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which they gave the name of the Earl of Cum- 

 berland's Isles. The variation of the compass was 

 30*". The air was extremely hot. Tliey stood 

 out from these islands to the south-east and 

 passed an inlet between 6T and 6^° of latitude, 

 which they named Lumleys Inlet, and which is 

 the strait discovered by Frobisher, and bearing 

 his name. Passing a headland, which they called 

 JVarwick's Foreland^ and crossing a great gulf, they 

 fell in on the 1st August with the southernmost 

 cape of the gulf, to which they gave the name of 

 Cape Chidley, in 61° 10' lat. The strait therefore 

 which bears the name of Hudson on all the charts 

 was in fact discov^ered by Davis, but that in which 

 he sailed to the highest point of northern lati- 

 tude was very properly stamped with his name. 

 On LordDarcie's island they saw five deer, which 

 took immediately to the sea on their landing ; one 

 of them is stated to be " as bigge as a good prety 

 cow, and one very fat, their feet as bigge as oxe 

 feet." From hence they shaped their course for 

 England, where they arrived on the 15th Septem- 

 ber, 1587. 



Mr. Davis, on his arrival at Dartmouth, writes thus 

 to Mr. Sanderson : — " I have bene in 73^ finding 

 the see all open, and forty leagues bet weene land and 

 land. The passage is most probable, the execution 

 easie, as at my coming you shall fully knowe."* 



* Hakluyl*s Voyages and Navigations. 

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