Vaiguts

) A river of northeastern Ru ia, flowing into the Arctic Ocean. William Gourdon writes: “At noone we came by Gods direction into one of the chiefest entrances of the River Pechora.... We came to a Sari or Ferme house of one of the principall men Towne. … He lay there at this time to take Duckes, Swannes, Geese, and other Fowles: for then was the time of the yeere. Their feathers they sell, and their bodies they salt for winter provision. … A great part of the goods which come to Colmogro upon Dwina doe pa e in one place or other by the River Pechora, which, they say, runneth through Siberia; and how much farther they themselves know not.” {Pilgrimes 3. Richard Finch writes: “After our getting over the Barre 533.) of the Pechorskoi Zavorot and that we were come to an anchor, we rode in great danger by the abundance of Ice, and the strong tide both of the ebbe and floud, which drove the same so forcibly against our ship. For, the eleventh of July, lying in foure fathoms water, a piece of an Island of Ice set with such power against our ship, that it drove us out of our riding into eight foot and an halfe, and nine foot water.” {lb. 3. 534.) “The River of Pechora runneth through great Permia; and the head thereof is five weeks travell from Pustozera.” {Ih. 3. 552.) “Out of the Mountaines of Jugoria i ueth the River Petsora, which falleth into the Ocean Sea on this side the Streight of Waygats [Vaigatz].” of the {Ih. 3. 525.) 2. ch228.xhtml p 242