CHANCELLOR’S VISIT TO MOSCOW. 
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corpse, were sent to England in 1555 by the merchant George 
Killingworth.^ 
With regard to the position of Arzina it appears from a state¬ 
ment in Anthony Jenkinson’s first voyage {Hakluyt, p. 385) that 
it took seven days to go from Vardoehus to Swjatoinos, and that 
on the sixth he passed the mouth of the river where Sir Hugh 
Willoughby wintered. At a distance from Vardoehus of about 
six-sevenths of the way between that town and Swjatoinos, 
there debouches into the Arctic Ocean, in 68° 20 N. L. and 38° 
30' E. L. from Greenwich, a river, which in recent maps is called 
the Varzina. It was doubtless at the mouth of this river that 
two vessels of the first North-east Passage Expedition wintered 
with so unfortunate an issue for the officers and men. 
The third vessel, the Edivard Bonaventure, commanded by 
Chancelor, had on the contrary a successful voyage, and one 
of great importance for the commerce of the world. As has 
been already stated, Chancelor was separated from his com¬ 
panions during a storm in August. He now sailed alone to 
Vardoehus. After waiting there seven days for Sir Hugh 
Willoughby, he set out again, resolutely determined either 
to bring that to passe which was intended, or else to die 
the death;” and though ‘"certaine Scottishmen” earnestly 
attempted to persuade him to return, he held on his course 
towards that unknown part of the world, and sailed so farre that 
hee came at last to the place where hee found no night at all, 
but a continuall light and brightnesse of the sunne shining 
clearly upon the huge and mighty sea.” ^ In this way he 
1 It is of him that it is narrated in a letter written from Moscow by 
Henrie Lane, that the Czar at an entertainment “ called them to his table, 
to receave each one a cuppe from his hand to drinke, and tooke into his 
hand Master George Killing-worths beard, which reached over the table, 
and pleasantly delivered it the Metropolitane, who seeming to bless it, sad 
in Russe, ‘this is Gods gift.’ ”— Hakluyt, p. 500. 
2 As the Dwina lies to the south of Vardoehus, these remarks probably 
relate to an earlier part of the voyage than that which is referred to in 
the narrative. 
