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‘TO THE NORTHERN PARTS OF RUSSIA AND SIBERIA. 15
we thought it beft to return unto the harbour which we had found before, and fo we
bare roomer with the fame, howbeit we could not accomplifh our defire that day. The
next day, being the eighteenth of September, we entered into the haven, and there came
to an anchor at fix fathoms. This haven runneth into the main, about two leagues,
and is in breadth half a league, wherein were very many feal fifhes, and other great fifhes,
and upon the main we faw bears, great deer, foxes, with divers ftrange beafts, as gu-
loines*, and fuch other which were to us unknown, and alfo wonderful. Thus remaining
in this haven the fpace of a week, feeing the year far fpent, and alfo very evil weather, as
froft, fnow, and hail,.as though it had been the deep of winter, we thought beft to winter
there. Wherefore we fent out three men S.S. W. to fearch if they could find people, who
went three days journey, but could find none: after that we fent other three weftward,
four days journey, which alfo returned without finding any people. Then fent we three
men S. E. three days journey, who in like fort returned without finding of people, or
any fimilitude of habitation.
Thefe two notes following were written upon the outfide of this pamphlet or book.
« 1, The proceedings of Sir Hugh Willoughbie after he was feparated from the Ed-
ward Bonaventure.
2. Our fhip being at an anchor in the harbour called Sterfier, in the ifland Lofoote.”
The river or haven wherein Sir Hugh Willoughbie with the company of his two thips
perifhed for cold, is called Arzina in Lapland, near unto Kegor. But it appeareth by
a will found in the fhip, that Sir Hugh Willoughbie and moft of the company were alive
in January 1554.
* Hakluyt adds upon the margin, or e/lons : and adds, that in this harbour they died.
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