98 DISCOVERIES OF 1580. 



is a handsome monument, with a chaste inscrip- 

 tion, erected to his memory by the Earl of Corke, 

 who married his niece. ^ 



ARTHUR PET AND CHARLES JACKMAN. 1580. 



Although the fruitless voyages of Martin Fro- 

 bisher had abated the zeal of the court, they did 

 not in the least damp the ardour of private enter- 

 prize. The Russia merchants, having made so 

 considerable a progress in the east by land, now 

 determined to fit out another expedition by sea, for 

 the purpose of renewing the attempt to discover 

 a north-east passage to China. Two barks, 

 the George and the William, under the command 

 of Arthur Pet and Charles Jackman, were 

 fitted out for this service. They left Harwich on 

 the 30th May, reached Wardhuys the 23d June, 

 crossed the bay of St. Nicholas, passed much ice, 

 and on the l6*th July made the body of the island, 

 as they supposed, of Nova Zembla. On the 17th, 

 after passing through much ice and shoal water, 

 they reached the bay of Petchora, and the following 

 day came to Waigatz, where they found great store 

 of wood and water. To the eastward of Waigatz 

 they were so hampered with the ice that they 

 resolved to return, a task which with difficulty 

 they effected, the sea being so thickly covered 



* Fullefs Worthies. Sir W. Monson's Naval Tracts. Camden. 



