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" Cape Desolation ; and from thence you, William Baffin as pilot, keep along the coast of Greenland and up Fretum Davis, until you come toward the height of eighty degrees, if the land will give you leave. "
The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery - Page 172
by William Desborough Cooley - 1830
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A Chronological History of Voyages Into the Arctic Regions: Undertaken ...

Sir John Barrow - Arctic regions - 1818 - 454 pages
...Pilot. The instructions given for their guidance have the merit of being clear, distinct, and brief. " For your course you must make all possible haste to...as pilot, keep along the coast of Greenland and up Fretum Davis, until you come toward the height of eighty degrees, if the land will give you leave....
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A Chronological History of Voyages Into the Arctic Regions: Undertaken ...

John Barrow - Arctic regions - 1818 - 460 pages
...Pilot. The instructions given for their guidance have the merit of being clear, distinct, and brief. " For your course you must make all possible haste to...as pilot, keep along the coast of Greenland and up Fretum Davis, until you come toward the height of eighty degrees, if the land will give you leave....
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The Last Voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross, R.N. to the Arctic Regions: For the ...

Robert Huish - Arctic regions - 1835 - 800 pages
...were given to Bylot and Baffin, and they are certainly drawn up with great clearness and judgement. " For your course you must make all possible haste to...as pilot, keep along the coast of Greenland, and up Fretum Davis until you come toward the height of 80°, if the land will give you leave. Then, for feare...
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A narrative of Arctic discovery

John Joseph Shillinglaw - 1850 - 380 pages
...officers next year, and amongst other instructions they issued the following for their guidance : " For your course, you must make all possible haste...Desolation, and from thence, you, William Baffin, as pilot, keepe along the coast of Greenland and vp Fretum Dauis, untill you come toward the height of Eightie...
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A Narrative of Arctic Discovery, from the Earliest Period to the Present ...

John Joseph Shillinglaw - Arctic regions - 1851 - 402 pages
...officers next year, and amongst other instructions they issued the following for their guidance: " For your course, you must make all possible haste...Desolation, and from thence, you, William Baffin, as pilot, keepe along the coast of Groenland and vp Fretum Dauis, untill you come toward the height of Eightie...
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The Gallery of Geography: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour of the ..., Volume 1

Thomas Milner - Australia - 1872 - 684 pages
...ordered that, 'you William Baffin, as pilot, keep along the coast of Greenland, and up Davis's Strait, until you come toward the height of 80°, if the land will give you leave.' It was expected, that in that high latitude the extreme north point of America would be reached, from...
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Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society, Volume 63

Voyages and travels - 1881 - 288 pages
...WILLIAM BAFFIN, AD 1616. (From Purchas, Hi, p. 842.) "FoR your course you must make all possible haste to Cape Desolation ; and from thence you, William Baffin,...as pilot, keep along the coast of Greenland and up Fretum Davis, until you come toward the height of eighty degrees, if the land will give you leave....
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The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622

Sir Clements Robert Markham - Greenland - 1881 - 290 pages
...BAFFIN, AD 1616. (From Purchas, in, p. 842.) "FoR your course you must make all possible haste to Capo Desolation; and from thence you, William Baffin, as pilot, keep along the coast of Greenland and up Fretum Davis, until you come toward the height of eighty degrees, if the land will give you leave....
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The gallery of geography, a tour of the world. 6 divisions, Volume 1; Volume 81

Thomas Milner - 1882 - 262 pages
...nautical observer of his age. In the instructions supplied upon this occasion, it was ordered that, 'you William Baffin, as pilot, keep along the coast of Greenland, and up Davis's Strait, until you come toward the height of 80°, if tho land will give you leave.' It was...
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The Arctic Problem and Narrative of the Peary Relief Expedition of the ...

Angelo Heilprin - Arctic regions - 1893 - 208 pages
...and Bylot to guide the expedition of 1616 in search of a North-West Passage we find the following: '-For your course you must make all possible haste...as pilot, keep along the coast of Greenland and up Fretum Davis, until you come toward the height of eighty degrees, if the land will give you leave;"...
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