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made bptfi by EngUfii ari<d P^itqfci^ but in vain 5 as were alfo the two 
Voyages of 1 594 incl 1 5'^ 5 ^^efi^nb ed by Lmfceten. 
•r4. Since tliat tinie^nptliingliatlilieenattempte for C^/^j/^^neither 
by the North,nor ttie Eaft or Weft«Indies>ti!l the year 1639, when 
two Dutch Ships,under the Conimand of Captain Matthm Krvajl^ 
were fet out to difcoVer the.Earf-Coaft of the Great tmary^ efpe- 
cially the famous Goid and Sitvef-fuands jthoi]gh,by realbn of feve- 
ra! unfortunate accideritSythey bof h returned re injeSta. 
5. Nocwithftanding which,the Dutch,beingfuffidently pofTefs'd 
with the perfwafion ofthe advantages ofthatdifcoveryjperfifted in 
fetting out other Veflels, namely the Ship C&ftrkum^ and a good big 
Yacht : In the doing.of which, after they had confulted that experi- 
enced Pilot, Francis J^col^fefifijfer^ and divers others^ who/or the 
difcovery of Tartar) and the Iflands to the Eafl: of Jaj^any advifed 
them to take their courfe between Jafanrnd Corea \ they, being a- 
vyare of the uncertainty of a good paffage that way, and of the dan- 
ger ofniany fbelves and rocks there, concluded at !aft to fail to the 
Ea(i without Japan through the main Sea, as the fafeft courfcj efpe- 
cially it being very probable, that by reafon of the CTimateof 40 
deg.Northw^ards5in ihttartarian Sea,they would not be hindred by 
any Mounfom ^but find variable winds like thofe in Europe, 
6. The faid CaptainT>/Vj then was ordered to put to Sea from 
Termfedbomxht firfi: April or fooner, and, when he fiiould have 
been come without Gi/^/f?, to fteer his courfe North-Ea/l-ivard.with 
the variable winds,which at that feafon do commonly bbw in thofe 
parts, whereby he would be carried to the loth.or 1 5 th.degree of 
Northern latitude, and there ftop't at about the South-Eaft, when 
and where helhould fail by little and little fomewhat more Nor- 
therly , through the main Ocean, to the Eaft-Coaft of japan, that fo 
he might get fight of the Land at about 37 degrees ; not at all mind- 
ing the Ifles of Ladrones^ or others, which perhaps ^hey might ap- 
proach unto* 
7. That, having thus made the Eaftern-Coaft Japan about the 
^oth.or 25th.ofM^, they fliould from thence fteer their courfe,in 
light of Land, North and North- Weft, until the faid Coaft fliould 
fall more Wefterly 10 them;that fo,by the by, they might learn,how 
far the utmoft part of Japan to the North did reach, and whether in 
fuch a courfe they fiiould make,or get fight of, that Land which tf^e 
yaponefes call Jejfo; as alfo, whether that very ^^'(fiJ be the Ls^^ of 
China or Hartary^ or elfe a Country fcituate between both, or an l- 
fland : Yet that in this they fhould not fpend coo much time, but be 
caretu/, 
