VOYAGES IN SEARCH OF THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE
INTRODUCTION.
A DISCOURSE WRITTEN BY SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT, KNIGHT.
- CHAPTER I.--TO PROVE BY AUTHORITY A PASSAGE TO BE
ON THE NORTH SIDE OF AMERICA, TO GO TO CATHAY AND THE EAST INDIES.
- CHAPTER II.
- CHAPTER III. TO PROVE BY EXPERIENCE OF SUNDRY
MEN'S TRAVELS THE OPENING OF SOME PART OF THIS NORTH-WEST PASSAGE,
WHEREBY GOOD HOPE REMAINETH OF THE REST.
- CHAPTER IV. TO PROVE BY CIRCUMSTANCE THAT THE
NORTH-WEST PASSAGE HATH BEEN SAILED THROUGHOUT.
- CHAPTER V.--TO PROVE THAT THESE INDIANS,
AFORENAMED, CAME NOT BY THE SOUTH-EAST, SOUTH-WEST, NOR FROM ANY OTHER
PART OF AFRICA OR AMERICA.
- CHAPTER VI.--TO PROVE THAT THOSE INDIANS CAME NOT
BY THE NORTH-EAST, AND THAT THERE IS NO THROUGH NAVIGABLE PASSAGE THAT
WAY.
- CHAPTER VII.--TO PROVE THAT THE INDIANS AFORENAMED
CAME ONLY BY THE NORTH-WEST, WHICH INDUCETH A CERTAINTY OF OUR PASSAGE
BY EXPERIENCE.
- CHAPTER VIII.--CERTAIN REASONS ALLEGED FOR THE
PROVING OF A PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-EAST BEFORE THE QUEEN'S MAJESTY, AND
CERTAIN LORDS OF THE COUNCIL, BY MASTER ANTHONY JENKINSON, WITH MY
SEVERAL ANSWERS THEN USED TO THE SAME.
- CHAPTER IX.--HOW THAT THE PASSAGE BY THE
NORTH-WEST IS MORE COMMODIOUS FOR OUR TRAFFIC THAN THE OTHER BY THE
EAST, IF THERE WERE ANY SUCH.
- CHAPTER X.--WHAT COMMODITIES WOULD ENSUE, THIS
PASSAGE ONCE DISCOVERED.
CERTAIN OTHER REASONS OR ARGUMENTS TO PROVE A
PASSAGE BY THE NORTH- WEST
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