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Discourse of the Late Voyages of Discoverie for finding 

 of a Passage to Cathay a, by the North-Weast, under 

 the Conduct of Martin Frobisher, General. Imprinted 

 at London by Henry Bynnyman, 1578. 



Map of Meta Incognita, 3 36 



This ' particular card ' intended to set ' so farre forth as 

 the secretes of the voyage may permit' Frobisher's 

 discoveries on the coast of Meta Incognita is taten 

 from Bynnyman's True Discourse cited above. 



Map of the World, by Michael Lock, . . 368 



According to the fragment of Autobiography preserved 

 in the British Museum, Michael Lock or Lok was 

 born in 1 5 32. He says : ' My late father, S r William 

 Lok, knight, alderman of London, kept me at scholes 

 of grammer in England till I was xiii yeres old, 

 which was A° Dni, 1545, and he being sworn ser- 

 vant to King Henry the VIII th his mercer and also 

 his agent beyond the seas dyvers affayres, he then 

 sent me over seas to Flanders and France to learn 

 those languages and to know the world. Synce 

 which tyme I have contynued these xxxii yeres in 

 travaile of body and study of mynde, following my 

 vocation in the trade of merchandise, whereof I have 

 spent the first xv yeres in contynuall travaile of body, 

 passing through allmost all the cuntrees of Chris- 

 tianity. Namely out of England, into Scotland, 

 Ireland, Flanders, Germany, France, Spayne, Italy 

 and Greece, both by land and by sea, not without 

 great labo rs , cares, dangers and expenses of mony 

 incident ; having had the charge (as capitayn) of 

 a great ship of burden 1000 tuns, by the space of 

 more then iii yeres in dyvers voyages in the Levant 

 seas, wherewithall I returned into England. In 

 which travailes, besides the knowledge of all those 

 famous common languages of those cuntries, I sought 

 allso for the knowledge of the state of all their com- 

 mon wealths, chiefly in all matters apperteining to 



