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[chap. 
in number 28 at the least, and all of them belonging 
to the river Cola, And as I vnderstood Keril made reckoning 
that the hauser which was fast in his anker should have bene 
his owne, and at first would not deliver it to our boat, insomuch 
that I sent him worde that I would complain vpon him, where¬ 
upon he deliuered the hauser to my company. The next day 
being Saturday, I sent our boat on shore to fetch fresh water 
and wood, and at their comming on shore this Keril welcomed 
our men most gently, and also banketed them, and in the 
meanetime caused some of his men to fill our baricoes with 
water, and to help our men to beare wood into their boat; and 
then he put on his best silke coate, and his collar of pearles 
and came aboorde againe, and brought his present with him: 
and thus having more respect vnto his present than to his 
person, because I perceiued him to be vain-glorious, I bade 
him welcome and gaue him a dish of figs; and then he 
declared vnto me that his father was a gentleman, and that he 
was able to shew me pleasure, and not Gabriel, who was but a 
priest’s sonne. ” 
After Burrough has given account of a storm, during which 
he lost a jolly boat, which he had purchased at Yardoehus, and 
by which they were detained some time in the neighbourhood 
of Cape St. John (whose latitude was fixed at 66 ° 50') he 
continues:— 
Saturday (the ^4 th July) at a Northnorthwest sunne the 
wind came at Eastnortheast, and then we weied, and plied to 
the Northwards, and as we were two leagues shot past the 
Cape, we saw a house standing in a valle}^, which is dainty to 
be scene in those parts and by and by I saw three men on the 
top of the hil. Then I iudged them, as it afterwards proued, 
that they were men which came from some other place to set 
traps to take vermin^ for their furres, which trappes we did 
perceiue very thicke alongst the shore as we went,” 
The 14th to the 19th July, new style, were passed on the 
coast of Kanin Nos.^ On the 19th at noon Burrough was in 
^ Probably mountain foxes. Eemaiiis of these fox-traps are still 
frequently met with along the coast of the Polar Sea, where the Russians 
have carried on hunting. 
^ Kanin Nos is in 68° 30' N. L. 
