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faine to bring our ship a trie, and laide her head to the 

 Westwards. 



30 Sunday, the winde became more calme, and then it 

 waxed verie mystie : At noone wee cast about to the 

 Eastwards, the winde beeing at South, and ranne eight 

 houres on that boorde, and then we cast about and caped 

 West southwest : we sounded and had 32. fathomes, and 

 tough oaze like clay. 



3 1 Munday, we doubled about Caninoze, and came at an 

 anker there, to the intent that we might kill some fish if 

 God would permit it, and there we gate a great Nuse, 

 which Nuses were there so plentie, that they would 

 scarcely suffer any other fish to come neere the hookes : 

 the said Nuses caried away sundrie of our hookes and 

 leads. 



A litle after at a West Sunne, the winde began to blow 

 stormie at West southwest, so that we were faine to wey 

 and forsake our fishing ground, and went close by the 

 winde Southwest, and Southwest and by West, making 

 our way South southwest. 



September. 



1 r I ^Uesday at a West Sunne we sounded and had 20. 

 A fathoms, and broken Wilkeshels : I reckoned 

 Canonize to be 24. leagues Northnortheast from us. 

 11 The eleventh day we arrived at Colmogro, and there 



we wintered, expecting the approch of the next Sommer 

 to proceede farther in our intended discoverie for the 

 Ob : which (by reason of our imploiments to Wardhouse 

 the next spring for the search of some English ships) was 

 not accordingly performed. 



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