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A01108	North-vvest Fox, or, Fox from the North-west passage Beginning vvith King Arthur, Malga, Octhur, the two Zeni's of Iseland, Estotiland, and Dorgia; following with briefe abstracts of the voyages of Cabot, Frobisher, Davis, Waymouth, Knight, Hudson, Button, Gibbons, Bylot, Baffin, Hawkridge ... Mr. Iames Hall's three voyages to Groynland, with a topographicall description of the countries, the salvages lives and treacheries, how our men have beene slayne by them there, with the commodities of all those parts ... demonstrated in a polar card, wherein are all the maines, seas, and ilands, herein mentioned. With the author his owne voyage, being the XVIth. with the opinions and collections of the most famous mathematicians, and cosmographers ... By Captaine Luke Foxe of Kingstone vpon Hull, capt. and pylot for the voyage, in his Majesties Pinnace the Charles. Printed by his Majesties command.	Foxe, Luke, 1586-1635.	1635 (1635)	STC 11221; ESTC S105645	224,546	311

wish their pride to know that Gods mercy is over all his Creatures and hath created as good men in the North as in the South let no man bee disdained misprised or vndervalued for his wants except in Vertues For I doe not thinke but litle Mr. IEFFERY that pretty Courtier can pitch his eye-sight as high into the Firmament as Mr. EVANS his Maiesties great Porter And for Sea-men where have you better than the Scotsh-men are and yet North-Countrey men It was also cast into my dish that I was an Officer of the Admiralty a poore conceit to obiect against me for this vndertaking and as much as to say as the greatest Civilian held to be in Christendome cannot be capable of higher Promotion if hee belong to the Admiraltie I have also placed a Polar Map or Card that this Discoverie may be the better vnderstood and for that I did desire to give satisfaction by Demonstration of all treated of in the Booke for otherwise another proiection could not have contained it but at vnreasonable diversity and because I cannot describe all the Names in Fretum Hudson of Capes Ilands and Bayes at length in Letters in respect of the smalnesse of the Degrees of Longitude I have inserted them in a table by the letters of the Alphabet as thou shalt find beginning with A b c d and tracted my owne way and discovery foorth and home in small prickes I acknowledge it to be but rough-hewen like Ship wrights ●imber but what it wants in smoothnesse or forme let thy good Report licke it into I trust I shall not need to vse the fashion of Authors to make any doubt of carping Momus or rayling Zoilus seeing I have intended thy Good without any Reservation to my selfe But I feare mee I have held thee too long in this place like him who purposeth to take a long Iourney stumbles vpon his owne threshold but have Patience for I had rather be in fault then want I have here prostrated my duty to my King and my service to my Countrey craving thy favourable acceptance I rest From Kingston upon Hull this first of Ianuary 1635. Thine in all welwilling Luke Foxe CERTAINE TESTIMOnies concerning King Arthur and his Conquests of the North regions taken by Mr. Hacklute out of the Histories of the Kings of Brittaine written by Galfridus Monamutensis newly Printed at Hedleberg 1587. Lib. 9. Cap. 10. IN the yeare of CHRIST 517. King Arthur in the second yeare of his raigne having subdued all parts of Ireland sayled with his Fleet into Iseland and brought it and the people thereof into subjection the rumour being spred throughout all the other Lands that no Countrey was able to withstand him Doldanius King of Gotland and Gunfacius the King of Orkney came voluntary unto him and yeelded their obedience promising to pay him Tribute The winter being spent hee returned into Britaine established his Kingdome in perfect peace he continued there for the space of twelue yeares Lib. 9. Cap. 12. After that King Arthur sending his Messengers into divers Kingdomes hee summoned such as were to come to his Court aswell out of France as out of the adjacent Ilands of the Sea and a little after from these adjacent Ilands came Guillaumarius King of Ireland Malvatius King of Iseland Doldunus King of Gotland Gunnotius King of Orkney Lot the King of Norway and Archilius King of Denmarke A testimony of the Right and Appendances of the Crowne of the Kingdome of Brittaine taken out of Mr. Lambert Fol. 137. pag. 2. ARTHVR which was sometimes the most renowned King of the Britaines was a mighty valiant and famous Warriour This Kingdome was too little for him and his minde was not contented with it hee therefore valiantly subdue● all Scantia now called Norway and all the Iles beyond Norway to wit Iseland and Groenland which are appertaining unto Norway Sweveland Ireland Gotland Denmarke Semeland Windeland Curland Roe Femeland Wireland Flaunders Cherilland Lapland and all other Lands of the East sea even unto Russia in which Lapland he placed the Eastmost Bounds of his Brittish Empire and many other Ilands beyond Norway even under the Pole which are appendances of Scantia now called Norway he planted the Christian Faith throughout all Norway matched their Nobility with Brittish bloud called Norway the Chamber of Brittaine and incorporated them unto us Another testimony out of Galfridus Monumetensis concerning the Conquest of Malga King of England Lib. 11. cap. 7. MALGO succeeded Vorciporius which was the goodliest man in person of all Brittaine a Prince that expulsed many Tyrants hee was strong and valiant in warre taller then most men that then lived and exceeding famous for his vertues This King also obtained the Government of the whole Iland of Brittaine and by most sharpe battailes he recovered to his Empire the sixe Ilands of the Ocean Sea which were before Tributaries to King Arthur namely Ireland Iseland Gotland Orkney Norway and Denmarke The Voyage of Octher to the Northeast parts beyond Norway reported by himselfe vnto Alfred the famous King of England about the yeare 890. OCTHER sayd that the Countrey wherein he dweit was called Helgoland hee told his Lord King Elfreed that he dwelt furthest North of any Norman he sayd that he dwelt towards the North part of the Land towards the West coast And in another place hee affirmeth that there was no man dwelling towards the North from him and a●lirmed the land to stretch farre to the North yet all Desert and not inhabited Vpon a time he fell into a fancy to know how farre the Land stretched Northward whereupon hee tooke his voyage directly North along the Coast having alwayes the Desert land upon his Sta●board and upon the Larboard the maine Ocean and continued his course for the space of 3. dayes in which space hee was come as farre towards the North as the Whale-hunters used to travell hee proceeded to the North as farre as hee was able to sayle in other 3. dayes at the end whereof he perceived the Coast turned toward the East or else the Sea opened with a maine Gulfe into the land hee knew not how farre well he wist and remembred that he was faine to stay till hee had a Westerne wind and somewhat Northerly and thence hee sayled plaine East along the Coast still so farre as hee was able in 4. dayes at the end of which time hee was compelled to stay untill he had a full Northerly wind for as much as the Coast bowed downe thence directly towards the Southward at leastwise the Sea opened into the Land that he could not tell how farre so that hee sayled alongst the coast directly South so farre as he could travell in five dayes and at the 5. dayes end hee descryed a mighty River which opened very farre in the land at the entry of which River hee stayed his course and in conclusion turned backe againe For he durst not enter so feare of the Inhabitants of the Land

Ireland so farre North that he came to a Land vnknowne where he saw many strange things This must needes be some part of this Countrey of which the Spaniards affirme themselves to be the first founders since Dannos time wherevpon it is manifest that this Country was by Brittanies discovered long before Columbus Of Mado●s returne there be many fables but he did returne and declared of the fruitfull Countryes he had seene with out Inhabitants and on the contrary what barren and wild ground his Brethren and Nephewes did kill and murder one another for He prepared a Navie of ships got with him such Men and Women as were desirous to live in quiet and taking leave of his friends tooke his journey thither againe Therefore it is to be supposed that he and his people inhabited part of this Country for it appeareth by Francis Lopez de Gomara that in Acuzamill and other places the people honored the Crosse whereby it may be gathered that Christians had beene there before the comming of the Spaniards This Madoc arriving againe in that West Countrey vnto the which he came 1170. left most of his people there and returned backe for more of his owne Nation acquaintance and friends to inhabite that faire and large Countrey went thither againe with 10. saile as I find noted by Guyten Owen I am of opinion that the Land wherevnto he came was some part of the West Indies As concerning Sebastian Cabot I cannot find that he was any further Northward then the 58. Degree and so returned along the Land of America to the S. but for more certainty heare his owne Relation to Gal●acius Bu●rigarius the Popes Legate in Spaine Vnderstanding saith he by reason of the Spheare that if I should saile by the way of North-west I should by a shorter tract come to India I caused the King to be advertised of my device who immediately caused two Caravels to be furnished with all things needfull which was as neere as I can remember in the yeare 1496. In the beginning of Summer I begun to saile North-west not thinking to find any other Land then that of Cataia and from thence to come into India But after certaine dayes I found the Land run to the North which was to me a great displeasure neverthelesse sailing along the Coast to see if I could finde any Gulfe that turned I found the Land still to continue continent to the 56. Degree vnder the Pole and seeing that there the Coast turned toward the East dispairing to find the passage I turned backe againe and sailed downe by the Coast of that Land toward the Equinoctiall Thus much from himselfe But heare how Baptistie Ramusius his Country man how he flattereth him thus It 's many yeares since it was written vnto me by Sebastian Cabota our Countryman a Venetian a Man of great experience and very rare in the Art of Navigation and the knowledge of Cosmographie who sailed along and beyond this Coast of new France at the charges of Henry the 7. King of England and he advertised me that having sailed along time West by North beyond those Ilands into the Latit of 67. Deg. and ½ vnder the North Pole and on the 11. day of Iune finding still the open Sea without any impediment he thought verily by that way to have passed on still to Cataia which is in the East and would have done it if the Mutinie of the shipmasters and Marriners had not hindered and made him returne home from that place Out of Robert Fabians Chronicle THere is also mention made of Iohn Cabota Sebastians Father by his meanes in the 13. yeare of Henry the Seauenth at the same Kings charge one ship was victuailed from Bristow wherein divers Marchants of London adventured sma stockes to search for an Iland he said was very Rich and replenished with great Commodities In his company went from Bristow 3. or 4. small Barkes laden with coarse Cloth Caps Laces Points and other trifles they departed the beginning of May but were not heard of in that Maiors time Out of the same Chronicle VVIlliam Purchase being Maior three Saluages were taken in New found Land and brought to the King they were cloathed in Beasts skinnes and eate raw flesh and spake such speech that no man could vnderstand them and in their demeanor much like to bruite Beasts of which two yeares after I saw two apparrelled after the manner of Englishmen in Westminster Parish I could not discerne them from English vntill I had learned what they were An Extract taken out of the Mappe of Sebastian Cabota cut by Clement Adams IN the yeare of Grace 1497. John Cabot a Venetian and Sebastian his Sonne with an English Fleete set from Bristow discovered that Iland which before that time no man had attempted on the 24. day of June this Land he called Prima Vesta that is to say first seene that Iland lying out before the Land he called the I le of St. John Because he discovered it vpon that day of St. John Baptist The inhabitants of this I le vse to weare Beasts skinnes in their Warres they vse Bowes Arrowes Pikes Darts Wooden-clubs and slings The soile is Barren in some places and yeeldeth little fruit but is full of white Beares and Stagges farre greater then ours it yeildeth plenty of Fish and these very great as Seales and Sammons there are Soales of a yard in length but especially there is great plenty of that kind of Fish which the Salvages call Baccalaos there are also bred Hawkes and Eagles Another Testimony of the Voyage of Sebastian Caboc taken out of the third Decade of Peter Martyr of Angleria THe North seas have bin searched by one S●bastia● Cabot a Venetian borne he furnished 2. Ships at his owne charge and first with 300. men directed his course towards the N. Pole that even in the Moneth of July he found monstrous heapes of Ice swimming on the Sea and in a manner continuall day light Thus seeing these heapes of Ice before him he was enforced to turne his sailes and follow the W. coasting the shore he was thereby brought so farre into the South by reason of the land stretching Southward that it was there almost equall in latitude with Fretum Herculeum As he travelled by the coasts of this great Land which he named Bacculaos he saith hee found the like course of waters toward the West but the same running more soft and gently then the swift waters which the Spaniards found in their Navigation South-ward wherefore it is not onely mo●e like to be true but ought also of necessity to be concluded that betweene both the Lands hitherto vnknowne there should be certaine great open places whereby the waters continually passe from the East to the West Which waters I suppose to be driven about the Globe of the Earth by the incessant Motion and impulsion of the Heavens and not to be swallowed and cast vp againe by the breathing of Demogorgon as some

shoare from the N E by ● to the W. by S. the N. 12 leagues off the W. part 20 leagues he had no ground at 180 fathomes and he thought hee see land bearing E N E. on the Suns side but could not make it perfectly here he found the latitude 62 deg 50. min. 2 This day he had sight of a Faire headland 6 leagues off which he called Salisburies Foreland he ran from thence W S W. 14 leagues in the midst of which he came in to a great whirling Sea whither caused by the meeting of a streames or overfals he knew not thence sayling W by S. 7 leagves farther he was in the mouth of a straight and had no ground at 100 fathomes the straight not being above 2 leagues broad in the passage in this Westerne part which from the Eastern part of Fretum Davis is distant 250 leagues 3 This day he put thorough this passage which was narrow after his men had been on land that did observe the flood-tide did come from N. flowing by the shore 5 fathoms After he had sailed West by South 10 leagues the land fell to the Southwards and the Iles to the West left him he observed and found himselfe in 61 d. 20 m. and a Sea from the Westwards He names the Cape on the Star-board C. Digges being an Iland that on the Larbord stands upon the maine named by him Cape Worstenholme here is all I finde extant of his owne writing although he lived untill Iuly following before he was exposed A large discourse of the said Voyage and the successe thereof written by Abacuk Pricket Who lived to come home They came to the Iles of Orkney and from thence to Farre one day being calme they fell to fishing and kild good store of God and Ling from thence they raise the Iles of Westmony in one of which the King of Denmarke hath a fortresse by which they passed to raise the Snow-hill-foote a mountaine so called on the N W. part of the land and in that course they see the famous Mount Hecla which cast out much fire a signe of foule weather to come they leave Island on sterne and met a maine of Ice lying upon the Northpart thereof which when they see they stood backe for a Harbour in Island called Derefer where he kild good store of Fowle from thence they put to Sea againe but the wind not serving he puts back againe into another harbour called Lowsie Bay heare they found a Bath so hot as would scald a Fowle He put forth for Groenland and thought he saw land but i● prooved a fog banke He raised Groenland but great store of Ice hung upon the land this land is Mountainous with hils like Suger loaves covered with Snow He coasted along betwixt W and N W. untill he saw Dissolation which is a great Iland on the N W. part of Groenland here he saw great store of Whales some came about and under the ship but did no harme From hence he directed his course N W. and would have hailed more Northerly if the winde would have suffered him in this course he see the first mountainous Ice about the last of June he raised the land N. off him he tooke the same to be that Iland which Capt. Davis set in his Chart on the W. side of this straight he would have gone to N. thereof but the winde would not suffer him so he fell on the Southside into a great ripling or overfall of a current into this current he went and made his way Northward off W. untill he met with Ice which hung on this Iland wherefore he cast about to the South and cleared himselfe and then stood to the W amongst some store of sloting Ice and upon the Ice store of Seales he still made way N W. and meetes sometimes with Ice and then againe cleare thus proceeding betwixt Ice and Ice he sees a great Iland of Ice overtumble which was a good warning to him not to come neere them the next day he had a great storme and was driven to put in amongst the Ice and there to lye some of his men fell sicke he will not say for feare though he see no other signe of griefe The storme ceasing he put from the Ice standing W S W and N W. and as the cleare Sea and Ice would suffer him seeing the sea thus continued he would seeke to the S. but the more he strove the worse he was for he was fast inclosed and began to dispaire as he after told this Writer hee thought he should never have got out of this Ice but there haue perished Wherfore he shewed him his Card that he was 100. leag further than ever any English man was and referred to their choyse to proceed further or no whereupon some wisht them at home others any where so from amongst the Ice but in this distraction there passed words which was thought upon long time after There was one told the Master that if he had a 100 pound he would give 90 therof to be at home but the Carpenter made answere and said if he had 100. he would not give 10 upon any such condition but would hold it as good money as ever he had any and by Gods leave to bring it as well home well to worke they goe and with labour get the ship cleare the sea being also cleere a league or 2 off the course now is N N W. in the end he raised high land at S. W. covered with snow and names it Desire provokes he heard the noyse of a great overfall of a tide that came out of the Land and now he could well discerne that formerly he had beene imbayed and that Time made his acquaintance so well knowne to the Ice that when wet fogge or foule weather came he should make fast to the broad peece of Ice and run and sport and fill sweete fresh water upon the same after he had brought this land to beare S off him he had a current or tyde to open the Ice being carried first one way and then another but in bayes they lay as in a pond without mooving in the Bay wherein he was thus troubled he see of those Icie mountaines on ground here was 120 and 140 fathomes of water and here he sees a Beare upon the Ice his men gave chase to him but lost him by the tydes carrying away the Ice the Beare was gone out of their reach He continued his course towards the North-West and raised land to the North and Ice where there was a Beare which came from Ice to Ice untill she came neere them and then she runne away hee stood along on the South side of this land meeting with Ice which seeing he stood into the shore and found a harbour in the West end of this Iland he went over one Rock of two fathomes and a halfe and at low water it was so much bare he names it

Store of Furres August A huge Beare kild Allowance augmented Fogge in a strange straight Whales Tide from S. W. flowed 6. or 7. Fathams May 7. June The people bring Skinnes for trade They found them to have both skill and strength They gave them knives but not for that purpose Ores of blacke and red Copper Meaning the E. Sea and Fretum D●●● Yet much desirous o●●r●●e A Salvage ●aken Iuly He findes many passages but attempts none Saile more E. come home then Now Davis is coming home In 56. great store of Cod-fish Great skull of Fish 500. Seale skins May 19. Salt A Leake Trade to be had Iune This was the West side of Groynland Iuly It is to be vnderstood that these Dar●s were headed with Vnicorn● Horne 6. points W. of his co●●se All this time he ●anged South-ward S. W. by W. full Sea L●mleys Inlet August Darcies Il● Comes to H●●sons Bay the ●● of May. Vide Davi● These were formerly found and named by Davis Now was hee in the entrance of the passage Chidlies Isles bearing W by S halfe South Iuly This was upon the Southside of Davis his entrance into Cumberlands Isles A mutinie This cannot bee This doth not appeare that he could punish and yet suffer them to carry the ship backe July No such matter Here was Davis A whirlewind August Variation A great mistake It can be no other but Cape Farwell Two Currents A good harbour Great store of Pilchards Great Cannowes Salvage barter 13 Oyle let forth 18 Salvage assault 19 Denmarke Haven Iuly July A strange current A great Current August May. June Northerly Current variation 11 deg July Busse I le again discovered Current see S S W. A caveat for Commanders in Fleets Variation A Current Strong Current Da●is doth write of the same not farre from this place Sylver Myne August Raine Deere A King in Groynland He comes homeward Cape Christianus the next knowne part of Groenland September October 4. Iuly Longitude wrought in Cockings Sound Latit 65 deg 20. min. Master Hall slaine Deere footing A Caveat August So much B●ffin September September September A Cavea● Their Pigmies are beasts Vnicornes fishes Pigmies countrey The Authors Voyage A little man dead A great mistake The Russ were the first that named this land Nova Zembla so Stephen B●rrowes 1556. But this cānot be Pigmies-land for that must ioyne or be neare to Groenland April May. Variation 48d Latit 57 d. 57 m Variation 14 d. 30. Dead Cowes Latitude 58 d. 3 min. Variation 24 d. June Latitude 56 d. Variat 20 and 24 deg Latitude 56 d. 48 min. Var●at 25 d. Lost his Rud●er His Ship bul●ed The Master other n●●●● hard ●●● Salvage tre●●●ry Saluages described Iune July Currant South ward An inforced shift to hang a Rudder Iuly They ●oder April May. Iune Greenland Davis his error but not beleeved Iuly The I le of Gods Mercy ● August Cape Digges Cape Worstenholme May. June 1. A warning See Weymare Discontents Iles of Gods Mercy Partridges Spring tydes carried the Ice to the N West Tide and ebbe Cape Digges Cape Worstenholme Dee●e Fowle hanged He lost sight of East-land A large Sea to South Michaelmas Bay The West most of Hadsons Bayes Footing of a Man S●● on ● Rocke November Henry Greenes condition Green beats the Surgion Greene practise of mischeif Miserable food A Medecinable bud A Salvage They trade Fishing A bill of returne Cheese shifted Wilson and Greene their ●reachery Hang or starve Sweare The Master bound King liked one Breaking chests open The names of those exposed into the Shallop Lost the Shalfor ever S●ru●k upon a Ro●k Found a great horne which they tooke to bee Sea V●●corne Set on ● Rock Salvages Salvage fowling Iuly Mores teeth and divers things Henry Greene. Ealvages trecherous Salvage had a knife Salvage slaine Gods judgement upon the trecherous Greene slaine The end of 4. wicked men Three hund●ed Fowles killed Fowles Bones fryed for meate Beare Haven in Ireland Arive at Plimouth Store of fowle in Iseland Inets mutinies Ivet displac'd Hudsons good nature August I●e Diggs Port Nelson 3. Fathoms A Fovvle 80 Salvages in 2. Canons 5. men slaine * Not above a mile broad Something propounded to the company ● Variation 24. Variation 26. d. ½ Variation 30. d. Variation 22. d. Variation 22. d. Good advise Well guest Hubart Variation at Cape Farewell 11. deg Vari●tion 29. d. ● great mistake Variation 3. points Variatin 3. d Variation 2. d. different Great in the Variations Long from London Latitude 6. d. 30. m. Variation 23. degrees as hee judged Variation 29 The Variation of this Ile 34. Hopes Checkt 60. d. 40. m. July Not certayne whether flood or ebbe at this time Began here to protract and finde whether it bee a Bay or me● 64. deg 30. m. Vt ukra not proved a Bay No course so named Lat. 62. d. 57m August And seene from the 31. unt●ll this day August A good Bay to anchor in A land of fogge He named this Mancels Iland Lat. 61. d. 38. m. Dead mens skulls and bones August Ruines of houses and Canooes in Mansells Ile Images and Mans teeth Flood came from N. Flood came from the N. La. 62. d. 19 m La. 62. d. 38. m La. 62. d. 42. m No mention of Ice Sir Thomas Button doth allovv 2. points variation Mansells Ile Ca. Pembrok 10 Leagues distant Capt. Gibbons Set of Tyde But was deceived Half an hower A strong tyde Not so Not so The true Channell tyde Strong Tyde or 200. fathom No mole station of Ice in all his returne Lumleys Inlet Cap Labradore No molestation by Ice in al these Voyages returne Gibbons his Voyage a caveat for others Aprill May. Ice on Capes Farewell 140. Fathomes above water Puts into Ice 30. Leagues of Land Variation allowed Whitsunday Vrriation 24 June A good harbour in Resolution Flows 4. Fathomes Variation 24. d. 6. m. Lumleys Iulet 8. miles wide in the narowest Salvage Iles. Dogges 14. Salvages in one Canon Whalessinnes Images Dogsfurnitur Lattude 62. d. 32. m. Longitude 72. d. Variation 27. d. 30 m. A good Harbor 62. d. 40. m. Lat. S. E. full Sea Danger neare shore La. 63. d 26. Lon. 72. d. 25. m. Variati 27. d 46. m. Observaton for Longitude Mr. Rudston July Mill Ile La. 64 Flood Tyde from S E Ice drive with swiftnesle Danger neere shore Clock 7. high water 120. Fathome high ground The half tyde betweene Baffaime Cap. Comfort in 65 Lat 65. 25. Long from London 86. 10. Sea Horse Points Flood came from S E Bylot was with Thomas Button Swan I le August He sought no passage then September Va●ia 26. d. March Groenland 6. 5 d. Groanlands wonder Ice Hope Saunderson June Groanland women Womens Iland 72. d. 45. m. A Channell 74. d. 4. m. Harbour 73. 45. m. Ice consumed Hee see many Sea Vnicornes July Sir Dudley Diggs Cape Lat. 76. 35. Wolstenholmes Sound Whales Sound 78. Variation 56.

him this day came 6. in Canooes they brought Salmon ●eale and such like which was good refreshing for his men the next day following the same 6. came againe but they saw them no more vntill the 6. day when hee had weighed anchor and was almost cleere of the harbour the same 6. and noe more came and brought of the like commoditie for which they gaue them Glasses Beades Counters and small pieces of Iron which they doe esteeme as wee Christians doe Gold or Siluer In this Sound was such Skulls of Salmon swimming too and fro that it was much to bee admired heere it floweth aboue 18. foote water It floweth on the change till seauen a clock It is a very good Harbour and easie to be k●owne having three high round hills like Piramidies close adjoyning to the mouth thereof and that in the midst is the lowest All this coast along is full of good Harbours by reason of so manie Ilands that lie from the Mayne By 3. this day hee was cleere of this place hauing a N. N. W winde faire weather So God sent him a speedy passeage for in 19. dayes after hee saw the the coast of England The 30. h● anchored in Douer Roade ¶ A briefe Discourse of the Probabilitie of a Passage to the Westerne or South Sea with Testimonies by mee Henry Briggs I Thought good to adde somewhat to this Relation of Mr. Baffyn that learned vnlearned Marriner and Mathematitian whose wanting Art of words so really jmployed himselfe in that jndustrious worke whereof heere you see so euident proofe This Mappe and Table would much haue jllustrated this Voyage jf trouble cost and his owne dispaire of passage that way had not made vs willing to content our selues with what followed of that le●aned and in this Argument three times thrice jndustrious Mathematitian Master Henry Briggs famous for his reading in both Vniuersities and this honourable Citie that I make a further Voyage of Discouery to find and follow the remote Passage and extent of his name Mr. Baffyn told mee that the Tide from the N. W. about Diggs his Island was mis-reported by mistaking the houre 8. for 11. and that hee would if hee might get imployment search the Passage from Iapon by the coast of Asia or qua data porta which way hee could But in the Indies hee died in the late Armouse businesse slaine in fight with a shot as hee was 24. trying bis Mathematticall conclusions for the discouerie of Sr. Thomas Button I haue sollicited for his notes and receiued of him gentle entertainement and kind promises being they forced me to stay in the City about necessarie vr Affaires hee would at his returne seeke and impart them since I heare that weighty occasions haue deteined him out of England and I cannot deliuer that I could not receiue which if I doe I purpose to giue them out of due place rather then no● at all once hee was very confident in conferrence with me o● a Passage that way and said that hee had therein satisfied hi● Maiestie who from his discourse in priuate suffered the necessitie thereof And the mayne Argument was there too so ●● the Tyde for wintering in Port Nelson hee found the Tid rising euery 12. houres 15. soote Within the bottome of Hu 〈…〉 sons Bay it was but 2. Foote And in the bottome of Fret● Davies discouered by Baffyn but one yea and a West win● equalled the neepe Tydes to this Spring arguing the Neighbourhood of the Sea which is on the West-side of Amenia the Summer following hee found about the lat of 60. a strong Race of a Tyde running sometimes East-ward sometimes W. ward Whereupon Iosias Hubbart in his Plot called that place Hubbarts Hope now if any make scruple why this discouery was not persued by Sir Thomas Button let him consider that being Prince Henries Seruant and partly by him imployed whom I thinke named the Countrey New Wales The vntimely death of that Prince put all out of ioynt nor was hee so open that others should haue the glory of his discouery If any man thinke that the Passage is so farre as the Mappes vse to expresse Ammerica running into the West it is easily answered that either of negligence or ouer-busie dilligeate Mappes by Portugalls in the East and Spantards in the West haue beene so cleerely proiected heere That fabulous streight of Anian as before by Frances Gaules testimony and Nauigation is euident and hence the Portugalls to bring in the Moluceas to the Moietie of the World agreed vpon betweene the Spaniards and them are thought to haue much curtailed Asia and the longitude of those Islands giuing fewer degrees to them then in iust longitude is due so the older Mappes of America make the land from Magdalene Sireights to the South Sea● running North-west when they are rather contracted some-what Easterlie from the North and the like is iustly reported of their placing Periuvera and I know not nor they neither what Countries they make in America to run so farre to the N. W. ward which Sir Francis Drake his Voyage in that Sea his Nova Albion being little further North-ward then Aguatulie plainely conuinceth to bee otherwise yea the late Mappe of Culifirma found to bee an Island the Saluage discourses of all the Countries North-ward and West-ward from Virginia the Fame whereof filled my friend Mr. Dormer with so much confidence that hearing of strange Shipps that came thither for a kind of Vre or Earth the men vsing Forks in their Diet with Caldrons to dresse their Meate and things nothing suitable to any parts of America hee supposed them to come from the East neere China and Iapon and therefore hee made a Voyage purposely to discouer but crossed with diuers disasters hee returned to Virginia frustrate of attempting that yeere but fuller of confidence as in a Letter from Virginia hee signified to me where death ended his designe soone after but how often are the vsuall Charts reiected by experience in those Nauigations in the workes recorded Painters and Poets are not alwayes the best Oracles For further proofe of a passage about these parts into the W. or S. Sea as it is called from the first discouerie thereof to the South from the parts of new Spaine whence it was first described by the Spaniards there is mention of a Portugall taken in a Carracke in Queene Elizabeths dayes of Famous Memorie confirming this opinion Sir Martin Frobisher also from a Portugall in Ginney receiued Intelligence of such a Passage hee saying hee had past it the Pilots of Lisborne are said generally to acknowledge such a thing And the Admirall ● D'Garsia Ieaffrey Loais● of Citie Royall in the time of Charles the Fifth is reported by the Coast of Baccalos and Labradore to haue gone to the Moll●●a● Yasc● Decor●nado writ to the Emperour that at S●bola hee was 150. leagues from the South Sea and a little more from the North Anthonio

de Horera the Kings Coronista Maior maketh with vs also in the distance described but to produce some Authority more full I haue heere presented Thomas Cowles a Marriner and Master Michaell Lock Merchant and after them a little Treatis ascribed to Master Briggs And if any thinke that the Span●ard or Portugall would soone haue discouered such a Passage this will answere that it was not for their profit to expose their East or West Indies to English Dutch or others whom they would not haue sharers in those remote Treasures by so neere a Passage First Thomas Cowles auer●eth thus much I Thomas Cowles of Bedmester in the County of Somrset Marriner doe acknowledge that Six yeares past being at Lisborne in Portugall I did heare one Martin Chacke a Portugall reade a Booke of his owne making which hee had set out 6. yeeres before that time in Print in the Portugall tongue declaring that the said Martin Chacke had found twelue yeeres now past away from the Portugall Iudies through a Gulfe of the New-found-land which hee thought to bee in 59. deg of the N. Pole by meanes that hee being in the said Indies with 4 shippes of great Burthen and hee himselfe being in a small ship of 80. Tunne farre driuen from the companie of the other 4. shipps with a West winde after which hee had past along by a great number of Islands which were in the Gulfe of the said New-found-land and after hee ouer-shott the Gulfe he set no more sight of any other land vntill hee fell with the N. N. west part of Ireland and from thence hee tooke his course home-ward and by that meanes hee came to Lifborne 4. or 5. weekes before the other shipps that were separated from his Company and since the same time hee could neuer see any of those Bookes because the King commanded them to bee called in and no more of them to bee Printed least in time it would bee their hinderance In witnesse whereof I set to my hand and marke the 9day of Aprill 1579. ¶ A Noate of Michaell Locke touching Freton Anjoy through the North-west Passage of Meta Incognita WHen I was at Venice in Aprill 1596. happily arriued there an old man aged about 60. called commonly Iuan de F●●●a but named properly Apostollos Valerian●s of Nation a Greeke borne in the Island of Sepholonien of Profession a Marriner and an ancient Pylot of shippes This man came lately out of Spaine ariued first at Legorne and went thence to Florence where hee found out Iohn Dowlas an English-man a famous Marriner ready comming for Venice to be Pylot of a Venetian ship for England they came both to Venice together and Iohn Dowlas being well acquainted with mee gaue me notice of this Greeke Pylot and brought him to my speech and in conference this Pylot declared in the Italian and Spanish tongue these words following First hee said that hee had beene in the West India of Spaine by the space of Forty yeeres and sayled too and fro as Marriner and Pylot to many places thereof in the seruice of the Spaniard Also he said that hee was in the Spannish shipp which in returning from the Islands of Philipinas and China was robb'd neere Cape Callif●rnia by Captaine Can●ndish an English-man whereby hee lost 60. Thousand Duckets of his owne goods Also hee said that hee was Pylot of 3. small Shipps which the Victory of Mexicoe sent from thence armed with a 100. Souldiers vnder a Captaine Spaniard to discouer the streights of Anian along the Coast of the South Sea and to fortefie in that streight to resist the Passage of the English Nation which were afraid to passe through the streights into the South Sea and that by reason of a Mutinie which happened amongst the Souldiers for the Sodomie of their Captaine that Voyage was ouerthrowne and the Ship turned backe from Califirnia to Noud Spania without any effect of things done in that Voyage and at their returne the Captaine was punished at Mexicoe Also hee saith that after the said Voyage was so ill ended the Vice-roy set him out againe in 1592. with a small Caravell and a Pinnace armed with Marriners onely for discovery of the said Streight and hee following his course W. and N. W. in the South-sea along the coast of Nova Hispaniae and Califirnia and India now called North America all which voyage hee signified vnto me in a great Mappe and Carde of my owne which I laide before him vntill hee came to the Latitude of 47. degrees and that there finding the land to trent N. and N. E. with a broad Inlett betweene 47. and 48. hee being entred thereinto sayling therein more then twenty dayes and found the land trenting still sometimes N. W. and sometimes N. E. and also S. E. ward a farre broader Sea then at the said entrance and that hee passed by divers Ilands in that entrance and that at the entrance of this said Streight there is on the North-west coast thereof a great Head-land or Iland with an exceeding high Pinnacle or spired Rocke like a piller there-vpon Also he said that hee went on land indivers places and that hee saw some people on land clad in Beast-skinns and that the land was very fruitfull and rich of gold and silver and Pearles and other things like Nova Hispaniae Also hee said that hee being entred thus farre into the said Streight and being come into the North-Sea allready and finding the Sea wide enough every where and to bee about 30. or 40. leagues wyde in the Streight where hee entred hee thought he had now well discharged his office done the thing which he was sent to doe and that he not being armed to resist the force of the Saluage people that might happen to assault him therefore hee set sayle and returned towards Noua Hispaniae where he arrives at Aquapulco Anno 1592. hoping to be well rewarded of the Viceroy for his voyage so performed Also he said that he was greatly welcomed to Mexico by the Viceroy and had promise of great reward but staying there 2 yeares to his small content the Viceroy told him he should be rewarded in Spaine of the King and therefore willed him to repayre thither which he did performe At his comming thither he was greatly welcomed at the Kings Court in words but after long suite he could not get any reward there to his content and therefore at length he stole away and came into Italy to get home to live amongst his kindred in his owne country he being now very old Also he said that he thought that the cause of his ill reward was had of the Spaniards to be for that they did understand very well that the English Nation had now given over all their voyages for the discovery of the N W. passage wherfore they feared not them any more to come that way into the S. Sea and therefore they needed not his service therein any more Also he said that in regard of