. Round about the North pole . ookpossession of Labrador and the islands and peninsulas inthe mouth of the St. Lawrence, the district being at firstknown as the New Found Land, a name afterwardsrestricted to the largest island. And they had theirreward, as shown in the Privy Purse accounts ofHenry VII, where an entry of the 10th August, 1497,appears— To hym that found the new isle, £ not an excessive honorarium for the finding ofa continent. In 1498 another voyage of the same ship by way ofIceland, in which some attempt seems to have beenmade to colonise the newly discovered territori
. Round about the North pole . ookpossession of Labrador and the islands and peninsulas inthe mouth of the St. Lawrence, the district being at firstknown as the New Found Land, a name afterwardsrestricted to the largest island. And they had theirreward, as shown in the Privy Purse accounts ofHenry VII, where an entry of the 10th August, 1497,appears— To hym that found the new isle, £ not an excessive honorarium for the finding ofa continent. In 1498 another voyage of the same ship by way ofIceland, in which some attempt seems to have beenmade to colonise the newly discovered territories, re-sulted in the discovery of Hudson Strait and a visit toLabrador, judging by the finding of the deer in herds,the white bears, and the Eskimos who are not knownto have ever crossed into the island of was not the only English vessel to appear inthese parts at that time, for in the same year the PrivyPurse accounts record a gift of £30 to Thomas Bradleyand Launcelot Thirkill for going to the New Isle,. COLUMBUS To face page 4 THE FIRST NORTH-EAST VOYAGE 5 adding that Launcelot had already received £20 aspreste for his ship going there. It is evident that the fisheries were found to beworth working, for no less than fifty Spanish, French,and Portuguese ships were engaged in them in 1517,the year of Sebastian Cabots disputed voyage toHudson Bay. Ten years afterwards Robert Thorne, ofBristol, wrote to the King, mentioning this voyage andsuggesting three sea routes to Cathay—by the north-west, as Sebastian had attempted, by the north overthe Pole, and by the north-east—and, in 1547, whenSebastian returned to England for good, after his longservice with Spain, he again, as the first Governor ofthe Company of Merchant Adventurers, took up thisCathay question, which had frequently been raised,and fitted out, as a commencement, an expedition tothe north-east. The ships were built at Bristol specially for thepurpose, and they were sheathed with lead, the f
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