Willem Cornelisz van Muyden

They hired the absconding bankrupt Alan Sallows as pilot, a man who had spent twenty years "in the Northern Seas" in the service of the Muscovy Company.

On 5 June the ship sailed into the northern entrance of Forlandsundet, where, the next day, Sallows told the English of the loss of their merchant Kijn, who had fallen off a cliff and broken his neck.

He appears to have never been to Spitsbergen before, as the information he provided the Dutch was incorrect; he in fact knew nothing about the country or its fauna.

Evidently learning from their error, the Dutch recruited twelve Basque whalemen from St. Jean de Luz for the following year.

[5] From 25 June to 20 July they caught eighteen bowhead whales, thirty walrus, and two polar bears.

[7] In 1616 he was again master of the Neptunus, this time on a whaling voyage to the recently discovered Jan Mayen.

He was among the first to arrive at the island early in June; he left in late July with a full cargo of oil.