ning appearance
of the weather Burrough determined to go into the bay at
high water. In doing so he ran aground, but got help from
his Russian friends.) Gabriel came out with his skiffe,
and so did sundry others also, shewing their good will to
help us, but all to no purpose, for they were likely to
have bene drowned for their labour, in so much that I
desired Gabriel to lend me his anker, because our owne
ankers were too big for our skiffe to lay out, who sent me
his owne, and borrowed another also and sent it vs."

[Illustration: RUSSIAN "LODJA." After G. de Veer. ]

After much trouble Burrough succeeded in getting his vessel off the
shoal, and then sought for a better anchorage on the other side of
Cape St. John.

"Friday (6th July/26th June) at afternoone we weyed, and
departed from thence, the wether being mostly faire, and
the winde at East-southeast, and plied for the place where
we left our cable and anker, and our hawser, and as soone
as we were at an anker the foresaid Gabriel came aboord of
vs, with 3 or foure more of their small boats, and brought
with them of their Aquauitae and Meade, professing unto me
very much friendship, and reioiced to see vs againe,
declaring that they earnestly thought that we had bene
lost. This Gabriel declared vnto me that they had saued
both the ankers and our hauser, and after we had thus
communed, I caused 4 or 5 of them to goe into my cabbin,
where I gaue them figs and made them such cheere as I
could. While I was banketing of them, there came another
of their Skiffes aboord with one who was a Kerill
(Karelian), whose name afterwards I learned, and that he
dwelt in Colmogro, and Gabriel dwelled in the towne of
Cola, which is not far from the river's mouth. This
foresaid Keril said vnto me that one of the ankers which I
borrowed was his. I gave him thanks for the lone of it,
thinking it had bene sufficient. And as I continued in our
accustomed maner, that if the present which they brought
were worth enterteinment, they had it accordingly, he
brought nothing with him, and therfore I regarded him but
litle. And thus we ended, and they took their leaue and
went ashore. At their comming ashore, Gabriel and Keril
were at vnconvenient words, and by the eares, as I
vnderstand; the cause was because the one had better
entertein