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PET’S AND JACKMAN’S VOYAGE, 1580. 
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vessels.^ The followiDg year the English were so occupied with 
their new commercial treaties with Kussia and with the litting 
out of Frobisher’s three expeditions to the north-west, that it 
was long before a new attempt was made in the direction of the 
north-east, namely till Arthur Pets’ voyage in 1580 .^ He was 
the first who penetrated from Western Europe into the Kara 
Sea, and thus brought the solution of the problem of the 
North-East Passage to the Pacific a good way forward. The 
principal incidents of this voyage too must therefore be briefly 
stated here. 
Pet and Jackman, the former in the George, the latter in the 
William, sailed from Harwich on the , 1580. On the 
they doubled the North Cape, and on the July, Pet 
was separated from Jackman after appointing to meet with him 
at ‘Werove Ostrove or Waygats.” On the Pth land was in 
sight, the latitude having the preceding day been ascertained 
to be 71° 38'. Pet was thus at Gooseland, on the west coast 
of Novaya Zemlya. He now sailed E.S.E., and fell in with ice 
on the ^gth July. On the ^th July, land was seen, and the 
vessel anchored at an island, probably one of the many small 
islands in the Kara Port, where wood and water were taken 
on board. 
On the j-^th July, Pet was in the neighbourhood of land in 
70° 26'. At first he thought that the land was an island, and 
^ Hamel, Tradescant der dltere, p. 106. Hakluyt, 1st Edition, p. 326. 
The voiage of the foresaid M. Stephen Burrough An. 1557 from Colmogro to 
WaMhouse, &c. This voyage of Burrough has attracted little attention ; 
from it however we learn that the Dutch even at that time carried on an 
extensive commerce with Russian Lapland. In the same narrative there 
is also a list of words with statements of prices and suitable goods for 
trade with the inhabitants of the Kola peninsula. 
Two accounts of this voyage are to be found in Hakluyt’s collection 
(pp. 466 and 476). A copy of Pet’s own journal was discovered some 
years ago, along with other books, frozen in among the remains of 
Barents’ wintering on the north-east side of Novaya Zemlya. It has not 
been published, but is in the possession of Consul Rein at Hammerfest. 
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