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deserves, however, the credit of having been the first distinct advocate of Polar exploration in 

 the full sense of the term, or, is at least, the first of whom we have any record. 



The general interest felt in the subject of the North-west Passage about this period 

 may be inferred from the relation of the next voyage, that of the Trinitie and Minion in 

 1536, where several gentlemen of the Inns of Court and Chancery, "and divers others in 



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good worship, desirous to see the strange things of the world," accompanied the expedition. 

 Of "sixe-score persons" in the "two tall ships," thirty were private gentlemen. The 

 voyage was instigated by Master Hore, of London, " a man of goodly stature and of great 

 courage, and given to the study of cosmographie," and was directly encouraged by Henry VIII. 

 After a tedious voyage of two months, they reached Cape Breton, and later Penguin Island 

 and Newfoundland, where they encountered some of "the naturall people of the countrey," 

 who fled from them. The history of this voyage was given to Hakluyt by Mr. Oliver 



