And when wee entered further [457] into the land, wee vsed all the meanes we could, to see if we could find any houses, or men, by whom wee might bee informed of the scituation of the sea [458] there abouts; whereof afterwards wee had better intelligence by the Samuters, that tolde vs, that there are certaine men dwelling on the Wey-gates, [459] and vpon Noua Zembla; but wee could neither finde men, houses, nor any other things; so that to have better information, we went with some of our men further south-east into the land, towards the sea-side; [460] and as we went, we found a path-way made with mens feete in the mosse or marsh-ground, about halfe knee deepe, for that going so deepe wee felt hard ground vnder our feete, which at the deepest was no higher than our shoes; and as wee went forward to the sea coast, wee were exceeding glad, thinking that wee had seene a passage open, where wee might get through, because we saw so little ice there: and in the euening entering into our ship againe, wee shewed them that newes. Meanetime our maister [461] had sent out a boat to see if the Tartarian Sea [462] was open, but it could not get into the sea because of the ice, yet they rowed to the Crosse-point, [463] and there let the boate lye, and went ouer the land to the West Point, [464] and there perceiued that the ice in the Tartarian Sea lay full vpon the Russian coastes, and in the mouth of Wey-gates. The twentie three of August wee found a lodgie [465] or boate of Pitzore, [466] which was sowed together with bast or ropes, [467] that had beene north-ward to seeke for some sea-horses teeth, trayen, [468] and geese, which they fetcht with their boat, to lade in certaine shippes that were to come out of Russia, through Wey-gates. Which shippes they sayd (when they spake with vs), were to saile into the Tartarian Sea, by the riuer of Oby, [469] to a place called Vgolita [470] in Tartaria, there to stay all winter, as they vsed to doe euery yeere: and told vs that it would yet bee nine or tenne weekes ere it began to freeze in that place, and that when it once began to freeze, it would freeze so hard, that as then men might goe ouer the sea into Tartaria (along vpon the ice), which they called Mermare. [471] The 24 of August in the morning betimes, we went on board of the lodgie, to haue further information and instruction of the sea on the east side of Wey-gates, and they gaue vs good instruction such as you haue heard.