Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage
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- VOYAGES in search of the North-West Passage.
- INTRODUCTION.
- A DISCOURSE WRITTEN BY SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT, KNIGHT.
- CHAPTER I. TO PROVE BY AUTHORITY A PASSAGE TO BE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF AMERICA, TO GO TO CATHAY AND THE EAST INDIES.
- CHAPTER II.
- CHAPTER III. TO PROVE BY EXPERIENCE OF SUNDRY MEN’S TRAVELS THE OPENING OF SOME PART OF THIS NORTH-WEST PASSAGE, WHEREBY GOOD HOPE REMAINETH OF THE REST.
- CHAPTER IV. TO PROVE BY CIRCUMSTANCE THAT THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE HATH BEEN SAILED THROUGHOUT.
- CHAPTER V. TO PROVE THAT THESE INDIANS, AFORENAMED, CAME NOT BY THE SOUTH-EAST, SOUTH-WEST, NOR FROM ANY OTHER PART OF AFRICA OR AMERICA.
- CHAPTER VI. TO PROVE THAT THOSE INDIANS CAME NOT BY THE NORTH-EAST, AND THAT THERE IS NO THROUGH NAVIGABLE PASSAGE THAT WAY.
- CHAPTER VII. TO PROVE THAT THE INDIANS AFORENAMED CAME ONLY BY THE NORTH-WEST, WHICH INDUCETH A CERTAINTY OF OUR PASSAGE BY EXPERIENCE.
- CHAPTER VIII. CERTAIN REASONS ALLEGED FOR THE PROVING OF A PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-EAST BEFORE THE QUEEN’S MAJESTY, AND CERTAIN LORDS OF THE COUNCIL, BY MASTER ANTHONY JENKINSON, WITH MY SEVERAL ANSWERS THEN USED TO THE SAME.
- CHAPTER IX. HOW THAT THE PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-WEST IS MORE COMMODIOUS FOR OUR TRAFFIC THAN THE OTHER BY THE EAST, IF THERE WERE ANY SUCH.
- CHAPTER X. WHAT COMMODITIES WOULD ENSUE, THIS PASSAGE ONCE DISCOVERED.
- CERTAIN OTHER REASONS OR ARGUMENTS TO PROVE A PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-WEST.
- THE FIRST VOYAGE OF MASTER MARTIN FROBISHER
- THE SECOND VOYAGE OF MASTER MARTIN FROBISHER,
- THE THIRD AND LAST VOYAGE INTO META INCOGNITA,
- THE REPORT OF THOMAS WIARS,
- THE FIRST VOYAGE OF MASTER JOHN DAVIS,
- THE SECOND VOYAGE ATTEMPTED BY MASTER JOHN DAVIS,
- THE THIRD VOYAGE NORTH-WESTWARD, MADE BY JOHN DAVIS,
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