6S DISCOVERIES OF 1553^ 



that the tops of the hilles sounded therewith, the 

 valleys and the waters gave an echo, and the 

 mariners they shouted in such sort, that the skie 

 tano: ao'aine with the noise thereof.''''^ 



The result of this voyage, which held out such 

 fair promises, was most disastrous to the gallant 

 Sir Hugh Willoughhy and his brave associates; 

 who, with the whole of the merchants, officers and 

 ship's company, as well as those of the Bona Con- 

 fidentia, to the number of seventy persons, perished 

 miserably from the effects of cold or hunger, or 

 both, on a barren and uninhabited part of the 

 eastern coast of Lapland, at the mouth of a river 

 called Arzi?ia, not far from the harbour of Kegor, 

 The ships and the dead bodies of those who thus 

 perished were discovered the following year by 

 some Russian fishermen; and by some papers found 

 in the admiral's ship, and especially by the date of 

 his Will, it appeared that Sir Hugh Willoughby and 

 most of the company of the two ships were alive in 

 January 1554. They had entered the river on the 

 1 8th of September preceding. No papers, however, 

 were ever published to give the least account of their 

 proceedings and sufferings, which is somewhat sin* 

 gular; as even common seamen, English, Dutch and 

 Russians, who, at various times, have wintered in 

 much higher latitudes, have kept regular journals of 

 their proceedings. That of Sir Hugh is exceed- 



* Clement Adams, Hakluyt, vol. i. p. 245. 



