| Abiel Holmes - America - 1805 - 516 pages
...patent for the discovery of a Northwest passage to China, to remain in force five years, by the title of, The Colleagues of the Fellowship for the Discovery of the Northwest Passage. ' The renewal of the French trade with Canada, two years since, was so auspicious, that the French had now... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 540 pages
...1535, he appears several ways engaged in the laudable improvements of navigation ; for, he was one of the colleagues of the fellowship for the discovery of the North-west passage. The same year, he sent his own fleet upon a second voyage to Virginia, and afterwards upon a third. It... | |
| Sir John Barrow - Arctic regions - 1818 - 454 pages
...discoveries of a passage to China and the Moluccas, by the north-westward, north-eastward or northward; to be incorporated by the name of " The Colleagues of the Fellowship for the Discoverie of the north-west Passage." Sir Humphrey in the meantime set out to take possession of the... | |
| John Barrow - Arctic regions - 1818 - 450 pages
...discoveries of a passage to China and the Moluccas, by the north-westward, north-eastward 1 or northward; to be incorporated by the name of " The Colleagues of the Fellowship for the Discoverie of the north-west Passage." Sir Humphrey in the meantime set out to take possession of the... | |
| Abiel Holmes - America - 1829 - 616 pages
...patent for die discovery of a Northwest passage to China, to remain in force five years, by the title of, The Colleagues of the Fellowship for the Discovery of the Northwest passage.2 1584. SIR WALTER RALEIGH, observing that the Spaniards had Q. Eliza- only settled on the... | |
| Robert Huish - Arctic regions - 1835 - 800 pages
...making discoveries of a passage to. China, and the Moluccas, by the north westward, north eastward, or northward, directing the company of which he was...be incorporated by the name of "The Colleagues of thu Fellowship for the discovery of the north west passage." The fleet of Sir Humphrey consisted of... | |
| Robert Huish - Northwest Passage - 1836 - 844 pages
...of making discoveries of a passage toChina, and the Moluccas, by the north westward, north eastward, or northward, directing the company of which he was...Colleagues of the Fellowship for the discovery of the north west passage." The fleet of Sir Humphrey consisted of five ships of different burthens, from... | |
| John Frost - United States - 1844 - 494 pages
...to China and the Moluccas, by the north-westward, north-eastward, or northLOSS OF THE DELIGHT. ward, directing the company of which he was the head, to...consisted of five ships, of different burthens, from ten to two hundred tons, in which were embarked about two hundred and sixty men, including shipwrights,... | |
| Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1844 - 424 pages
...this time that a company was formed by some able men, under letters-patent from the queen, denominated The Colleagues of the Fellowship for the Discovery of the North-west Passage. The principal persons in this spirited undertaking were, Sanderson, a wealthy merchant of London, Sir Adrian... | |
| John Barrow - Great Britain - 1845 - 540 pages
...China and the Molucca Islands, either by the north-west, north-east, or the north. This association was incorporated by the name of " The Colleagues of the Fellowship for the Discoverie of the North- West Passage." Sir Humphrey, as before mentioned, was the author of a long... | |
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