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a.d. cargo she upset, and sunk immediately ; and 

 the Hull ship became the carrier of not only 

 the cargo that had been collected upon the 

 land for the Margaret and her consort, but of 

 the crews of both vessels as well. 



1612. The next year, Poole sailed again for Cherie 

 Island and Spitsbergen, where he found the 

 ice driven down about Foul Sound, but he at- 

 tempted no discovery ; indeed he was too success- 

 ful in the taking of whales to relinquish an em- 

 ployment so decidedly profitable, for an attempt 

 so apparently unpromising. But whilst at anchor 

 in this port he was joined by the Hopewell, which 

 had taken him home after the loss of his vessel 

 the preceding year, and w T as informed by the 

 master, Thomas Marmaduke, that he had sailed 

 to 82° N., or two leagues beyond Hakluyt's Head- 

 land ; but we are furnished w T ith no other notice 

 of this approach to the Pole, by which we can 

 judge of the accuracy of the statement, and I 

 shall merely observe, that as Hudson was nearly 

 a degree in error in the same spot, it is equally 

 probable that Marmaduke was not a whit less 

 correct in his observation. In this voyage of 

 Poole he was so successful in taking whales, 

 that the following year the ground was resorted 

 to by the ships of France, Spain, and Holland, 

 besides those of the Company, which consisted 



