When a guest brings skiffs into Novgorod, if such skiffs meet ships in Nü, each skiff will receive its own price and a gammon of bacon, or five marks kunen for the gammon. If the skiff meet merchants in Lake Ladoga, or in the Volga, it will receive half the price, and half the bacon, or three marks kunen. If any skiff, piloted with other skiffs, does not arrive at the appointed time, it will lose its fee. If any skiff, piloted, but not laden, is wrecked or endangered in the descent, it likewise will lose its fee. When the merchants ascend by skiffs, and perchance some dispute arise between the merchants and the ferrymen, or if an open quarrel occur, and the strife be settled by agreement, the dispute should not be aired further.