v.] BURROUGH'S VOYAGE, 1556. 109 



labour, in so much that I desired Gabriel to lend me his 

 anker, because our ovvne ankers were too big for our skiffe 

 to lay out, who sent me his owne, and borrowed another also 

 and sent it vs." 



After much trouble Burrough succeeded in getting his vessel 

 off the shoal, and then sought for a better anchorage on the 

 other side of Cape St, John. 



" Friday (JfirjmL) at afternoone we weyed, and departed from 

 thence, the wether being mostly faire, and the winde at East- 

 southeast, and plied for the place where we left our cable and 

 anker, and our hawser, and as soone as we were at an anker the 

 foresaid Gabriel came aboord of vs, with 3 or foure more of 

 their small boats, and brought with them of their Aquauita? 

 and Meade, professing unto me very much friendship, and 

 reioiced to see vs agaiue, declaring that they earnestly thought 

 that we had bene lost. This Gabriel declared vnto me that 

 they had saued both the ankers and our hauser, and after we 

 had thus communed, I caused 4 or 5 of them to goe into 

 my cabbin, where I gaue them figs and made them such cheere 

 as I could. While I was banketing of them, there came 

 another of their Skiffes aboord with one who was a Kerill 

 (Karelian), whose name afterwards I learned, and that he 

 dwelt in Colmogro, and Gabriel dwelled in the towne of Cola, 

 which is not far from the river's mouth. This foresaid Keril 

 said vnto me that one of the ankers which I borrowed was his. 

 I gave him thanks for the lone of it, thinking it had bene 

 sufficient. And as I continued in our accustomed maner, that 

 if the present which they brought were worth enterteinment, 

 they had it accordingly, he brought nothing with him, and 

 therfore I regarded him but litle. And thus we ended, and 

 they took their leaue and went ashore. At their comming 

 ashore, Gabriel and Keril were at vnconvenient words, and by 

 the eares, as I vnderstand ; the cause was because the one had 

 better enterteinment than the other; but you shal vnderstand 

 that Gabriel was not able to make his party good, because 

 there were 17 lodias of the Keril's company who tooke 

 his part, and but 2 of Gabriel's company. The next high 

 water Gabriel and his company departed from thence, and 

 rowed to their former company and neighbours, which were 

 in number 28 at the least, and all of them belonging 

 to the river Cola. And as I vnderstood Keril made reckoning 

 that the hauser which was fast in his anker should have bene 

 his owne, and at first would not deliver it to our boat, insomuch 

 that I sent him worde that I would complain vpon him, where- 

 upon he deliuered the hauser to my company. The next day 



