APr. X" III-] CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF VOYAGES. (61) 



A. D. 



tude 80° N. and also to the S. W., from thence until 

 he was 125 leagues to the westward of Cherie Island. 

 Both ships were lost, but the crews were saved. 

 Great part of the W. coast of Spitzbergen was exa- 

 mined, and some bays discovered. 



1611, En. Our whale-fishers, in their early voyages, had generally 

 to a discovery-vessel along with them. Their researches 



1620, about the coast were productive of several discoveries, 



among which, besides bays, harbours and headlands, 

 were Hope, Bear, Abbofs, Edge''s, ScoU''s, Wester, 

 Hcling, Sir Thomas Smitfi's, and various other 

 islands. 



1612, En. Sir Thomas Button, with two ships, sailed in search of 



a N. W. passage by the way of Hudson's Bay. He 

 discovered Nelsoti's River, SoutJiampton Island, Man- 

 ceTs Island, &c. and gave names to several remark- 

 able headlands. 

 ' En. James Hall embarked towards the N. W. for the dis- 

 covery of a passage or treasure, being his fourth voy- 

 age, and was killed by an Esquimaux. Cochin 

 Sound discovered. 



1614, En. Captain Gibbons, in attempting to find a N. W. pas- 



sage, got beset, and spent the season in a bay in La^ 

 brador : this place is said to have been named in de- 

 rision " Gibbons his Hole.'''' 



En. Robert Fotherby, having along Avith him the celebrated 



Baffin, attempted discoveries in the north and about 

 Spitzbergen ; but nothing of consequence was accom- 

 plished. 



1615, En. Robert Bylot, with Baffin as mate, attempted the 



finding of a N. W. passage. Discovered Savage 

 Islands, Mill Island, &c. about Hudson's Bay and 

 Strait. 



1616, En. Willi AM Baffin, appointed as pilot to a small vessel, 



of which Bylot was master, in searching for a N. W. 

 passage, discovered and circumnavigated the ba^ 

 bearing his name. Among other discoveries in this 

 bay that are enumerated, al-e Women''s Islands, Hoi'n 

 Sound, Sir Dudley Digges'' Cape, Wostenholm Sound, 

 Whale Sound, HakluyCs Island, Sir Thomas Smith's 

 Sound, Careys Islands, Alderman Jones' Sound, 

 Sir James Lancasters Sound, &c. 



