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• D ; Gibraltar and of the Pillars of Hercules ? . . . . 



27. 



— True it is, that our successe hath not bene 

 correspondent vnto theirs : yet, in this our at- 

 tempt, the vncertaintie of finding was farre 

 greater, and the difficultie and danger of search- 

 ing was no whit lesse But besides the 



foresaide vncertaintie, into what dangers and 

 difficulties they plunged themselves, animus me- 

 minisse horret, I tremble to recount. For, first, 

 they were to expose themselues unto the rigour 

 of the sterne and uncouth northern seas, and to 

 make triall of the swelling waues and boisterous 

 winds, which there commonly do surge and blow ; 

 then were they to sail by the ragged and perilous 

 coast of Norway, to frequent the unhaunted 

 shoares of Finmark, to double the dreadful and 

 misty North Cape, and to beare with Willough- 

 bies land . . . and as it were, to open and vn- 

 lock the seven-fold mouth of Duina, .... and 

 vnto what drifts of snow and mountains of yce 

 euen in June, July and August, vnto what 

 hideous overfals, vncertaine currents, darke 

 mistes and fogs, and diners other feareful incon- 

 ueniences, they were subject, and in danger of. 1 ' * 

 This idea of braving the Arctic seas, was the 

 bold suggestion of Master Robert Thorn, who 



* Hakluyt's Voyages, Preface to second edition, vol i. 

 pp. xv. and xvi. 



