CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



DISCOVERIES IN THE NORTH, FROM THE EARLY PERIODS 

 OF SCANDINAVIAN NAVIGATION TO THE END OF JHE 

 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 



Iceland, Greenland, Labrador, and Newfoundland disco- 

 vered by the ancient Scandinavians. — Discoveries of 

 Nicolo and Antonio Zeno — Columbus — John and Sebas- 

 tian Cabota — the Cortereals 1 



CHAPTER II. 



DISCOVERIES MADE IN THE NORTH DURING THE SIX- 

 TEENTH CENTURY. 



Aubert and Jacques Cartier — Estevan Gomez — The Domi- 

 nus Vobiscum — The Trinitie and the Minion — Sir Hugh 

 Willoughby — Richard Chancellor and Stephen Burrough 

 — Sir Martin Frobisher — Edward Fenton — Arthur Pet 

 and Charles Jackman — Sir Humphry Gilbert — John 

 Davis— Maldonado — Juan de Fuca — Barentz — William 

 Adams ,49 



CHAPTER IIL 



VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY IN THE NORTHERN REGIONS 

 DURING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 



George Weymouth— James Hall, 1st, 2d, and 3d Voyages 

 —John Knight— Henry Hudson, 1st, 2d, 3d, and 4th 

 Voyages— Sir Thomas Button-rJames Hall, 4th Voyage 



