offences, they had lost their privileges, which they have recovered
this summer, to their great charge. It was reported to me by a
justice of that country, that they paid for it thirty thousand
roubles, and also that Rye, Dorpt, and Revel, have yielded
themselves under the government of the Emperor of Russia; whether
this was a brag of the Russians or not, I know not, but thus he
said, and, indeed, while we were there, there came a great
ambassador out of Liffeland for the assurance of their privileges.

To speak somewhat of the commodities of this country, it is to be
understood that there is a certain place fourscore miles from the
sea called Colmogro; to which place there resort all the sorts of
wares that are in the north parts--as oils, salt, stock-fish,
salmon, feathers, and furs; their salt they make of salt water by
the seaside; their oils they make of seals, whereof they have great
store, which is brought out of the bay where our ships came in; they
make it in the spring of the year, and bring it to Colmogro to sell,
and the merchants there carry it to Novogrod, and so sell it to the
Dutch nation. Their stock-fish and salmon cometh from a place
called Mallums, not far from Wardhouse; their salmon and their salt
they carry to Moscow, and their dried fish they carry to Novogrod,
and sell it there to the Leeflanders.

The furs and feathers which come to Colmogro, as sables, beavers,
minks, ermine lettis, graies, wolverins, and white foxes, with deer-
skins, they are brought thither by the men of Penninge, Lampne, and
Powstezer, which fetch them from the Samoydes that are counted
savage people, and the merchants that bring these furs do use to
truck with the merchants of Colmogro for cloth, tin, batrie, and
such other like, and the merchants of Colmogro, carry them to