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but to the coast of Russian Lapland to search for the lost 

 vessels.^ The following year the English were so occupied with 

 their new commercial treaties with Russia and with the fitting 

 out of Frobisher's three expeditions to the north-west, that it 

 was long before a new attempt was made in the direction of the 

 north-east, namely till Arthur Pets' voyage in 1580.'^ He was 

 the first who penetrated from Western Europe into the Kara 

 Sea, and thus brought the sohition of the problem of the 

 North-East Passage to the Pacific a good way forward. Tlie 

 principal incidents of this voyage too must therefore be briefly 

 stated here. 



Pet and Jackmax, the former in the Cfcorge, the latter in the 

 William, sailed from Harwich on the 3^5^., 1580. On the 

 22'nd jun'e they doubled the North Cape, and on the |^ Jnly, Pet 

 was separated from Jackman after appointing to meet with him 

 at " Verove Ostrove or Waygats." On the ^^th land was in 

 sight, the latitude having the preceding day been ascertained 

 to be 71° 38'. Pet was thus at Gooseland, on the west coast 

 of Novaya Zemlya. He now sailed E.S.E., and fell in with ice 

 on the ^~i\\ July. On the ^,th July, land was seen, and the 

 vessel anchored at an island, probably one of the many small 

 islands in the Kara Port, where wood and water were taken 

 on board. 



On the ^th July, Pet was in the neighbourhood of land in 

 70° 26'. At first he thought that the land was an island, and 

 endeavoured to sail round it, but as he did not succeed in doing 

 so, he supposed it to be Novaya Zemlya. Hence he sailed in 

 different directions between S.W. and S.E., and was on the 

 ^-^th in 69° 40' N.L. Next day there was lightning with showers 

 of rain. Pet believed himself now to be in Petchora Bay, and 

 after sighting, on the ^^th July, the headland which bounds the 

 mouth of the river on the north-east, he sailed, it would seem, 

 between this headland and the Selenetz Islands into the great 

 bay east of Medinski Savorot. Here he made soundings on 

 the supposition that the sound between Vaygats Island and the 



1 Hamel, Tradescant der altere, p. 106. Hakluyt, 1st Edition, p. 321). 

 The vo'iage of the foresaid M. Stephen Burrough An. \bbl from. Colmogro to 

 Wordhouse , &c. This voyage of Burrough has attracted little attention ; 

 from it however we learn that the Dutch even at that time carried on an 

 extensive commerce with Russian Lapland. In the same narrative there 

 is also a list of words with statements of prices and suitable goods for 

 trade with the inhabitants of the Kola peninsula. 



2 Two accounts of this voyage are to be found in Hakluyt's collection 

 (pp. 466 and 476). A copy of Pet's own journal was discovered some 

 years ago, along with other books, frozen in among the remains of 

 Barents' wintering on the north-east side of Novaya Zemlya. It has not 

 been published, but is in the possession of Consul Rein at Hammerfest, 



