A.D. 

 1556. 



Corelia. 



Novogardia. 

 The Russes. 



[L 284.] 



Tartaria. 



Lampas a mart 

 orfaire of the 

 Russes, 

 Tartars and 

 Samoeds. 

 The Samoeds 

 countrey. 



Or, Pechora, 

 Vaigatz. 



Nova Zembla. 



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lyeth a province called \ Corelia, and these people are 

 called Kerilli. And South southeast from Corelia lyeth a 

 countrey called Novogardia. And these three nations are 

 under the Emperour of Russia, and the Russes keepe the 

 Lawe of the Greekes in their Churches, and write some- 

 what like as the Greekes write, and they speake their 

 owne language, and they abhorre the Latine tongue, 

 neither have they to doe with the Pope of Rome, and 

 they holde it not good to worshippe any carved Image, 

 yet they will worshippe paynted Images on tables or 

 boordes. And in Russia their Churches, steeples, and 

 houses are all of wood : and their shippes that they have 

 are sowed with withes and have no nayles. The Kerilles, 

 Russians and Moscovians bee much alike in all con- 

 ditions. And South from the Moscovians lye the 

 Tartarians, which bee Mahumetans, and live in tentes 

 and wagons, and keepe in heardes and companies : and 

 they holde it not good to abide long in one place, for 

 they will say, when they will curse any of their children-, 

 I woulde thou mightest tary so long in a place that 

 thou mightest smell thine owne dung, as the Christians 

 doe : and this is the greatest curse that they have. 

 And East Northeast of Russia lieth Lampas, which is 

 a place where the Russes, Tartars and Samoeds meete 

 twise a yeere, and make the faire to barter wares for 

 wares. And Northeast from Lampas lieth the countrey 

 of the Samoeds, which be about the river of Pechere, 

 and these Samoeds bee in subjection to the Emperour 

 of Russia, and they lie in tentes made of Deere skinnes, 

 and they use much witchcraft, and shoot well in bowes. 

 And Northeast from the river Pechere lieth Vaygatz, 

 and there are the wilde Samoeds which will not suffer 

 the Russes to land out of the Sea, but they will kill 

 them and eate them, as wee are tolde by the Russes : 

 and they live in heards, and have all their carriages 

 with deere, for they have no horses. Beyond Vaygatz 

 lyeth a lande called Nova Zembla, which is a great 

 lande, but wee sawe no people, and there wee had 



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