430/arctic1055}}</ref> This expedition was largely considered to be a failure.<ref>Scoresby, William. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Jz4rwPKKnqYC&dq=barentz&pg=RA1-PA59 "An Account of the Arctic Regions"], 1820.</ref>