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58 VOYAGES OF SIR HUGH WILS-OUGHBY AND OTHERS,
28. Tuefday we plied to the weftwards along the fhore, the wind being at N. W.,
and as! was about to come to anchor, we faw a fail coming about the point, whereunder
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we thought to have anchored ; then I fent a fkiff aboard of him, and at their coming .
aboard the ey took acquaintance of them, and the chief man faid he had been in our
company in the river Cola, and alfo declared unto them that we were paft the way \ hich
fhould bring us to the Ob. This land, faid he, is called Nova Teasley that is to fay,
the New Land ; and then he came aboard himfelf with his fkiff, and at his coming aboard
he told me the like; and faid further, that in this Nova Zemb dla i is the higheft mountain
in the world, as he thought, and that C amen Bolfhay, which is on the main of Pechora,
is not to be compared fo this mountain, but I faw it not: he made me alfo certain de-
monttrations of the way to the Ob, and feemed to make hafte on his own way, being —
very loth to tarry, becaufe the year was far palt, and his neighbour had fet Pechora,
and not he; fol gave hima fteel glafs, two pewter fpoons, and a pair of velvet fheathed
knives, and then he feemed fomewhat the more willing to tarry, and fhewed me as much
as he ae for our purpofe; he alfo gave me feventeen wild geefe, and fhewed me that
four of their lodias were driven per force from Caninoze to this Nova Zembla. This
man’s name was Lofhak.
29. Wednefday as we plied to the eaftwards, we efpied another fail, which was one
of this Lofhak’s company, and we bare room and fpake with him, sine in like fort told
us of the Ob, as the other had done.
of Thurfday we Bes to the eaftwards, the wind being at E. N. E.
Friday the gale of wind began to increafe, and came wefterly withal, fo that by
aN. W. fun we were at an anchor among the iflands of Vaigats, where we faw two
fmall lodias, the one of them came aboard of us and prefented me with a great loaf of
bread ; and they told me that they were all of Colmogro, except one man that dwelt
at Pechora, who feemed to be the chiefeft among them in killing of the morfe.
There were fome of their company on fhore which did chafe a white bear over the —
high cliffs into the water, which bear the lodia that was aboard of us killed in our
fight.
‘This day there was a great gale of wind at N., and we faw fo much ice driving a
feaboard, that it was then no going to fea.
Augult 1. Saturday I went afhore, and there I faw three morfes that they had killed ;
they held one tooth of a morfe, which was fot great, at a roble, and one white bear fkin
at three robles and two robles: they further told me that there were people called
Samoeds on the great ifland, and that they would not abide them nor us, who have no
houfes, but only coverings made of deers’ fkins, fet over them with ftakes ; they are
men expert in fhooting, and have great plenty of deer.
‘Lhis night there fell a cruel ftorm, the wind being at W.
2. Sunday we had very much wind, with plenty of fnow, and we rode with two
anchors a-head.
3. Monday we weighed and went room with another ifland, which was five leagues
E. N. E. from us ; and there I met again with Lofhak, and went on fhore with him, and.
he brought me to a heap of the Samoeds’ idols, which were in number’ about three
hundred, the worft and the moft unartificial work that ever I faw: the eyes and mouths
of fundry of them were bloody; they had the fhape of men, women, and children,
very grofsly wrought; and that which they had made for other parts was alfo fprinkled
with blood. Some of their idols were an old ftick with two or three notches, made
with a knife in it. 1 faw much of the footing of the faid Samoeds, and of the. fleds
‘that they ride in. There was one of their fleds broken, and lay by the heap of idols;
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