RICHARD JOHNSON 



A.D. 



1556. 



Certaine notes imperfectly written by Richard 

 Johnson servant to Master Richard Chan- 

 celour, which was in the discoverie of 

 Vaigatz and Nova Zembla, with Steven 

 Burrowe in the Serchthrift 1556. and after- 155 6 

 warde among the Samoedes, whose devilish 

 rites hee describeth. 



Irst, after we departed out of England we Norway. 

 fell with Norway, and on that coste lieth 

 Northbern or Northbergen, and this 

 people are under the King of Denmarke : 

 But they differ in their speech from the 

 Danes, for they speake Norsh. And 

 North of Northbern lie the Isles of Roste Roste fcf 

 and Lofoot, and these Islands pertaine unto Finmarke, Lofoot. 

 and they keepe the lawes and speake the language of the tnmar e ' 

 Islanders. And at the Eastermost part of that land is a 

 castle which is called the Ward house, and the King of Wardhouse. 

 Denmarke doeth fortine it with men of warre : and the 

 Russes may not goe to the Westward of that castle. And 

 East Southeast from that castle is a lande called Lappia : Lappa. 

 in which lande be two maner of people, that is to say, the 

 Lappians, and the Scrickfinnes, which Scrickfinnes are a The Scric- 

 wilde people which neither know God, nor yet good finnes. 

 order : and these people live in tents made of Deares 

 skinnes : and they have no certaine habitations, but 

 continue in heards and companies by one hundred and 

 two hundreds. And they are a people of small stature, 

 and are clothed in Deares skinnes, and drinke nothing 

 but water, and eate no bread but flesh all raw. And the The Lappians. 

 Lappians bee a people adjoyning to them & be much like 

 to them in al conditions : but the Emperour of Russia 

 hath of late overcome manie of them, and they are in 

 subjection to him. And this people will say that they 

 beleeve in the Russes God. And they live in tents as the 

 other doe. And Southeast and by South from Lappia 



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