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England, and serve her Majesty in that voyage for 

 the discovery of the north-west passage into the 

 South Sea, if she would furnish him with only one 

 ship of 40 tons harden and a pinnace, and that he 

 would perform it in ninety days time from one end 

 of the strait to the other." 



Mr. Lok then states, '^that he wrote accordingly 

 to the Right Honourable the old Lord Treasurer 

 Cecil, and to Sir Walter Raleigh, and to Martin 

 Richard Hakkiyt, that famous cosmographer, cer- 

 tifying them hereof; and that he only prayed 

 for one hundred pounds to bring the old pilot to 

 England, but that the money was not ready, and 

 the matter was dropped at that time ;" that, how- 

 ever, on making preparations for his return to 

 England, Mr. Lok wrote to this old pilot in July 

 1596, then in Cephalonia, and received an answer 

 from him, dated in September, expressing his 

 w^illingness to go to England, and adding, that 

 twenty others, good men, were ready to accom- 

 pany him ; but he asks for money, and repeats the 

 charge of Captain Candish having robbed him : 

 Mr. Lok, being some time longer detained in 

 Venice, wrote to him again in 1597, and after that 

 sent him another letter, to which he answered in 

 the Greek, language on the 20th October, 1598, 

 that he was still willing to go if money was sent 

 to him to bear his expenses. 



" Lastly," says Mr. Lok, " when I was at Zante, 



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