Julie.
SATURDAY at a Northnorthwest sunne the wind came at
Eastnortheast, & 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 valley, which is dainty to
be seene in those parts, and by and by I saw three men
on the top of the hil. Then I judged them, as it afterwards proved, that they were men which came from some
other place to set traps to take vermin for their furres,
which trappes we did perceive very thicke alongst the
shore as we went.
Sunday at an East sunne we were thwart off the creeke
where the Russes lay, and there came to an anker, and
perceiving the most part of the Lodias to be gone we
thought it not good to tary any longer there, but weyed
and spent all the ebbe, plying to the windewards.
Munday at a South sunne it was high water. All
alongst the coast it floweth little, onely a South moone
makes a full sea: and as we were a weying we espied
the Russe Lodias, which we first lost. They came out
of a creeke amongst the sandy hilles, which hilles beginne
15 leagues Northnortheast from
Cape S. John.
Plying this ebbe to an end, we came to an anker, 6
leagues Northnortheast from the place where we saw
the Russes come out: and there the Russes harboured
themselves within a soonke banke, but there was not water
enough for us.
At a North sunne we weyed and plied to the Northwards, the land lying Northnortheast, and Southsouthwest, untill a South sunne, and then we were in the
latitude of 68 degrees & a halfe: and in this latitude
ende those sandy hilles, and the land beginneth to lie
North and by West, South and by East, and Northnorthwest, and to the Westwards, and there the water
beginneth to waxe deepe.
At a Northwest sunne we came to an anker within
halfe a league of the shore, where wee had good plenty
of fish, both Haddocks and Cods, riding in 10 fadom
water.
Wednesday we weyed, and plyed neerer the headland,
which is called Caninoz, the wind being at East and by
North.
Thursday the wind being scant we turned to windwards
the ebbe, to get about Caninoz: the latitude this day
at noone was 68 degrees 40 minutes.
Friday we turned to the windward of the ebbe, but to
no purpose: and as we rode at an anker, we saw the
similitude of a storme rising at
Northnorthwest, & could
not tell where to get rode nor succor for that winde, and
harborough we knew none: & that land which we rode
under with that winde was a lee shore. And as I was
musing what was best to be done, I saw a saile come
out of a creeke under the foresayd Caninoz, which was
my friend Gabriel, who forsooke his harborough and
company, and came as neere us as he might, and pointed
us to the Eastwards, & then we weyed and followed him,
and went East and by South, the wind being at
Westnorthwest, and very mistie.
Saturday we went Eastsoutheast & followed Gabriel,
and he brought us into an harborough called Morgiovets,
which is 30 leagues from Caninoz, & we had upon the
barre going in two fadome and a fourth part: and after
we were past in over the barre, it waxed deeper, for we
had 5 fadoms, 4 and a half, and 3 fadom &c. Our barke
being mored, I sent some of our men to shoare to provide
wood, where they had plenty of drift wood, but none
growing: and in this place we found plenty of young
foule, as Gulles, Seapies, and others, whereof the Russes
would eate none, whereof we were nothing sory, for there
came the more to our part.
Sunday our men cut wood on shoare, and brought it
aboord, and wee balasted our shippe with stones.
This morning Gabriel saw a smoke on ye way, who
rowed unto it with his skiffe, which smoke was two
leagues from the place where we road: and at a Northwest sunne he came aboord again, and brought with him
a Samoed, which was but a young man: his apparell
was then strange unto us, and he presented me with three
young wild geese, and one young barnacle.
Munday I sent a man to the maine in Gabriels boat,
and he brought us aboord 8 barricoes of fresh water:
the latitude of the said Morgiovets is sixtie eight degrees
and a terce. It floweth there at a Southsouthwest moone
full sea, and hyeth two fadome and a halfe water.
At a Westnorthwest sunne we departed from this place,
and went East 25 leagues, and then saw an
Island North
and by West of us eight leagues, which Island is called
Dolgoieve: and from the Eastermost part of this Island,
there lyeth a sand East and by South 7 leagues long.
Wednesday at a North and by East sunne Swetinoz
was South of us 5 leagues. This day at afternoone we
went in over the dangerous barre of Pechora, and had
upon the barre but one fadome water.
Thursday we road still.
Friday I went on shoare and observed the variation
of the Compasse, which was three degrees and a halfe
from the North to the West: the latitude this day was
sixtie nine degrees ten minutes.
From two or three leagues to the Eastward of Swetinoz,
untill the entering of the
river Pechora, it is all sandy
hilles, and towards Pechora the sandie hilles are very
low.
It higheth on the barre of Pechora foure foote water,
& it floweth there at a Southwest moone a full sea.
Munday at a North & by East sunne, we weyed, and
came out over the sayd dangerous barre, where wee had
but five foote water, insomuch that wee found a foote
lesse water comming out then wee did going in. I thinke
the reason was, because when we went in the winde was
off the sea, which caused the sands to breake on either
side of us, and wee kept in the smoothest betweene the
breaches, which we durst not have done, except we had
seene the Russes to have gone in before us: and at our
comming out the winde was off the shoare, and fayre
weather, and then the sands did not appeare with breaches
as at our going in: we thanke God that our ship did
draw so little water.
When we were a seaboord the barre the wind scanted
upon us, and was at
Eastsoutheast, insomuch that we
stopped the ebbes, and plyed all the floods to the windewards, and made our way Eastnortheast.
Tuesday at a Northwest sunne we thought that we
had seen land at East, or East & by North of us: which
afterwards prooved to be a monstrous heape of ice.
Within a little more then halfe an houre after, we first
saw this ice, we were inclosed within it before we were
aware of it, which was a fearefull sight to see: for, for
the space of sixe houres, it was as much as we could doe
to keepe our shippe aloofe from one heape of ice, and
beare roomer from another, with as much wind as we
might beare a coarse. And when we had past from the
danger of this ice, we lay to the Eastwards close by the
wind.
The next day we were againe troubled with the ice.
Thursday being calme, we plyed to the windwards,
the winde being Northerly. We had the latitude this
day at noone in 70 degrees 11 minutes.
We had not runne past two houres Northwest, the
wind being at
Northnortheast and Northeast and by
North a good gale, but we met againe with another heape
of ice: we wethered the head of it, and lay a time to
the seawards, and made way West 6 leagues.
Friday at a Southeast sunne we cast about to the
Eastwards, the wind being at
Northnortheast: the latitude this day at noone was 70 degrees 15 minutes.
On S. James his day bolting to the windewardes, we
had the latitude at noone in seventy degrees twentie
minutes. The same day at a Southwest sunne, there was
a monstrous Whale aboord of us, so neere to our side
that we might have thrust a sworde or any other weapon
in him, which we durst not doe for feare hee should
have overthrowen our shippe: and then I called my
company together, and all of us shouted, & with the crie
that we made he departed from us: there was as much
above water of his backe as the bredth of our pinnesse,
and at his falling downe, he made such a terrible noyse
in the water, that a man would greatly have marvelled,
except hee had knowen the cause of it: but God be
thanked, we were quietly delivered of him. And a little
after we spied certaine Islands, with which we bare, and
found good harbor in 15 or 18 fadome, and black oze:
we came to an anker at a Northeast sunne, & named the
Island S. James his Island, where we found fresh water.
Sunday, much wind blowing we rode still.
Munday I went on shoare and tooke the latitude, which
was 70 degrees 42 minutes: the variation of the compasse was 7 degrees and a halfe from the North to the
West.
Tuesday we plyed to the Westwards alongst the shoare,
the wind being at Northwest, and as I was about to come
to anker, we saw a sayle comming about the point, wherunder we thought to have ankered. Then I sent a skiffe
aboord of him, and at their comming aboord, they tooke
acquaintance of them, and the chiefe man said hee had
bene in our company in the
river Cola, and also declared
unto them that we were past the way which should bring
us to the Ob. This land, sayd he, is called Nova
Zembla, that is to say, the New land: and then he came
aboord himselfe with his skiffe, and at his comming aboord
he told mee the like, and sayd further, that in this Nova
Zembla is the highest mountaine in the worlde, as he
thought, & that Camen Boldshay, which is on the maine
of Pechora, is not to be compared to this mountaine,
but I saw it not: he made me also certaine demonstrations
of the way to the Ob, and seemed to make haste on his
owne way, being very lothe to tarie, because the yeere
was farre past, and his neighbour had fet Pechora, and
not he: so I gave him a steele glasse, two pewter spoones,
and a paire of velvet sheathed knives: and then he seemed
somewhat the more willing to tary, and shewed me as
much as he knew for our purpose: he also gave me 17
wilde geese, and shewed me that foure of their lodias were
driven perforce from Caninoze to this Nova Zembla.
This mans name was Loshak.
Wednesday, as we plied to the Eastwards, we espied
another saile, which was one of this Loshaks company,
and we bare roome, and spake with him, who in like sort
tolde us of the Ob, as the other had done.
Thursday, we plied to the Eastwards, the winde being
at
Eastnortheast.
Friday, the gale of winde began to increase, and came
Westerly withall, so that by a Northwest sunne we were
at an anker among the
Islands of Vaigats, where we saw
two small lodias, the one of them came aboord of us, and
presented me with a great loafe of bread: and they told
me that they were all of Colmogro, except one man that
dwelt at Pechora, who seemed to be the chiefest among
them in killing of the Morse.
There were some of their company on shoare, which
did chase a white beare over the high clifs into the water,
which beare the lodia that was aboord of us killed in our
sight.
This day there was a great gale of wind at North, and
we saw so much ice driving a seaboord, that it was then
no going to sea.
