228 SIR HUGH WILLOUGHBY. 



a.d. From this land of Sir Hugh Willoughby, he 

 1553, and his consort, the Bona Confidentia, stood to 

 the northward to about the latitude 75°; and 

 then, the Confidentia being leaky, returned to 

 the coast of Lapland ; and finding it impossible 

 to reach Wardhuys, they put into a port at 

 the mouth of the river Arzina, where the " yeare 

 being farre spent, and having very evil weather, 

 as frost, snow, and haile," the Admiral deter- 

 mined to winter. There were no inhabitants at 

 this place, nor could several parties, which were 

 despatched in various directions, find any traces 

 of them inland. The ships were soon frozen 

 up ; and, on the place being visited the follow- 

 ing year by some fishermen, Sir Hugh Wil- 



Seynam would be correct, but the distance, instead of 160 

 leagues, would be 230 leagues ; an error, however, not much 

 to be wondered at, considering the bad weather the fleet en- 

 countered between those places. It is worthy of remark, that 

 Sir Hugh Willoughby's courses and distances from the time 

 when he quitted Seynam, to the day after he struck soundings 

 in 160 fathoms, and was in expectation of making Wardhuys, 

 place him actually within a few leagues of that place, as laid 

 down in the charts of the present day. The reckoning after 

 this period is not given regularly ; on the eighth and thirteenth 

 days it is omitted altogether ; and without these days (on one of 

 which it blew so hard at west that he " strooke his sayles, and 

 lay adrift,") he made good the before-mentioned 160 leagues, 

 so that by his own account his distance exceeded that which he 

 has given from Seynam. Everything, therefore, favours the 

 presumption that Willoughby's land was part of Nova Zembla. 



