The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622Hakluyt Society, 1881 - 192 pages Historical background and publication of Baffin's recorded Arctic voyages. |
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aboord aboue admirall afternoone amongst anchor beinge Biscay boat called calme Cape Cape Farewell Captain cleere clocke coast Cockin compasse Davis daye discovery diuers doth Dudley Digges England euening Faire Hauen faire weather farre finnes fiue fleet floud Fotherby foule weather generall Greenland Hakluyt harbour haue hauing hauinge Hinlopen Strait Hudson's iland James killed land latitude London longitude Master Baffin Master's Mate Merchant meridian moone morning morses Muscovy Company named neere night noone north-east North-West Passage northward o'clock observation Ormuz ouer peeces pilot pinnace Purchas Robert Bylot rowed sailing set sayle set vp seuen shallop ship shippe shoare shore side Sir Dudley Digges Sir John Wolstenholme Sir Thomas Smith snow Sound south-east southward Spitzbergen stood Strait sunne theare ther thereof Thomas Button tyde tyme vnder vnto voyage vpon westward whale wheare WILLIAM BAFFIN William Cockayne
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Page 161 - Latitude: hee entred thereinto, sayling therein more then twentie dayes, and found that Land trending still sometime North-west and North-east, and North, and also East and Southeastward, and very much broader Sea then was at the said entrance, and that hee passed by divers Hands in that sayling.
Page 159 - 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.
Page 130 - out of respect to the memory of that able and enterprising navigator...
Page 152 - ... 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).
Page 116 - ... 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...
Page 160 - 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...
Page xxxvii - 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...
Page 166 - ... with mee into England, but I had none answere thereof from him, for that as I heard afterward at Zante, he was then dead, or very likely to die of great sicknesse. 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.
Page 159 - Spaine by the space of fortie yeeres, and had sailed to and from many places thereof, as Mariner and Pilot, in the service of the Spaniards.
Page 64 - I brake down some peeces of ice with a staffe I had in my hand, which, in their falling made a noise on ech side, much like to a peice of glasse throwen downe the well within Douer Castle, wherby wee did aestimate the thicknes or height of this ice to be thirty fathomes. This huge ice, in my opinion, is nothing but snowe, which from time to time has, for the most parte, bene driuen of the mountaines ; and so continueing and increasing all the time of winter (which may be counted three quarters of...