Plate from a book illustrating a large ship sailing through ice chunks or ice-coated rocks. In the foreground, two men stand on the ice with long poles, seemingly directing the men on the ship, which has furled sails. To the right, a rowboat is tethered to the ship by a rope and staffed by five men in caps. In the background, a party of three men stand on the ice; one of them fires a musket at a white bear, which is bounding away with its front paws in the air. In the far right of the background is a large cross erected on a low hill. The image is labeled "Plaat 8." and "Blz. 60."
On the verso is printed a description, in Dutch, of the scene, beginning "Afbeeldinghe hoe dat wy ontrent de Eylanden van Orangien int ys beset werden [...] ende hoe dat een vreesselijcken Beyr, achter een schots ys ligghende, deur ons gheroep wacker worden, end teghens ons aen quam [...]" (English: Image of the way in which [we] were beset in ice around the islands of the Orangien [...], and showing how a wild [? archaic spelling] Bear, behind a ice [unknown archaic words], we made an excited cry, and we took a [quam?] [...]"
