eaten bread.

"As we roade in this riuer, wee saw dayly comming downe
the riuer many of their Lodias, and they that had least,
had foure and twentie men in them, and at the last they
grew to thirtie saile of them; and amongst the rest, there
was one of them whose name was Gabriel, who shewed me very
much friendshippe, and he declared vnto mee that all they
were bound to Pechora, a fishing for salmons, and morses:
insomuch that hee shewed mee by demonstrations, that with
a faire winde we had seuen or eight dayes sailing to the
riuer Pechora, so that I was glad of their company. This
Gabriel promised to giue mee warning of shoales, as he did
indeede.... Sunday being the one and twentieth day [of
June, 1st July new style], Gabriel gaue mee a barrell of
Meade, and one of his speciall friends gaue me a barrell
of beere, which was caryed upon mens backs at least 2
miles.

"Munday we departed from the riuer Cola, with all the rest
of the said Lodias, but sailing before the wind they were
all too good for vs:[107] but according to promise, this
Gabriel and his friend did often strike their sayles, and
taryed for us forsaking their owne company. Tuesday at an
Eastnortheast sunne we were thwart of Cape St. John.[108]
It is to be vnderstood, that from the Cape S. John vnto
the riuer or bay that goeth to Mezen, it is all sunke
land, and full of shoales and dangers, you shall haue
scant two fadome water and see no land. And this 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 could not get
in: and before night there were aboue 20 saile that went
into the sayd creeke, the wind being at the Northeast. We
had indifferent good landfang. This afternoone 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 glasse with two
or three trifles more, for which he was not ungratefull.
But notwithstanding, his first company had gotten further
to the Northwards. Wednesday being Midsummer day we sent
our skiffe aland to sound the creeke, where they found it
almost drie at a low water. And all the Lodias within were
on ground. (In consequence of the threate