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God send wind and weather to serve, I will go to the Ob with 
you, because the Morses were scant at .these Islands of Vaigats; 
but if he could not get to the riuer of Ob, then he sayd hee 
would goe to the riuer of Narainzay,^ where the people were not 
altogether so savage as the Samoyds of the Ob are: hee 
shewed me that they will shoot at all men to the vttermost of 
their power, that cannot speake their speech.” 
On the ^th of August much ice was seen to drift towards the 
haven where the vessel lay, wherefore Burrough removed back 
to the place where he had lain a few days before, and whose 
latitude he now found to be 70° 25'. Loshak left him unex¬ 
pectedly the following day, w^hile Burrough was taking solar 
altitudes, and on the fth Burrough too weighed anchor to sail 
south along the coast of Yaygats. After sailing about in these 
waters for a time, and being exposed to a severe storm with an 
exceedingly heavy sea, Burrough, on the determined to 
turn. On the ~ September he arrived at Colmogro, where 
he wintered with a view to continue his voyage next year to 
the Obi. This voyage, however, was abandoned, because he 
instead went westwards in order to search for tw^o of the ships 
which accompanied Chancelor, and which had been lost during 
the return voyage from Archangel.^ 
From this narrative we see that a highly developed Russian 
^ Probably the river which on Massa’s map is called Narontza, and 
debouches on the west coast of Yalmal. 
^ All the three vessels that were employed in the first English expedition 
to the North-east had an unfortunate fate, viz.: 
The Edward Bonaventure, commanded by Chancelor and Burrough, 
sailed in 1553 from England to the White Sea, returned to England in 
1554 and was on the way plundered by the Dutch {Purchas, hi. p. 250); 
started again with Chancelor for the Dwina in 1555, and returned the same 
year to England under Captain John Buckland ; accompanied Burrough in 
1556 to the Kola peninsula; went thence to the Dwina to convey to England 
Chancelor and a Russian embassy, consisting of the ambassador Ossip 
Gregorjevitsch Nepeja and a suite of sixteen men ; the vessel besides being- 
laden with goods to the value of 20,000Z. It was wrecked in the neigh¬ 
bourhood of Aberdeen (Aberdour Bay) on the 20th (10th) November. 
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