An account of several late voyages and discoveries

of a North.Eajl Paffe.ge: . i 4c;· Thc thirci, was a Journ.al printcd in Holland; of 1 Voyagc from Battj,'Vid to Jap1n, whcrein the Ship was c:aíl awJy upori Coreá, a Pcninfub: 0 ¡ Cbina~ whcrc by thc Nativcs thcy wcn: madc· Stt\'eS. Thc Rcbtcr h~lving becn thcrc 1 6 Y cars; !! llft cfca.pca to .1apan, and writ this Journ.1), . whcrdn, amongfl: other Obfer, 1 :itions;· he re-' lates rhis; That in a Ba y on thc Coaíl: of Corea; mere doth ar ícvcral Times drivc in dcJd ,\! hales with En.~lijh and Dutd; H.1rping Irons in thcm; which, if true, h~d-becn. a grcat Argumcnt of P.1ffagc: . . , . . Thc fouréh, W.ls a Relation of Nfr." .;o(epb o:wu, who being in Hollan.í abovc 2 o Y ears ·e, hcard a. Dutchm4n relate . (as he díd bc- ·e-1·c thc real Mattcr of E1éi:.) dut he lud beett 1 ~der che Pok itf clf; an·d that ir w.1s' as warni ere as it was at Amjl-erdmn in Súmmcr time• .The fifrh, w.1s· ~t Rdation of ó"nc c~1ptairr ouldeJi who hJ.d madc ahovc thirty Voyages to remlmid, and th is.he did relate to his M:ijeíly; h~t bl'ing at Green!aitd fontc twenty Y c~rs :1go; w.1s in Comp.~ny with two 1-Iollanden .to che ,ftward of Etlges Hland, and that the ,yh.1.ks ,t appcaring on thc Shore;· the two Holl,ázderi ·re rcfolv'd to go farthcr Northerly, ~md to :tmong thc Ice; fo they dep:ú·tcd from him ,d went to the Norchw.:tn.\; and in a Formight's . e rcturn'd to hiin again, and gavc it eme,– ~ thc::y h:1.d fail'd ii'lto thc Lat. of 89, that s wit!lin onc Ikgrec of thc Polc, :111·d that .y did mcet with ho Ice, bnt ~ free ::md ope11 : :md th~n therc ran :i \'cry hollow grown Sea . L likc: