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A52618	An account of several late voyages & discoveries to the south and north towards the Streights of Magellan, the South Seas, the vast tracts of land beyond Hollandia Nova &c. : also towards Nova Zembla, Greenland or Spitsberg, Groynland or Engrondland, &c. / by Sir John Narborough, Captain Jasmen Tasman, Captain John Wood, and Frederick Marten of Hamburgh ; to which are annexed a large introduction and supplement, giving an account of other navigations to those regions of the globe, the whole illustrated with charts and figures.	Narbrough, John, Sir, 1640-1688.; Tasman, Abel Janszoon, 1603?-1659.; Wood, John, Captain.; Martens, Friedrich, 1635-1699.; Robinson, Tancred, Sir, d. 1748.	1694 (1694)	Wing N154; ESTC R18669	230,732	472

Traders who affirm that the farther North they go on the Coast of that Land that they meet with more green Herbs and Grass than they do to the Southward and consequently more Deer The second was that which I most feared which was foggy Weather which I did imagin if it should happen it could not at the same time blow hard because it is usual in all other Climates when Wind happeneth to disperse the Fog so that if it should so happen one might lie by or make little way till Wind came that one might see before them The third was the Solution of a Doubt that most men had fancied which was that if one came near the Pole the Septenteral Declination of the Needle of the Compass should be quite taken away which would of necessity follow if the Pole of the World and the Pole of the Magnet were all one which I am certain is not but is placed so far off that one might go under the Pole of the World if Land or Ice did not hinder with this supposition that one must know where the Pole Magnetical is to allow the Variation that will there happen Having considered all these Arguments and Reasons with many more I met with which will be too tedious to Relate and the possibility of a Passage being now imprinted in my Mind and Inclination I do intend to shew the Reasons in short that induced me to undertake the said Voyage The first was That the King whom God Preserve should Rcap the Honour and Glory thereof and his Subjects the Profit Secondly There being no Actions within the Hemisphere of His Majesties Dominions wherein any vacancy was but all being supplyed I chose rather than to be Idle to apply my self to His Majesty for the Prosecution of the Design and being advised to it by a great many of the best Merchants of the City of London where after divers consultations with them and the Reasons and Arguments before-mentioned being debated it was by many thought Practicable and by more thought Profitable to the Nation the particulars to relate would swell into a considerable Volume The third Reason was peculiar to my self though when known to the Use and Benefit of all Mankind which was that having for some years past framed an Hypothesis of the motion of the two Magnetical Poles for two such there be and by the Observations of all or most that writ of that Subject with my own Observation and costly Experiment upon a great many Places of the Superficies of the Terrestrial Globe I having found out their Motion very near and thereby the Inclination of the Magnetical Needle under the Horizon in all Latitudes and all Longitudes and Variation of the Compass may be found in any place in this World without assistance of any other Luminary But not being so fully satisfied as I might be if I could come so near the Pole as was supposed it prompted my Inclination as far as any other Argument whatever to Attempt this Voyage So having all these Reasons that there was a Passage and Reasons for me to unertake it I advanced The first step to it was I drew a Polar Draught whereing I traced all those Navigators that had Attempted the North-East which I presented to His Majesty and Royal Highness and applyed my self to them with the Reasons aforesaid which after their Royal Consideration and Consult with many Merchants and Seamen that had used to Sail Northward and if thought by all feasable His Majesty was Graciously pleased to grant me the Speedwell Frigot to be Manned and Victualled at his Royal Charge with all other Appurtenances thereunto belonging But because in all Attempts of this Nature it was not Convenient to venture one Ship alone for the many Accidents that are incident to a single Ship in an Enterprize of this Nature Therefore His Royal Highness the Duke of York The Honourable John Lord Barklet Sir Joseph Williamson Sir John Bankes Mr. Samuel Peepps Captain Herbert Mr. Dupey Mr. Hoopgood These Eight Honourable Persons at their own proper Charge bought a Pink called the Prosperous of the Burthen of a Hundred and twenty Tuns fitted her to Sea Men Amunition Provision and Merchandize which was such as was Reasonably purposed to Vend on the Coast of Tartaria or at Japan if a Passage had been found Now the Ships being fitting out the Speedwell at Deptford in the King's Yard where the Builder Mr. John Sish took no ordinary Care in Strengthning her and in her Shething which was as well performed as in any Ship that ever sailed on the Sea Thus being fitted I was to satisfie most People the Advantage to our Nation that would accrue if there was a Passage The first Advantage that I purposed was that on the Coast of Tartaria it being a cold Climate we might Vend our English Cloth which now is grown a Drug and certain it is that they wear Cloth which is sent them from Russia and Moscovia which before it arrive at their Hands must needs be very Dear in the Price so if one could come on their Coast one might Vend a great deal more and abundance Cheaper The second Advantage as would have been that in six Weeks one might have sailed to Japan which in the other Way is nine Months and the Passage that way being as hazardous and perillous as this would have been if there had been any Passage by the North-East for by the South way all the way betwixt Bantam and Japan are an innumerable Company of Sands Sholes and Islands where many Ships are yearly lost and all that way one must turn up to Windward and be in perpetual fear of the Hollanders whom if we meet they do their utmost indeavours to Destroy us Then if there had been a North-East Passage and that one might Sail in such a short time to Japan the King might send out Men of War to Japan and force them to Trade which the other way is not to be done because they cannot carry Provision for so long time besides the certain Diseases that are incident to Ships that have many Men in hot Weather renders it unpracticable these and many other Reasons I used which would be too tedious to Relate they being as yet fresh in the memory of most I told them to Now after all these Arguments and Reasons the time of the Year growing on for us to be gone we made our Ships ready for the Sea being as well fitted for a Discovery as ever any Ships were having on Board each Ship sixteen Months Provision of all sorts with Sixty eight Men and Boys in the Speedwell and eighteen Men in the Prosperous Journal In His Majesties Ship the Speedwell Captain John Wood Commander Bound for the Discovery of a Passage to the East-Indies by the North-East Sailing about Nova Zembla and Tartary and so to Japan 1676. SUnday May 28. the Wind at S. W. sailed from the Buoy of the Noar in Company of the Prosperous Captain

chief thing they discover'd was that there was no passage in the North of Davis Straits it being no other than a great Bay but that profit might be made by fishing for Whales Morsses and Unicorns of which there are good store In 1616. Mr. Baffin went again In Sir Tho. Smith's Sound 78 deg Lat. their Compass varied 56 deg Westward the greatest variation that is any where known Despairing to discover their desired North-west passage they returned home and since that we hear of no more Voyages made from England upon that design except by Capt. James in 1631. This Ingenious and most Skilful Navigator Capt. Theo. James was pester'd with much Ice in these North-west Seas in June and July sailing from Cape-Farewell by the Island of Resolution to Mill's and Nottingham Isles as also that call'd Mansfield from whence he steer'd over a great Bay to the Westward near Port-Nelson and named the Land New South-Wales He met hereabouts with Capt. Fox in one of his Majesty's Ships who had been in Port-Nelson but they were soon parted by bad weather Capt. James continued to roving up and down these Seas and giving Names to his Discoveries as Cape Henrietta Maria Lord Weston's Island The Earl of Bristol's Island Sir Thomas Roe's Island Earl of Danby's Island Charlton Island where he winter'd in the Lat. of 52 deg 03 min. from whence he returned home in 1632. having built a little Pinnace out of his Ship in which he passed over to Cary's Swans-Nest and so by Cape Charles and Salisbury-Isle homewards having made many additional Discoveries beyond Hudson Button and Baffin This Island saith Capt. James and all the rest as well as the Main is a light white Sand cover'd over with a white Moss and full of Shrubs and low Bushes excepting some bare Hills and Patches where the Sand will drive with the Wind like Dust 'T is full of Trees as Spruce Firrs and Juniper which together with the Moss will take fire like Torches or Flax. We found great store of an Herb like Scurvy-grass which boil'd did extreamly refresh us We saw some Deer abundance of Foxes a few Bears and some little Beasts In May there came some Fowl as Ducks and Geese white Partridges we saw Fish we could never see any in the Sea nor any Bones of Fish on the Shore side excepting a few Cockle-shells The Muskitoes upon our coming away in July were most intolerable there being no Fence against them The Climate of the Isle of Charleton is most unnatural the Days in Summer being excessive hot and the Nights sharp Frosts even to an inch thickness in the Ponds and all this in June and July Here are divers sorts of Flies as Butter-flies Butchers-flies Horse-flies infinite numbers of Ants and Frogs plenty of Vetches which recover'd our Scorbutick Men. And yet that which is most wonderful the Winter is as severe here as in any place lying 30 degrees more Northerly The King of Denmark also partly to advance the Trading of his own and partly to renew his ancient Pretence to that Country if any thing should be discover'd worth the claiming whilst the English were busie in these Discoveries set out two Ships and a Pinnace 1605. the Admiral was Capt. John Cunningham a Scot Godske Lindenaw a noble Dane was Vice Admiral the chief Pilots were James Hall and John Knight Englishmen Godske arrived on some part of the Countrey where he traffick'd some small matters with the Natives took two of them and returned into Denmark The other two Ships arrived at Cape Farewell thence went to Frobisher's Straits gave Danish Names to divers places traded with the Natives of whom they brought away three and found certain Stones in a place called Cunningham's Ford out of an hundred pound of which were extracted twenty-six ounces of fine Silver In 1606. he sent again four Ships and a Pinnace Godske Lindenaw Admiral and James Hall Pilot-General they brought away five of the Natives In 1607. James Hall was sent again but the Seamen mutining as soon as he came to the Coast brought the Ship back again into Denmark without any thing done The King of Denmark set out two Ships more under Christian Richardson an Holsteiner with Norwegian and Iselandish Mariners who returned before they saw Shore More of their Expeditions we know not till 1619 when he sent out John Munck with two Ships They arrived safe at Cape Farewell 60 deg 30 min. where their Tackle was so frozen and full of Isicles that they could not handle them the next day was so hot that they could not endure their Clothes but wrought in their shirts The South part of Hudson's Bay he called Mare Novum that part towards Groneland Mare Christianum He arriv'd in 63 deg 20 min. where he winter'd and called it Munck's Winter-harbour and the Country New Denmark it seems to be near Digg's Island In that long Winter he there endured little of note happen'd but that in April it rained and then came thither vast quantities of Fowls of divers sorts to breed in those quiet undisturbed places Of all his Company which was forty-six in one Ship and sixteen in the Pinnace scarce so many were left alive as were able to bring the Pinnace thorow very horrid dangers to their own Country If any one desire to know what became of the eight Gronelanders brought at several times into Denmark the account is this The King commanded great care should be taken of them appointed certain persons to attend them to give them liberty enough so as they prevented their escape No Necessary or Convenience was wanting their Food such as they could eat Milk Butter Cheese Flesh and Fish but raw They could eat no Bread nor boil'd Meat but nothing so much abhorr'd by them as Wine or Brandy Their pleasantest Beuvrage was Train-Oyl But whatever was done to or for them could never take away that Melancholy and Chagrin which they continually lived in for the want of their beloved Country They could never be brought to learn much of the Danish Language or to apprehend any thing of Christian Religion Three of them were sent back towards their own Country 1606. the most towardly and hopeful who might serve for Interpreters and Brokers to the Danes but two of them Oxo and Omeg died in the Ship and the third because the Danes durst not land or trade by reason of the great numbers of Natives that appeared in Arms on the Coast ready to revenge them that had been before carried away was brought back into Denmark to his former Treatment An Ambassador arriving there from Spain the King was pleased to shew him those Savages and their dexterity in rowing which was by all the Spectators admired The Ambassador sending them Money one of them had the courage to buy him Clothes after the Danish Fashion got a Feather in his Cap Boots and Spurs and all things ala cavaliere he came also to the King and desired to serve him but