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* Right honorable most dutyfully craving pardon for 

 this my rashe boldnes, I am herby, according to my 

 duty, to signyfy unto yo r honor that the north-west 

 passage is a matter nothing doubtfull, but at any 

 tyme almost to be passed, the sea navigable, voyd of 

 yse, the ayre tollerable, and the waters very depe. 

 I have also found an yle of very grate quantytie, 

 not in any globe or map dyscrybed, yelding a 

 sufficient trade of furre and lether, and although this 

 passage hath bine supposed very impassible, yeat 

 through Gods mercy, I am in experience ann ey 

 wyttnes to the contrary, yea in this most desperate 

 clymate ; which, by Gods help, I wyll very shortly 

 most at large revele unto yo r honor as sone as I can 

 possible take order for my maryners and shipping. 

 Thus depending up n yo r honors good favor, I most 

 humbly comytt you to God this third of October. 

 Yo r honors for ever most dutyfull 



John Davys.' 



Map of the Earl of Cumberland's Voyage to the 



Azores, by Edward Wright, 1589, . . 466 



'The excellent Mathematician and Enginier Master 

 Edward Wright' was born at Garveston, Norfolk, 

 about 1558. He went up to Caius College Cam- 

 bridge in 1576, graduated B.A. in 1 580-1, M.A. in 

 1584 and was a fellow from 1587-96. He accom- 

 panied the Earl of Cumberland to the Azores in 

 1589 and wrote the account of the voyage. It is 

 now generally held that he was the discoverer of the 

 so-called 'Mercator's' projection. He was appointed 

 lecturer on navigation to the East India Company. 

 He died in 161 5. The map here reproduced was 

 made by Wright to illustrate the Earl of Cumberland's 

 Voyage to the Azores in 1589 and is taken from a 

 copy of his Certain Errors in Navigation published in 

 London in 1599, now in the Grenville Library in 

 the British Museum. 



