. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history, and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. iftO EARLY NORTH-WEST TOTAOES. nautical skill, pradence, or good conduct, in the wtiole of the expedition. After so disastrous a trial, the spirit of western discovery slumbered. The great zeal kindled in the succeeding reiga of Edward VI. turned wholly to the eastward, producing the voyages of Sir Hugh Willoughby and others, which have been recorded in a former chapter. I
. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history, and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. iftO EARLY NORTH-WEST TOTAOES. nautical skill, pradence, or good conduct, in the wtiole of the expedition. After so disastrous a trial, the spirit of western discovery slumbered. The great zeal kindled in the succeeding reiga of Edward VI. turned wholly to the eastward, producing the voyages of Sir Hugh Willoughby and others, which have been recorded in a former chapter. It was otherwise with the spirit of enterprise which revived under Queen Elizabeth. That princess, however, though abundantly inclined to favour whatever might contribute to the glory and interests of her kingdom, did not originate or prompt any of these schemes. Sir Humphrey Gil- bert and Mr. Richard Willis wrote treatises, where learned observations were combined with fanciful reasonings and erroneous reports, but all calculated to influence the public mind in support of such undertakings. The first voyage was planned and conducted by Martin Frobisher, an oflicer who after- ward distinguished himself by naval exploits in every quarter of the globe, but who earned his early fame by contending with the snows and tempests of the northern deep. Frobisher, regarding the westerr passage as the only great thing still left undone m the world, solicited for fifteen years, in city and court, the means of equipping a small flotilla capable of accomplishing this important object. The mer- cantile bodies manifested a coldness very unlike the zeal displayed on former occasions; but some lead. ing men at court were at last more propitious, and through the favour of the Earl of Warwick, Fro- bisher was enabled, in the year 1576, to equip three vessels, respectively of 35,30, and 10 tons. These little barks, or rather boats, seemed ill fitted for ploughing the Arctic deep; yet Mr. Scoresby has
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