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Show EARLY NOHTHWEST VOYAGES. Soms AceoOnt of the Arctic Trlpi That Have Deen Made. Ileglnnlng with the American ills covcrlea of John Cabot in 1107, the search for the northwest passage waa for many years the object of rival ex pcdltlons from Denmark Kngland Franco and Portugal, suys A W. Orccly, In Ihe Century It was Kroblsh-er Kroblsh-er howevtr who In 1S76-78 first gave a distinct national character to iho quest John Uavia of ImvIs' slruU. followed In three voagea issr8, and then In 1012 rame the Illustrious and hapless Kent) Hudson whose motto was that ivplorira should "achieve what the) had undertaken or else give reason wherefore It wilt nut b ' Tho scurch for the Atlantic side closed for two cenlurles with the voy ago of u gnat seaman, William llaf fin, who In a tiny boat of ES tons, with a mlavrabli i milium nt, but an un daunted heart attained. In 1C1C, the highest north In the western hcnils phcrc, 77 degrees IG minutes N , and discovered throe, nullntlng sounds Jones Hmllh and I.aucnster, the last being the eastern entrance to tho long sought pasartfft |