A.D. 



1556. 



They were 

 within 1 5 

 leagues of 

 Pechora. 



21 



22 



They returne 

 the 22 of 

 August. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



God, the storme was at the highest, & then the winde 

 began to slake, and came Northerly withall, & then I 

 reckoned the Westermost point of the river Pechora to 

 be South of us 15 leagues. At a Westsouthwest sunne 

 we set our maine sayle, and lay close by the winde, the 

 winde being at Northwest and by North, making but little 

 way, because the billow went so high : at midnight wee 

 cast about, and the shippe caped Northnortheast, making 

 little way. 



Friday at noone we had the latitude in 70 degrees 

 8 minutes, and we sounded, and had 29 fadomes sand, 

 and in maner stremy ground. At a West sunne we cast 

 about to the Westwards, and a little after the wind came 

 up at West. 



Saturday was calme : the latitude this day at noone was 

 70 degrees and a terce, we sounded heere, and had nine 

 and forty fadomes and oze, which oze signified that we 

 drew towards Nova Zembla. 



And thus we being out of al hope to discover any more 

 to the Eastward this yeere, wee thought it best to returne, 

 and that for three causes. 



The first, the continuall Northeast and Northerly 

 winds, which have more power after a man is past to the 

 Eastwards of Caninoze, then in any place that I doe know 

 in these Northerly regions. 



Second, because of great and terrible abundance of ice 

 which we saw with our eies, and we doubt greater store 

 abide th in those parts : I adventured already somewhat 

 too farre in it, but I thanke God for my safe deliverance 

 from it. 



Third, because the nights waxed darke, and the winter 

 began to draw on with his stormes : and therefore I 

 resolved to take the first best wind that God should send, 

 and plie towards the bay of S. Nicholas, and to see if we 

 might do any good there, if God would permitt it. 



This present Saturday we saw very much ice, and were 

 within two or three leagues of it : it shewed unto us as 

 though it had beene a firme land as farre as we might see 



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