TO ACCOUNT OF THE AllCTlC REGIONS. 



Lis^^on in the year 1500. on a voyage of discovery 

 towards the north-west, iu search of a passage that 

 wav to the Spice I<slauds. He lirst saw the proraou- 

 tory of Greenland, then discovered the coast of La- 

 brador ; and after proceeding as far towards the 

 north as the mountains of ice with which he met 

 would admit, he coasted towards the south, and 

 discovered the Siver Sf Laurence, together with 

 several islands contiguous to the Xorth Ameri- 

 can coast. The following year the same naviga- 

 tor, with two vessels, undertook a second voyage, 

 when he again saw Terra Verde (Greenland); but 

 being separated from his companion in a storm, 

 it is apprehended his vessel was wrecked among 

 the ice of Cape Farewell, as his consort return- 

 ed to Lisbon \\"ithout him, and he was never 

 heard of afterwards. Search for the unfcrtu- 

 nate Cortereal was immediately commenced by 

 bis brother, Michael Coetereal, grand door- 

 keeper of the king Don Manuel, who sailed from 

 Lisbon with tliree vessels on the 10th of ]\Iay 1502. 

 But thQ result of this voyage was as disastrous as 

 the former : for, on the vessels separating, with the 

 view of making a more effectual search for the lost 

 navigator, ^Michael shared a similar &te as his bro- 

 ther, and perished. A third brother was anxious 

 to renew the search, but the King determinately 

 refused permission for him to embark personally in 

 the undertaldng, lost he ?hould also be lost, but 



