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Show EARLY NORTHWEST VOYAGES. Some Account of the Arctic Trips That Have Been Made. Beginning with the American discoveries dis-coveries of John Cabot In 1497, tho search for tho northwest passago was for many years the object of rival expeditions ex-peditions from Denmark, England, Franco nnd Portugal, says A. W. Qreely, In the Century. It was Froblsh-er, Froblsh-er, however, who In 1G7C-78 first gavo a distinct national character to tho quest. John Davis ot Davis' strait, followed In three voyages, 1CSG-C8, and then, In 1G12, came tho Illustrious and hapless Henry Hudson, whoso motto was that explorers should "achlovo what thoy had undertaken or clso glvo reasons wherefore It will not bo." Tho search for the Atlantic sldo closed for two centuries with tho voy-ago voy-ago of a great seaman, William Baffin, Baf-fin, who, In a tiny boat of B5 tons, with a miserable equipment, but an undaunted un-daunted heart, attained, In 1C1G, the highest north In tho western hemisphere, hemis-phere, 77 degrees 45 minutes N., and discovered three radiating Bounds, Jones, Smith and Lancaster, tho last being tho eastern cntranco to tho long-sought long-sought pasw.cn. |