Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage
by Richard Hakluyt
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About this eBook
- Author
- Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
- Credits
- Transcribed from the 1892 Cassell & Co. edition by David Price
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation
- Subject
- Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 3482
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3482
- Release Date
- October 1, 2002
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.VOYAGES in search of the North-West Passage .
- 2.INTRODUCTION.
- 3.A DISCOURSE WRITTEN BY SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT, KNIGHT. — CHAPTER I. TO PROVE BY AUTHORITY A PASSAGE TO BE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF AMERICA, TO GO TO CATHAY AND THE EAST INDIES. — CHAPTER II. — CHAPTER III. TO PROVE BY EXPERIENCE OF SUNDRY MEN’S TRAVELS THE OPENING OF SOME PART OF THIS NORTH-WEST PASSAGE, WHEREBY GOOD HOPE REMAINETH OF THE REST. — CHAPTER IV. TO PROVE BY CIRCUMSTANCE THAT THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE HATH BEEN SAILED THROUGHOUT. — CHAPTER V. TO PROVE THAT THESE INDIANS, AFORENAMED, CAME NOT BY THE SOUTH-EAST, SOUTH-WEST, NOR FROM ANY OTHER PART OF AFRICA OR AMERICA. — CHAPTER VI. TO PROVE THAT THOSE INDIANS CAME NOT BY THE NORTH-EAST, AND THAT THERE IS NO THROUGH NAVIGABLE PASSAGE THAT WAY. — CHAPTER VII. TO PROVE THAT THE INDIANS AFORENAMED CAME ONLY BY THE NORTH-WEST, WHICH INDUCETH A CERTAINTY OF OUR PASSAGE BY EXPERIENCE. — CHAPTER VIII. CERTAIN REASONS ALLEGED FOR THE PROVING OF A PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-EAST BEFORE THE QUEEN’S MAJESTY, AND CERTAIN LORDS OF THE COUNCIL, BY MASTER ANTHONY JENKINSON, WITH MY SEVERAL ANSWERS THEN USED TO THE SAME. — CHAPTER IX. HOW THAT THE PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-WEST IS MORE COMMODIOUS FOR OUR TRAFFIC THAN THE OTHER BY THE EAST, IF THERE WERE ANY SUCH. — CHAPTER X. WHAT COMMODITIES WOULD ENSUE, THIS PASSAGE ONCE DISCOVERED.
- 4.CERTAIN OTHER REASONS OR ARGUMENTS TO PROVE A PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-WEST.
- 5.THE FIRST VOYAGE OF MASTER MARTIN FROBISHER
- 6.THE SECOND VOYAGE OF MASTER MARTIN FROBISHER,
- 7.THE THIRD AND LAST VOYAGE INTO META INCOGNITA,
- 8.THE REPORT OF THOMAS WIARS,
- 9.THE FIRST VOYAGE OF MASTER JOHN DAVIS,
- 10.THE SECOND VOYAGE ATTEMPTED BY MASTER JOHN DAVIS,
- 11.THE THIRD VOYAGE NORTH-WESTWARD, MADE BY JOHN DAVIS,
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