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A VOYAGE TO SPITZBEEGEN . 
subscribed for another north-west voyage, and in this 
and the following two years, John Davis commanded 
three successive expeditions. He sighted Greenland, 
and visited Gilbert’s Sound in 64° 30' N. From this 
he proceeded, on August 6, for five days, towards the 
north-west, and sighted land again in 66° 40', at an 
anchorage free from ice. He named various prominent 
features here, such as Mount Raleigh and Cape Wal- 
singham. This was the highest latitude then reached 
on the American side of Davis’ Strait. He coasted 
this land to the south, passed the Cape of God’s Mercy, 
sailed up Northumberland Inlet, and worked his way 
south into Frobisher’s Strait, and then into Hudson’s 
Strait. In his second voyage Davis simply explored 
the coast of Labrador. In his third voyage he went 
as far north, along the west coast of Greenland, as 
Cape Hope Sanderson, in 72° 15', or well into Baffin’s 
Bay ; he seems to have reached the North Water, and 
hence to have been the pioneer to this well-known 
whaling ground. 
The account of Barentsz’s voyages is given in the 
body of our work, and here we may allude only 
to the discovery which was made this year of the 
house in which these hardy men lived during the 
long winter; the relics brought home are now de¬ 
posited in the National Museum of Holland. The 
