The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . ch voyages, butit is uncertain how far they are accurate. According to these the lodjawas klinker-built, whh boards not riveted together but bound fast withwillows, as is still occasionally practised in these regions. The form ofthe craft besides reminds us of that of the present walrus-hunting sloop. * Cape Woronov, on the west side of the mouth of the river Mesen. 168 THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [chap. you shall haue scant two fadome water auJ see no land. Andthis
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . ch voyages, butit is uncertain how far they are accurate. According to these the lodjawas klinker-built, whh boards not riveted together but bound fast withwillows, as is still occasionally practised in these regions. The form ofthe craft besides reminds us of that of the present walrus-hunting sloop. * Cape Woronov, on the west side of the mouth of the river Mesen. 168 THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [chap. you shall haue scant two fadome water auJ see no land. Andthis present day wee came to an anker thwart of a creeke,which is 4 or 5 leagues to the northwards of the sayd Cape,into which creeke Gabriel and his fellow rowed, but we couldnot get in: and before night there were aboue 20 saile thatwent into the sayd creeke, the wind being at the had indifferent good landfang. This afternoone Gabrielcame aboord with his skiffe, and then I rewarded him for thegood company that he kej)t with vs ouer the Shoales, with twosmall iuory combes, and a Steele glasse with two or three trifles. RUSSIAN LODJA. After G. de Veer. more, for which he was not ungratefull. But notwithstand-ing, his first company had gotten further to the being Midsummer day we sent our skiffe aland tosound the creeke, where they found it almost drie at a lowwater. And all the Lodias within were on ground. (In con-sequence of the threatening appearance of the weather Bur-rough determined to go into the bay at high water. Indoing so he ran aground, but got help from his Russianfriends.) Gabriel came out with his skiffe, and so did sundryothers also, shewing their good will to help us, but all to nopurpose, for they were likely to have bene drowned for their v.] BURROUGHS VOYAGE, 1556. 109 labour, in so much that I desired Gabriel to lend me hisanker, because our ovvne ankers were too big for our skiffeto lay out, who sent me his owne, and borrowed a
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