ADRIAN GILBERT'S LETTERS PATENTS 



A.D. 

 1587. 



A full revolu- 

 tion of the 

 Moone above 

 their Horizon. 



them twenty houres and a halfe, and in the night is 

 absent three houres and a halfe. And although the 

 Sunne bee absent these 3. houres and a halfe, yet it is 

 not darke that time, for that the Sunne is never above [III. 96.] 

 three or foure degrees under the edge of their Horizon : 

 the cause is, that the Tropicke of Cancer doth cut their 

 Horizon at very uneven and oblique Angles. But the 

 Moone at any time of the yeere being in Cancer, having 

 North latitude, doth make a full revolution above their 

 Horizon, so that sometime they see the Moone above 

 24. houres togither. Some of our company of the more 

 ignorant sort, thought we might continually have seene 

 the Sunne and the Moone, had it not bene for two or 

 three high mountaines. 



The people are now become so warie, and so circum- 

 spect, by reason of their former losses, that by no meanes 

 we can apprehend any of them, although wee attempted 

 often in this last voyage. But to say trueth, wee could 

 not bestow any great time in pursuing them, because 

 of our great businesse in lading, and other things. 



The Letters patents of the Queenes Majestie, 

 granted to Master Adrian Gylbert and others, 

 for the search and discovery of the North- 

 west Passage to China. 



Lizabeth by the grace of God of England, 

 France, and Ireland Queene, defender of 

 the faith, &c. To all, to whome these 

 presents shall come, greeting : Forasmuch 

 as our trustie and welbeloved subject 

 Adrian Gylbert of Sandridge in the 

 Countie of Devon, Gentleman, to his 

 great costes and charges, hath greatly and earnestly 

 travelled and sought, and yet doth travell and seeke, 

 and by divers meanes indevoureth and laboureth, that 

 the Passage unto China and the lies of the Moluccas, 

 by the Northwestward, Northeastward, or Northward, 



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