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river of Ob, made by Master Steven Burrough, master of the Pinnesse 

 called th" Serehthrifty with divers things worth the noticing passed in 

 the yere 1556.' In this we read on August 25th, 'At a west north-west 

 sunne we sounded and had 29 fadoms blacke sandie oze, and then 

 we were north-east, five leagues from the north-east part of the island 

 Colgoieue.' ' 



15S0. — Pet and Jackman sailed this year under commission from the 

 Russian Company to go ' eastwards to the countries and dominions of 

 the mightie prince, the Emperor of Cathay, and in the same unto the 

 cities of Cambalu and Quinsay, or to either of them.' Neither of them 

 of course they reached, but on their return from Waigats they managed 

 to get their ships aground, on August 20th, on the sand-banks to the 

 south of Kolguev. 



The account runs: 'At twelve of the clocke we were upon the 

 suddaine in shoale water among great sands, and could find no way out. 

 By sounding and seeking about we came aground, and so did the 

 William ; but we had no hurt, for the wind was off the shore and the 

 same night it was calme. All night we did our best but we could not 

 have her aflote. These shoals doe lie off Colgoyeue ; it is very flat a 

 great way off, and it doth not high aboue 2 or 3 foote water. It floweth 

 north-east and south-west.' - 



*594- — The famous Dutch explorer, William Barents, on his first 

 voyage 'sayled til the 14th of August, five or six miles south-west, 

 sailing close by the land, which (as they gesse) was the island of 

 Colgoyeu.' :: 



161 1. —Richard Finch, in a letter to Sir Thomas Smith, Governor of 

 the ' Worshipfull Companie of English Merchants trading into Russia,' 

 wrote as follows: — 'The seventh of August, William and I with our 

 shallop went on shoare. This Colgoieue is a very long and broad 

 Hand with many vallies in it. On the same are many geese, which the 

 Russes use to take with nets in the time of the yere, before they be ouer 

 fledge. In this Hand seemeth to be store of Hawkes. Here William 



1 Purchas his PilgrimtSt 1589-9910 1601. 



- Hugh Smith in Hakluyt, vol. i. p. 508, ed. 1S10. 



: G. de Veer in Hakluyt. Hakluyt Society's edition, 1S50, vol. xiii. p. 35. 



