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To Baffin is due the fact that there are on the map of our 

 District of Frankhn, the place-names of Whale Sound, because of 

 the number of whales they saw sporting there — those orators 

 (spouters) of the deep being ver}" abundant in that locality ; Sir 

 Dudley Digges Cape, and Carey Island, after promoters of the 

 voyage. 



Purchas says Baffin " died in the Indies slain in a fight, shot 

 as he was trying his mathematical projects and conclusions," in 

 order to find the range of the castle for his cannon. But though 

 nothing is known of his later life ' ' after years have verified all 

 that this admirable old navigator ever asserted and his name will 

 cling to the waters of the mighty bay he discovered as long as 

 honest worth shall be recognized in the world.* 



By Baffin the flag of England had been hoisted and possession 

 taken of the lands and islands from Smith Sound south along the 

 western shore of Baffin's Bay. Baffin is thus one of the hardy 

 navigators whose "western sailings are our title deeds." 



Fifteen years elapsed before any other attempt was made by 

 the English to penetrate the maze of islands on the west shore of 

 Baffin Bay. 



lyuke Fox in 1631 made a considerable exploration of Hud- 

 son Bay and named various islands, promontories and bays. 

 Among the islands are Brooke-Cobham in honor of his patron. 

 Sir John Brooke-Cobham, Briggsf his mathematics, etc. Among 

 headlands are Cape Marie, Cape Dorchester, King Charles his 

 promontory, etc. Sir Thomas Roe's Welcome is also his place- 

 name. 



Sir Thomas Roe was an eminent political agent who flourish- 

 ed 1568-1644. One of his missions was to the court of the great 

 Mogul, 161 5-18. His Journal is one of the leading authorities for 

 the reign of Jahangir (the Great Mogul). Goldwin Smith says 

 of him "the sage Sir Thomas Roe conjured the East India 

 Company" to content itself with factories and trade. ' ' Sir Josiah 

 Child, on the other hand, in the reign of William III desired that 



*Markham's voyages of William Baffin. 



fHenry Brig-g-s was a mathematician who promoted Fox's Expedition and 

 wrote a treatise on the North West Passage. Evidently Fox did not want 

 him to be confounded with any other of the Briggs family. 



