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tallied by Juan Vasilovich, Czar of INIoscow, and re- 

 ceived permission of a free trade. He returned to 

 England in 1554, and the following summer Avas 

 sent out again accompanied by Richard Gray and 

 George Killingworth *, " factors," for establishing a 

 regular trade with Russia by the way of the White 

 Sea, which was accomplished under various privi- 

 leges. 



Stephen Burrough also, was sent out in a small 

 vessel the following year (1556), for making discove- 

 ries to the eastward. He visited Nova Zembla, and 

 discovered the Island of TVeigats, near which, in fruit- 

 less endeavours to get to the eastward, he spent above 

 three weeks, and then, proceeding to the westward, 

 he wintered at Colmagro ; and, after making some 

 search for the Bona Esperanza, and Bona Conliden- 

 tia, returned to England in 1557. 



After the complete establishment of the Russian 

 trade, and the discovery of all the northern face of 

 Russia, from the AVhite Sea to the eastward of the 

 VV^eigats, the chance of further discovery in that di- 

 rection appeared so little, that a passage to Cathay or 

 India, by the north-west, again became a popular spe- 

 culation. Martin Frobisher, who was one of the 

 *niost sanguine advocates of the practicability of this 



* This Killingworth was remarkable for the length and 

 beauty of his beard. It was of a yellowish colour, thick and 

 hvoadj measuring 6 feet 2 inches in length. 



