A.D. 



1553- 



Duyna. 



Note. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



The river or haven wherein Sir Hugh Willoughbie 

 with the companie of his two ships perished for cold, 

 is called Arzina in Lapland, neere unto Kegor. But 

 it appeareth by a Will found in the ship that Sir Hugh 

 Willoughbie and most of the company were alive in 

 January 1554. 



The booke of the great and mighty Emperor of 

 Russia, and Duke of Moscovia, and of the 

 dominions orders and commodities thereunto 

 belonging ; drawen by Richard Chancelour. 



Orasmuch as it is meete and necessary 

 for all those that minde to take in hande 

 the travell into farre or strange countreys, 

 to endevour themselves not onely to 

 understande the orders, commodities, and 

 fruitfulnesse thereof, but also to applie 

 them to the setting foorth of the same, 

 whereby it may incourage others to the like travaile : 

 therefore have I nowe thought good to make a briefe 

 rehearsall of the orders of this my travaile in Russia 

 and Moscovia, and other countreys thereunto adjoyning ; 

 because it was my chaunce to fall with the North partes 

 of Russia before I came towards Moscovia, I will partly 

 declare my knowledge therein. Russia is very plentifull 

 both of land and people, and also welthy for such 

 commodities as they have. They be very great fishers 

 for Salmons and small Coddes : they have much oyle 

 which wee call treine oyle, the most whereof is made 

 by a river called II Duina. They make it in other places, 

 but not so much as there. They have also a great 

 trade in seething of sake water. To the North parte 

 of that countrey are the places where they have their 

 Furres, as Sables, marterns, greese Bevers, Foxes white, 

 blacke, and redde, Minkes, Ermines, Miniver, and Harts. 

 There are also a fishes teeth, which fish is called a 

 Morsse. The takers thereof dwell in a place called 



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