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Title: Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ...
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Goodrich, Frank B. (Frank Boott), 1826-1894
Subjects: Discoveries in geography Voyages and travels
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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hips to be prepared, with which Cartier again started forthe scene of his discoveries. The narrative of this expedition islost; but it appears to have resulted in few or no incidents of in-terest. Cartier was ennobled upon his return in 1542, and livedten years to enjoy his new dignity. His descriptions of thescenery, products, and Indians of Canada are graphic and correct. In the year 1553, the Mystery and Company of Englishmerchants adventurers for the discovery of regions, dominions,islands, and places unknown—at the head of whom was Se-bastian Cabot—fitted out an expedition of three vessels, andgave the chief command to Sir Hugh Willoughby, by reasonof his goodly personage, as also for his singular skill in theservices of war. King Edward VI. confirmed the appointmentin a license to discover strange countries. The fleet consisted of the Buona Speranza, of one hundredand seventy tons, commanded by Sir Hugh, with thirty-eightmen, the Edward Buonaventura, of one hundred and sixty
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# *♦ MAN UPON THE bi_ i. 233 tons, commanded by Richard Chancellor, pilot-major of the ex-pedition, with fifty-four men, and the Buona Confidentia, ofninety tons, with twenty-four men. The ships were victualledfor fifteen months. On board of them were eighteen mer-chants interested in the discovery of a northeast passage toIndia,—a route, therefore, attempted by the English previous tothat by the northwest, as the voyage of Sebastian Cabot canhardly be considered a serious effort. A council of twelve, inwhom was vested the general direction of the voyage, wascomposed of the admiral, pilot-major, and other officers. The squadron sailed from Deptford on the 10th of May, 1553,and fell in with the Norwegian coast on the 14th of July. On the30th, while near Wardhus, the most easterly station of the Danesin Finmark, Chancellors vessel was driven off in a storm, andwas not seen again by the two others. The latter appear to havebeen tossed about in the North Sea for two months, in the cou

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