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CHAPTER III. 



Hudson's second voyage. — Jonas Poole's first voyage. — Jonas 

 Poole's second voyage. — Poole's third voyage. — Baffin's 

 first voyage. — Baffin's second voyage with Fotherby, — Baffin 

 and Fotherby again. — Suspension of artic research. — 

 Voyages resumed. — Wood and Flawes. — Russian enter- 

 prise under Tschitschagoff. 



HUDSON'S SECOND VOYAGE. 



The subject of a northern route to the East 

 Indies was still considered of so much import- 

 ance to the commercial interests of England, 

 that the merchant adventurers seem to have 

 been determined not to abandon it while a 

 chance of success remained. The several voyages 

 expressly made for this purpose had shown 

 only where that passage could not be effected, 

 and it was yet possible that there might be 

 found some spot where their efforts and perse- 

 verence would be crowned with success. The 

 route directly north had baffled the attempts of 

 two of the most skilful navigators that either 

 England or Holland had sent forth, and that 

 by Nova Zembla, both by its northern coast 

 and by the Waigatz, had been as fairly tried, 



