Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage

Africa or America, and therefore this North-West Passage, having been already so many ways proved by disproving of the others, etc., I shall the less need in this

sailing the Indians are only acquainted, not having any use of a bow line or quarter wind, without the which no ship can possibly come, eithe

sage, and all winds do naturally drive a ship to an opposite point from whence it bloweth, not being otherwise guided by art, which the

od Hope, then must they, as aforesaid, ha

hen upon the coasts of Africa, Spain,

missi, Tartarii, Lapland, Iceland, Labrador, etc., and up

e coasts of so many countries, wanting both art and shipping to make orderly discovery, and altogether ignorant both of the art of

they must have come any other way besides by the north-west, being for the most part anthropophagi, or m

ou have heard, in sundry ages were driven by tempest upon t

o passed through this strait, giving name to a promontory far within the same, calling

Dane, entered and passe

n the presence of Sir Henry Sidney, then Lord Deputy of Ireland, in my hearing, that a friar of Mexico, called Andre Urdaneta, more than eight years before his then coming into Ireland, told him there that he came from Mare del Sur into Germany through this N

lose or make the passage known to any nation. For that (said the king) if England had knowledge and experience thereof, it would greatly hinder both the King of Spain and me. This friar (as Salva Terra reported) was the greatest discoverer by sea that hath been in our

s past) might serve little to prove this passage by the north of America, because both America and India were to them then utterly unknown; to remove this doubt, le

Also Quintus Curtius, where he speaketh of the Conquest of Alexander, mentioneth India. Also Arianus Philostratus, and Sidrach, in his discourses of the wars of

lso that it is navigable both to come and go, as hath been proved in part and in all by the experience of divers a

hope of this passage to Cathay by the north-east than by the west, wh