(64) CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF VOYAGES. [aPF. N<* III. 



A. O. 



of" this voyage, &c. appear to have led to the forma- 

 tion of the Huihori's Bay Company^ which was char- 

 tered in the year 1669. 



1676, En. John Wood and WiUlam Flawes, with two ships, pro- 

 ceeded in search of a N. E. passage. Wood's ship 

 was wrecked on the west coast of Nova Zembla, and 

 no discovery whatever made. 



1696, Ru. Kamtchatka, discovered by land, by a troop of six- 

 teen Kossaks. 



1707, Dti. A country to the N. E. of Spitzbergen, named Gules' 

 Land, intimated by the Dutch charts as having been 

 discovered. 



1712, Ru. Mercurei Wagin, a Cossak, with a party of eleven 

 men, proceeded from the river Jana across a surface 

 of ice, in sledges drawn by dogs, towards the north, 

 and is said to have discovered and landed on a large 

 island. Having suffered great hardships on their re- 

 turn, Wagin, his son, and another Cossak, to whom 

 their difficulties were attributed, were murdered by 

 the rest of the party. 



1715, Ru. A remarkable journey from the Jana towards the 



north, was accomplished by Alexei Makkoff. He 

 travelled by means of sledges drawn by dogs, across a 

 frozen sea, as far north, it is supposed, as the 78th 

 degree of latitude, without finding land, and accom- 

 plished a journey of about 800 miles in twenty-four 

 days. 



1716, Ru. The first voyage from Ochotzk to KamtchatTia, was 



performed by Henry Busch, a native of Hoorn, in 

 North Holland. 



1719, En. Two vessels, under the direction of James Knight, 

 and commanded by George Barlow and David 

 Vaughan, were sent out by the Hudsorrs Bay Com- 

 pany, to search for " the Strait of Anian, in order to 

 discover gold, &c. to the northward."" Neither of 

 these ships ever returned: Knight and his compa-, 

 nions are supposed to have perished at Marble Is- 

 land in Hudson's Bay. 



1721, Da. The Greenland Company of ]jergen established a 

 colony on the west coast of Greenland, of which 

 Hans Egede, the enterprising and zealous missionary, 

 was a member. 



