82 ACCOUNT OF THE ARCTIC REGIONS. 



Three voyages towards the north-west by James 

 Hall, and one by John Knight, were performed 

 after that of Weymouth, but the next discovery worth 

 mentioning was made by Henry Hudson, who, in 

 1607, in a voyage towards the North Pole, traced 

 the east coast of Greenland, from a little to the 

 northward of Iceland, as high as latitude 73°, which 

 extreme point of his navigation this way he called 

 Mold with Hope. He then proceeded more to 

 the eastward, made the coast of Spitzbergen, sailed 

 as high as latitude 81^ and explored a bay between 

 the north end of Charles' Island and the Main, 

 and returned home in safety. This navigation was 

 performed in a very small vessel, with a crew only 

 of ten men and a boy. 



In the year 1608, Hudson was employed in search 

 of a north-east passage ; the year afterwards, in a nor- 

 thern and western voyage in the Dutch service, the 

 design of which is not well understood ; and in the 

 season of 1610, this enterprising navigator embarked 

 on a voyage of discovery from England, towards 

 the north-west, in a vessel of fifty-five tons burden. 

 On this occasion, which terminated fatally to him- 

 self, he passed the Strait, the mouth of which 

 was first observed by I3avis, and said to have been 

 entered by ^^'"cymouth, then discovered the bay 

 which bears his name, hauled his ship on shore in 

 a convenient situation, and wintered there. The 

 ship being victualled onlv for six months, they fell 



