A.D. 

 1556. 



April 23 



27 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



where, goe not you aland, if you may possiblie, to the 

 ende that when you be gone a shore, there may no 

 goods be sent privily ashore to be solde, or else to be 

 solde aboord the ship in your absence, but keepe you 

 still aboord, if you can by any meanes, for the causes 

 aforesaid, and write the company a letter from the shippe 

 of your good arrivall, which you may convey to them 

 by land by some boy or mariner of the shippe, or 

 otherwise as you shall thinke best : and likewise when 

 God shall send you and the shippe into the river here, 

 doe not in any wise depart out of the shippe that you 

 be in, until the company doe send some other aboord 

 the shippe, in your steede and place, to keepe the 

 shippe in your absence. 



The Navigation and discoverie toward the river 

 of Ob, made by Master Steven Burrough, 

 Master of the Pinnesse called the Serchthrift, 

 with divers things worth the noting, passed 

 in the yere 1556. 



E departed from Ratcliffe to Blackewall 

 the 23 of April. Satturday being S. 

 Markes day, we departed from Blacke- 

 wall to Grays. 



The 27 being Munday, the right 

 Worshipfull Sebastian Cabota came 

 aboord our Pinnesse at Gravesende, 

 accompanied with divers Gentlemen, and Gentlewomen, 

 who after that they had viewed our Pinnesse, and 

 tasted of such cheere as we could make them aboord, 

 they went on shore, giving to our mariners right liberall 

 rewards : and the good olde Gentleman Master Cabota 

 gave to the poore most liberall almes, wishing them 

 to pray for the good fortune, and prosperous successe 

 of the Serchthrift, our Pinnesse. And then at the 

 signe of the Christopher, hee and his friends banketted, 

 and made me, and them that were in the company 



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