They were met with disbelief by the rest of the crew (who accused De Veer of having used the old Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian calendar introduced several years earlier), but on January 27 the Sun was seen by all "in his full roundnesse".
他們遭到其餘船員的懷疑（有人指責de Veer使用過去的儒略曆，而不是幾年前才介紹的格里曆），但在1月27日所有的人都看見了「圓形的太陽」 。