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62 VOYAGES O2 SIR HUGH WILLOUGHBY AND OTHERS,
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Ccrrarn Notes unperfectly written by Richard Jobnfon fervant to mafter Richard Chancelour,
which was in the Difcovery of Vaigatz and Nova Zembla, with Steven Burrowe in the
Serchihrift, 1556, and afterward among the Samoeds, whofe devilifh Rites he defcribeth.
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FIRST, after we departed out of England we fell with Norway, and on that coaft
lieth Northbern or Northbergin, and this people are under the king of Denmark : but
they differ in their fpeech fromthe Danes, for they fpeak Norfh. And north of North-
bern, lie the ifles of Roft and Lofoot, and thefe iflands pertain unto Finmark, and they
kkeep the laws and fpeak the language of the iflanders. And at the eaftermoft part of
that landis a caftle which is called the Wardhoufe, and the king of Denmark doth
fortify it with men of war: and the Ruffes may not go to the weftward of that caitle.
And E. S. E. from that caftle is a land called Lappia: in which land be two manner
of people, that is to fay, the Lappians, and the Scrickfinns, which Scrickfinnsare a
wild people which neither know God, nor yet good order: and thefe people live in
tents made of deer fkins: and they have no certain habitations, but continue in herds
and companies by one hundred and two hundreds. And they are a people of {mall
{tature, and are clothed in deers’ fkins, and drink nothing but water, and eat no bread
but flefh all raw. And the Lappians be a people adjoining to them, and be much like
tothem in all conditions, but the Emperor of Ruffia hath of late overcome many of
them, and they are in fubjeCtion to him. And this people will fay that they believe
in the Ruffles’ God. And they live in tents as the other do. And S. EK. and by S. from
Lappia, lieth a province called Corelia, and thefe people are called Kerilli, AndS.S.E.
from Corelia lieth a country called Novogardia. And thefe three nations are under the
Emperor of Ruffia, and the Ruffles keep the law of the Greeks in their churches, and
write fomewhat like as the Greeks write, and they fpeak their own language, and they
abhor the Latin tongue, neither have they to do with the pope of Rome, and they
hold it not good to worfhip any carved image, yet they will worfhip painted images
on tables or boards. And in Ruflia their churches, fteeples and houles are all of wood :
and their fhips that they have are fowed with withes and have nonails. The Kerilles,
Ruffians and Mofcovians be much alike in all conditions. And S. from the Mofco-
vians lie the ‘Tartarians, which be Mahometans, and live in tents and waggans, and
keep in herds and companies: and they hold it not good to abide long in one place,
for they will fay, when they will curfe any of their children, I would thou mightetft
tarry fo long in a place that thou mighteft fmell thine own dung, as the chrittians do :
and this is the greateft curfe that they have. And E. N. E. of Ruflia lieth Lampas,
which is a place where the Ruffles, Vartars, and Samoeds meet twice a year, and make
the fair to barter wares for wares. And N. E. from Lampas lieth the country of the
Samoeds, which be about the river of Pechere, and thefe Samoeds be in {ubjection to
the Emperor of Ruffia, and they lie in tents made of deer fkins, and they ufe much
witchcraft, and fhoot well in bows. And N. E. from the river Pechere lieth Vaigatz,
and there are the wild Samoeds which will not fuffer the Ruffes to land out of the fea, but
they will kill them and eat them, as we are told by the Rufles; and they live in herds,
and have all their carriages with deer, for they have no horfes. Beyond Vaigatz lieth
a land called Nova Zembla, which is a great land, but we faw no people, and there
we had fowl enough, and there we faw white foxes and white bears. And the faid
Samoeds which are about the banks of Pechere, which are in fubjection to the Empe-.
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