KOLGUEV AND THE NAVIGATORS xxv 
Gourdon and our cooper caught two hawkes, whereof one was spoyled 
in the taking, the other remayneth aliue.’! 
And William Gourdon himself writes in the same year that ‘the 
third (August) at noone we had sight of Colgoieue Iland and took the 
latitude, being on the north side of the island, which was 69 degrees 
20 minutes: and at night I went on shoare to see the Land, which was 
high clay ground: and I came where there was an airie of slight falcons, 
but they did flie all away save one, which I tooke up, and brought 
aboard. This Ile of Colgoieue is but thirtie leagues from the Barre 
of Pechora.’? 
It seems that such Russian coast-maps or charts of Kolguev as 
existed at the beginning of this century were drawn by the small 
traders, seamen of the opposite coast. No attempt to fix positions 
seems to have been made until the years 1823, 1824, nearly three 
hundred years after Willoughby’s death. 
1823-24.—In those years Admiral Liitke, during his third and fourth 
voyages to Novaya Zemblya, crossed to the coast of Kolguev and 
determined the latitude and longitude of the north-western, and the 
longitude of the western points, and took views of some points of the 
north-west coast.? 
1826.—A Russian expedition was equipped in this year for the 
survey of the ocean east of the White Sea as far as the mouth of the 
Petchora, and including Kolguev. This expedition, under the ‘ under- 
pilot’ Berejnyeh, sailed right round the island in four days, and so 
executed its commission.* 
1841.—This year is memorable in the history of Kolguev as being 
the first during which any landing or attempt at scientific examination 
was made. Professor Saweljew, accompanied by Dr. Ruprecht (Con- 
servator of the Botanical Museum of the Imperial Academy of Science), 
paid two visits to the island in the months of July and August of this 
year. Ina most interesting paper, in which Saweljew gives the results 
1 Purchas his Pilgrimes, vol. iti. book 3, chap. ix. 
2 [bid., chap. viii. 
+ Of Liitke’s Journey to Novaya Zemblya, Erman’s Translation, vol. ii. p. 325. 
4 Memoires (Sapiski) of the Hydrographical Dept., v. p. 18. 
5 Archiv fur Wissenschaftliche Kunde von Russland, 1852, A. Erman, x. 313- 
316. 
