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the water. After beating three days to the north- 

 ward, and probably making very little progress, he 

 bore up with the wind at north-east, and ran about 

 70 leagues towards the south-south-east, when, fall- 

 ing into 7 fathoms water, without seeing land, he 

 hauled by the wind to north-westward. From that 

 time, 21st August, until the 14th September, he 

 coasted to the westward, seeing the Russian shore 

 occasionally ; and, on tlie 18th, took up his winter 

 quarters at the mouth of the river Arzina, a har- 

 bour in the 70th degree of latitude, on the north- 

 eastern face of Lapland. Here, owing to the seve- 

 rity of the cold, and the want of proper food, him- 

 self and two ships' companies, consisting of 70 per- 

 sons, exhausted by the combined effects of cold, 

 hunger, and disease, perished in the ensuing spring. 

 In the mean time, Chancellor, with the Edward 

 Bonaventure, was more fortunate. He proceed- 

 ed to Wardhuus, the place of rendezvous, from 

 whence, after waiting seven days, he sailed a short 

 distance to the northward, and then changing his 

 course, fell in with the llussian territory, on the 

 east side of the White Sea. In one of the Russian 

 harbours, in this region, the ship remained through- 

 out the winter. Chancellor, during their stay, tra- 

 velled to Moscow, where he was handsomely enter- 



tude, and had the land seen been any of the islands lying near 

 the northern part of Russia, it is evident he could not have 

 steered 70 leagues to the S. S. E., as he after-w-ards did. 



