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 CHAPTER 111. 



VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY IX THE NORTHERN' 

 REGIONS DURING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 



Geoige U'eifmoutli — James liciUj \st, CJ, and 3d Voi/ages 



— John Knight — Henry Hudson, \sty 2d, 3d, and 4th 

 Voyages—Sir Thomas Button— James Hall, 4th Voyage 

 ^Captain Gibbons— Robert Bylot—Bylot and Baffin 



— Voyages of a mixt character between 1(303 and \6\5 

 — Jens Munk — Luke Fox — Thomas James — Zachary 

 G ilia rn — Wood and Flawes, 



GEORGE WEYMOUTH. 1()02. 



Several years had passed away without any new 

 attempt heing made, on the part of the maritime 

 nations of Europe, to discover a nearer passage 

 by the north to India and China. The English, 

 however, could not see with indifference a lucra- 

 tive commerce carried on with the eastern world by 

 the Spaniards and Portugueze without endeavour- 

 ing to enjoy a participation thereof. The successful 

 expeditions of Sir Francis Drake in 157B, and of 

 Candish in 1586, had sufficiently proved to the 

 nation the great value of oriental commerce. The 

 several attempts to establish a share of that com- 

 merce by a shorter route than those of the Cape of 

 Good Hope or Cape Horn having failed, the mer- 



