v.] PET'S AND JACKMAN'S VOYAGE, 1580. 175 



mainland would open out at this place, but the water was found 

 to be too shallow, even for a boat. Pet now sailed past Yugor 

 Schar along the coast of Vaygats towards Novaya Zemlya, 

 to a bay on the west coast of Vaygats Island, where he anchored 

 between two small islands, which were supposed to be Woronski 

 Ostrov. The entrance to an excellent haven was indicated 07i hoth 

 sides hy two crosses} On the islands there was abundance of 

 driftwood, and on one of them was found a cross, at the foot 

 of which a man was buried. Pet inscribed his name on the 

 cross, and likewise on a stone at the foot of the cross, "in order 

 that Jackman, if he came thither, might know that Pet had 

 been there." In the afternoon Pet again weighed anchor, 

 doubled the western extremity of Vaygats Island, and con- 

 tinued his voyage, following all along the coast of Vaygats, 

 first to the north and north-east, then to the south, between 

 an ice-field and the land, until the ice came so close to the 

 shore that the vessel could make no headway, when he anchored 

 in a good haven by an island which lay on the east side of 

 Vaygats in the neighbourhood of the mainland. It was per- 

 haps the island which in recent maps is called Mestni Island. 

 Pet was thus now in the Kara Sea.^ The latitude given — 

 69° 14' — shows even, if it is correct, that he went far into the 

 bay at the mouth of the Kara river. Here Pet fell in with his 

 comrade Jackman, from whom he had parted on the coast of 

 Kola, and of whose voyage during the interval we know nothing. 

 When the vessels met they were both damaged by ice. As, 

 in addition, the sea to the north and east was barred by compact 

 masses of ice, the captains, after deliberating with the inferior 

 officers, determined to return. They had, also, during the 

 return voyage, to contend with formidable ice obstacles, until, 

 on the |th August, in Lat. 69° 49' north, near the south- 

 eastern extremity of Vaygats they met with open water. They 

 sailed along the east coast of Vaygats through the Kara Port, 

 which was passed on the j-^th August. Hence th'e course was 

 shaped for Kolgujev Island, on whose sandbanks both vessels 



1 The Russians had thus landmarks on Novaya Zemlya 300 years ago. 



2 It is commonly assumed that Pet sailed into the Kara Sea through 

 Yugor Schar, but that this was not the case is shown partly by the fact 

 that he never sj^eaks of sailing througli a long and narrow sound, partly 

 by the account of the many islands which he saw in his voyage, and partly 

 by the statement that coming from the south he sailed round the western- 

 m.ost promontory of Vaygats Island. If we except small rocks near the 

 shore, there are no islands off the southern part of Vaygats Island. In 

 sailing east of Medinski Savorot, Pet took the land south of Yugor 

 Schar for Vaygats, and the soundings on the 29th (19th) July were 

 carried out uncloubtedly in the mouth of some small river debouching 

 there. 



