FROM THE FIRST VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD TO THE DIS- 

 COVERY OF CAPE HORN ; 1519—1616. 



CHAPTER XXV. 



VOYAGE OF JACQUES CARTIER MARITIME PROJECTS OF FRANCIS I. OF FRANCE 



GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE A QUICK TRII* HOME SECOND VOYAGE — CANADA, 



QUEBEC, MONTREAL A CAPTIVE KING VOYAGE OF SIR HUGH WILLOUGHBY 



AND RICHARD CHANCELLOR DISCOVERY OF NOVA ZEMBLA DISASTROUS 



WINTER — -FATE OF THE EXPEDITION MARTIN FROBISHER HIS VOYAGE IN 



QUEST OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE GREENLAND — LABRADOR FROBISHER's 



STRAITS EXCHANGE OF CAPTIVES SUPPOSED DISCOVERY OF GOLD SECOND 



VOYAGE A CARGO OF PRECIOUS EARTH TAKEN ON BOARD META INCOGNITA 



THIRD VOYAGE A MORTIFYING CONCLUSION. 



It would appear natural for the Spaniards to have sought to 

 derive immediate profit from their discovery of a western pas- 

 sage to the South Sea. They did not do so, however; and a 

 generation was destined to pass away before a second European 

 vessel should enter Magellan's Strait. We must for a time, 

 therefore, leave the Spanish and Portuguese in quiet posses- 

 sion of their Indian and American commerce, and turn to the 

 several transatlantic and Arctic enterprises undertaken at this 

 period by the French and English. 



Jacques Cartier, a native of St. Malo in France, had, in 



1534, finished his apprenticeship as a sailor. He conceived 



the idea of seeking a passage to China and the Spice Islands 



to the north of the Western Continent, and in the vicinity of 



the Pole. This was the origin of the various efforts made in 

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