Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society, Volum 63

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The Society, 1881

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Side 161 - A Note made by me Michael Lok the elder, touching the Strait of Sea, commonly called Fretum Anian, in the South Sea, through the North-west passage of Meta incognita.
Side 132 - out of respect to the memory of that able and enterprising navigator...
Side 154 - ... have promised (as to bring certaintie and a true description), truth will make manifest that I haue not much erred. And I dare boldly say (without boasting) that more good discouerie hath not in shorter time (to my remembrance) beene done since the action was attempted, considering how much ice we have passed, and the difficultie of sayling so neere the pole (vpon a trauerse).
Side 163 - Also he said, that he went on Land in divers places, and that he saw some people on Land, clad in Beasts...
Side 118 - ... aboute fourteene personns in it; they being on the furthest, or north west side theareof, beinge from vs somewhat aboue a musket shott of. Then I called vnto them, (using some words of Groynlandish speeche), makinge signes of frendship. They did the like to vs ; but seeing them to be fearefull of vs, and we not willinge to trust them, I made another signe to them, shewinge them a knife and other small thinges : which I left on the top of the hill, and returned doune to their tents agayne. Beinge...
Side 163 - Straits, where hee entred; he thought he had now well discharged his office, and done the thing which he was sent to doe: and that hee not being armed to resist the force of the Salvage people that might happen, hee therefore set sayle and returned homewards againe towards Nova Spania, where hee arrived at Acapulco, Anno 1592.
Side 162 - Voyage, for discouery of the same Straits of Anian, and the passage thereof, into the Sea which they call the North Sea, which is our North-west Sea. And that he followed his course in that Voyage West and North-west in the South Sea, all alongst the coast of...
Side 163 - ... and found that land trending still sometime northwest and northeast, and north, and also east and southeastward, and very much broader sea...
Side 168 - Whereupon I returned my selfe by Sea from Zante to Venice, and from thence I went by land through France into England, where I arrived at Christmas, An. 1602. safely, I thanke God, after my absence from thence ten yeeres time ; with great troubles had for the Company of Turkies businesse, which hath cost me a great summe of money, for the which I am not yet satisfied of them.
Side xxxix - William Baffin, a master's mate in the Anne, to have a gratuity for his pains and good art in drawing out certain plots of the coast of Persia and the Red Sea, which are judged to have been very well and artificially performed...

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