An account of several late voyages and discoveries

of a N()rth.-E".ft Pajfage. 151 Mr. Jobn Sijh,to_ok no ordinary Care i~ Strcngrh– ning her, and m her Shearhmg, wluch was as welI perform'd as in any Ship that cver fail"<.{ on rhe Sea. Thus being fittcd, I was to fatisfic motl People of the Advantage to our Nation, that would accrue if therc was a Patfage. The firfi: Advantage that I purpos'd, was, that: on the Coafi: of Tartaria, it hcing a cold Cli– matc, wc might vcnd our Engli/h Cloth, which now is grown a Prug; and ccrtain it is, that thcv wcar Cloth which is font them from Ruf]iti and Mofcrn,ia, which, before it arrivc at thcir Hand-;, muft needs be very dear in thc Prizc; fo if onc could .come on ~~eir Coaft, one might vcód :t grcat deal more and abundance chcapcr. " The ic.co~ d Adv~mtagc, as would hav..: bc~n, that in fix W ccks one might havc fail' d to Japan., which in t~c other \V ay is nine Months ; .1nd the Paffagc th~t \Vay bcing as hazardous and pcrillous as this would havc hccn, if th:'.rc h:u.i ken any Pa{fage by the North--E:1íl:; for by thc Sonthway.,.111 thc way betwixt Brmtam and J,z– piu1arc an innum~rablcCompan y ofSands,Sho.tls., .md Iílands, whcrc man y Ships are ycarl y lofr, and :ill th:it way onc nmft turn up to thc \Vindw.trd., k in perpetua! Fear of the Holla1ulerJ, whom if we meet, thcy do cheir utmoft Endcavours to <.k– firoy us. Then if there h:id been a North-E.t!l: P.tífage, :ind that one might fail in foch a íhort time to Japan, the King might fend out f\ ¡..:n of \V.ir to 1apan, and force thcm to tradc ; whid1 t :1eothcr \'1y is not to be done, bccau{c thcy ,.:nn >t carry L 4 Pro-