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Encounter with Russian lodja, 16 August 1597
Veer, Gerrit de
Various episodes from an encounter with a Russian lodja are combined here. We see how the Dutch boat, which has lost sight of the other boat, buys food from a lodja, and is subsequently lured back by its crew when the latter notice that the boat goes off in the wrong direction after the encounter.
From the Wahrhafftige Relation, the German version of Gerrit de Veer’s journal, published in 1598. (See under ‘documentation’ for details.)
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