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Holland is penniless after
its war with the Spanish Empire.
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To survive, it needs trade
with the Far East.
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The problem is the route.
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Cornelis de Hout with his fleet seeks
a route through the Spanish blockades...
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and around the Cape of Good Hope.
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Nothing more is heard of him.
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The influential minister Petrus Plancius
asks the explorer William Barentsz...
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to look for a Northeast passage
past Nova Zembla.
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Two previous attempts failed.
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To the noble, wise and wealthy patron...
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the Reverend Plancius.
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Many coasts that were once unknown...
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have recently been discovered after
several searches.
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As this journey has been undertaken
with your support and for your benefit...
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I take the liberty of dedicating
this description to you.
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Based on a true story
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The boy...
- Which boy?
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The mayor's son.
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Oh, him.
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His name is Pieter Cornelis?
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PC, yes. What about him?
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Do you make love to him too, as you...?
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He writes poems for me.
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In French, I suppose.
- Yes.
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And in Latin.
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Why don't you write me poems?
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About what?
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About this?
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It's the verger.
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Hey, little verger!
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Symen, come here.
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Silly...
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Symen is as deaf as a post.
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You know that.
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It's such a pity...
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you have no money...
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no family...
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Gerrit 'no one's son' de Veer.
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My father will never approve marrying you.
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Your father can't do without me.
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I do everything for him.
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You take his messages.
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I'm his assistant.
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Messenger boy.
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Soon I'll have money.
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When I come back, I'll have money.
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You don't mean that?
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You're no sailor.
- I don't care.
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I'm going anyway.
- Around the North?
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Yes...
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and when I come back I'll be rich.
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In this way, our people, with God's help...
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has thrown off the yoke of
the Spanish occupier...
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and demanded its freedom.
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He granted us...
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oceans to sail...
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continents to discover...
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He granted us a spirit of enterprise...
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a lust for adventure.
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Leaders such as Willem Barentsz...
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or Jacob van Heemskerck,
who is present here...
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are determined this time...
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to find and open the passage of fortune
to the Indies for us.
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Men like them, and may our prayers
accompany them on their voyages...
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will bring riches to our poor...
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and poverty stricken people.
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And in this way also peace...
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and wealth...
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for everyone.
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The blessing of God descends...
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on our very young Republic.
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Go hence in peace...
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Amen...
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Papa...
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You were wonderful.
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A wonderful story, minister.
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A story that will help us cope
with the cold.
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I don't think that cold will be
your greatest enemy, Jacob, rather...
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a lack of warmth.
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And, Jacob...
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You are a fine captain...
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but listen to Barentsz.
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He keeps it all up here.
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Did you have...
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An astrolabe...
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What do you need it for?
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For measuring star time.
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Tell me...
- Copernicus' constant?
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The constant is 9.83.
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That's the relation between
the Earth and the Moon.
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The constant 2.95 refers
to the relation Earth-Sun...
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Sun-Mercury, Sun-Venus...
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Sun-Mars and Sun-Jupiter.
Zon-Mars en Zon-Jupiter.
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Good.
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And this...
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is for Mr Barentsz.
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Guard it...
- with my own life.
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Have you had time to think?
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I have to do this.
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Make sure you hand it over personally.
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Thank you.
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Oene, stop or I'll stick it up your ass!
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But I still make the music.
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He's asleep. Our Jantje is asleep.
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Wait, wait! Jantje is thirsty.
Here it comes.
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Jantje stinks of berry rum!
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Stop it!
- Jantje stinks and we're proud of it.
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I'm looking for Barentsz.
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It's not about the voyage, boy...
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it's about coming home.
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Remember that.
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Men, a land crab!
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Never mind, darling. As long as there's a
mast on you!
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We've got Placius' slave! Claes! Claes!
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I am Gerrit de Veer and
I came from the Reverend Plancius.
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Well, Gerrit de Veer...
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Come closer.
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What has our patron given us?
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I have to give it to Barentsz personally.
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I want to ask you something.
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I really want to go along.
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On the expedition?
- Yes.
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You hear that, Willem? Tired of life?
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A fight with your father?
- I have no parents.
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That's an astrolabe...
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made by a maker in Louvain.
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It uses stars to show the time.
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I have a letter.
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I am good at reading
and want to be a writer.
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I want to write about my voyages.
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Writer? What use is a writer on a ship?
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All great explorers have a writer on board.
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All of them?
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They report on the voyage in a book
and they become famous.
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Christopher Columbus?
- Yes.
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Vasco da Gama?
- Alvaro Velho.
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Mr Barentsz...
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Did you ask Mayor Hooft to come?
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Well, men...
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Preparing for the voyage?
- Tradition.
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The men are enjoying themselves.
- I noticed.
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Good men.
- Enough for the Amsterdam bonus.
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Good enough to open the route
to fortune, for Amsterdam.
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And the Republic.
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I came to wish you a good voyage.
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Wine.
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Are you deaf?
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One order is enough
for Van Heemskerck's men.
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Wine!
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We can't refuse the great Plancius.
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This young man will make us famous.
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At your service, captain.
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Take this young man with you.
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Keep him away from my daughter.
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Make a man of him...
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OI'...
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feed him to the white bears.
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Catharina...
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No don't open it! Silly you!
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Catharina...
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I promise that when I return from China...
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Japan and India,
I'll bring you beautiful things.
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Not important.
- And the bonus?
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The voyage isn't important.
Returning is.
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Please wait for me and
beat off the rich kids!
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Wait for me.
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Sprat... are you still coming?
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Stop twiddling.
Hurry. You're the last.
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Come on, I'll help you.
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Here you are, first-class accommodation.
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Take a seat.
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Can you manage?
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You are Gerrit, aren't you?
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You're a writer.
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Get out. Get out.
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Come with me.
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Come on.
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Yep.
- Sit down.
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All hands on deck!
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What is that landlubber doing here?
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No idea.
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On deck, sprat!
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The captain doesn't like latecomers.
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There are two ways to get to India.
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To the south, via Portugal. We're not
welcome there; it's Spanish now.
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Then further south
round the Cape of Good Hope
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Around Africa...
- Madagascar.
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Madagascar... we have an expert here.
- Show off.
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The other way is round the North.
It's hard for a couple of weeks...
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A warm coat and God's blessing.
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And the right route through the ice.
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An expedition was certainly never so well
organised. We have everything.
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We have the best maps, a hold full of
textiles, a clock for China's Emperor...
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and gifts to do business in Japan.
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Once we're there,
it's only a couple of days away.
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Then we'll be in the marvelous Indies.
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We'll forget the cold
under the tropical sun.
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With a woman on each arm.
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Rules on board the ship...
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Blasphemy is not allowed.
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Theft is forbidden.
Keep off other people's things.
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No fighting on this ship.
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It will be punished and harshly.
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Discipline is most important on board
and then comes speed.
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Remember the bonus.
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One more thing: you are warned...
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I don't want to see the Virgin Mary
or rosaries.
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Or any other papist frills.
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We've had enough with the Spanish.
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Men, shout hurray for the captain.
- Hurray!
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On 16 May 1596...
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on the orders of the States General
and Prince Maurits of Orange...
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our ship set sail
through the Wargat Straits...
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to sail to the kingdoms
of Cathay and China.
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And to the East Indies.
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The jibe!
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You forgot to brace the clew line!!
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No, over the top!
- Over the topsail.
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No the tether over the halyard.
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And then the tether over the halyard.
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Look at him with his quill.
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You don't need that here at sea.
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You're not going to write here are you?
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Dear Oene, my friend...
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Would your honour be so kind
as to lower the mainsail?
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This because of the approaching storm.
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And please answer by tomorrow.
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Yours sincerely, your captain.
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Writing is for lords and masters.
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And for Gerrit, of course.
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I'd like to write to.
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What for, boy?
- And what?
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I want to write my name.
- Jan!
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It's a very ordinary name.
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It's a deadly ordinary name.
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But it is mine.
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Gerrit?
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Pen, paper. Come with me.
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Here.
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Sit over here.
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I don't want to hear you.
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I just want to hear your pen on paper.
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Write down everything that is said.
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Where were we?
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Plancius says that...
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38 degrees...
- I propose that the route...
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10 June 1596.
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With a north-easterly wind,
we're sailing north north-west.
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It's almost a month since we left Holland.
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We pass a medium-sized island to port.
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The captain decides to anchor and
go ashore looking for fresh provisions...
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before we head for the cold.
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The coasts are deserted.
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We are explorers entering a new world.
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Look up there, men. Fresh meat.
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They're parrot crossbills,
we used to call them twites.
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Jan, you're the lightest.
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Little writer...
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How about you?
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Claes, come on.
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Birds.
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Janfle!
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11 June 1596.
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Every sailor in Amsterdam
wanted to join this voyage.
265
00:28:50,939 --> 00:28:54,984
A fortune awaits beyond the horizon.
266
00:28:54,984 --> 00:28:58,196
The men call themselves the chosen.
267
00:28:58,196 --> 00:29:00,531
But why were they chosen?
268
00:29:00,531 --> 00:29:04,661
Why? None of the men have something to
return to.
269
00:29:04,661 --> 00:29:07,080
None have a wife or children.
270
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:10,582
No one has a home. Apart from me.
271
00:29:20,343 --> 00:29:25,098
We leave the island and sail north
on a westerly wind.
272
00:29:25,098 --> 00:29:29,393
Late that evening,
the island is 16 miles behind us.
273
00:29:30,353 --> 00:29:33,939
Now there's only open sea.
274
00:30:25,616 --> 00:30:26,742
Claes...
275
00:30:28,328 --> 00:30:29,494
give it back.
276
00:30:31,247 --> 00:30:32,497
Give it back.
277
00:31:31,557 --> 00:31:35,269
Make him taste the blood!
278
00:31:35,269 --> 00:31:37,188
Come on then.
279
00:31:37,188 --> 00:31:38,480
Hold him under.
280
00:31:39,524 --> 00:31:41,191
Hold him under!
281
00:31:50,743 --> 00:31:53,537
Head in, head in!
282
00:31:56,457 --> 00:31:58,041
Come on, boys.
283
00:32:07,552 --> 00:32:08,427
Claes!
284
00:32:13,599 --> 00:32:15,684
Stop it!
285
00:32:22,859 --> 00:32:26,863
What's going on, Claes?
- He stole by book from my chest.
286
00:32:26,863 --> 00:32:28,196
Shut up, Gerrit.
287
00:32:29,532 --> 00:32:32,868
I thought he was asleep.
I didn't want to wake him.
288
00:32:38,499 --> 00:32:40,543
Claes...
289
00:32:40,543 --> 00:32:45,380
How often have I told you not
to get worked up like this?
290
00:32:46,549 --> 00:32:51,554
Possessions on board are sacred, Claes.
All sailors know that.
291
00:32:51,554 --> 00:32:54,139
You know the punishment.
292
00:32:56,434 --> 00:32:59,769
The captain will tell you what will happen.
293
00:33:02,565 --> 00:33:05,651
Everyone knows the rules on board?
294
00:33:05,651 --> 00:33:08,487
Tomorrow morning: The widow!
295
00:33:18,956 --> 00:33:20,874
Traitor.
296
00:33:25,004 --> 00:33:26,838
Clear up the blood.
297
00:33:46,150 --> 00:33:51,572
No one can survive 2 or 3 minutes
in that ice-cold water.
298
00:33:51,572 --> 00:33:53,491
It's your decision.
299
00:33:53,491 --> 00:33:56,869
Claes will drown.
- Claes is strong.
300
00:33:56,869 --> 00:33:58,829
He'll drown.
301
00:33:58,829 --> 00:34:01,290
He won't make it.
302
00:34:01,290 --> 00:34:05,585
Then reverse the decision.
- I can't. You decided for me.
303
00:34:11,467 --> 00:34:14,971
You're the captain.
- Don't keep telling me that.
304
00:34:14,971 --> 00:34:20,309
One of us is captain, it's not me.
- I'm captain and they want to believe you.
305
00:34:20,309 --> 00:34:22,770
We can't let it pass.
306
00:34:22,770 --> 00:34:26,399
Before you know,
it'll be like three years ago.
307
00:34:26,399 --> 00:34:28,400
We had to hang a couple.
308
00:34:31,612 --> 00:34:33,948
We should have whipped him
309
00:34:33,948 --> 00:34:36,950
He could take 10 or even 20.
310
00:34:39,870 --> 00:34:41,914
You know, Jacob...
311
00:34:41,914 --> 00:34:45,709
a weak captain benefits no one.
312
00:35:12,528 --> 00:35:15,822
In the name of the Republic!
313
00:35:45,311 --> 00:35:46,728
Pull!
314
00:36:07,875 --> 00:36:09,834
Come on, pull!
315
00:36:10,795 --> 00:36:12,671
He's stuck!
316
00:36:22,723 --> 00:36:24,057
He won't make it!
317
00:38:28,474 --> 00:38:31,727
You won't put this in your book, will you,
little man?
318
00:38:31,727 --> 00:38:33,437
Yes I will.
319
00:38:33,437 --> 00:38:35,855
I know exactly how to write it down.
320
00:38:40,444 --> 00:38:43,322
Claes was the strongest man on board.
321
00:38:43,322 --> 00:38:47,493
And everyone was afraid of him.
Everyone!
322
00:38:47,493 --> 00:38:50,245
Apart from the captain and Barentsz.
323
00:38:51,455 --> 00:38:53,791
And Claes knew all too well...
324
00:38:53,791 --> 00:38:56,627
that minor infringements...
325
00:38:56,627 --> 00:38:59,588
could be punished severely.
326
00:38:59,588 --> 00:39:02,049
He knew that all too well.
327
00:39:02,049 --> 00:39:05,928
But Claes happened to be Claes...
328
00:39:05,928 --> 00:39:08,596
and Claes wasn't afraid of the devil.
329
00:39:30,244 --> 00:39:34,623
Gerrit de Veer - he's writing about me!
330
00:39:34,623 --> 00:39:36,040
Gerrit the quill!
331
00:39:37,918 --> 00:39:40,545
One big hurray for Claes!
- Hurray!
332
00:39:43,299 --> 00:39:45,800
And one big hurray for the quill!
- Hurray!
333
00:40:03,694 --> 00:40:05,987
4 July 1596.
334
00:40:06,864 --> 00:40:09,408
We sail east and north.
335
00:40:09,408 --> 00:40:11,201
We haven't seen any ice.
336
00:40:11,201 --> 00:40:14,997
That's strange because we're so far north.
337
00:40:14,997 --> 00:40:20,252
The men withdraw increasingly into
their fixed routine
338
00:40:20,252 --> 00:40:23,088
We go west with a northerly wind and...
339
00:40:23,088 --> 00:40:27,926
at about five o'clock southeast
with a north-easterly wind.
340
00:40:33,974 --> 00:40:35,976
Land! Men! Land!
341
00:40:35,976 --> 00:40:37,644
Land ahoy!
342
00:40:58,624 --> 00:40:59,916
Iseeland.
343
00:41:02,670 --> 00:41:05,797
What you think it is?
- I don't know.
344
00:41:09,051 --> 00:41:11,427
It's Nova Zembla, men.
345
00:41:15,057 --> 00:41:16,432
It's Nova Zembla
346
00:41:18,227 --> 00:41:20,604
The New Land.
347
00:41:20,604 --> 00:41:25,192
Tomorrow we'll investigate.
It means China is close by.
348
00:41:25,192 --> 00:41:28,069
China is within our reach.
349
00:41:30,781 --> 00:41:33,366
A tot for everyone to celebrate.
350
00:41:48,382 --> 00:41:50,759
Well done Jacob.
351
00:41:50,759 --> 00:41:53,094
Keep them motivated.
352
00:41:54,430 --> 00:41:56,931
Tomorrow we'll explore.
353
00:41:57,975 --> 00:41:59,934
Nova Zembla...
354
00:42:05,024 --> 00:42:08,652
16 August 1596.
355
00:42:08,652 --> 00:42:12,948
Eight of us row to the mainland
of Nova Zembla.
356
00:42:12,948 --> 00:42:17,535
We pull the sloop dry and climb
to the top to get the lie of the land.
357
00:42:23,917 --> 00:42:27,379
The land is much bigger than
indicated on the map.
358
00:42:27,379 --> 00:42:31,924
We start to suspect
the land will block our passage.
359
00:42:34,344 --> 00:42:38,348
A little later, we see open water
in the southeast.
360
00:42:38,348 --> 00:42:42,769
We return to our ship to tell
the news to Willem Barentsz.
361
00:42:46,815 --> 00:42:50,485
This northern route goes straight through
theice.
362
00:42:51,361 --> 00:42:53,821
You want to follow it, Willem?
363
00:42:55,949 --> 00:43:00,120
It's crazy. It won't happen.
- The ice is temporary.
364
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:04,333
Plancius assured us,
based on his last calculations...
365
00:43:04,333 --> 00:43:08,795
Rubbish. Plancius knows
as much as he knows.
366
00:43:13,592 --> 00:43:20,557
This island isn't mapped right. It's much
further west. You want more examples?
367
00:43:20,557 --> 00:43:24,269
Plancius knows more
than Portugal and Spain together.
368
00:43:24,269 --> 00:43:27,188
What's wrong with you?
- I'll tell you.
369
00:43:28,941 --> 00:43:32,903
It's my ship and I'm the one
who decides the route.
370
00:43:32,903 --> 00:43:36,865
Write that down.
- And something else.
371
00:43:36,865 --> 00:43:41,370
I don't want to contribute to
your third failure in a row.
372
00:43:41,370 --> 00:43:43,037
Write that down too.
373
00:43:53,215 --> 00:43:54,465
Gerrit.
374
00:43:55,634 --> 00:43:57,051
Up here.
375
00:44:05,936 --> 00:44:08,105
What did they say?
376
00:44:08,105 --> 00:44:12,316
What will they do?
- You were there? What took so long?
377
00:44:24,163 --> 00:44:25,830
Nova Zembla.
378
00:44:26,665 --> 00:44:28,876
Here.
379
00:44:28,876 --> 00:44:30,459
We are here.
380
00:44:32,588 --> 00:44:35,673
What's up here?
- Right up north?
381
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:38,218
No one knows.
382
00:44:38,218 --> 00:44:41,054
Barentsz says this is the route.
383
00:44:41,054 --> 00:44:44,182
But Van Heemskerck wants to go this way.
384
00:44:45,601 --> 00:44:48,145
They don't agree.
- Why?
385
00:44:48,145 --> 00:44:52,148
Van Heemskerck thinks he has
a better route than Plancius.
386
00:44:53,192 --> 00:44:57,570
We'll reach the ice too soon.
They have to find a new route.
387
00:45:15,923 --> 00:45:17,465
Look at the stars.
388
00:45:19,468 --> 00:45:21,677
Leo and Orion...
389
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:25,890
The giant's right shoulder.
390
00:45:27,267 --> 00:45:31,563
"Always watch Orion's belt,"
the minister says.
391
00:45:31,563 --> 00:45:35,484
They are three stars close together.
- Yes, there.
392
00:45:35,484 --> 00:45:39,111
Mintaka, Alnitak and Alnilam.
393
00:45:40,447 --> 00:45:42,323
Very good.
394
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:46,995
Very useful,
some knowledge of astronomy.
395
00:45:46,995 --> 00:45:48,579
You never know.
396
00:45:50,749 --> 00:45:55,378
In a few hundred years,
people will travel between the stars.
397
00:46:07,766 --> 00:46:13,188
Columbus was given tobacco
as a gift by the Indians. Did you know that?
398
00:46:13,188 --> 00:46:17,526
He thought it stank and
threw it overboard, but one sailor...
399
00:46:17,526 --> 00:46:21,697
a wayward sailor
called Roderigo kept some.
400
00:46:21,697 --> 00:46:25,366
Later he walked the streets in Spain
smoking a pipe.
401
00:46:27,661 --> 00:46:31,707
People thought he was a devil
with all that smoke.
402
00:46:31,707 --> 00:46:34,166
They threw him in jail.
403
00:46:36,253 --> 00:46:39,630
He was in jail for seven years.
404
00:46:42,342 --> 00:46:45,386
It's not always better to show off.
405
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:05,448
I want you to read it out loud.
406
00:47:07,826 --> 00:47:10,579
Everything you wrote.
407
00:47:10,579 --> 00:47:13,456
You have time?
- Start at the beginning.
408
00:47:15,292 --> 00:47:17,836
Read it yourself, Vos...
409
00:47:17,836 --> 00:47:21,672
Vos can't read.
- Shut up and go to sleep, Claes.
410
00:47:24,509 --> 00:47:31,266
You read it out loud and start with what Van
Heemskerck and Barentsz talked about.
411
00:47:31,266 --> 00:47:33,101
Why should I?
412
00:47:33,101 --> 00:47:35,479
Because we asked you.
413
00:47:35,479 --> 00:47:37,021
My friend and I.
414
00:47:43,737 --> 00:47:47,031
How do you know that
I'm reading what's written in here?
415
00:47:48,283 --> 00:47:51,202
Vos, you're on watch. Get on deck.
416
00:47:56,875 --> 00:47:59,294
I know all about you, sprat!
417
00:47:59,294 --> 00:48:01,797
You work for the Spanish.
418
00:48:01,797 --> 00:48:07,219
And you'll tell them everything we face
on this voyage, won't you?
419
00:48:07,219 --> 00:48:09,512
Vos, come on.
420
00:48:19,898 --> 00:48:23,276
18 August 1596.
421
00:48:23,276 --> 00:48:27,739
We prepare to take Willem Barentsz' route.
422
00:48:27,739 --> 00:48:31,493
We want to sail around the
north of Nova Zembla.
423
00:48:31,493 --> 00:48:34,663
But the current there is so treacherous...
424
00:48:34,663 --> 00:48:38,707
but after many vain attempts,
we return to anchor.
425
00:49:34,681 --> 00:49:37,893
The first contact with the ice...
426
00:49:37,893 --> 00:49:40,394
was 11 days later than expected.
427
00:49:43,190 --> 00:49:44,607
You have that?
428
00:49:46,318 --> 00:49:49,195
Add the date.
429
00:49:54,451 --> 00:49:56,411
It's provisional.
430
00:49:56,411 --> 00:49:59,789
This has nothing to do with notes, rough
sketches.
431
00:49:59,789 --> 00:50:03,960
Here. This is the bill of lading.
That's important.
432
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:06,838
They don't match.
- That's irrelevant.
433
00:50:06,838 --> 00:50:11,384
It's official. black-and-white
with your signature.
434
00:50:11,384 --> 00:50:13,594
Jacob van Heemskerck.
435
00:50:16,431 --> 00:50:20,435
This mentions more considerably
more provisions.
436
00:50:20,435 --> 00:50:24,147
A few thoughts. Plancius' signature.
437
00:50:24,147 --> 00:50:26,607
He had some ideas, in case.
438
00:50:29,945 --> 00:50:35,408
We're way too heavy, Willem. That makes
us vulnerable deep in the ice.
439
00:50:35,408 --> 00:50:38,702
Why do we have all the extra provisions?
440
00:50:47,462 --> 00:50:50,381
27 August 1596.
441
00:50:52,300 --> 00:50:54,468
The weather is calm and clear.
442
00:50:56,429 --> 00:50:59,391
We've reached
the north of Nova Zembla.
443
00:50:59,391 --> 00:51:04,270
We seek shelter from the ice
and call this bay Ice Harbor.
444
00:52:13,048 --> 00:52:14,923
And now for a story.
445
00:52:16,384 --> 00:52:18,344
Who feels like a story?
446
00:52:19,554 --> 00:52:21,348
Something real.
447
00:52:21,348 --> 00:52:23,057
Something from life.
448
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:28,313
I need one person to help me.
449
00:52:28,313 --> 00:52:30,773
Someone has to walk with me.
450
00:52:33,693 --> 00:52:36,820
I'll go with Gerrit on a pub crawl.
451
00:52:38,490 --> 00:52:40,367
Yes.
452
00:52:40,367 --> 00:52:41,784
In Amsterdam.
453
00:52:42,786 --> 00:52:45,829
When we get back,
we'll have earned a drink, haven't we?
454
00:52:47,749 --> 00:52:49,834
Where shall we start?
455
00:52:49,834 --> 00:52:52,795
On Zeedijk?
- Take it easy.
456
00:53:03,765 --> 00:53:06,643
That's more like the place to end.
457
00:53:06,643 --> 00:53:09,479
Okay, we'll take it easy.
458
00:53:09,479 --> 00:53:11,188
Let's start on Damrak.
459
00:53:14,651 --> 00:53:17,111
We can look at the new ships.
460
00:53:18,446 --> 00:53:21,700
And we greet him and him...
461
00:53:21,700 --> 00:53:24,034
and we see who made it back.
462
00:53:30,375 --> 00:53:32,836
Then we'll go to the pharmacist.
463
00:53:32,836 --> 00:53:34,712
I'm feeling thirsty.
464
00:53:36,798 --> 00:53:41,009
And we stop at the Blue Grape for one.
- Or two.
465
00:53:44,347 --> 00:53:46,181
Then we carry on...
466
00:53:47,517 --> 00:53:49,644
I have to get out!
467
00:53:49,644 --> 00:53:51,562
I have to get out! Out!
468
00:53:53,523 --> 00:53:55,399
Now shut up, dammit!
469
00:54:32,562 --> 00:54:35,482
Everything had been discussed.
470
00:54:35,482 --> 00:54:36,690
I thought
471
00:54:38,276 --> 00:54:40,987
Months of preparation...
472
00:54:40,987 --> 00:54:42,654
the route, finance...
473
00:54:43,782 --> 00:54:45,824
I thought it all figured.
474
00:54:49,954 --> 00:54:52,457
The negotiations in China.
475
00:54:52,457 --> 00:54:54,249
And then to the Indies.
476
00:54:56,544 --> 00:54:58,128
And the voyage back.
477
00:55:00,924 --> 00:55:02,591
But what happened?
478
00:55:05,303 --> 00:55:07,554
You and Plancius messed up.
479
00:55:09,641 --> 00:55:10,933
You conspired.
480
00:55:13,228 --> 00:55:17,648
Why is there so much more provisions
on board than agreed?
481
00:55:19,984 --> 00:55:21,652
Why?
482
00:55:25,323 --> 00:55:30,119
Why didn't you involve me in your plan?
- I told you that already.
483
00:55:30,119 --> 00:55:31,829
Just in case.
484
00:55:34,916 --> 00:55:37,459
And the other questions?
485
00:55:39,170 --> 00:55:41,630
You would have objected.
486
00:55:49,180 --> 00:55:50,681
What next?
487
00:55:52,308 --> 00:55:54,852
What d'you think will happen now?
488
00:55:56,062 --> 00:55:58,146
We'll spend the winter here.
489
00:55:59,023 --> 00:56:01,650
And you'll tell the men.
490
00:56:19,794 --> 00:56:22,630
We'll go ashore here...
491
00:56:22,630 --> 00:56:24,798
and spend the winter here.
492
00:56:25,717 --> 00:56:27,092
The whole winter.
493
00:56:28,720 --> 00:56:30,596
That's months and months.
494
00:56:32,348 --> 00:56:34,100
And the food?
495
00:56:34,100 --> 00:56:36,894
What about food?
- It'll be rationed.
496
00:56:39,314 --> 00:56:41,774
There's enough on board.
497
00:56:41,774 --> 00:56:45,110
As long as everyone sticks to his ration.
498
00:56:46,863 --> 00:56:48,196
We'll manage.
499
00:56:49,574 --> 00:56:51,116
We're doomed.
500
00:56:52,827 --> 00:56:55,954
If anyone has a better plan, tell me.
501
00:57:05,715 --> 00:57:09,552
3 September 1596.
502
00:57:09,552 --> 00:57:12,847
The ice has pushed the ship
back and forth.
503
00:57:12,847 --> 00:57:18,436
And under the pressure of
the breaking ice it finally broke up.
504
00:57:18,436 --> 00:57:22,982
Our ship lost when faced
with the might of nature.
505
00:57:22,982 --> 00:57:26,902
We lost but don't give up.
506
00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:46,338
This was all I could find.
507
00:57:47,340 --> 00:57:49,175
Beans!
508
00:57:49,175 --> 00:57:51,219
What's the use of beans?
509
00:57:51,219 --> 00:57:55,889
I searched everywhere.
- We need greens and fresh meat.
510
00:57:58,309 --> 00:58:01,228
And best of all is cochlearia.
511
00:58:02,689 --> 00:58:03,982
What?
512
00:58:03,982 --> 00:58:08,735
Scurvy grass. It's magic.
You get over it in no time.
513
00:58:10,029 --> 00:58:12,323
But does it grow here?
514
00:58:12,323 --> 00:58:14,408
They say it does.
- Let's look.
515
00:58:51,362 --> 00:58:53,114
You see those stars?
516
00:58:53,114 --> 00:58:55,658
And the very clear one?
517
00:58:55,658 --> 00:58:57,535
That's Orion.
518
00:58:57,535 --> 00:58:59,328
A hunter.
519
00:58:59,328 --> 00:59:01,288
The three stars beside it...
520
00:59:02,874 --> 00:59:05,793
is called the belt. The middle star...
521
00:59:05,793 --> 00:59:08,003
has the most beautiful name.
522
00:59:09,047 --> 00:59:10,255
What is it?
523
00:59:11,257 --> 00:59:13,551
Mintaka.
524
00:59:13,551 --> 00:59:15,386
Mintaka...
525
00:59:15,386 --> 00:59:17,304
The middle star.
526
00:59:22,268 --> 00:59:24,311
Yes, she loves that.
527
00:59:48,377 --> 00:59:50,129
What's wrong?
528
00:59:50,129 --> 00:59:51,713
A bear...
529
00:59:57,720 --> 01:00:01,891
Where is Oene?
530
01:00:01,891 --> 01:00:04,726
Get the guns. The guns!
531
01:00:15,238 --> 01:00:16,613
Come on then!
532
01:00:18,741 --> 01:00:20,200
Come on then!
533
01:00:27,834 --> 01:00:29,751
Mintaka!
534
01:00:31,337 --> 01:00:33,755
Mintaka!
535
01:00:56,487 --> 01:00:59,239
A nice name. Mintaka!
536
01:02:23,324 --> 01:02:26,618
Laurens is back where he belongs.
537
01:02:27,662 --> 01:02:29,871
To our Father's House.
538
01:02:30,873 --> 01:02:34,167
We know that's what he always wanted.
539
01:02:36,921 --> 01:02:41,384
This is the house that will protect us
and offer safety.
540
01:02:41,384 --> 01:02:43,052
If God wills.
541
01:02:43,052 --> 01:02:45,638
We only want one thing.
542
01:02:45,638 --> 01:02:47,597
And that is to survive.
543
01:02:48,557 --> 01:02:51,352
Van Heemskerck is the captain.
544
01:02:51,352 --> 01:02:53,228
He remains the captain.
545
01:02:54,230 --> 01:02:57,065
But now he's a captain with no ship.
546
01:02:58,609 --> 01:03:02,780
If I look around me: 11 men and a bird.
547
01:03:02,780 --> 01:03:04,991
God...
548
01:03:04,991 --> 01:03:08,369
I'm jealous of the bird.
549
01:03:08,369 --> 01:03:11,037
If we all had two wings...
550
01:03:12,206 --> 01:03:14,666
we'd be in the Indies by now.
551
01:03:17,378 --> 01:03:23,259
We called it the Kept House, made
from flotsam and the beams of our ship.
552
01:03:23,259 --> 01:03:27,221
The Kept House
will protect and shelter us.
553
01:03:27,221 --> 01:03:29,347
If God wills.
554
01:03:35,313 --> 01:03:38,733
Soon there won't be any light.
555
01:03:38,733 --> 01:03:40,609
Why not?
556
01:03:40,609 --> 01:03:44,070
The light disappears for the whole winter.
557
01:03:48,034 --> 01:03:50,785
Not even God's light get's here.
558
01:04:47,301 --> 01:04:48,676
Gerrit...
559
01:04:50,262 --> 01:04:52,806
What's the bird's name?
560
01:04:53,891 --> 01:04:55,392
Mintaka.
561
01:04:57,103 --> 01:04:59,562
Mintaka, that was it.
562
01:05:05,736 --> 01:05:09,323
Did Barentsz know all this in advance?
563
01:05:09,323 --> 01:05:11,700
That we'd end up here?
564
01:05:11,700 --> 01:05:13,326
What do you mean?
565
01:05:15,204 --> 01:05:18,748
That's what Vos told us.
566
01:05:24,880 --> 01:05:27,883
I don't know, Claes.
567
01:05:27,883 --> 01:05:30,594
But if Barentsz knew...
568
01:05:30,594 --> 01:05:34,098
then he must also know
how to get us out of here.
569
01:05:34,098 --> 01:05:36,349
And then?
570
01:05:37,435 --> 01:05:40,604
We'll sail to China and the Indies.
571
01:05:40,604 --> 01:05:45,525
And we'll buy a beautiful
big golden cage for Mintaka.
572
01:05:47,361 --> 01:05:51,240
Maybe she'll start singing in the warmth.
573
01:05:51,240 --> 01:05:54,242
What she does now
doesn't sound too good.
574
01:05:57,246 --> 01:05:59,415
That girlfriend of yours...
575
01:05:59,415 --> 01:06:01,250
Catharina...
576
01:06:01,250 --> 01:06:03,293
Can she sing?
577
01:06:07,214 --> 01:06:08,590
I don't know.
578
01:06:38,704 --> 01:06:41,749
I am Galatea...
579
01:06:41,749 --> 01:06:45,001
and I stand here among the planets.
580
01:06:47,588 --> 01:06:51,425
The most beautiful star in the universe.
581
01:06:51,425 --> 01:06:52,800
Thank you.
582
01:06:53,886 --> 01:06:55,595
Your father says that.
583
01:06:58,849 --> 01:07:01,310
He does?
584
01:07:01,310 --> 01:07:02,769
To you?
585
01:07:05,606 --> 01:07:07,607
Yes, the most beautiful.
586
01:07:08,609 --> 01:07:10,693
He never says that to me.
587
01:07:11,570 --> 01:07:13,821
And the farthest.
588
01:07:17,368 --> 01:07:21,871
Boy, my daughter is
as far away from you as the sun.
589
01:07:23,832 --> 01:07:28,337
15 December 1596.
590
01:07:28,337 --> 01:07:31,257
Salted meat and salt herring.
591
01:07:31,257 --> 01:07:35,009
Half a pound of food per person per day.
592
01:07:38,556 --> 01:07:42,851
The stock of beer is frozen
and almost finished.
593
01:07:42,851 --> 01:07:47,981
There are 17 hard round cheeses,
but not enough to last till the New Year.
594
01:07:49,066 --> 01:07:53,028
We eat little and it's bitterly cold.
595
01:07:53,028 --> 01:07:56,740
The freezing cold is always there.
596
01:07:56,740 --> 01:07:59,076
But the worst thing...
597
01:07:59,076 --> 01:08:01,661
is the lack of warmth.
598
01:08:06,834 --> 01:08:08,376
Do you want me to leave?
599
01:08:09,545 --> 01:08:10,795
No...
600
01:08:12,923 --> 01:08:14,632
Who is Galatea?
601
01:08:16,677 --> 01:08:18,344
A statue...
602
01:08:19,888 --> 01:08:21,681
made of ivory.
603
01:08:24,852 --> 01:08:27,353
A statue that comes to life.
604
01:08:28,230 --> 01:08:29,439
Oh yes...
605
01:08:31,275 --> 01:08:34,319
I'll come back tomorrow.
- No.
606
01:08:42,036 --> 01:08:44,370
Come into the light.
607
01:09:06,060 --> 01:09:08,479
He gave her a kiss.
608
01:09:08,479 --> 01:09:11,022
Then she came to life.
609
01:10:28,058 --> 01:10:29,600
Janfle.
610
01:10:30,644 --> 01:10:32,354
Janfle.
611
01:10:32,354 --> 01:10:34,647
MY Pipe, please.
612
01:10:54,376 --> 01:10:55,752
When it's gone...
613
01:11:00,257 --> 01:11:03,217
The skipper has smoked his last pipe.
614
01:11:08,140 --> 01:11:10,392
If you don't mind...
615
01:11:10,392 --> 01:11:12,977
then I'll close my eyes for a moment.
616
01:11:14,980 --> 01:11:17,649
Silence is golden.
617
01:11:17,649 --> 01:11:19,943
Sflence.
618
01:11:19,943 --> 01:11:22,404
Indeed...
619
01:11:22,404 --> 01:11:24,823
There they are.
620
01:11:24,823 --> 01:11:26,741
Nelly and the children.
621
01:11:30,496 --> 01:11:32,288
Don't quarrel, kids.
622
01:11:33,165 --> 01:11:35,209
Keep quiet.
623
01:11:35,209 --> 01:11:37,460
Papa's having a bath.
624
01:11:55,103 --> 01:11:57,522
We need fresh meat.
625
01:11:58,732 --> 01:12:00,983
A trap, for foxes.
626
01:12:42,776 --> 01:12:45,570
24 December 1596.
627
01:12:50,158 --> 01:12:53,119
The weather is calm
on this Christmas Eve.
628
01:12:54,371 --> 01:12:59,835
We comfort ourselves with the thought
that the sun has passed half way...
629
01:12:59,835 --> 01:13:03,963
and is on its way back to us
to give us her light.
630
01:13:05,090 --> 01:13:08,760
We really yearned to see the sun.
631
01:13:08,760 --> 01:13:13,848
Without God's most beautiful creation,
life is filled with misery.
632
01:13:21,982 --> 01:13:23,566
Not too big...
633
01:13:31,575 --> 01:13:34,160
Now close the A.
634
01:13:40,334 --> 01:13:43,337
You need to work on your N.
635
01:13:43,337 --> 01:13:46,131
The A is really good.
636
01:13:46,131 --> 01:13:48,966
You're talented. One more time.
637
01:13:50,761 --> 01:13:53,263
A friend of mine from the village...
638
01:13:53,263 --> 01:13:56,223
was called Bartolomeus Huidekoper.
639
01:13:57,809 --> 01:14:01,688
I bet you're glad that's not
your name, Jantje.
640
01:14:01,688 --> 01:14:05,149
Bar to lo me us Hui de ko per.
641
01:15:04,918 --> 01:15:06,293
Van Raamsdonck!
642
01:15:33,280 --> 01:15:34,363
Table.
643
01:16:24,372 --> 01:16:26,499
I'll take him from the roof.
644
01:16:27,959 --> 01:16:29,418
Musket...
645
01:17:44,661 --> 01:17:48,081
21 March 1597.
646
01:17:48,081 --> 01:17:50,000
The cold is grueling.
647
01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:55,797
It looks like a bonus of the month
of March, but that is my comfort.
648
01:17:55,797 --> 01:17:59,050
I know it can't last for ever.
649
01:17:59,050 --> 01:18:02,052
It will have to get warmer in the end.
650
01:18:09,394 --> 01:18:11,228
Soup.
651
01:18:24,117 --> 01:18:26,077
Gerrit...
652
01:18:26,077 --> 01:18:27,870
I have golden ducats.
653
01:18:28,830 --> 01:18:32,082
I want you to keep them for me, if I...
654
01:18:33,460 --> 01:18:35,502
if anything happens to me.
655
01:18:36,379 --> 01:18:38,339
No one must know.
656
01:18:42,177 --> 01:18:46,056
Really. I was to trade in China with them.
657
01:18:46,056 --> 01:18:49,225
It has to go back to Neeltje and the
children.
658
01:18:50,352 --> 01:18:53,730
I don't want them thrown out of the house.
659
01:18:53,730 --> 01:18:57,983
We're continuing
across the ice to the Indies.
660
01:19:00,195 --> 01:19:02,614
I'm not, Gerrit.
661
01:19:02,614 --> 01:19:03,906
I'm not.
662
01:19:06,701 --> 01:19:08,245
Gerrit.
663
01:19:08,245 --> 01:19:11,373
You have to do it. You have to lead them.
664
01:19:11,373 --> 01:19:14,334
Here...
665
01:19:14,334 --> 01:19:15,876
For you
666
01:19:39,359 --> 01:19:43,446
12 May 1597.
667
01:19:43,446 --> 01:19:48,201
Show me a beauty that exceeds hers.
668
01:19:48,201 --> 01:19:51,621
What other purpose
has such beauty than to note...
669
01:19:51,621 --> 01:19:56,251
that she is nothing less than
the most exquisite.
670
01:19:56,251 --> 01:19:59,420
You will never teach me ever to forget.
671
01:20:27,741 --> 01:20:30,452
For the Emperor of China...
672
01:20:30,452 --> 01:20:32,620
For the draughts...
673
01:20:32,620 --> 01:20:34,080
and the chimney.
674
01:20:34,080 --> 01:20:36,957
That's fine. Use it all.
675
01:21:15,663 --> 01:21:18,124
A little further on...
676
01:21:18,124 --> 01:21:20,335
is Jan Huygen.
677
01:21:20,335 --> 01:21:23,713
There are always Flemish regulars.
678
01:21:23,713 --> 01:21:25,799
We can't pass that by.
679
01:21:25,799 --> 01:21:28,467
There's always a familiar face.
680
01:21:30,136 --> 01:21:32,513
We have plenty of time.
681
01:21:35,016 --> 01:21:36,850
And plenty of money.
682
01:21:41,439 --> 01:21:44,359
Then I want to go to the baker...
683
01:21:44,359 --> 01:21:46,110
in Kalverstraat...
684
01:21:49,489 --> 01:21:51,698
for some currant bread.
685
01:21:55,787 --> 01:21:57,538
I want to go tomorrow...
686
01:21:59,332 --> 01:22:01,375
in Amsterdam.
687
01:22:02,460 --> 01:22:04,337
Tomorrow...
688
01:22:04,337 --> 01:22:06,755
We all do, Oene.
689
01:22:08,425 --> 01:22:10,300
We all do.
690
01:24:28,648 --> 01:24:30,399
Where is Jan?
691
01:25:40,678 --> 01:25:44,014
Jan ran away from the orphanage.
692
01:25:44,974 --> 01:25:50,355
The orphanage on Warmoestraat.
He never wants to go back.
693
01:25:50,355 --> 01:25:52,356
He told me that.
694
01:25:53,983 --> 01:25:56,943
The sea was his father and mother.
695
01:26:00,281 --> 01:26:02,407
Jan went...
696
01:26:03,326 --> 01:26:06,578
wherever the wind and sea took him.
697
01:26:14,003 --> 01:26:20,300
Lord, watch over Jan.
698
01:27:47,138 --> 01:27:50,266
There's light. The light came back.
699
01:27:50,266 --> 01:27:53,686
Boy...
- Clear light, radiant.
700
01:27:53,686 --> 01:27:55,605
Like the first day.
701
01:27:55,605 --> 01:27:57,440
Impossible.
702
01:27:57,440 --> 01:27:59,232
It's too early.
703
01:28:05,865 --> 01:28:07,949
Here... light!
704
01:28:09,452 --> 01:28:11,995
Like the first day of creation.
705
01:28:14,791 --> 01:28:17,794
Men, we locked ourselves up here.
706
01:28:17,794 --> 01:28:19,962
We were afraid of darkness.
707
01:28:19,962 --> 01:28:21,713
But that has gone.
708
01:28:22,715 --> 01:28:26,427
The light came back.
We have to wake up and go.
709
01:28:26,427 --> 01:28:29,179
What do you want us to do? Swim?
710
01:28:30,556 --> 01:28:32,517
Gerrit is right.
711
01:28:32,517 --> 01:28:34,894
You have to go.
- We all have to go.
712
01:28:34,894 --> 01:28:38,189
How? I only hear words.
- We still have sloops.
713
01:28:38,189 --> 01:28:39,649
They're wrecked.
714
01:28:39,649 --> 01:28:43,194
Then we'll repair them for the journey.
715
01:28:43,194 --> 01:28:45,279
You want to row?
716
01:28:45,279 --> 01:28:48,908
We'll find open water and row.
- It's crazy.
717
01:28:48,908 --> 01:28:51,452
In the frozen sea?
- We'll row.
718
01:28:51,452 --> 01:28:53,955
If it blows, we'll hoist a sail.
719
01:28:53,955 --> 01:28:58,459
It's crazy to stay here.
- Who's in charge?
720
01:28:58,459 --> 01:29:01,546
Who will decide the route?
721
01:29:01,546 --> 01:29:04,340
The stars...
722
01:29:04,340 --> 01:29:06,843
Yes...
723
01:29:06,843 --> 01:29:09,094
But who will lead us home?
724
01:29:10,596 --> 01:29:13,015
Van Heemskerck?
725
01:29:13,015 --> 01:29:14,976
Or Barentsz?
726
01:29:14,976 --> 01:29:17,186
Or Professor Herring?
727
01:29:17,186 --> 01:29:22,315
He knows everything on his first voyage?
Jantje was more experienced, dammit.
728
01:29:25,069 --> 01:29:27,572
I can read maps.
729
01:29:27,572 --> 01:29:30,116
And I know the stars.
730
01:29:30,116 --> 01:29:32,242
And what do you have to offer?
731
01:29:37,373 --> 01:29:39,040
We have to go.
732
01:29:45,840 --> 01:29:49,385
14 June 1597.
733
01:29:49,385 --> 01:29:53,931
At about 4:30, hoping for God's mercy...
734
01:29:53,931 --> 01:29:57,810
we left Nova Zembla
with our boat and the sloop.
735
01:29:57,810 --> 01:30:01,355
We see no change or improvement
in the weather...
736
01:30:01,355 --> 01:30:04,399
so we left our Kept House.
737
01:33:09,752 --> 01:33:11,211
A Ship!
738
01:33:12,171 --> 01:33:14,548
A Ship!
739
01:33:14,548 --> 01:33:17,259
A Dutch ship.
740
01:33:17,259 --> 01:33:19,135
We made it.
741
01:33:20,888 --> 01:33:22,138
That's good.
742
01:33:24,809 --> 01:33:27,227
Go on.
743
01:33:40,407 --> 01:33:43,744
2 September 1597.
744
01:33:43,744 --> 01:33:49,166
We find the ship of Jan Cornelis de Rijp,
a Dutchman anchored here.
745
01:33:49,166 --> 01:33:51,501
God wanted it that way.
746
01:34:47,266 --> 01:34:50,269
He knew it all so well, didn't he?
747
01:34:50,269 --> 01:34:52,896
Where did it take him?
748
01:34:55,107 --> 01:34:58,444
To death. Yes, death.
749
01:34:58,444 --> 01:35:01,447
And you think you're a leader?
750
01:35:01,447 --> 01:35:05,408
Don't make me laugh.
You don't have it in you.
751
01:35:10,414 --> 01:35:12,958
What use is this story?
752
01:35:12,958 --> 01:35:14,543
Your book?
753
01:35:14,543 --> 01:35:17,587
Who is waiting for it, man?
754
01:36:01,048 --> 01:36:03,884
What's the use of this story?
755
01:36:03,884 --> 01:36:07,303
All this misery?
756
01:36:09,974 --> 01:36:11,891
What use is it?
757
01:37:43,567 --> 01:37:47,571
6 October 1597.
758
01:37:47,571 --> 01:37:51,658
We left Amsterdam 17 months ago.
759
01:37:51,658 --> 01:37:55,245
The homecoming is important.
760
01:37:55,245 --> 01:37:57,080
Just like the voyage.
761
01:38:19,728 --> 01:38:23,189
In the presence of God...
762
01:38:24,650 --> 01:38:26,652
the success...
763
01:38:26,652 --> 01:38:29,071
but...
764
01:38:29,071 --> 01:38:31,198
above all...
765
01:38:31,198 --> 01:38:33,659
the perseverance...
766
01:38:33,659 --> 01:38:39,039
in order to break down the blockades.
767
01:38:39,039 --> 01:38:41,667
It's only the start.
768
01:38:41,667 --> 01:38:44,710
Thank you, Cornelis de Houtman.
769
01:39:21,540 --> 01:39:23,500
Welcome...
770
01:39:23,500 --> 01:39:25,335
Welcome back.
771
01:39:25,335 --> 01:39:28,380
You're in time for a feast.
772
01:39:28,380 --> 01:39:30,716
Amsterdam is having a feast.
773
01:39:30,716 --> 01:39:34,553
Cornelis de Houtman has found
a way to the Indies.
774
01:39:34,553 --> 01:39:38,723
The well-known way,
a long way, but successfully.
775
01:39:39,683 --> 01:39:44,228
Your achievement gives us hope.
You're an example.
776
01:39:47,483 --> 01:39:48,941
Where is Barentsz?
777
01:40:02,789 --> 01:40:04,999
Barentsz is dead.
778
01:40:13,550 --> 01:40:15,552
Are there others?
779
01:40:15,552 --> 01:40:17,553
Laurens the carpenter.
780
01:40:19,264 --> 01:40:20,598
Harmen...
781
01:40:21,975 --> 01:40:24,645
Jan Fransz...
782
01:40:24,645 --> 01:40:25,853
and...
783
01:40:29,191 --> 01:40:30,441
Vos...
784
01:40:33,862 --> 01:40:36,656
Pieter Vos didn't make it either.
785
01:40:49,878 --> 01:40:52,004
But you're still alive, boy.
786
01:41:07,354 --> 01:41:09,606
Take this boy with you.
787
01:41:09,606 --> 01:41:12,234
Keep him away from my daughter.
788
01:41:12,234 --> 01:41:14,570
Make a man of him...
789
01:41:14,570 --> 01:41:17,947
or feed him to the white bears.
790
01:41:24,621 --> 01:41:26,497
That was a long time ago.
791
01:41:30,919 --> 01:41:32,712
That's the past.
792
01:41:44,016 --> 01:41:45,516
Gerrit.
793
01:41:50,647 --> 01:41:51,981
It's really you.
794
01:42:03,619 --> 01:42:04,952
No...
795
01:42:07,706 --> 01:42:09,874
Don't open it yet, silly.
796
01:42:45,577 --> 01:42:52,125
Written in Amsterdam on
the day before the last day of April of 1598.
797
01:42:52,125 --> 01:42:57,631
Your honourable, grateful and
faithful servant and son-in-law...
798
01:42:57,631 --> 01:43:00,258
Gerrit de Veer.
799
01:43:00,258 --> 01:43:05,472
The voyages form the start of the glorious
era of Amsterdam - the Golden Age.
800
01:43:05,472 --> 01:43:12,895
Only in 1932 does a Russian icebreaker
sail north around Nova Zembla to Asia.
801
01:43:13,480 --> 01:43:17,150
The last resting place of Willem Barentsz
has never been found.
802
01:43:17,150 --> 01:43:22,239
Jacob van Heemskerck dies in 1607
as admiral in the Battle of Gibraltar.
803
01:43:22,239 --> 01:43:28,536
Gerrit de Veer's diary is the world's first
best-seller and boosts Holland's morale.
804
01:43:29,413 --> 01:43:33,041
The city's bonus was never paid
to the crew.
805
01:43:33,041 --> 01:43:37,878
No historic document has been found
about the rest of Gerrit de Veer's life.
806
01:43:58,608 --> 01:44:01,736
This film is dedicated to all those
who sailed to Nova Zembla.
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