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able for his latitudes never being wrong, though like 

 all those old navigators before the invention of the 

 chronometer, he was frequently out in his longitude. 

 He was going off again bound for the sea north of 

 Sanderson's Hope, but the coming of the Armada and 

 the death of Walsingham caused the postponement of 

 the project he did not abandon, for it seems that the 

 Desire, in which he discovered the Falkland Islands at 

 the other end of America, was to be his reward for 

 accompanying Cavendish round the world, and that in 

 her he intended to make his next Polar voyage. 



The work he had set himself to do was done by 

 William Baffin, who first appears in the Arctic record 

 as pilot of the Patience in James Hall's Greenland 

 voyage in 1612, which ended in Hall being killed in 

 revenge for the kidnapping proceedings on the two 

 previous voyages under the Danish flag. Baffin then 

 made two voyages, as we have seen, to Spitsbergen in 

 the service of the Muscovy Company, and, in that of the 

 Company for the Discovery of the North-West Passage, 

 he made his fourth, in 1615. In Hudson's old ship the 

 Discovery, also her fourth trip to the north, he passed 

 up Hudson Strait to the end of Southampton Island, 

 where he abandoned the attempt to get through owing 

 to ice and shallow water, and returned after discovering 

 the land that Parry named after him. 



In his fifth voyage, again in the Discovery, with 

 Robert Bylot again as master, he left Gravesend on 

 the 16th of March, 1616, and reached Sanderson's 

 Hope on the 30th of May, discovering the great bay 

 to the north which bears his name. Passing the 

 Women Islands and the Baffin Islands off Cape 



