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Inasmuch 



Davis Returns 

 From Second 

 Voyage, 1587 



George Wey- 

 mouth, 1602 



Captain 

 Knight, 1606 



Henry Hud 

 son, 1610 



On his return from the second voyage, Davis 

 reported: &quot;I have now so much experience of 

 much of the Northwest part of the world, and 

 have brought the passage to that likelihood as 

 that I am assured it must be in one of four places, 

 or else not at all.&quot; On the fifteenth of September 

 he landed &quot;all weary &quot; from his third attempt, and 

 wrote, &quot;With God s great mercy I have made 

 my safe return in health, with all my company, 

 and have sailed three score leagues further than 



my determination at my departure The 



passage is most probable, the execution easy, as 

 at my coming you shall fully know.&quot; 



George Weymouth, the next adventurer, was 

 fitted out by the Muscovy Company. He sailed 

 in the ship &quot;Discovery&quot; into Frobisher and 

 Cumberland bays and penetrated a short distance 

 into Hudson Straits 



Then came Captain John Knight in the Hope- 

 well. Knight, his mate, and three of his crew, 

 were surprised and slain by the natives, bringing 

 the voyage to an early and disastrous end. 



These were succeeded by the navigator, whose 

 efforts and pathetic end, gave his name to three 

 great waters of the North American Continent: 

 Hudson River, Hudson Straits and Hudson Bay. 

 Henry Hudson, in the Discovery of fifty tons, 

 sighted the South coasts of Greenland, entered 

 the &quot;mistaken Straits&quot; of Martin Frobisher, 

 passed into Ungava Bay, and continuing his 

 course westward was the first to sail the waters 

 of the great inland sea which now bears his name. 



