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the month, and the first days of September, were spent 

 in that search. Besides the already known openings, 

 namely, Cumberland Strait, Frobisher's Strait, and Hud- 

 son's Strait, two more openings were found, Davis's Inlet 

 in 56°, and Ivuctoke Inlet in 54° 30'. Davis's men had to 

 cross the Atlantic in his miserable craft, and he per- 

 formed the voyage through the equinoctial gales in 

 little more than three weeks. He reached England 

 again in the beginning of October, 1586." (Henry 

 Hudson, cxv.) 



Davis was followed by Weymouth in 1602. Accord- 

 ing to Rundall : 



" From the 5th to the 14th of July, the navigator 

 appears to have been ranging along the coast of Labra- 

 dor, where, on the loth, variation 22° 10' W., he saw 

 many islands. On the 15th he was in latitude 55° 31', 

 variation 17° 15' W.; and the day following saw ' a very 

 pleasant low land, all islands,' in latitude N. 55°, varia- 

 tion 18° 12' W. On the 17th he entered and sailed up 

 an inlet for thirty leagues, in sanguine hope of having 

 found the desired passage ; but he was doomed to dis- 

 appointment. In this inlet, which has been identified 

 with Sleeper's Bay on Davis's Inlet, Weymouth en- 

 countered his last peril, and escaped in safety. The fly- 

 boats were assailed bv a furious storm, which terminated 

 in a whirlwind of extreme violence, that rendered them, 

 for d \yhile, completely unmanageable ; and though very 

 strongly built, they took in so much water, for want of 

 spar; decks, that they narrowly escaped being swamped. 

 As isoon as the weather cleared up, the course was 

 shaped for England." (Page 68.) 



The Labrador coast was next seen by Master John 



