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TO THE NORTHERN PARTS OF RUSSIA AND SIBERIA, 57
16. Thurfday we rode ftill.
17. Friday I went on fhore and obferved the variation of the compafs, which was
3° 30° from the N. to the W. : the latitude this day was 69° 10’.
From two or three leagues to the eaftward of Swetinoz, until the entering of the
river Pechora, it is all fandy hills, and towards Pechora the fandy hills are very low.
It hieth on the bar of Pechora four feet water, and it floweth there at a S. W. moon
a full fea.
20. Monday at aN. and by E. fun we weighed, and came out over the faid dangerous
bar, where we had but five feet water, infomuch that we found a foot lefs water coming
out than we did going in. I think the reafon was becaufe when we went in the wind
was off the fea, which caufed the fands to break on either fide of us, and we kept in
the {mootheit between the breaches, which we durft not have done, except we had feen
the Ruffles to have gone in before us ; and at our coming out the wind was off the fhore,
and fair weather, and then the fands did not appear with breaches as at our going in:
we thank God that our fhip did draw {fo little water.
When we were a fea board the bar the wind {canted upon us, and was at E.S. E.
infomuch that we ftopped the ebbs, and plied all the floods to the windwards, and
made our way E. N. E.
21. Tuefday ata N. W. fun, we thought that we had feen landat E. or E. and by N.,
of us, which afterwards proved to be a monftrous heap of ice.
Within a little more than half an hour after we firft faw this ice, we were enclofed
within it before we were aware of it, which was a fearful fight to fee; for, for the {pace
of fix hours, it was as much as we could do to keep our thip aloof from one heap of
ice, and bear roomer from another, with as much wind as we might bear acourle; and
when we had pafled from the danger of this ice, we lay to the eaftwards clofe by the
wind.
22. The next day we were again troubled with the ice.
23. Thurfday being calm we plied to the windwards, the wind being northerly : we
had the latitude this day at noon in 70° 11’.
We had not run paft two hours N. W., the wind being at N.N. E. and N. E. and
by N. a good gale, but we met again with another heap of ice: we weathered the head
of it, and lay a time to the feawards, and made way W. fix leagues.
24. Friday at a S. E. fun we caft about to the eaftwards, the wind being at N. N. E.:
the latitude this day at noon was 70° 15’.
25. On St. James his day, bolting to the windwards, we had the latitude at noon in
70° 20’. The fame day at a S. W. fun, there was a mon{trous whale aboard of us, fo
near to our fide that we might have thruft a {word or any other weapon in him, which
we durft not do for fear he fhould have overthrown our fhip; and then I called my
company together, and all of us fhouted, and with the cry that we made he de-
arted from us: there was as much above water of his back as the breadth of our pinnace,
and at his falling down he made fuch a terrible noife in the water, that a man would
greatly have marvelled, except he had known the caufe of.it; but God be thanked we
were quietly delivered of him. And a little after we {pied certain iflands, with which
we bare, and found good harbour in fifteen or eighteen fathom, and black oze: we
came to an anchor at a N.E. fun, and named the ifland St. James his ifland, where we
found frefh water.
26. Sunday much wind blowing, we rode ftill.
27. Monday I went on fhore and took the latitude, which was 70° 42/.. The varia-
tion of the compafs was 7° 30’ from the N. to the W.
VOL. J: I 28. Tuefday
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