A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. 2?l 



winter in Russian Lapland, where that intrepid adventurer 

 and his crew most miserably perished, in consequence of 

 the excessive cold. One of the ships engaged in thjs un- 

 fortunate expedition was more successful in getting 

 through the ice, under the command of Capt. Chancellor, 

 who passed the North Cape to the eastward, and got safely 

 into the bay of St. Nicholas on the Russian coast, being 

 the first European that had conducted a ship into those 

 waters. 



At the representations of Capt. Charleton, upon his return, 

 the whale fishery was undertaken, and several ships were 

 subsequently fitted out in that trade, which afterwards led 

 to the discovery of Spitzbergen. 



In 1556, Capt. Stephen Burrough, promising himself 

 better success than was experienced in the unhappy 

 voyage of Sir Hugh Willoughby, ventured upon a similar 

 expedition ; but his attempt to discover a north-east passage 

 was unavaiUng. 



Sir Martin Frobisher, in the year 156?, under the 

 auspices of Queen Elizabeth, undertook to ascertain the 

 existence of a north-west passage. The Earl of Warwick, 

 in a spirit of patriotism, encouraged Capt. Frobisher 

 warmly in this undertaking, and in consequence he sailed 

 in June with two barks and a pinnace. In this voyage the 

 east coast of Greenland was seen in latitude, 63° 8' N. 

 He here discovered the strait, which he called after his 



