Chap, IX, from the I, of James
1611. Goto, by whom he was very favourablyreceived, went by Land to Suranga, theEmperour’s Residence. Here he hadan Audience of the Emperour, and hav-ing delivered the King’s Letter and Pre-sent, was not only very graciously re-ceived, but obtained a Grant of Privi-leges to the Company, and, at his De-parture, had very obliging Letters, withPresents, as well from the Emperour, asthe King of Firando, delivered to him,with Assurance of constant Friendship,for the King of England. (See translat-ed Copies of these Letters and Privilegesin Harris, as above.) Captain Sarisreturned to Plymouth in September 1614.
Ff arris calls this Voyage the eighth,but it is more probably the ninth, hehimself calling that which follows this,ra Collection, the tenth: And be-!des, between the seventh, of which Iave given an Account above, and this,he places a Voyage of Captain SamuelLajlleton's, in the Pearl, to the Eafi-Indies, which he does not mention, asbeing for the Company, tho’it probablyWas the eighth .for that Account. I o-nsitted this Voyage above, as there isnothing remarkable related of it.
Rymer’j Henry IV. King of France, havingyvt ’ t. been stabbed by Ravaillac (a Friar) in70(5.' P ' 694 ’ his Coach, in the Midst of Paris ; andbeing succeeded by Lewis XIII, KingJames renewed the League between thetwo Kingdoms, and received from thenew King sixty Thousand Pound Ster-ling, due to the Crown of England.
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Bay, from him called Button's Bay., 161 j.back again almost to Digg' s Island. liediscovered the great Land called Swan'sNest.
He lost many Men during his Stayin the River called Port Nelson, in sevenand fifty Degrees and ten Minutes ofNorth-Latitude; tho’ he kept threeFires in his Ship all Winter, and hadgreat Store of White Partridges, andother Fowl, besides Deer, Bears, andFoxes.
The firs Voyage to Greenland for theWhale-Fishery.
This Year also, the Muscovy-Compa- PurchaSjny fitted out the first Ships the English Vol. III. p,ever sent to Greenland, for killing of 465.Whales, which were two, the Mary-Margaret, of one Hundred and SixtyTuns, commanded by Thomas Edge, andthe Elizabeth, of sixty Tuns, JonasPoole, Master ; The Lompany had en-gaged in their Service six Men of Biscay ,who were skilled in the Whale Fishery ,and from these the English first learnedthis Art. About the twelfth of June*they killed a small Whale, which yield-ed twelve Tuns of Oyl, being the firstOyl that ever was made in Greenland.
The Voyage proved, however, unfor-tunate, the largest Ship being cast a-way, and the other overset.
Gourdo h's Voyage to Pechora,
Introd. toCoi. ofVoy,VI. Vol. inFol. p. 56.Purchas,Vol. III. p.,465 and 711an d IV. p.1882.
Sir Thomas Button’* Northern Voyage.
This Year, likewise, Sir ThomasButton, at the Instigation of Prince Hen-ry, whose Servant he was, pursued theNorthwest Discovery. He passed Hud-son's Streight, and leaving Hudson's Bay' to the South, sailed above two HundredLeagues to the South-Westward, thro’a Sea above eighty Fathom deep, anddiscovered a great Continent, called byhim New Wales ; Where after muchMisery and Sickness, wintering at PortNelson, he carefully searched all the
To conclude the Naval Transactionsof this Year, I shall just mention a Voy- Vol. III,age we have an Account of in Purchas, S3°-for the River and Town of Pechora ,
Nova Zembla, the River of Ob, &c.
This Voyage was performed, underthe Direction of Mr. William Gout don,of Hull, as Pilot, by the Ship calledthy -Amity, JamesVadun, Master ; Butas it contains little or nothing, butwhat we have already seen in formerNorthern Voyages, I shall not detain,the Reader with mentioning' the Parti-culars of it.
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