A.D. 

 1556. 



Drift wood. 



12 



A Samoed. 



13 



H 



Dolgoieve an 

 Island. 



Pechora. 



*5 



16 



. l 7 



The variation 

 of the Commas. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



barre going in two fadome and a fourth part : and after 

 we were past in over the barre, it waxed deeper, for we 

 had 5 fadoms, 4 and a half, and 3 fadom &c. Our barke 

 being mored, I sent some of our men to shoare to pro- 

 vide wood, where they had plenty of drift wood, but none 

 growing : and in this place we found plenty of young 

 foule, as Guiles, Seapies, and others, whereof the Russes 

 would eate none, whereof we were nothing sory, for there 

 came the more to our part. 



Sunday our men cut wood on shoare, and brought it 

 aboord, and wee balasted our shippe with stones. 



This morning Gabriel saw a smoke on ye way, who 

 rowed unto it with his skiffe, which smoke was two 

 leagues from the place where we road : and at a North- 

 west sunne he came aboord again, and brought with him 

 a Samoed, which was but a young man : his apparell 

 was then strange unto us, and he presented me with three 

 young wild geese, and one young barnacle. 



Munday I sent a man to the maine in Gabriels boat, 

 and he brought us aboord 8 barricoes of fresh water : 

 the latitude of the said Morgiovets is sixtie eight degrees 

 and a terce. It floweth there at a Southsouthwest moone 

 full sea, and hyeth two fadome and a halfe water. 



At a Westnorthwest sunne we departed from this 

 place, and went East 25 leagues, and then saw an 

 Island North and by West of us eight leagues, which 

 Island is called Dolgoieve : and from the Eastermost 

 part of this Island, there lyeth a sand East and by 

 South 7 leagues long. 



Wednesday at a North and by East sunne Swetinoz 

 was South of us 5 leagues. This day at afternoone 

 we went in over the dangerous barre of Pechora, and 

 had upon the barre but one fadome water. 



Thursday we road still. 



Friday I went on shoare and observed the variation 

 of the Compasse, which was three degrees and a halfe 

 from the North to the West : the latitude this day was 

 sixtie nine degrees ten minutes. 



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