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TO THE NORTHERN PARTS OF RUSSIA AND SIBERIA. 59
and there I faw a deer’s {kin which the fowls had fpoiled ; and before certain of their
idols blocks were made as high as their mouths, being all bloody, I thought that to be
the table whereon they offered their facrifice: I faw alfo the inftruments whereupon
they had roafted flefh, and as far as I could perceive they make their fire directly under
the {pit.
Lofhak being there prefent told me that thefe Samoeds were not fo hurtful as they
of Obare, and that they have no houfes, as indeed I faw none, but only tents made of
deers’ fkins, which they under-prop with ftakes and poles: their ‘boats are made of deers”
fkins, and when they come on fhore they carry their boats with them upon their backs;
for their carriages they have no other beafts to ferve them but deer only. - As for bread
and corn they have none, except the Ruffles bring it to them: their knowledge is very
bafe, for they know no icine
4: Tuefday we turned for the harbour where Lofhak’s bark lay, whereas before we
rode under an ifland ; and there he came aboard of us, and faid unto me, if God fend
wind and weather to ferve I will go to the Ob with you, becaufe the morfes were {cant
at thefe iflands of Vaigats; but if he could not get to the river of Ob, then he faid he
would go to the river of Naramzay, where the people were not altogether fo favage as
the Samoeds of the Ob are: he fhewed me that they will fhoot at all men to the utter-
moft of their power, that cannot {peak their {peech.
5: Wednefday we faw a terrible heap of ice approach near unto us, and therefore we
thought good with all fpeed poflible to depart from thence, and fo I returned to the
weltwards again to the ifland where we were the thirty-firft of July.
6. Thurfday I went afhore and took the latitude, which was 70° 25’; and the varia-
tion of the compafs was 8° from the N. to the W.
Lofhak and the two fmall lodias of Pechora departed from this ifland, while I was on
fhore taking the latitude, and went to the fouthwards: I marvelled why he departed fo
fuddenly, and went over the fhoals amongft the iflands where it was impoflible for us to
follow them ; but after I perceived them to be weatherwife.
. Friday we rode ftill, the wind being at N. N. E. with a cruel ftorm: the ice came
in fo abundantly about us at both ends of the ifland that we rode under, that it was a
fearful fight to behold : the ftorm continued with fnow, rain, and hail plenty.
8. Saturday we rode {till alfo, the ftorm being fomewhat abated, but it was altogether
mifty, that we were not able to fee a cable’s length about us, the wind being at N. i, and
by. E.
g. Sunday, at four of the clock in the morning, we departed f from this ifland, the
wind being at S.E., and as we were clear a feaboard the fmall iflands and fhoals, it
came fo thick with alee that we could not feea bale fhot from us; then we took in
all our fails to make little way.
AtaS.E. fun it waxed clear, and then we fet our fails, and lay clofe by the wind to
the fouthwards alongift the iflands of Vaigats. At a W. fun we took in our fail again,
becaufe of the great mift and rain. We > founded at this place, and had fiv end: twenty
fathoms water, “and foft black oze, bee three leagues irom the thore, the wind being
at S. and by E, bur {till milly.
10. Monday at an E. fun we founded, and had forty fathoms, and oze, flill mifty.
At noon we founded again, and had thirty-fix fathom, fill mifty.
11. Puelday at an E. N. E, fun we let fall our anchor in three-and-twenty fathom,
the mifi ftill continuing.
12. Wednefday, at three of the clock in the morning, the mift brake up, the wind
being at N. EF. and by E. and then we faw part of the iflands of Vaigats, which we bare
withal, and went E.S. E. clofe by the wind: ata W. fun we were at an anchor under
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