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But And If The Said Border Of Land Do Not Incline So To The Eastwards As We
Presuppose It, But That It Doe Proue To Incline And Trend To The
Northwards, And So Ioyne With Noua Zembla, Making The Sea From Vaigats To
The Eastwards But A Bay:
Yet we will that you do keepe alongst by the said
coast, and so bring vs certaine report of that forme and maner of the same
bay.
And if it doe so proue to be a bay, and that you haue passed round about
the same, and so by the trending of the land come backe vnto that part of
Noua Zembla that is against Vaigats whereas you may from that see the said
Island Vaigats, if the time of the yeere will permit you, you shall from
thence passe alongst by the said border and coast of Noua Zembla to the
Westwards, and so to search whether that part of Noua Zembla doe ioyne with
the land that Sir Hugh Willoughbie discouered in anno 53, [Footnote: There
is, of course, no such land.] and is in 72 degrees, and from that part of
Noua Zembla 120 leagues to the Westwards, as your plat doeth shew it vnto
you: and if you doe finde that land to ioyne with Noua Zembla, when you
come to it, you shall proceed further along the same coast, if the time of
the yere will permit it, and, that you doe think there will be sufficient
time for you to returne backe with your barke to Winter either at Pechora
or in Russia, at your discretion:
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