An account of several late voyages and discoveries

The lntro,.luétion. xv A. D. 16 11 • That rvorthJ St,tm .sn Sir Thomél s Button, Strv.snt to Prince Henry, p11r_(1i'a t/Je North H'eft Difaovcries Al the I11;ftiga1i:m of th111 .,/orio"s yo1mg Pri11,c He pafs'dHudton's Strcight ~mi leavi11g Hudfons Bay to theSor,th,J,il'dabove 200 Leag•es to the So111h We.,llrv11rá over A Sea 4· bove So FAthom Jeep, A»d áij,ovcr'd agrear Con– tincnt, ,all,d by Jnm New Wales, where, after rnucl, mifer_y A11d fi&J:11cfs in hü wintering Al Port Nelfon,he beat and. fe•nlltl. thc ,vhoteB.1yrvith great Jndr~flry, (,all'd. afttrB·ards Button's Ilay,J e1:en back agai n al m~fl to Digg s fflar.d. He di/coie 1 •• ed the g ,e.rt Lana be ,a//'d, Cary's Swan'S' neft• .Many /tJ en w ere lojl J",.ir.g /,is AboJe in thAt River n:tm'd bJ him Port Nclfon, in North Lit. 57 dro. to min. tho he kept three Fires in his Sbip ali the lf'inter, aná ,vas jupp/.J d ,vith grcit flore ofwhitt P.trtridges And other Fo1vl,ofwhi&h his Compan.1 if, rcported toh,ve l:i/f d 18ooaoz.e11,be/idesfomeDeer, Bi?4YS od. Fo~es. º" the Shores ofthofe North \Vell Bays~rows ab11ndAnce of Orpine, Sorl'cl l!»d Scurvygra(s, ,¡¡ery m,"J, Angelica, ,vhofe Root the Grone.landers eat. The.J kili Morfes, A»a m.i~e their C:orás or Ropes of Whalebone. ]11 the Tears 1610, 1612, 161 S• 1626. .ftfr. Hudfon, James Hall,anJ Will. Baffiin,pro:ecdea """/, further i n the J 'lorth-Weft Parts, gh1ing Names 10 their [ever.sl Difaoveries ; rvl,i,h t>MJ bt fen in the NC1r 1bern 1ll .1ps, and i» 1he Col/e[tion of VoJ.1,.1',es,~t 4'fú ino,,r Supplcmcnt at the ená. The /(,i11g of Dcnmark ob/erving the progrefs. of hit Neighbour sin the Northern Se AS, hegan to fend º"' Shi¡sfor mA/.:ií'Jg Di{,o':.leries in the Te,irs 160~, 1606