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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- SIR MARTIN FROBISHER, KNT
- STATE PAPERS PREVIOUS TO THE FIRST VOYAGE
- WHAT COMMODITIES AND INSTRUCTIONS MAY BE REAPED BY DILIGENT READING THIS DISCOURSE
- TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, MY SINGULAR GOOD MAYSTER, SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON, KNIGHT, CAPTAINE OF THE QUEENES MAJESTIES GARDE, VIZCHAMBERLAINE TO HIR HIGHNESSE, AND ONE OF HIR MAJESTIES MOST HONOURABLE PRIVIE COUNSALE
- THE PRINTER TO THE READER
- THE FYRST BOOKE OF THE FIRST VOYAGE OF MARTIN FROBISHER, ESQUIER, CAPTAYNE GENERALL FOR THE DISCOVERIE OF THE PASSAGE TO CATAYA AND THE EAST INDIA, BY THE NORTHWEAST, FIRST ATTEMPTED IN ANNO DOM. 1576, THE 15. OF MAY
- STATE PAPERS SUBSEQUENT TO THE FIRST VOYAGE
- ACCOUNT OF THE SECOND VOYAGE, WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO MARTYNE FURBISHER
- A TRUE REPORTE OF SUCH THINGS AS HAPNED IN THE SECOND VOYAGE OF CAPTAYNE FROBYSHER, PRETENDED FOR THE DISCOVERIE OF A NEW PASSAGE TO CATAYA, CHINA, AND THE EAST INDIA, BY THE NORTH WEST. ANNO DO. 1577
- STATE PAPERS SUBSEQUENT TO THE SECOND VOYAGE
- STATE PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE TRIAL OF THE ORE SUBSEQUENT TO THE SECOND VOYAGE
- STATE PAPERS CONCERNING THE TRIALL OF THE EWR PREVIOUS TO THE THIRD VOYAGE
- STATE PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE OUTFIT FOR THE THIRD VOYAGE
- THE THIRDE VOYAGE OF CAPTAINE FROBISHER, PRETENDED FOR THE DISCOVERIE OF CATAYA, BY META INCOGNITA. ANNO DO. 1578
- ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE THIRD VOYAGE, BY EDWARD SELLMAN
- STATE PAPERS SUBSEQUENT TO THE THIRD VOYAGE
- A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF RELICS OF FROBISHER'S EXPEDITIONS TO THE ARCTIC REGIONS IN THE YEARS 1576-7-8
- INDEX
- Plate section
STATE PAPERS PREVIOUS TO THE FIRST VOYAGE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- SIR MARTIN FROBISHER, KNT
- STATE PAPERS PREVIOUS TO THE FIRST VOYAGE
- WHAT COMMODITIES AND INSTRUCTIONS MAY BE REAPED BY DILIGENT READING THIS DISCOURSE
- TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, MY SINGULAR GOOD MAYSTER, SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON, KNIGHT, CAPTAINE OF THE QUEENES MAJESTIES GARDE, VIZCHAMBERLAINE TO HIR HIGHNESSE, AND ONE OF HIR MAJESTIES MOST HONOURABLE PRIVIE COUNSALE
- THE PRINTER TO THE READER
- THE FYRST BOOKE OF THE FIRST VOYAGE OF MARTIN FROBISHER, ESQUIER, CAPTAYNE GENERALL FOR THE DISCOVERIE OF THE PASSAGE TO CATAYA AND THE EAST INDIA, BY THE NORTHWEAST, FIRST ATTEMPTED IN ANNO DOM. 1576, THE 15. OF MAY
- STATE PAPERS SUBSEQUENT TO THE FIRST VOYAGE
- ACCOUNT OF THE SECOND VOYAGE, WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO MARTYNE FURBISHER
- A TRUE REPORTE OF SUCH THINGS AS HAPNED IN THE SECOND VOYAGE OF CAPTAYNE FROBYSHER, PRETENDED FOR THE DISCOVERIE OF A NEW PASSAGE TO CATAYA, CHINA, AND THE EAST INDIA, BY THE NORTH WEST. ANNO DO. 1577
- STATE PAPERS SUBSEQUENT TO THE SECOND VOYAGE
- STATE PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE TRIAL OF THE ORE SUBSEQUENT TO THE SECOND VOYAGE
- STATE PAPERS CONCERNING THE TRIALL OF THE EWR PREVIOUS TO THE THIRD VOYAGE
- STATE PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE OUTFIT FOR THE THIRD VOYAGE
- THE THIRDE VOYAGE OF CAPTAINE FROBISHER, PRETENDED FOR THE DISCOVERIE OF CATAYA, BY META INCOGNITA. ANNO DO. 1578
- ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE THIRD VOYAGE, BY EDWARD SELLMAN
- STATE PAPERS SUBSEQUENT TO THE THIRD VOYAGE
- A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF RELICS OF FROBISHER'S EXPEDITIONS TO THE ARCTIC REGIONS IN THE YEARS 1576-7-8
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
A NOTE OF CERTAYNE NAVIGATIONS HERTOFFORE ATTEMPTED FOR THE DISCOVERIE OF A PASSAGE THROUGHE THE STRAIGHTES OWT OF THE NORTHE SEA INTO THE SOUTH SEA.
In the countrey of America towardes the northe, aboute the sixtie degree, there is an elbowe of a land lying verie farre into the sea, which is called the head of Laborer. And on the southe side there is a verie broade bay lying towardes the weste, and of suche a breadth that it semeth, bothe in the verie entry and after, to be a greate sea, ffor yt lyeth oute aboute three or foure hundred myles, and hathe verie many ilandes, and all the yere throughe there are in the same huge heapes of ise, which bay is called Dusmendas.
Anno 1496. In the yere of our Lord 1496, in the reigne of kyng Henry the Seventh, Sebastian Cabotte, who afterward was chieffe pilot of Spayne, was sent oute of England by the said king, with two shippes, to fynd oute the passage oute of the Northe Sea unto the South, that the way into the countreys which are called Mangi Sepango and Cataya might be opened;
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- The Three Voyages of Martin FrobisherIn Search of a Passage to Cathaia and India by the North-West, A.D. 1576–8, pp. 1 - 12Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1867