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being Saturday, I sent our boat ou shore to fetch fresh water 

 and wood, and at their coniming on shore this Keril welcomed 

 our men most gently, and also banketed them, and in the 

 meanetime caused some of his men to fill our baricoes with 

 water, and to help our men to beare wood into their boat ; and 

 then he put on his best siike coate, and his collar of pearles 

 and came aboorde againe, and brought his present with him : 

 and thus having more respect vnto his present than to his 

 person, because I perceiued him to be vain-glorious, I bade 

 him welcome and gaue him a dish of figs ; and then he 

 declared vnto me that his father was a gentleman, and that he 

 was able to shew me pleasure, and not Gabriel, who was but a 

 priest's sonne." 



After Burrough has given account of a storm, during which 

 he lost a jolly boat, which he had purchased at Vardoehus, and 

 by which they were detained some time in the neighbourhood 

 of Cape St. John (whose latitude was fixed at 66° 50') he 

 continues : — 



"Saturday (the T^th July) at a Northnorthwest sunne the 

 wind came at Eastnortheast, and then we weied, and plied to 

 the Northwards, and as we were two leagues shot past the 

 Cape, we saw a house standing in a valley, which is dainty to 

 be seene in those parts and by and by I saw three men on the 

 top of the hil. Then I iudged them, as it afterwards proued, 

 that they were men which came from some other place to set 

 traps to take vermin^ for their furres, which trappes we did 

 perceiue very thicke alongst the shore as we went." 



The 14th to the 19th July, new style, were passed on the 

 coast of Kanin Nos.^ On the 19th at noon Burrough was in 

 lat. 68° 40' north. On Friday, the ^oth July another storm 

 appeared to threaten. 



" And as I was musing what was best to be done, I saw a sail 

 come out of a creeke under the foresayd Caninoz, which v/as 

 my friend Gabriel, who forsook his harborough and company, 

 and came as neere us as he might, and pointed vs to the 

 Eastwards, and then we weyed and followed him. Saturday we 

 went eastsoutheast and followed Gabriel, and he brought vs 

 into an harborough called Morgiouets, which is 30 leagues 

 from Caninoz. This morning Gabriel saw a smoke on ye way, 

 who rowed vnto it with his skitfe, which smoke was two leagues 



^ Probably mountain foxes. Remains of these fox-traps are still 

 frequently met with along the coast of the Polar Sea, where the Russians 

 Iiave carried on hunting. 



2 Kanin Nos ia in 68° 30' N. L. 



