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The Princ.i.p.al Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation.VOL . 1.by Richard Hakluyt.PREFACE "This elaborate and excellent Collection, which redounds as much to the glory of the English Nation as any book that ever was p
- 1 The Princ.i.p.al Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation.VOL . 1.by Richard Hakluyt.PREFACE "This elaborate and excellent Collection, which redounds as much to the glory of the English Nation as any book that ever was p
- 2 Hygon ho Brochthonos.Ossoi gaian echousi Brotoi henos ekpephyasi hos allaela horan ethnesi charma physei.Hos de thaliplagktos metekiathen ethnea pleista, hoikoi mimnazous axiagastos ephy.Exocha Brettanoi d', alloin schisthentes erantai, idmenai allot
- 3 A testimonie out of the foresayd Galfridus Monumetensis concerning the conquests, of Malgo, king of England. Lib. II. cap. 7.Vortipono successit Malgo, omnium fere Britanniae pulcherrimus, multorum tyrannoram depulsor, robustus armis, largior caeteris, &
- 4 Could, and would that peaceable & wise king Edgar, before need, as being in peace and quiet with all nations about him, and notwithstanding mistrusting his possible enemies, make his pastimes so roially, politically and triumphantly, with so many thousand
- 5 In the yere 1203. Michael bishop of the islands deceased at Fontanas, and Nicholas succeeded in his roome.In the yere 1204. Hugo de Lacy inuaded Vlster with an armie and encountered with Iohn de Curcy, tooke him prisoner & subdued Vlster vnto himselfe.Aft
- 6 Douer, Sandwicus, Ry, Rum, Frigmare ventus, [Sidenote: Which be the Fiue Ports.]I must say that Douer, Sandwich, Rie, Rumney, and Winchelsey, (for that is, Frigmare ventus) be the Fiue Ports: Againe, if I should be ruled by the Rolle which reciteth the Po
- 7 Feuersham /s.h.i.+ppes 2. Yalme /s.h.i.+ps 2.Mariners 25. Mariners 47.Sandwich /s.h.i.+ps 22. [2]Fowey /s.h.i.+ps 47.Mariners 504. Mariners 770.Douer /s.h.i.+ps 16. Bristol /s.h.i.+ps 22.Mariners 336. Mariners 608.Wight /s.h.i.+ps 13. Tenmouth /s.h.i.+ps
- 8 The summe of expenses aswell of wages & prests as for the expenses of the kings houses, and for other gifts and rewards, s.h.i.+ppes and other things necessary to the parties of France and Normandie, and before Calice, during the siege there, as it appear
- 9 At Suetonius mira constantia medios inter hostes Londinium perrexit, cognomento quidem coloniae non insigne, sed copia negociatorum & commeatu maxime celebre.The same in English.But Suetonius with wonderfull constancie pa.s.sed through the middest of his
- 10 die Aprilis.In eadem forma scribitur vicecomiti Suds.e.x, Maiori & commumtati Ciuitatis Winton, Balliuo de Southampton, Balliuo de Lenne, Balliuo Kent, Vicecomiti Norffolciae & Suffolciae, Vicecomiti dorset & Sommerset, Baronibus de quinque portubus, Vice
- 11 [Sidenote: Exceptio contra notorios regni hostes.] Et quod omnes praedicti mercatores mercandisas suas, quas ipsos ad praedictum regnum & potestatem nostram adducere, seu infra idem regnum & potestatem nostram emere, vel alias acquirere contingerit, possi
- 12 In portu villae Weymouth.In portu villae Sancti Botolphi.In portu villae de Kingtone super Hull.In portu villae de nouo Castro.In portu villae de magna Iernem.u.t.h.a.In portu villae de Lenne.In portu villae de Gypwico.The same in English.An Ordinance of
- 13 Yron, Wooll, Wadmolle, Gotefell, Kidfell also: For Poynt-makers full needefull bene they tweyn Saffron, Quickesiluer, which owne Spaine Marchandy, Is into Flanders s.h.i.+pped full craftily, Vnto Bruges as to her staple fayre: The Hauen of Scluse hir Haue
- 14 Without Caleis in their b.u.t.ter they cakked When they fled home, and when they leysure lacked To holde their siege, they went like as a Doe: Well was that Fleming that might trusse, and goe.For feare they turned backe and hyed fast, My Lord of Glocester
- 15 Than I conclude, if neuer so much by land Were by carres brought vnto their hand, If well the sea were kept in gouernance They should by sea haue no deliuerance.Wee should hem stop, and we should hem destroy, As prisoners we should hem bring to annoy.And
- 16 The world was defrauded, it betyde right so.Farewell Harflew: lewdly it was a go.Nowe ware Caleis, I can say no better: My soule discharge I by this present letter.[Footnote 10: Harfleur, which was lost in 1449.][Footnote 11: Rouen]After the Chapitles of
- 17 This vnitie is to G.o.d pleasance: And peace after the werres variance.The ende of battaile is peace sikerly, And power causeth peace finally.Kept than the sea about in speciall, Which of England is the towne wall.As though England were likened to a citie
- 18 But if I shall seeme somewhat too bold in censuring the errors of writers, or too seuere in reprehending the slanders of some men: yet I hope all they will iudge indifferently of me, who shall seriously consider, how intolerable the errors of writers are,
- 19 [Sidenote: Bidui nauigatio ab Islandia ad Noruagiam desertam.]Distantiam ab ostio Albis ad portum Istandiae meridionalis Batzende, quidam scripserat esse circiter 400. milliarium: Vnde si longitudinis differentiam ad meridianum Hamburgensem supputaueris,
- 20 So great, &c. One Wilstenius schoolemaster of Oldenburg, in the yere 1591, sent vnto mine Vncle in West Island, a short treatise which he had gathered out of the fragments of sundrie writers, concerning Island. Where we found thus written: Island is twise
- 21 3. de anim. Et Plin. lib. 2. Nat. Histor. cap. 110. Et Strabo lib. 7. In Nymphaeo excite Petra flamma, que aqua accenditur. Idem, Viret aeternum contexens fontem igneum fraxinus. Quin & repentinos ignes in aquis existere, vt Thrasumenum lac.u.m in agro Pe
- 22 [Sidenote: Frisius & Munst.] Circ.u.m ver Insulam, per septem aut octo menses fluctuat glacies, miserabilem quendam gemitum, & ab humana voce non alienum, ex collisione edens. Putant incolae, & in monte Hecla, & in glacie loca esse, in quibus animae suoru
- 23 Water drunke out of Ciconian flood fleshy bowels to flintie stone doeth change: Ought else therewith besprinckt, as earth or wood becommeth marble streight: a thing most strange.And Cardane. Georgius Agricola affirmeth, that in the territorie of Elbogan,
- 24 The backs of Whales which they thinke to be Ilands. This fable, like all the rest, was bred of an old, ridiculous and vaine tale, the credite and trueth whereof is not woorth a strawe. [Sidenote: Certain letters sent by Brandan bishop of Breme, to preach
- 25 [Sidenote: Krantzius in praefatione suae Norwegiae.] Adalbert Metropolitane of Hamburg in the yeere of Christ 1070. saw the Islanders concerted Christianitie: albeit, before the receiuing of Christian faith, they liued according to the lawe of nature, and
- 26 X. Arnerus. 1269 Cathedram adit. 1298 Moritur. XI. Arnerus Helgonis F. 1304 Ordinatur. 1305 Cathedram adit. 1309 In Noruagiam abit ligna a rege Noruagiae pet.i.turus, quibus templum Schalholtense reaedificaretur, quod eodem anno fulmine tactum conflagrara
- 27 Hic statim, Augmundo episcopo, coepit iuuenis verae pietatis & purioris doctrinae Euangelicae studio, & amore flagrare, eandemque pastor ecclesiae Sclardalemsis diligenter propagare, qua ratione Pontificiorum odium ade in se deriuauit, vt illorum insidijs
- 28 XVII.G.o.dschalcus.1457 Moritur.XVIII.Olaus Rogwaldi F.1458 Praedicti G.o.dschalchi ex sorore nepos, vterque Noruagus, eligitur.1497 Moritur.XIX.G.o.dschalcus.De mortus Olai nepos ex fratre, et ille Noruagus, eligitur eodem anno quo patruus decessit.1500
- 29 XV.Gyrthus.Consecrated at Aslo in Norway by Salomon bishop of Aslo. 1349 Going beyond the seas he was drowned. 1356 XVI.Thorarinnus.Entreth his see. 1362 Dieth. 1364 XVII.Oddgeirus.Entreth his see. 1366 Dieth vpon the a.s.sumption of the Blessed Virgin, i
- 30 VIII.Brandus an Abbat.Goeth beyond the seas. 1262 Entreth the Bishop.r.i.c.ke. 1263 Dieth. 1264 IX.Iorundus.Entreth his see. 1267 Dieth. 1313 X.Audunnus.Entreth his see. 1314 Dieth. 1322 XI.Laurentinus.Elected and consecrated. 1324 Dieth in the Ides of Ap
- 31 Notwithstanding there be many farmes and villages which I cannot easily reckon vp, the buildings whereof doe resemble that auncient excellencie, the houses being verie large both in breadth and length, and for the most part in height also As for example f
- 32 [Sidenote: Munsterus. Krantzius.] Rex Daniae qui et Noruagiae quotannis praefectum immitt.i.t genti.Anno Domino 846. natus est Haraldus Harf.a.gre (quod auricomum vel pulchricomum dixeris) Qui deinde Anno 858, Rex Noruagiae designatus, vbi aetas viresque
- 33 But this naturall affection towarde our most deare of-spring is plainely seene in the heathen themselues: that whomsoeuer you totally depriue of this, you denie them also to bee men. The mothers of Carthage testifie this to be true, when as in the third P
- 34 Moreouer, although I be not afrayd to encounter with this beast, yet would I haue all men to know with what minde I vndertake this enterprise, namely, not that I meane to contend with his pestiferous rancour, by reproches, and railing speeches (for as it
- 35 Caeterum etsi ilium prolixiore responsione non dignemur: tamen propter alios, qui hodie hanc rem partim mirantur, partim haud leuiter nostrae genti obijciunt, pauca hoc loco addenda videbantur.Primum igitur totam hanc gentem bipart.i.t secabimus: In mendi
- 36 [Sidenote: Commentarius breuis de Islandia: per Arngrimum Ionam Islandum editus, 1593.] Qud ver ad antiquitatis monimenta attinet, quae hic extare creduntur, nihil sane est (praeter illa, quorum in Commentario isto de Islandia, quem vidisse te scribis, fi
- 37 The Princ.i.p.al Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English People.VOL. 2.by Richard Hakluyt.Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries in EASTERN EUROPE Part of an Epistle written by one Yuo of Narbona vnto the Archbishop of
- 38 [Sidenote: Their obedience.] Their manners are partly prayse-worthie, and partly detestable: For they are more obedient vnto their lords and masters, then any other either clergie or laie-people in the whole world. For they doe highly reuerence them, and
- 39 Chingischam etiam illo tempore, quo dimisit alios exercitus contra Orientem, per terram Kergis c.u.m cxpeditione perrexit, quos tamen tunc bello non vicit et vt n.o.bis dicebatur, ibidem vsque ad montes Caspios peruenit.At illi montes in ea parte, ad quam
- 40 The same in English.How the Tartars behaue themselues in warre. Chap. 17.[Sidenote: The military discipline of the Tartars] Chingis Cham diuided his Tartars by captaines of ten, captaines of an 100, and captaines of a 1000.And ouer ten Millenaries or capt
- 41 The same in English.How departing from Bathy, they pa.s.sed through the land of Comania, and of the Kangittae. Chap. 23.Moreouer, vpon Easter euen, we were called vnto the tent, and there came forth to meete vs the foresaid agent of Bathy, saying on his m
- 42 Of the admission of the Friers and Amba.s.sadours vnto the Emperour. Chap.29.[Sidenote: Cuyne heareth the Legates.] In the same place where the Emperour was established into his throne, we were summoned before him. And Chirigay, his chiefe secretary hauin
- 43 [Marginal note: Nota.] Imo omnia depinxissem vobis si sciuissem pingere.Vnus diues Moal siue Tartar habet bene tales bigas c.u.m arcis ducentas vel centum. Baatu habet s.e.xdecem vxores: quaelibet habet vnam magnam domum, exceptis alijs paruis, quas collo
- 44 The same in English.Of the dueties inioined vnto the Tartarian women, and of their labours, and also of their mariages. Chap. 9.The duties of women are, to driue carts: to lay their houses vpon carts and to take them downe again: to milke kine: to make b.
- 45 Ibi egit dux noster valde stulte. Ipse enim credebat, quod illi de casali deberent n.o.bis ministrare equos, et dimisit animalia quae adduxeramus in alia biga, vt redirent ad dominos suos. Et quum postulauimus ab eis animalia, ipsi respondebant quod habeb
- 46 Quatuor autem diebus quibus fuimus in curia Sartach, nunquam prouisum fuit n.o.bis de cibo, nisi semel de modico cosmos. In via ver inter ipsum et patrem suum habuimus magnum timorem. Ruteni enim et Hungari, et Alani serui eorum, quorum est magna mult.i.t
- 47 Of hunger and thirst, colde and wearinesse, there was no end. For they gaue vs no victuals, but onely in the euening. In the morning they vsed to giue vs a little drinke, or some sodden Millet to sup off. In the euening they bestowed flesh vpon vs, as nam
- 48 The Princ.i.p.al Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation.VOL 3.by Richard Hakluyt.Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries IN NORTH-EASTERN EUROPE.A briefe Treatise of the great Duke of Moscouia his genealogie, bei
- 49 Iohn Web, his Mate.Christopher Banbrucke, Thomas Dauison, Robert Rosse, Thomas Simpson, quarter Masters.William White, Iames Smith, Thomas Painter, Iohn Smith, their Mates.Richard Gwinne, George Goiswine, Carpenters.Robert Gwinne, Purser.Laurence Edwards,
- 50 The othe ministred to the Maister of the s.h.i.+p, &c.You shall sweare by the holy contents in that booke, that you according and to the vttermost of your knowledge and good vnderstanding in mariners science and craft, shall in your vocation doe your best
- 51 Forasmuch as it is meete and necessary for all those that minde to take in hande the trauell into farre or strange countreys, to endeuour themselues not onely to vngerstande the orders, commodities, and fruitfulnesse thereof, but also to applie them to th
- 52 Nowe after that they had remained about twelue dayes in the Citie there was then a Messenger sent vnto them, to bring them to the Kings house: and they being after a sort wearied with their long stay, were very ready, and willing so to doe: and being entr
- 53 And we with Christian beliefe and faithfulnes, and according to your honourable request, and my honourable commandement will not leaue it vndone: and are furthermore willing that you send vnto vs your s.h.i.+ps and vessels, when and as often as they may h
- 54 Their order in summing of money is this: as we say in England, halfpenie, penie, s.h.i.+lling, and pound, so say they Poledenga, Denga, Altine and Rubble: there goeth two Poledengas to a Denga, six Dengaes to an Altine, and 23 Altines, and two Dengaes to
- 55 And furthermore, whereas by the voyage of our subiects in this last yeere [Footnote: Anno 1554.] attempted by Nauigation, towards the discouerie and disclosure of vnknowen places, Realmes, Islandes, and Dominions by the seas not frequented, it hath please
- 56 This aftenoone Gabriel came aboord with his skiffe, and then I rewarded him for the good company that he kept with vs ouer the shoales with two small iuory combes, and a steele gla.s.se, with two or three trifles more, for which he was not vngratefull. Bu
- 57 August.Sat.u.r.day (1) I went ash.o.r.e, and there I saw three morses that they had killed: they held one tooth of a Morse, which was not great, at a roble, and one white beare skin at three robles and two robles: they further tolde me, that there were pe
- 58 Sat.u.r.day (29) the winde being at South we plyed to the Westwards, and at afternoone the mist brake vp, and then we might see the land seuen or eight leagues to the Eastwards of Caninoz: we sounded a little before and had 35 fadoms and oze. And a while
- 59 The voyage of the foresaid M. Stephen Burrough, An. 1557. from Colmogro to Wardhouse, which was sent to seeke the Bona Esperanza, the Bona Confidentia, and the Philip and Mary, which were not heard of the yeere before. [Footnote: This voyage of Burrough&#
- 60 PEELKIE, the thombe, or great toe.SARKE, wollen cloth.LEIN, linnen cloth.PAYTE, a s.h.i.+rt.TOL, fire.KEATSE, water.MURR, wood.VANNACE, a boate.ARICA, an oare.NURR, a roape.PEYUE, a day.HYR, a night.PEVUEZEA, the Sunne.MANNA, the Moone.LASTE, starres.COSA
- 61 Tuesday (29) I went on sh.o.a.re, and dined with the Captaines deputie, who made mee great cheere: the Captaine himselfe was not as yet come from Bergen: they looked for him euery houre, and they said that he would bring newes with him.At a Northwest and
- 62 And because we doe perceiue the Countrey to be large, and that you haue three housholds, we doe appoynt Henry Lane to be one of our Agents, and to ioin with you in all your doings, and to haue like authoritie and power as you George Killingworth and Rich
- 63 Another letter to the foresaid parties. 1560.This letter before written is the copie of one sent you by Thomas Alc.o.c.k, trusting that hee was with you long since. [Sidenote: Stockholme.] The 26 day of the last moneth we receiued a letter from him, dated
- 64 The Primerose Admirall.The Iohn Euangelist Viceadmirall.The Anne and the Trinitie Attendants.The 13 of Iuly, the foresayd foure s.h.i.+ppes came to an anker in the Baye of S. Nicholas, befor an Abbey, called the Abbey of S. Nicholas, whereas the sayde Mes
- 65 [Sidenote: The Emperors wardrobe.] The chiefest was his maiesties crowne, being close vnder the top very faire wrought: in mine opinion, the workmans.h.i.+p of so much gold few men can amend. It was adorned and decked with rich and precious stones abundan
- 66 The best propertie that the women haue, is that they can sowe well, and imbroder with silke and golde excellently.Of their buriall.When any man or woman dieth, they stretch him out, and put a new paire of shooes on his feete, because he hath a great iourn
- 67 mile to the Northward, it then consumeth it selfe in the ground, and pa.s.sing vnder the same about 500. mile, issueth out againe, and falleth into the lake of Kitay, as I haue before declared.[Sidenote: The castle of Kait.] The 7. of December following,
- 68 From thence to Cascar is one moneths iourney, and from Cascar (being the frontier of the great Can, hauing many townes and fortes by the way) is also a moneths trauel for merchants by land to Cathay.Further, as he hath heard (not hauing bene in those part
- 69 Elizabeth by the grace of G.o.d, Queene of England, &c. to the right excellent, and right mightie Prince, Lord Iohn Basiliwich, Emperour of all Russia, &c. greeting, and most happie increase in all prosperitie. Right mightie Prince, the amitie of your Mai
- 70 This prince is of the age of fiftie yeeres, and of a reasonable stature, hauing fiue children. His eldest sonne he keepeth captiue in prison, for that he feareth him for his valiantnesse and actiuitie: he professeth a kinde of holynesse, and saith that he
- 71 1 Ka.r.s.eis are sold there for 180. Shaughes: [Sidenote: A shaugh is 6d.English.] so that a ka.r.s.ey is sold there in Persia for foure pound ten s.h.i.+llings: for euery shaugh is sixe pence English, and euery Bist is two pence halfepeny English, and in
- 72 8 Item, that when G.o.d shall send your goods to sh.o.r.e, presently his people shall helpe vs on land with them.These articles before written, I trust in G.o.d wil content your minds, vntil your farther letters be hitherto written vnto the Prince, who I
- 73 The iourney from S. Nicholas to Yeraslaue is accomplished in foureteene dayes by water, and two dayes by land. 16. dayes.From thence to Astracan men trauell by water in 30. dayes and 30. nights.So between S. Nicholas and the Caspian sea, are 46. dayes iou
- 74 7 We departed from Voyets at 4. of the clocke in the morning, and so came to an Ozera or lake, called after the name of the riuer, and vnto a place called Quequenich, wee rowed all this day, and came thither by one of the clock in the afternoone, which is
- 75 An Act for the corporation of Merchants aduenturers for the discouering of new trades, made in the eight yere of Queene Elizabeth. Anno 1566.Whereas diuers very good Subiects of this Realme of England in the latter end of the reigne of the late right high
- 76 The Princ.i.p.al Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation.VOL. 4.by Richard Hakluyt.Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries in NORTH-EASTERN EUROPE.The Priuiledges graunted by the Emperour of Russia to the English
- 77 24 Also of our goodnes, we haue granted the saide Merchants to take vp Brokers, Packers, Wayers, and such like labourers, as shall be needefull for them, paying for their hier as the labourers and they shall agree.25 We likewise of our goodnes, haue licen
- 78 The house that hath no G.o.d, or painted Saint within, Is not to be resorted to, that roofe is full of sinne.Besides their priuate G.o.ds, in open places stand Their crosses vnto which they crooche, and blesse themselues with hand.Deuoutly downe they duck
- 79 No good befalles a man that seeks, and findes no better place, No ciuill customes to be learned, where G.o.d bestowes no grace.And truely ill they do deserue to be belou'd of G.o.d, That neither loue nor stand in awe of his a.s.sured rod: Which thoug
- 80 [Sidenote: Astracan besieged by 70000 Turks and Tartars.] In this towne of Astracan they were somewhat hindered of their iourney, and staied the s.p.a.ce of sixe weekes by reason of a great army of 70000. Turkes and Tartars which came thither vpon the ins
- 81 [Sidenote: Circ.u.mcision.] What I heard of the maner of their mariages, for offending of honest consciences and chaste ears, I may not commit to writing: their fasting I haue declared before. They vse circ.u.mcision vnto children of seuen yeeres of age,
- 82 12 Also it will please his highnesse to vnderstand that the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, at the earnest sute and request of Andrea Sauin his Maiesties Amba.s.sadour, did not onely pardon and forgiue Thomas Glouer his great and grieuous offences toward
- 83 For the prouision and furniture for a s.h.i.+ppe of 200 tunnes, to catch the Whale fish in Russia, pa.s.sing from England. How many men to furnish the s.h.i.+p.How many fishermen skilful to catch the Whale, & how many other officers and Coopers.How many b
- 84 12 pieces of lines, and 6 dozen of hookes.2 beetles of Rosemarie.4 dozen of oares for the pinnases.6 lanternes.500 of Tesia.Item, gunpouder & matches for harquebushes as shalbe needfull.Item, there must be carried from hence 5 pinnases, fiue men to strike
- 85 To the most n.o.ble and inuincible Emperour of Persia, King of s.h.i.+ruan, Gilan, Grosin, Cora.s.san, and great Gouernour of the Indies.Elizabeth by the grace of G.o.d Queene of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith &c. To the most n.o.ble a
- 86 The 6 day they wayed ancre, and bare further off into the sea, where they ancred in seuen fathom water, the s.h.i.+p being very leake, and so rotten abaft the maine mast, that a man with his nailes might sc.r.a.pe thorow her side.The 7 day about 7 of the
- 87 56. d. 4. m.Ouslona Monastery.Meridian alt.i.tude, 23. September, 30. d. 26. m.Declination, 2. d. 56. m.55. d. 51. m.Tetuskagorod.Meridian alt.i.tude, 28. September, 28. d. 28. m.Declination, 5. d. 35. m.55. d. 22. m.Oueek.Meridian alt.i.tude, 5. October,
- 88 When you come to Orfordnesse, if the winde doe serue you to goe a seabord the sands, doe you set off from thence, and note the time diligently of your being against the said Nesse, turning then your gla.s.se, whereby you intende to keepe your continuall w
- 89 Also the fruites of the Countreys if they will not of themselues dure, drie them and so preserue them.And bring with you the kernels of peares and apples, and the stones of such stonefruits as you shall find there.Also the seeds of all strange herbs and f
- 90 Combes of boxe.Combes of horne.Linnen of diuers sorts.Handkerchiefs with silke of seuerall colours wrought.Glazen eyes to ride with against dust.Kniues in sheaths both single and double, of good edge.Needles great and small of euery kind.b.u.t.tons greate
- 91 Glew.To carie Glew, for that we haue plenty and want vent.Red Oker for Painters.To seeke vent because we haue great mines of it, and haue no vent.Sope of both kindes.To try what vent it may haue, for that we make of both kinds, and may perhaps make more.S
- 92 All maner of engines to take fish and foule.To take with you those things that be in perfection of goodnesse.For as the goodnesse now at the first may make your commodities in credite in time to come: so false and Sophisticate commodities shall draw you a
- 93 The tenth day the wind being at North northwest, we haled East and by North, which course we set, because at ten of the clocke afore noone wee did see land, and then wee sounded hauing 35. fadoms blacke oze. All this day there was a great fogge, so that w
- 94 About two of the clocke in the atfternoone, we set our course Southwest and by South: so we ranne Southwest vntill twelue at night, the wind came to the Northnortheast, and then we haled West.The 18 day at 6 in the morning we had 16 fadoms red sand: at 6
- 95 [Sidenote: Berozoua Vstia.] 8 Item, if you shall vnderstand as you are outwards bound, that the enemie is gone before you to S. Nicholas, remember what aduice hath bene giuen you for your stay at Berozoua Vstia, till you haue by espials viewed and vnderst
- 96 Two miles on this side Mosco there met the amba.s.sador foure gentlemen of good account, accompanied with two hundred horse: who after a little salutation, not familiar, without imbracing, tolde him that they had to say to him from the Emperor, and would
- 97 He got also for them order for the repayment of an olde and desperate debt of three thousand marks, a debt so desperate, as foure yeeres left out of their accounts, and by the opinion of them all, not thought fit to be dealt with, for too much offending t
- 98 The Empresse of deuotion tooke this iourney on foot all the way, accompanied with her princesses and ladies, no small number: her guard and gunners were in number 20000, her chiefe counseller or attendant, was a n.o.ble man of the blood Roial her vncle of
- 99 3 That vpon euery surmise and light quarel, the said priuilege be not reuoked and annulled, as before time it hath bene.4 That iustice shall be administred to the said Companie and their Agent without delay, vpon such as shal offer them any despite or ini
- 100 The whole countrey differeth very much from it selfe, by reason of the yeere: so that a man would marueile to see the great, alteration and difference betwixt the Winter, and the Summer Russia. The whole Countrey in the Winter lieth vnder snow, which fall