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THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. 



[chap. 



you shall haue scant two fadome water auJ see no land. And 

 this present day wee came to an anker thwart of a creeke, 

 which is 4 or 5 leagues to the northwards of the sayd Cape, 

 into which creeke Gabriel and his fellow rowed, but we could 

 not get in : and before night there were aboue 20 saile that 

 went into the sayd creeke, the wind being at the Northeast. 

 We had indifferent good landfang. This afternoone Gabriel 

 came aboord with his skiffe, and then I rewarded him for the 

 good company that he kej)t with vs ouer the Shoales, with two 

 small iuory combes, and a Steele glasse with two or three trifles 



RUSSIAN "LODJA." 



After G. de Veer. 



more, for which he was not ungratefull. But notwithstand- 

 ing, his first company had gotten further to the Northwards. 

 Wednesday being Midsummer day we sent our skiffe aland to 

 sound the creeke, where they found it almost drie at a low 

 water. And all the Lodias within were on ground. (In con- 

 sequence of the threatening appearance of the weather Bur- 

 rough determined to go into the bay at high water. In 

 doing so he ran aground, but got help from his Russian 

 friends.) Gabriel came out with his skiffe, and so did sundry 

 others also, shewing their good will to help us, but all to no 

 purpose, for they were likely to have bene drowned for their 



