Al'P. N° III.] CHRONOtOGICAL LIST OF VOYAGES. (59) 



A. D. 



1592, Sp. Juan de Fuca performed a voyage to the northward 

 along the W. coast of N. America, and imagined he 

 discovered a communication mth the Atlantic in an 

 easterly direction. 



1594, Du. An expedition of four ships under Cornelis Coii- 



MELisoN, William Barentz, &c. proceeded in search 

 of a N. E. passage. Some of the ships passed forty 

 leagues beyond Weigats Strait, and Barentz explored 

 the western coast of Nova Zembla. 



1595, Du. William Barentz sailed along Avith another expe- 



dition of seven ships, intended for trading and dis- 

 coveries towards the N. E,, which altogether failed. 



1596, Du. Barentz, on a third voyage, for discovery towards the 



N. and E., with two ships, discovered Bear Island, 

 now called Cherie Island, and Spitzbergen. Barentz, 

 with one ship's company, wintered in Nova Zembla ; 

 most of his companions got home the next summer in 

 two open boats, but himself and some others died. 



Sp. Sebastiano Vizcaino sailed above 100 leagues to the 



northward, along the W. coast of America. In one 

 place he lost seventeen men. 



1598, Fr. The Marquis de la Roche, in a colonizing voyage to 

 the west coast of N. America, made some researches. 



1602, S^f' Vizcaino, in a second voyage to the west coast of 



America, sailed as high as 42° or 43° N. in search of 

 harbours. 

 — — En. George Weymouth, with two vessels, for the discovery 

 of a N. W. passage, is said to have sailed 100 leagues 

 to the westward, in a sea nearly corresponding with 

 Hudson's Strait. 



1603, En. On a voyage towards the N., partly for trading, and 



partly for discovery, by Stephen Bennet, Bear Island, 

 of Barentz, was visited, and named Cherie Island. 



1605, Da. James Hall, an Englishman, as pilot, and Gotske Lin- 



denau, a Dane, as Admiral of an expedition of three 

 vessels, intended for the recovery of Lost Greenland 

 and research, gave names to several places in Green- 

 land, but discovered nothing. 



1606, Da. Hall was employed in a second expedition under Lin- 



denau, of five ships, for research, &c. about the coast 

 of Greenland : nothing of consequence was discover- 

 ed. 



