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This channel is generally marked on the maps as Hudson’s Straits and 
the entrance to it is the point of “ Hope’s Advance ” or Prince Henry’s 
Foreland, commonly now called Cape Hope on the south, and North 
Bluff or Savage Island in Foxland on the north. But even this channel 
is not, correctly speaking, Hudson’s Straits. 
Hudson s Straits strictly speaking is the narrow channel bistros 
Cape Woolstenholme, on the south, and Charles Island, Salisbury Island, 
Nottingham Island, and Mansfield Island on the north. This channel 
lgads directly into Hudson’s Bay, and is the true and exact Hudson’s 
Straits. 
This fact, which is geographically evident to any one looking at 
the map, is proved also from a consideration of the history of the 
discovery of these seas and lands. The wide entrance of Ungava Bay 
was well known long before Hudson’s time. In fact it was known from 
the days of Cabot. John (or Sebastian) Cabot on his second voyage 
of 1498 entered this channel in search of the north west passage and 
penetrated (through what is now known as Fox Channel) as far north 
as the 68th degree of latitude, all the voyagers, who followed him in 
this vain search penetrated this same passage. 
In 1578 Frobisher entered it, and gave his name to it. It is to 
be seen still on his map (1578) though the name has been since su- 
perseded by Hudson’s; and Frobisher’s name on modern maps is only 
applied to a small bay north of Resolution Island. 
From 1585-87, Davis cruised in those waters, and penetrated as 
far north as the 72nd degree, giving his name to the well-known strait. 
In 1602, George Waymouth was sent by the London East India Com- 
pany, “to find a Northwest passage to India towards Cataya or China. 
He bore a letter from Queen Elizabeth to the Emperor of China, or 
Cathay.” He (Waymouth) penetrated still further west, but he did 
not leave his name attached to any place. It was not until 1610 that. 
Hudson, following the tracks of Frobisher, Davis and Waymouth, went 
into this channel and instead of continuing N.W., as they had done, he 
turned south from Charles Island and revealed to the world the great 
inland sea, which is known by his name, as Hudson’s Bay. From this 
then it appears that the name of Hudson’s Straits is only strictly to be 
applied to the immediate entrance to the great Hudson Bay, between 
Charles Island, Nottingham Island, Mansfield Island and Salisbury 
Island on the north, and the Labrador shore from Cape Hope or King 
Charles Foreland (as it was called), or Cape Charles, and Cape Wool- 
stenholme on the south, and that this is the North Western terminus 
of Newfoundland’s jurisdiction. A very important argument in favour 
of this interpretation is to be drawn from the fact that this place, and 
