An account of several late voyages and discoveries

Thc lntroduél:ion~ xiii finiths took to b~ Gold 0.1r. He met rvith lnhAhi– tants 011 the Shore of the Screighc eall'd bJ his N,ime ; their Canocs 111ere m~de of Scal-skins at tr:p, b1,t ,vooá Kec11s : The.,v exchttn[.'d Sal,non and other Fifb, for i op: /11 their 1'ents .cb11ndatice ofRed Beans n,ere jotmd tike 111110 th(!/e of Guinea: ]J11t more oJ lirobtil1cr's Ubfervations in'"' S11p.. p!emmt llt the ená of this J,f'órl:. A. D. 15So. Archur Pct and Charles Jackman fail,d al/ over thej'e Northern Seas, ,,ná p:,fs 1 d into W cigats Streights, _t>lying alon~ tht E.ijl part of NOV'1, Zembla, jó far As the Ice u,Olltd git1c them le,we, A11á finding no poffebility of P"1{age, retttr»·d bacl: tht IAtter ená oj the 'fear. Anno t 583.'Sir Humfrey Gilbert,~y the injli– gation oj Secretary \Valfingham,/ait d to New– foundland,and the l!,reat River ofS. Lawrence in Canada,n,hich he took poffe.f/ion o[in the NAme of R¡ue» Elizabcth,and Jett fed a fijbi»g· Tr .ide there. A.D. 1s8~. Mr Jolrn Davis was empl•id to (éarch out the North \Veft, btJond r,,here for– biíhe1· r,ent ; he made ji,nher Difa_overies i» thof"e– Parts, which /ée in Hackluit and Purchas. Thi, Davismade three Voyages to the North Weíl:.pu– ri11g his /lay at Cape Dcfolation he fo1md many piec-esof Far and l·Vool,like to Bcavcr ,a.ud exdnmg– td Commodities ,vith thc Co,mtry People. Vpon tht! Rocks and in theNl_o(s,grc,v 4 Shmb n,/,()/e fmit n•.i.r very jweet,fi,ll of red J11ice like C11rr.Jnt s, perlJ.1,ps ,,is the f'ame n 1 ith the N(!W England Cranberrr, or B(!ar-bcrry, ( ca!l'd foj;wn Jhc Bears de-z·ouri¡¡g it ,z,ery <1rced1{y ;) ll'itl, :rl,ich 11,e 111:ike 1 izrts. V it:s Ida:a p~luilris frué1a majorc apud Joílelin, de Nova