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BURROUGPPS VOYAGE, 1556. 
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lat. 68° 40' north. On Friday, the ^Jth July another storm 
appeared to threaten. 
“ And as I was musing what was best to be done, I saw a sail 
come out of a creeke under the foresayd Caninoz, which Vv^as 
my friend Gabriel, who forsook his harborough and company, 
and came as neere us as he might, and pointed vs to the 
Eastwards, and then we weyed and followed him. Saturday we 
Avenk eastsoutheast and followed Gabriel, and he brought vs 
into an harborough called Morgiouets, which is 30 leagues 
from Caninoz. This morning Gabriel saw a smoke on ye way, 
who rowed vnto it with his skiffe, which smoke Avas two leagues 
from the place where Ave road ; and at a Northwest sunne 
he came aboord again, and brought with him a Samoed,^ which 
was but a young man ; his apparell Avas then strange vnto vs, 
and he presented me with three young Avild geese, and one 
young barnacle.” 
On the July Burrough sailed past Dolgoi Island, and the 
following day entered the mouth of the Petchora, the latitude 
of which was fixed at 69° lOA On the ^ they sailed out 
again over sandbanks in only five feet of Avater, and thanked 
God that their vessel was of so light draught. The day after 
ice Avas met with for the first time. On the 
70° 20' north, they had the meeting already described with an 
enormous whale.^ SomeAvhat later on the same day the 
Searclithrift anchored in a good haven betAveen two islands, 
situated in 70° 42' N. L. ^ They ay ere named by Burrough 
St. James’s Islands. 
‘‘Tuesday, the 4th jS plyed to the Westwards alongst 
tlie shoare, the wind being at NorthAvest, and as I was about 
to come to anker, AA^e saw a sail comming about the point 
whereunder we thought to have ankered. Then I sent a skiffe 
aboorde of him, and at their comming aboord, they tooke 
acquaintance of them, and the chiefe man said hee had bene 
^ This Avas the first meeting between West-Enropeans and Samoyeds. 
^ The capes which bound the month of the Petchora—Cape Rnski 
Savorot and Cape Medinski Savorot,—are A^ery nearly in lat. 69°. 
See above, page 168. 
^ EAudently islands near the southern extremity of NoA^aya Zemlya. 
