✍ Scribed by Clements R. Markham (editor)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This 1881 volume contains accounts by William Baffin (1584-1622) and others of Baffin's voyages exploring the coasts of Greenland and Spitsbergen, and his search for the North-West Passage. Although he did not find a route east, he got considerably further north than previous navigators, and provided much useful information on the conditions and natural resources of the area. His meticulous chart making and record keeping, and his use of lunar observations to calculate longitude, were groundbreaking and remarkably accurate, as later explorers found.
Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 13
Contents......Page 22
ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 23
INTRODUCTION......Page 24
Part I.---Written by John Gatonbe......Page 72
Part II.---Fragment written by Baffin himself......Page 91
Part I.---A Journal written by Baffin......Page 109
Part II.---A Journal probably by Fotherby......Page 125
Part III.---A Brief Description of King James his New Land......Page 140
Part IV.---The manner of killing the Whale and the whole proceedings for performing of the Voyage......Page 143
Narrative by Kobert Fotherby......Page 151
I.---Letter from Baffin to his Employers......Page 174
II.---The Breefe Journall......Page 177
III.---"A Tru Relation" by Baffin......Page 180
I.---A Briefe and True Relation or Journal by Baffin......Page 207
II.---Baffin's Letter to Sir John Wolstenholme......Page 218
III.---Baffin's Instructions......Page 243
BAFFIN'S SHIPS......Page 244
INDEX......Page 245
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