INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . 11 
various articles found are figured in the sketch 
appended. 
Captain Waymouth's expedition, sent out in 1602 
by the Muscovy Company in search of the 
North-West Passage, traversed ground which had 
been previously explored ; and the expeditions of Cun¬ 
ningham and Hall in 1605, and of John Knight in 
1607, were also without any result. In 1609, Henry 
Hudson, whose earlier voyages will be noticed pre¬ 
sently, discovered Hudson's Bay ; and in 1610 he was 
nominated to the command of the Discovery , with a 
view to renewing the attempt to find the North-West 
Passage. He went into Frobisher's Bay, which was 
