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CHAPTER II. 



DISCOVERIES MADE IN THE NORTH DURING THE 



SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 



Aubert and Jacques Cartler — Estevau Gomez — The Domi' 

 nus Vohiscum — The Trinitie and the Minion — Sir Hush 

 Willoughhy — Richard Chancellor and Stephen Burrough 

 — Sir Martin Frobisher — Edward Fenton — Arthur Pit 

 and Charles Jackman — Sir Humphrey/ Gilbert — John 

 Davis — Maldonado — Juan de Fuca — Barentz — Wil- 

 liam Adams, 



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AUBERT AND JACQUES CARTIER. 1508 and 1534. 



The French may almost be said to be the only 

 maritime people of Europe who have seen, with 

 apparent indifference, the exertions made by other 

 nations for the discovery of a passage to India, 

 either by the north-east or the north-west. Yet 

 they very early availed themselves of the disco- 

 veries of others: for we find the Normans and 

 Bretons, at the commencement of the sixteenth 

 century, frequenting the banks of Newfoundland 

 for the purpose of fishing ; and one of their 

 navigators, named Aubert or Hubert, sailed from 

 Dieppe in 1508, in a ship called the Pensee, with 

 the view, as it would seem, to examine the shores 



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