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Segel fand er denen der Gravesend barges ahniich. Er erwahnt der 

 gewohnlich oben am Mast angebrachlen Figuren mit Wimpeln und Fal- 

 ken- oder Pferdeglockchen , auch des langen starken Steuerruders. An 

 seichten Stellen werden sie mit Stangen langsam vorwiirts getrieben. An 

 der lappliindischen Kiiste und auch anderwiirts segeln sie gewohiiiich 

 nur mit voUem Winde. Tradescant war zugegen, als dreissig Arbeiter 

 beschaftigt waren, eine Lodje mit Hebeln in's Wasser zu schieben und 



it and cover it withe birche rinds and sunitims withe sealls skins having of thèse 

 abundance for withe those boats they hunt and persue them and fishe for them for 

 they cache abundance whiche may ,apeer by the great store of oylle ihat they ther 

 Diake whiche the hollanders ther by (buy) twhiche stinkethe se filthily that it is 

 redy lo poyson ail those that go by but being deprived of that sence it ofended 

 me iiot. The skins I bave seene thème lye by blowne out like a blader the hear 

 syd inward, I thinke it was to get the grease out or oyle that woiild spoyle the 

 skine for in ther lawing of them they be very carfull lo get the oyle cleere oute for 

 they mak great store of sellers (cellars) of bottells for to keep hot watters (Brand- 

 wein). They sell most of them to the Duch and the Duché paints them witbin 

 and puts the iron worke to them and bring them ther owne againe to sell. 



They bave yet a forthe kind of boats or lilters which be flat bottomed of won- 

 derful bignes for bredthe. They be fationed alnomost (almost) ovale the be littell 

 above 3 foot deepe but be mad of suche strengthe that I hâve never sene biger 

 timber in any shipe for the myty knees and jyces which ly crose on of theese will 

 load the best shepe that ther was in the harbor at twice going abord. The name 1 

 bave forgotten. The (are) open and subject to \ve( othcrwis they weare good for the 

 Easl Indian Company. 



They bave yet a fift sort suche as the great persons of the land hâve to pas up 

 and donne the river. They be of divers bigneses sume greatter sum lesser they be 

 niad of two sort the one bave a fine littill borded house in the poope or after part. 

 Theese be of the léser sort the grealer sort bave houses in the midell prettili huit 

 wit prtti windowes in them. "When any on great person is in them they must then 

 be covered ail that part that is like a house withe eytber red blewe or greene but 

 the greatest (of) ail red which I judge is of greater state. - Zar Iwan Wassilje- 

 witsch hatte schon 1580 zwanzig grosse schône Flussfahrzeuge zu Wologda bauen 

 lassen; sie waren sogar auswendig mit Gold- und Silberblatt verziert und mit aller- 

 hand Thieren bemalt, als: Lôwen, Drachen, Adlern, Elephanten, Einhornen u. d. m. 



