v.] BUEROUGH'S VOYAGE, 155n. 171 



from the place where we road ; and at a Northwest sunne 

 he came aboord again, and brought with him a Samoed,^ which 

 was but a young man ; his apparell was then strange vnto vs, 

 and he presented me with three young wild geese, and one 

 young barnacle." 



On the 1^ July Burrough sailed past Dolgoi Island, and the 

 f(^llowing day entered the mouth of the Petchora, the latitude 

 of which was fixed at 69° 10'.' On the .^ they sailed out 

 again over sandbanks in only five feet of water, and thanked 

 God that their vessel was of so light draught. The day after 

 ice was met with "for the first time. On the ^|}j^ in lat. 

 70° 20' north, they had the meeting already described with an 

 enormous whale.^ Somewhat later on the same day the 

 SearcJithrift anchored in a good haven between two islands, 

 situated in 70° 42' N. L.^ They were named by Burrough 

 St. James's Islands. 



"Tuesday, the 2^^ we plyed to the Westwards alongst 

 the shoare, the wind being at Northwest, and as I was about 

 to come to anker, we saw a sail comming about the point 

 whereunder we thought to have ankered. Then I sent a skiffe 

 aboorde of him, and at their comming aboord, they tooke 

 acquaintance of them, and the chiefe man said hee had bene 

 in our company in the riuer Cola, and also declared vnto them 

 that we were past the way which should bring vs to the Ob. 

 This land, sayd he, is called Nova Zembla, that is to say, the 

 New Land ; and then he came aboord himselfe with his skiffe he 

 told me the like ... he made me also certaine demonstrations 

 of the way to the Ob. I gave him a Steele glasse, two pewter 

 spoons, and a paire of veluet sheathed knives ; and then he 

 seemed somewhat the more willing to tary and shewed me as 

 much as he knew for our purpose ; he also gave me 17 

 wild geese. . . . This man's name was Loshak. Wednes- 

 day, as we plied to Eastwards, we espied another saile, which 

 was one of this Loshak's company, and we bare roome and 

 spake with him, who in like sort tolde us of the Ob, as the other 

 had done. . . . Friday (the l^Ty) the gale of winde began to 

 ncrease, and came Westerly withall, so that by a Northwest 

 suime we were at an anker among the Islands of Waigats, 

 where we saw two small lodias ; the one of them came aboord 

 of us and presented me with a great loafe of bread ; and they told 



1 This was the first meeting between VVest-Eiiropeans and Samoyeds. 

 - The capes which bound tlie mouth of the Petchora— Cape Euski 

 Savorot and Cape Medinski Savorot,— are very nearly in lat. 69°. 

 •^ See above, page 129. 

 * Evidently islands near the southern extremity of Novaya Zemlya. 



