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TO THE NORTHERN* PARTS OF RUSSIA AND SIBERIA. 5
emergent or purchafe to be employed to any feveral profit, until the common ftock of
the company fhall be furnifhed, and no perfon to hinder the common benefit in fuch
purchafes or contingents, as fhall fortune to any one of them, by his own proper policy,
induftry, or chance, nor no contention to rife in that behalf, by any occafion of jewel,
ftones, pearls, precious metals, or other things of the region, where it fhall chance the
fame to rife, or to be found, bought, trucked, permuted, or given: but every per-
fon to be bound in fuch cafe and upon fuch occafion, by order and direétion, as the
general captain, and the council {hall eftablifh and determine, to whofe order and
diferetion the fame is left: for that of things uncertain, no certain rules may or can
be given.
22. Item, not to difclofe to any nation the ftate of our religion, but to pafs it over in
filence, without any declaration of it, feeming to bear with fuch laws and rites as the
place hath, where you fhall arrive.
23. Item, for as much as our people and fhips may appear unto them ftrange and
wonderous, and theirs alfo to ours, it is to be confidered, how they may be ufed,
learning much of their natures and difpofitions, by fome one fuch perfon, as you may
firft either allure, or take to be brought aboard your fhips, and there to learn as you
may, without violence or force ; and no woman to be tempted or entreated to incon-
tinence, or difhonefty.
24. Item, the perfon fo taken, to be well entertained, ufed, and apparelled, to
be fet on land, to the intent that he or fhe may allure others to draw nigh to fhew the
commodities: and if the perfon taken may be made drunk with your beer, or wine,
you fhall know the fecrets of his heart.
25. Item, our people may not pafs farther into a land, than that they may be able
to recover their pinnaces, or fhips, and not to credit the fair words of the ftrange
people, which be many times tried fubtle, and falfe, nor to be drawn into peril of lols,
for the defire of gold, filver, or riches, and efteem your own commodities above all
other, and in countenance fhew not much to defire the foreign commodities: never-
thelefs take them as for friendfhip, or by way of permutation.
26. Item, every nation and region is to be confidered advifedly, and not to pro-
voke them by any difdain, laughing, contempt, or fuch like, but to ufe them with
prudent circum{pection, with all gentlenefs, and courtefy, and not to tarry long in one
place, until you hall have attained the moft worthy place that may be found, in fuch
fort, as you may return with victuals fufficient, profperoufly.
27. Item, the names of the people of every ifland, are to be taken in writing, with
the commodities, and incommodities of the fame, their natures, qualities, and difpofi-
tions, the fite of the fame, and what things they are moft defirous of, and what com-
modities they will moft willingly depart with, and what metals they have in hills,
mountains, {treams, or rivers, in, or under the earth.
28. Item, if people fhall appear gathering of {tones, gold, metal, or other like,
on the fand, your pinnaces may draw nigh, marking what things they gather, ufing
or playing upon the drum, or fuch other in{ftruments, as may allure them to hearken-
ing, to fantafy, or detire to fee, and hear your in{truments and voices, but keep you
out of danger, and fhew to them no point or fign of rigour and hoftility.
29. Item, if you fhall be invited into any lord’s or ruler’s houfe, to dinner, or other
parliance, go in fuch order of ftrength, that you may be ftronger than they, and
be wary of woods and ambufhes, and that your weapons be not out of your poffef-
fions. ;
30. Item,
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