An account of several late voyages and discoveries

J 4 ~ A Vt!J·age far the Difcoruery my Rcntrn home, I ran ovcr thc fame place whcre our Chart-makcrs lay down that L1nd; bur ctr– tain it was, that by foul \Veathcr he was forc'd into a H~trbour in Lapland, call' d Arzena, whcrc by rhe Continuancc of lx1d ,v cathcr, he could ncver remrn out, but was thcrc frozen to Drath with ali his Ship's Company; fo that of this Voya$c therc was no Light givcn to find a Paf– fagc tllat w.. 1y. Thc frcon<l that artcmptc:d, was onc Capt1in Stepbm Bun-ougb.r., aftcrward Comptrollcr of thc Navy to ~een Elizabetb. In thc Y car 1556 he ict forward, and pafs'd thc North Cape, anJ failing fanhcr Eaftcrl y, difcovcr' d the Wayg.itc:s that is thc Strcight rhat runnech betwccn th South Part 0f Norva Zembltt, and thc Sammoyd Country, whcrc he cntcr'd, and bclicving tlu Siu.us, or Ba y, thc Eafrward of the St rci~lm, t be a free .1nd open Sea, he remrn•d wüt1 Hop of Paífagc rh.1t way to Cbína and Japan. Thc third that attcmptcd., was Captain Arthu Pett, ~md Captain Cbarle; Jackt~,an, in thc Yca 1 5' 80,bcing fcnt out by Qllecn Elizabetb to follo thc Track of Burroug,bs; fo, fctting forwards the cam\! to thc "\V aygatcs, and paífed thc Strcight J ~nd cune into thc Sea. to thc Eaftward, whcrc thc mct with fuch a vaíl Quantity of lec and ha V{ cathcr, that thcy with grcat Hazard, Ptril, :m Labour, wcrc forc'd to rcturn, bue by foul We rhcr lofi onc thc othc!, and Pctt was ncvcr he.u of fince; fo thc Pauage through the ,v aygat w~1s in En¡)and bid by, as thought not poffib that v,;1.y, and then tJ1c Holland&rI undcrtook . .. T