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Live Marine Traffic
Douglas Bagnall
Intertidal, Kamau Taurua / Quarantine Island, Dunedin, Saturday 20 December 2008, 3.30 – 7.30pm.
Het Visboek, Adriaen Coenen (1577)
420 page log of fish, fishing methods, and other animals, people, and customs, as described by fisherman Adriaen Coenen in Scheveningen, 1577.
Ship Voyage Diaries & Journals
In 1918, Samuel Baker chartered a transatlantic vessel in Ireland, and with his whole family, servants and possessions set sail for Canada. A few extracts from his diary of their three-month voyage may be of interest.
The Poetic Edda
Of old was the age | when Ymir lived;
Sea nor cool waves | nor sand there were;
Earth had not been, | nor heaven above,
But a yawning gap, | and grass nowhere.
Then Bur's sons lifted | the level land,
Mithgarth the mighty | there they made;
The sun from the south | warmed the stones of earth,
And green was the ground | with growing leeks.
The sun, the sister | of the moon, from the south
Her right hand cast | over heaven's rim;
No knowledge she had | where her home should be,
The moon knew not | what might was his,
The stars knew not | where their stations were.
Then sought the gods | their assembly-seats,
The holy ones, | and council held;
Names then gave they | to noon and twilight,
Morning they named, | and the waning moon,
Night and evening, | the years to number.