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YO THE NORTHERN PARTS OF RUSSIA AND SIBERIA. Si
— EE
Tue Navigation and Discovery toward the River of Ob, made by Mafter Steven Burrough,
Mafter of the Pinnace called the Serchthrift, with divers things worth the noting, paffed
in the Year 1556.
(Haxtuyrrt, Vol. I. p. 274.)
WE departed from Ratcliffe to Blackwall the twenty-third of April. Saturday, being
St. Mark’s day, we departed from Blackwall to Grays.
The twenty-feventh, being Monday, the Right Worthipful Sebaftian Cabota came
aboard our pinnace at Gravefend, accompanied with divers gentlemen and gentlewomen,
who after that they had viewed our pinnace, and tafted of fuch cheer as we could make
them aboard, they went on fhore, giving to our mariners right liberal rewards ; and the
good old gentleman, Matter Cabota, gave to the poor moft liberal alms, wifhing them to
pray for the good fortune and profperous fuccefs of the Serchthrift, our pinnace; and
then, at the fien of the Chriftopher, he and his friends banquetted, and made me, and them
that were in the company, great cheer; and for very joy that he had to fee the towardnefs
of our intended difcovery, he entered into the dance himfelf, among the reft of the
young and lufty company ; which being ended, he and his friends departed moft gently,
commending us to the governance of Almighty God.
Tuefday we rode ftill at Gravefend, making provifien for fuch things as we wanted.
Wednefday, in the morning, we departed from Gravelend, the wind being at S. W.;
that night we came to an anchor thwart our Lady of Holland’s.
Thurfday, at three of the clock in the morning, we weighed, and by eight of the
clock we were at an anchor in Orwel Wanns, and then incontinent I went aboard the
Edward Bonaventure, where the worfhipful company of merchants appointed me to be,
until the faid good {hip arrived at Wardhoufe ; then I returned again into the pinnace.
Friday, the fifteenth of May, we were within feven leagues of the fhore, on the coaft
of Norway, the latitude at a fouth fun, 58° 30’, where we faw three fails, befide our
own company; and thus we followed the fhore or land, which lieth N. N. W., N. and
by W., and N. W. and by N., as it doth appear by the plat.
Saturday at an eaft fun we came to St. Dunftan’s ifland, which ifland I fo named; it
was off us eaft two leagues and a half, the wind being at S. E.; the latitude this day ata
fouth fun 59° 42’. Alfo the high round mountain bare ea(t of us, at afouth fun ; and
when this hill is eaft of you, and being bound to the northward, the land lieth north and
-halfa point wefterly, from this faid fouth fun, unto a north fun, twenty leagues N. W.
along the fhore.
Upon Sunday, at fix of the clock in the morning, the fartheft land that we could fee
that lay N. N. W. was eaft of us three leagues, and then it trended to the northwards,
and to the eaftwards of the north; which headland J judged to be Scoutfnefs. At feven
of the clock we changed our courfe and went N. the wind being at S.S.E., and it
waxed very thick and mifty, and whenit cleared wewentN.N E. At a fouth fun we
loft fight of the Serchthrift, becaufe of the mift, making our way N.; and when we loft
fight of the fhore and pinnace, we were within two leagues and a half of the fhore.
The laft land that we faw when this mift came upon us, which is to the northwards of
Scoutinels, lay N. N. E. and‘. S. W., and we made our way N. until a weft fun five
leagues.
From that until Monday, three a-clock in the morning, ten leagues N.N.E. 3;
and then we went N. and by E., becaufe the wind came at the W.S. W. with thick
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