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Discovery of Muscovy by Richard Hakluyt
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6. And principally see that you forget not daily in all the voyage,
both morning and evening, to call the company within board to
prayer, in which doing you shall please God, and the voyage will
have the better success thereby and the company prosper the better.

7. Also in calm weather and at other times when you shall fortune
to come to anchor in the seas during the voyage, you shall for the
company's profit, and for good husbanding of the victuals aboard,
call upon the boatswain and other of the company to use such hooks
and other engines as they have aboard to take fish with, that such
fish so taken may be eaten for the cause aforesaid; and if there be
no such engines aboard, then to provide some before you go from
hence.

8. And when God shall send you in safety into the Bay of St.
Nicholas at anchor, you shall go ashore with the first boat that
shall depart from the ship, taking with you such letters as you have
to deliver to the agent there: and if he be not there at your
coming ashore, then send the company's letters to Colmogro to him by
some sure mariner or otherwise, as the master and you shall think
best; but go not yourself at any hand, nor yet from aboard the ship
unless it be ashore to treat with the agent for the lading of the
ship that you be appointed in, which you shall apply diligently to
have done so speedily as may be. And for the discharging of the
goods therein in the bay, to be carried from thence, see that you do
look well to the unlading thereof, that there be none other goods
sent ashore than the company's, and according to the notes entered
in your book as aforesaid: if there be, inquire diligently for whom
they be, and what goods they be, noting who is the receiver of the
said goods, in such sort that the company may have the true
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