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- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- DIVERS voyages touching the discovery of America and the Islands adjacent
- THE NAMES OF CERTAINE LATE WRITERS OF GEOGRAPHIE, WITH THE YEERE WHEREIN THEY WROTE
- THE NAMES OF CERTAINE LATE TRAUAYLERS, BOTH BY SEA AND BY LANDE, WHICH ALSO FOR THE MOST PART HAUE WRITTEN OF THEIR OWNE TRAUAYLES AND VOYAGES
- A VERIE LATE AND GREAT PROBABILITY OF A PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-WEST PART OF AMERICA IN FIFTY-EIGHT DEGREES OF NORTHERLY LATITUDE
- TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL AND MOST VERTUOUS GENTLEMAN MASTER PHILLIP SYDNEY, ESQUIRE
- A LATINE COPIE OF THE LETTERS PATENTES OF KING HENRIE THE SEVENTH, GRAUNTED vnto Iohn Gabote and his three Sonnes
- A NOTE OF SEBASTIAN GABOTES VOYAGE OF Discouerie, taken out of an old Chronicle
- A DECLARATION OF THE INDIES AND LANDES discouered and subdued vnto the Emperour and the king of Portugale
- THE BOOKE MADE BY THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL Master Robert Thorne, in the yeere 1527 […]
- TO THE MOST CHRISTIAN KING OF FRAUNCE, FRAUNCES THE FIRST
- THE DISCOUERIE OF THE ILES OF FRISLAND, Iseland, Engroueland, Estotiland, Drogeo, and Icaria
- THE TRUE AND LAST DISCOUERIE OF FLORIDA
- NOTES IN WRITING BESIDES MORE PRIUIE BY Mouth that were giuen by a Gentleman, Anno 1580
- NOTES FRAMED BY A GENTLEMAN HERETOFORE to bee giuen to one that prepared for a discouerie, and went not
- THE NAMES OF CERTAINE COMMODITIES GROWing in part of America
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
A VERIE LATE AND GREAT PROBABILITY OF A PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-WEST PART OF AMERICA IN FIFTY-EIGHT DEGREES OF NORTHERLY LATITUDE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- DIVERS voyages touching the discovery of America and the Islands adjacent
- THE NAMES OF CERTAINE LATE WRITERS OF GEOGRAPHIE, WITH THE YEERE WHEREIN THEY WROTE
- THE NAMES OF CERTAINE LATE TRAUAYLERS, BOTH BY SEA AND BY LANDE, WHICH ALSO FOR THE MOST PART HAUE WRITTEN OF THEIR OWNE TRAUAYLES AND VOYAGES
- A VERIE LATE AND GREAT PROBABILITY OF A PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-WEST PART OF AMERICA IN FIFTY-EIGHT DEGREES OF NORTHERLY LATITUDE
- TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL AND MOST VERTUOUS GENTLEMAN MASTER PHILLIP SYDNEY, ESQUIRE
- A LATINE COPIE OF THE LETTERS PATENTES OF KING HENRIE THE SEVENTH, GRAUNTED vnto Iohn Gabote and his three Sonnes
- A NOTE OF SEBASTIAN GABOTES VOYAGE OF Discouerie, taken out of an old Chronicle
- A DECLARATION OF THE INDIES AND LANDES discouered and subdued vnto the Emperour and the king of Portugale
- THE BOOKE MADE BY THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL Master Robert Thorne, in the yeere 1527 […]
- TO THE MOST CHRISTIAN KING OF FRAUNCE, FRAUNCES THE FIRST
- THE DISCOUERIE OF THE ILES OF FRISLAND, Iseland, Engroueland, Estotiland, Drogeo, and Icaria
- THE TRUE AND LAST DISCOUERIE OF FLORIDA
- NOTES IN WRITING BESIDES MORE PRIUIE BY Mouth that were giuen by a Gentleman, Anno 1580
- NOTES FRAMED BY A GENTLEMAN HERETOFORE to bee giuen to one that prepared for a discouerie, and went not
- THE NAMES OF CERTAINE COMMODITIES GROWing in part of America
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
An excellent learned man of Portingale, of singuler grauety, authorities and experience, tolde mee very lately, that one Anus Cortereal Captayne of the yle of Tercera, about the yeere 1574, which is not aboue eight yeres past, sent a Shippe to discouer the North-west passage of America, and that the same shippe arriuing on the coast of the saide America, in fiftie eyghte degrees of latitude, founde a great entrance exceeding deepe and broade without all impediment of ice, into whiche they passed aboue twentie leagues, and found it always to trende towarde the South, the lande lying lowe and plaine on eyther side : And that they perswaded them selues verily that there was a way open into the south sea. But their victailes fayling them, and being but one shippe, they returned backe agayne with ioy. This place seemeth to lie in equal degrees of latitude with the first entrance of the sounde of Denmark, betweene Norway and the head land, called in Latin Cimbrorum promontorium, and therefore like to bee open and nauigable a great part of the yeere. And this report may be well annexed unto the other eight reasons mentioned in my epistle dedicatorie, for proofe of the likelihood of this passage by the north-west.
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- Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands AdjacentCollected and Published by Richard Hakluyt, pp. 7Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1850