6yz A M E<K1 C A. ' Chap. V. 



It fhould fcem to have been a receiv'd Opinion from the firft Difcovery of 

 Nova Zembla, that it was inhabited by Tygmies, it being feveral times,in the Journals 

 of fome Voyages, mention'd particularly by the Name of Tie Land of Pygmies, but 

 upon what certain Ground cannot in the lead bedifcover'd . for we find not from 

 the GUtifiians (to whom the Place, by reafon of its Vicinity, is probable to have been 

 firft known) any other Account of the Inhabitants, but that they are a People 

 wholly deftitute of civil Manners, and unlimited by Law or Religion, favingthat 

 they feem to give fom« kind of Adoration to the Sun, Moon, and North-ftar, and 

 have fome Qualities which fpeak them rational Creatures • whereas the Tygmies 

 (if there be any ftich Creatures) are thought to have nothing of Humane but their 

 Shape onely. 



Befides Nova Zembla there is not far from it another Ifland, known by the Name 

 oiV/Uloughby-Ijland, from Sir Hugh Willoughhy, the firft Difcoverer 5 they both are of 

 the Dominions of the Q$ar of '^ufiia. 



Several i/ttetnpts for the difcovery of the North-Weft PafTage. 



ijland. 



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Hat hath been difcover'd of Sea in the North or South parts of the World, is 

 ofnolefs Confequence than what hath been difcover'd of Land, and the 

 Straight of Hud/on Northward, is no lefs confiderable than the Straight of Magellan 

 South • we fhall therefore compleat this Difcourfe of the Artick Region with a 

 brief Mention of what Capes, Bays, Sounds, ere. have been found, out by thofe that 

 have attempted to find a PafTage by the North- Well to the Eajl»Indies. 



Not to infift upon the fabulous Stories of King Arthur % firft conquering Ireland, 

 and then Sailing into the Northern Seas, and fubduing Scantia, I/eland, Groenland, 

 and (as the Story faith) many other Iflands beyond Norway even under the Vole, or 

 of Malgo's fubduing Ireland, If eland, the Ore ade s and Norway, or Otlher's Reports to 

 King Alfred of his Voyages to the North-Eaft parts beyond Norway, or the Voya- 

 ges of the two famous Venetian Brethren, Nicolo and Antonio Zeni, or of Marcus <Pau- 

 Im VemtuSy Odoricus and Vertomannus } the firft EnglifamsLn we hear of, that made an 

 Expedition into thofe Northern Seas, was Sir Hugh Willoughhy, before taken notice 

 of for the Difcovery of Kjng James* s Jtywland and Willoughhy J/land, in the Year of 

 our Lord 1553. 



Stephen Burroughs (as hath been intimated) difcover'd amongft other Places, 

 about the Year 1556. the Straight of Vaigats. 



In the Year 1576. Sir Martin Forbijher fetting forth with two Barques, after 



he had been out about five Weeks, had fight of a High-land, which he nam'd 



gmenmita- Queen Elizabeths Foreland : Thence Sailing more Northerly to the heighth of about 



beths Foreland r i i r> » i s 



hxty two Degrees, hedefcry d a great Sea or Inlet, which he entred, and thence it 

 took the Appellation of ForbiJJier's Straight* About two years after proceeding to a 

 farther difcovery of it, he entred a good way into it, and took pofTeffion of the 

 utmoft Place he went to for Queen Elizabeth, who thereupon gave it the Name of 

 Met a Incognita, 



Anno 1 5 80. Arthur Tett and Charles Jackman were fent out by the %ufiian Company, 

 to make a Difcovery of the River Ob, andpaffing the Straight ofWaigats, took par- 

 ticular obfervation of the Iflands and Places there, but not being able topafs much 

 farther, by reafon of the Ice, towards the latter end of the year they return'd. 



In profecution of this Difcovery to the North-Weft, Captain John Davis of San- 

 druge in Devonftire, made three Voyages . his firft Anno 1585, his fecond, 1587. in 

 which he met with many ftrange Adventures 5 but the main thing that accru'd 



from 



htthi Foreland 



ferb'tjlefs 

 Straight. 



