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Willem, a Dutch navigator. He was one of the early Arctic explorers; his attempt being to find a northeast pa age to China. In his first voyage he reached lat. 77°- 78’, and in his last, 80° 11’. He commanded several exploring —— around Nova Zembla and_ Spitz bergen, on one of which he had seven ve els loaded with rich goods for Eastern trade. In the summer of 1596, he set out with two ships, which were frozen in at Ice Haven in September. The following June they attempted to reach the mainland in boats, but most of them were lost, Barham, Rev. Richard Harris, a humorous writer, born in 1788 at Canterbury; educated at Paul’s School, London, and at Brasenose, Oxford. He published an unsucce ful novel, Baldwin, wrote me third of the artieles in Gorton’s Biographical Dictionary, and contributed to Blackwood’s Magazine. In 1824 he was = ee priest in ordinary of the awa -royal, and afterwards rector of St. Mary Magdalene and St. Greorgy-by-St.- Paul, London. In 1837, on the starting of Bentley's Miscellany, he laid the main foundation of his literary fame by the publication in that periodical of the In golds by Legends. He died in 1845.