56 THE GEOGRAPBICAI. EVOLUl'ION OF LABRADOK. 



a strong current in their favour, they made Fogo on the 

 23d of July. At that place they were most hospitably 

 entertained. Having refitted, they left on the 2 2d of 

 August, full of grateful feelings towards their generous 

 friends ; and arrived at Dartmouth on the 24th of 

 December." (Pages 75, 76.) 



In 1610 Henry Hudson discovered the strait which 

 bears his name, his discoveries being recorded in the 

 accompanying map, copied from the volume on Henry 

 Hudson published by the Hakluyt Society. 



In the narrative of the Voyage of Sir Thomas But- 

 ton (1612-13) we find the following reference to Cape 

 Chidley: 



"On this part of the voyage, the following remarks are 

 reported, by Fox, to have been made by Abacuk 

 Prickett. ' He saith, they came not through the maine 

 channell of Fretum Hudson, nor thorow Lumleys Inlet; 

 but through into the Mare Hyperborum betwixt those 

 Hands first discovered and named Chidley's Cape by 

 Captain Davis, and the North part of America, called 

 by the Spaniards, who never saw the same, Cape 

 Labrador, but it is meet by the N. E. point oi America, 

 where was contention among them, some maintaining 

 (against others) that them Hands were the Resolution^ " 

 etc. (Page 89.) 



Captain Gibbons, in 1614, appears to have been de- 

 tained for some months on the Labrador coast. 



"Of the result of the voyage, all that is known," says 

 Asher, "is thus laconically communicated by Master 

 Fox : ' Little,' he says, ' is to be writ to any purpose, 

 for that hee was put by the mouth of Fretum Hudson, 

 and with the ice driven into a bay called by his company 



