OSEP NAPEA'S RETURN HOME 



weareth no weapon, but onely two or three paire of 

 knives, having the hafts of the tooth of a fish, called the 

 Morse. 



In the Winter time, the people travell with sleds, in 

 towne and countrey, the way being hard, and smooth 

 with snow : the waters and rivers are all frozen, and one 

 horse with a sled, will draw a man upon it 400 miles, in 

 three daies : but in the Summer time, the way is deepe 

 with mire, and travelling is very ill. 



The Russe, if he be a man of any abilitie, never goeth 

 out of his house in the winter, but upon his sled, and in 

 Summer upon his horse : and in his sled he sits upon a 

 carpet, or a white Beares skinne : the sled is drawen with 

 a horse well decked, with many Foxes and Woolves tailes 

 at his necke, & is conducted by a litle boy upon his 

 backe : his servants stand upon the taile of the sled &c. 



The voyage, wherein Osep Napea the Moscovite 

 Ambassadour returned home into his countrey, 

 with his entertainement at his arrivall, at 

 Colmogro : and a large description of the 

 maners of the Countrey. 



He twelfth of Maye, in the yeare of our 

 Lorde 1557 there departed from Graves- 

 end, foure good shippes well appointed 

 for Marchants, which were presently 

 bound into the Baye of S. Nicholas in 

 Russia : with which shippes was trans- 

 ported, or caried home, one Osep Gre- 

 goriwich Napea, who was sent Messenger from the 

 Emperour and great Duke of Moscovia. The foure 

 ships were these, whose names follow, viz. 

 The Primerose Admirall. 

 The John Evangelist Viceadmirall. 

 The Anne and the Trinitie Attendants. 

 The 13 of July, the foresayd foure shippes came to an 

 anker in the Baye of S. Nicholas, befor an Abbey, called 



425 



A.D. 



1557- 



[I. 315.] 



