STEPHEN BURROUGH ad. 



1556. 



From two or three leagues to the Eastward of 

 Swetinoz, untill the entering of the river Pechora, it is 

 all sandy hilles, and towards Pechora the sandie hilles 

 are very low. 



It higheth on the barre of Pechora foure foote water, 

 & it floweth there at a Southwest moone a full sea. 



Munday at a North & by East sunne, we weyed, and 20 

 came out over the sayd dangerous barre, where wee had 

 but five foote water, insomuch that wee found a foote 

 lesse water comming out then wee did going in. I 

 thinke the reason was, because when we went in the 

 winde was off the sea, which caused the sands to breake 

 on either side of us, and wee kept in the smoothest be- 

 tweene the breaches, which we durst not have done, 

 except we had seene the Russes to have gone in before 

 us : and at our comming out the winde was off the 

 shoare, and fayre weather, and then the sands did not 

 appeare with breaches as at our going in : we thanke 

 God that our ship did draw so little water. 



When we were a seaboord the barre the wind scanted 

 upon us, and was at Eastsoutheast, insomuch that we 

 stopped the ebbes, and plyed all the floods to the 

 windewards, and made our way Eastnortheast. 



Tuesday at a Northwest sunne we thought that we had 21 

 seen land at East, or East & by North of us : which 

 afterwards prooved to be a monstrous heape of ice. 



Within a little more then halfe an houre after, we first Ice, 

 saw this ice, we were inclosed within it before we were 

 aware of it, which was a fearefull sight to see : for, for 

 the space of sixe houres, it was as much as we could doe 

 to keepe our shippe aloofe from one heape of ice, and beare 

 roomer from another, with as much wind as we might 

 beare a coarse. And when we had past from the danger 

 of this ice, we lay to the Eastwards close by the wind. 



The next day we were againe troubled with the ice. 22 



Thursday being calme, we plyed to the windwards, 23 



the winde being Northerly. We had the latitude this Thelat.jode- 

 1 -j a. „ srees 1 1 min. 



day at noone in 70 degrees 1 1 minutes. 6 



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