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manded them to be called in, and no more of them to 
be printed, left in time it would be to their Hindrance. 
In Witnefs whereof I fet to my Hand and Mark, the 
April, Anno 1579-” 
There is no doubt fomething ftrange enough in this 
Story ; and one might be tempted to fufpedl-, that either 
the EngliJIo Seaman had made fome Miftake, or that the 
Portugueze Pilot had boafted of more than he had done, 
if in thofe Days thefe kind of Points had not been much 
more thoroughly underftood, as well as more narrowly 
enquired after than they are at prefent *, fo that if there 
had been any juft Grounds for reje<fting this Story,' we 
fiiould hardly have found it mentioned by thofe judicious 
Writers who feem to lay great Strefs upon it j but it fo 
falls out, that I think I am able to join to this another 
Proof that has been very little taken notice of, and 
which nof^yithftanding feems very ftrongly to corroborate 
this Report, from which I do not at all doubt that it 
was derived. 
The Fad: upon which I depend is this. Captain James 
Lancajler, afterwards Sir James Lancafter, Commanded 
the firft Fleet fent to the Eafi Indies by our Company, 
which failed in the Month of February 1600, and a 
very profperous Voyage he made: While this Gentleman 
was in the Indies, he heard a Report of another Paffage 
into thofe Parts, which, as I hinted was probably that 
through which the Portugueze Pilot had failed *, and this 
Gentleman, who was a very experienced Mariner iqi 
Theory as well as Pradice, was entirely perfuaded of the 
Truth of it, as appears from the following remarkable 
Accident which will do Honour to his Memory, as 
long as any Records remain of our maritime Affairs. 
In his Return to England, on board the Dragon, a very 
fine large Ship, with a moft valuable Cargo, he met with 
fuch a Storm off the Cape of Good Hope, as tore away his 
Rudder, and put him in fuch Danger that he very much 
doubted the Poffibility of his returning home j yet, in- 
(lead of quitting his Ship in this Diftrefs, he contented 
himfelf with writing a ftiort Letter to the Company ; 
which he lent on board the Hellor, and to this Letter he 
added the following remarkable Poftfcript : Phe Paffage 
to the Fall Indies lies in 62 Degrees 30 Minutes by the 
North-wejl, on the American Side. Upon comparing 
this with the Map prefixed to Mr. Dobbs'' s Account of the 
Countries adjommg to HudfonV Bay, I find it falls in pre- 
cifely with an Opening called there by the Name of 
Lovegrove. And it agrees perfedly well with the Por- 
tugueze Pilot’s Account *, fince he might very well fail 
through broken Lands and Hands from thence, as he did 
to Newfoundland, or perhaps to Labrador, and thence to 
Ireland. I mention all thele Fafts together becaufe they 
feem to relate to the fame Thing, and to confirm each 
other. I fhall now proceed to another Inftance. 
Tenthly, yix. Michael hock, a very intelligent Perfon, 
who refided at Venice in 1596, obtained there, by a very 
lingular and extraordinary Accident, an Account of this 
very fame Paffage from a Man who had himfelf difco- 
vered it on the American Side, of which, from his own 
large Difcourfe preferved in Purchas‘d Pilgrims, I lhall 
give as fhort and true an Extradt as I am able. In the 
Month of April, in the Year before-mentioned, he met 
with Juan de Fuca, a Native of the Ifland of Cephalonia, 
then about threefcore, who had long ferved the Spaniards 
in Quality of a Pilot in the South Seas, and in this Station 
was taken in the St. Anne, an Acapulco Ship coming from 
the Philippines, in A. D. 7, by Capt. Candifh, and 
by that Accident loft fixty thoufand Ducats. He told 
Mr. Lock that he was Pilot of three fmall Ships fent by 
the Viceroy of Mexico to fortify the Streights of Anian, 
to prevent the Englifh from penetrating that Way into 
the South Seas, which mifcarried by the Commander’s 
being guilty of fome foul Pradlices that raifed a Mu- 
tiny. He was afterwards employed again for the fame 
Purpofe, in 1594, with a fmall Ship and a Pinnace % 
and having failed along the Coafts of New Spain, Cali- 
fornia, and, as he exprelly affirmed. Part of the Conti- 
nent beyond, to the Height of 47 Degrees, and finding 
that the Land trended there North-north-eaft, with a 
htoad Inlet of the Sea, between 47 and 48 Degrees, he 
entered into this Streight, and failed therein more than 
twenty Days ; and found that Land trended ftill fome- 
times North- weft and North-eaft, and North and Eaft, 
and South- eaftward, the Sea gTOwing much broader 
than at the Entrance, and having in it many Elands 
fmall and great, by which he paffed. He alfo took 
notice, that at the very Entrance of the Streight, there 
was a great Headland, or Ifland, in which there was a 
prodigious large Rock, like a Pillar or Pyramid. He 
further affirmed, that he landed feveral times, and faw 
many of the Inhabitants, who were cloathed in Beaft-fkins, 
or Furs ; and as to the Country, he defcribed it as ex- 
ceedingly fruitful, and rich in Gold and Silver, Pearl, 
and other valuable Commodities, and with every Thing 
that was to be found in Nexv Spain. 
He reported farther, that he having entered thus far 
into the faid Streight, and being come into the North 
Sea, and finding the Paffage wide enough every where, 
and about thirty or forty Leagues wide in the Mouth of 
the Streights where he entered ; he thought he had now 
well difcharged this Office, and done the thing which he 
was lent to do ; and that not being armed to refill 
the Force of the Savage People, he therefore fet fail, and 
returned homewards again, towards New Spain, where 
he arrived at Acapulco, A. D. 1594, hoping to be re- 
warded largely of the Viceroy, for the Service done in 
this Voyage. Alfo he faid, that after his coming to 
Mexico, he was welcomed by the Viceroy, and had great 
Promifes of great Reward ; but that having fued there 
two Years Time, and obtained nothing, the Viceroy 
told him that he fhould be rewarded in Spain by the King 
himfelf, very largely ; and defired him therefore to go 
into Spain, which Voyage he performed. He added, 
that when he was come into Spain, he was well receiv- 
ed there at the King’s Court, in Words after the Spanijh 
Manner ; but after long Time of Suit there alfo, he could 
not get any Reward. And that therefore, at length he 
ftole away out of Spain, and came into Italy to go home 
again, and live among his own Kindred and Countrymen 
in his old Age. He likewife owned, that he thought the 
Caufe of his ill Ufage by the Spaniards was, becaufe they 
did underftand, very well, that tht Englifh Nation had now 
given over all their Voyages for Difeovery of the North- 
weft Paffage, wherefore they need not fear them any 
more to come that Way into the South Sea, and therefor® 
they needed not his Service for the future. 
This old Greek Pilot, offered Mr. Lock to go over to 
England ; and in cafe Queen Elizabeth would have been 
pleafed to make him Compenfation for the Loffes fullain- 
ed when taken by Captain Candifh, in cafe of Succefs, he 
would, in her Majefty’s Service, attempt the Difeovery 
of this North-weft Paffage from Europe, which, with a 
Veffel of forty Tons and a Pinnace, he doubted not to 
perform in thirty Days. At the Time of his making 
this Offer, Mr. Lock had it not in his Power to bring 
him over, but he acquainted the Lord Treafurcr Cecil, 
Sir Walter Raleigh, and Mr. Richard Hackluit therewith, 
who approved his Defign, but fent him no Money. At 
laft, in 1602, his own Circumftances being mended, he 
refolved to bring this Man over, with whom he had all 
this while kept a conftant Correfpondence on his proper 
Expence ; but upon his Arrival at Zant, to his great 
Grief and Difappointment, found him dead. 
Eleventhly, Yet thefe Difeoveries by Sea are not all 
that is in our Power to produce on this Subje6l ; we 
have likewife fome Proofs that are no lefs conclufive, 
drawn from Difeoveries made by Land, of which we 
have partly fpoken in another Place; but which it is ab- 
folutely neceffary we fhould again mention here, though 
in Terms asfuccindt as it is poffible. In the Year 1568 
Sir John Hawkins, after an Expedition attended with in- 
different Succefs againft the Spaniards, found himfelf ob- 
liged to fet about one hundred of his Crew afhore, about 
fix Leagues Weft of the River la Mina, and about one 
hundred and forty Leagues Weft by North of Cape Flo- 
rida' ; amongft thefe was David Ingram, of Barking in Ef- 
fex, who, with fome of his Companions, travelled North- 
wards through many unknown Countries, where they faw 
vaft: Riches, as weft as precious Stones, as of Gold and 
Silver. 
