Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Pages ...
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
TO THE NORTHERN PARTS OF RUSSIA AND SIBERIA. ; 53
the fouthwards, and-between them are fix leagues. ‘There is between thefe two points
a bay that is half a league deep, and is full of fhoals and dangers. AtaS. EF. fun we
weighed, and turned to the windwards, the wind being at E. Sut 3 and at aS. E/ fun
we came to an anchor, being then a fy I fea, in five fathoms and a half water. It hieth
at this place where we rode, and allo at point Lookout, four fathom water. Ata
W.N. W. fun we weighed, and drived to the Wwindwards until Tuefday, a N. N.E.
fun, and then being a high water, we came to an anchor open of the river Cola, in
eight fathom water. Cape St. Bernard lieth from St. Edmond’s point S. E. and by S.,
and betwixt them are fix leagues ; and alfo betwixt them is the river Cola, into which
river we went this evening.
10. Wednefday we rode ftill in the faid river, the wind being at the N.; we fent our
{kiff a-land to be dreffed ; the latitude of the Reith of the river Cola is 65° 48’.
11. Thurfday, at fix ot the clock in the morning, there came aboard of us_one of
the Ruffe lodias, rowing with twenty oars, and there were four-and-twenty men in
her. The mafter of the boat prefented me with a great loaf of bread, and fix rings of
bread, which they call colaches, and four dried pikes, and a peck of fine oatmeal ; and
I gave unto the mafter of the boat a comb and a {mall glafs: and he declared unto me
that he was bound to Pechora; and after that I made them to drink, the tide being
fomewhat broken, they gently departed. ‘The mafter’s name was Pheodor.
Whereas the tenth day I fent our pinnace on fhore to be mended, becaufe fhe was
leaky and weak, with the carpenter and three men more to help him, the weather
chanced fo, that it was Sunday before they could get aboard our fhip. All that time
they were without provifion of victuals, but only a little bread, which they fpent by
‘Vhurfday at night, thinking to have come aboard when they had lifted, but wind and
weather denied them ; infomuch that they were fain to eat grafs and fuch weeds as they
could find then above ground, but frefh water they had plenty ; but the meat with fome
of them could fcant frame, by reafon of their queazy ftomachs.
14. From Thurfday at afternoon, until Sunday in the morning, our bark did ride
fuch a road{ted, that it was to be marveled, without the help of God, how fhe was able
to abide it.
In the bight of the S. E. fhore of the river Cola, there is a good road in five fathom,
er four fathom and a half, at a low water; but you fhall have no land N.N. E. of you
then. I proved with our pinnace that the depth goeth on the S. E. fhore.
18. Thurfday we weighed our anchors in the river Cola, and went into the fea feven
or eight leagues, where we met with the wind far northerly, that of force it conftrained
us to go again back into the faid river, where came aboard of us fundry of their ‘boats,
which declared unto me that they were alfo bound to the northwards, a filhing for morte
and falmon, and gave me liberally of their white and wheaten bread.
As we rode in this river, we faw daily coming down the river many of their lodias,
and they that had leaft had four-and-twenty men in them, and at the laft they grew to
thirty fail of them ; and among the reft there was one of them whofe name was Gabriel,
who fhewed me very much friendthip, and he declared unto me that all they were
bound to Pechora, a fifhing for falmons and morfes ; infomuch that he fhewed me by
demonftrations, that with a fair wind we had feven or eight days failing to the river
Pechora, fo that I was glad of their company. This Gabr iel promifed to give me warn-
ing of fhoals, as he did indeed.
21. Sunday being the one-and-twentieth day, Gabriel gave me a barrel of mead, and
one of his fpecial friends gave mea barrel of beer, which was carried upon men’s backs
at leaft two miles.
22. Monday.
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
