* 1.1THe foure and twentieth of August, Stilo nouo 1595. wee spake with the Samoieds, and asked them how the Land and Sea did lye to the East of Way-gates. They sayd after fiue dayes iourney going North-east,* 1.2 wee should come to a great Sea, going South-east. This Sea to the East of Way-gates, they sayd was called Marmoria, that is to say, A calme Sea. And they of Ward-house haue told vs the same. I asked them, if at any time of the yeere it was frozen ouer? They sayd it was. And that some∣times they passed it with Sleds. And the first of September 1595. Stilo nouo, the Russes of the Lodie or Barke affirmed the same; saying, that the Sea is sometimes so Frozen, that the Lodies or Barkes going sometimes to Gielhsidi from Pechora, are forced there to Winter: which Gielhsidi was wonne from [ 30] the Tartars, three yeeres past.
For the Ebbe and Flood there I can finde none; but with the Winde so runneth the streame. The third of September,* 1.3 Stilo nouo, the winde was South-west, and then I found the water higher, then with the winde at North or North-east. Mine opinion is grounded on Experience, That if there bee a passage, it is small: or else the Sea could not rise with a Southerly Winde. And for the better proofe to know if there were a Flood and Ebbe,* 1.4 the ninth of September, Stilo nouo, I went on shoare on the South end of the States Iland, where the Crosse standeth, and layd a Stone on the brinke of the Water, to proue whe∣ther there were a Tide, and went round about the Iland to shoote at a Hare, and returning, I found the Stone as I left it, and the Water neither higher nor lower: which prooueth as afore, that there is no Flood nor Ebbe. [ 40]