Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage

Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage, by Richard Hakluyt
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Title: Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage
Author: Richard Hakluyt Editor: Henry Morley Release Date: December 27, 2007 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) [eBook #3482]
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Transcribed from the 1892 Cassell & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
CASSELL’ S NATIONAL LIBRARY .
VOYAGES
IN SEARCH OF THE
NORTH-WEST PASSAGE.
From the Collection of RICHARD HAKLUYT.
CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited: LONDON , PARIS & MELBOURNE . 1892.
INTRODUCTION.
Thirty-five years ago I made a voyage to the Arctic Seas in what Chaucer calls A little bote No bigger than a mannë’s thought; it was a Phantom Ship that made some voyages to different parts of the world which were recorded in early numbers of Charles Dickens’s “Household Words.” As preface to Richard Hakluyt’s records of the first endeavour of our bold Elizabethan mariners to find North-West Passage to the East, let me repeat here that old voyage of mine from No. 55 of ...