in lat. 68 deg.
40' north. On Friday, the 10/20th July another storm appeared to
threaten.

"And as I was musing what was best to be done, I saw a
sail come out of a creeke under the foresayd Caninoz,
which was my friend Gabriel, who forsook his harborough
and company, and came as neere us as he might, and pointed
vs to the Eastwards, and then we weyed and followed him.
Saturday we went eastsoutheast and followed Gabriel, and
he brought vs into an harborough called Morgiouets, which
is 30 leagues from Caninoz. This morning Gabriel saw a
smoke on ye way, who rowed vnto it with his skiffe, which
smoke was two leagues from the place where we road; and at
a Northwest sunne he came aboord again, and brought with
him a Samoed,[111] which was but a young man; his apparell
was then strange vnto vs, and he presented me with three
young wild geese, and one young barnacle."

On the 24th/14th July Burrough sailed past Dolgoi Island, and the
following day entered the mouth of the Petchora, the latitude of
which was fixed at 69 deg. 10'.[112] On the 30th/20th they sailed
out again over sandbanks in only five feet of water, and thanked God
that their vessel was of so light draught. The day after ice was met
with for the first time. On the 4th Aug./6th July in lat. 70 deg.
20' north, they had the meeting already described with an enormous
whale.[113] Somewhat later on the same day the _Searchthrift_
anchored in a good haven between two islands, situated in 70 deg.
42' N.L.[114] They were named by Burrough St. James's Islands.

"Tuesday, the 7th Aug./29th July we plyed to the Westwards
alongst the shoare, the wind being at Northwest, and as I
was about to come to anker, we saw a sail comming about
the point whereunder we thought to have ankered. Then I
sent a skiffe aboorde of him, and at their comming aboord,
they tooke acquaintance of them, and the chiefe man said
hee had bene in our company in the riuer Cola, and also
declared vnto them that we were past the way which should
bring vs to the Ob. This land, sayd he, is called Nova
Zembla, that is to say, the New Land; and then he came
aboord himselfe with his skiffe he told me the like ... he
made me also certaine demonstrations of the way to the Ob.
I gave him a steele glasse, two pewter spoons, and a paire
of veluet sheathed knives; and then he seemed somewhat the