gibbon's voyage. 



57 



Gibbons his Hole, in latitude about 57° upon the 

 N. E. part of Stinenia, where he laid twenty, weeks fast 

 amongst the ice, in danger to have been spoyled, or 

 never to have got away, so as the time being lost, hee 

 was inforced to returne.' The bay in which Gibbons 

 was caught is supposed to have been that now called 

 Nain, on the coast of Labrador." (Page 95. Arctic 

 Voyages, p. 205.) 



MAP OF HENRY HUDSON S DISCOVERIES — HAKI.UYT SOCIETY. 



A summary mention of the early voyages we also 

 find in the records of the Hakluyt Society : 



" Hudson's Strait had been discovered by Sebastian 

 Cabot in 1498. The Portuguese had sailed through it 



