Voyages in Search of the North-West PassageA DISCOURSE WRITTEN BY SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT, KNIGHT.Reading editionChapter navigation21 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterINTRODUCTION.A DISCOURSE WRITTEN BY SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT, KNIGHT.Chapter I · TO PROVE BY AUTHORITY A PASSAGE TO BE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF AMERICA, TO GO TO CATHAY AND THE EAST INDIES.Chapter IIChapter III · TO PROVE BY EXPERIENCE OF SUNDRY MEN’S TRAVELS THE OPENING OF SOME PART OF THIS NORTH-WEST PASSAGE, WHEREBY GOOD HOPE REMAINETH OF THE REST.Chapter IV · TO PROVE BY CIRCUMSTANCE THAT THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE HATH BEEN SAILED THROUGHOUT.Chapter V · TO PROVE THAT THESE INDIANS, AFORENAMED, CAME NOT BY THE SOUTH-EAST, SOUTH-WEST, NOR FROM ANY OTHER PART OF AFRICA OR AMERICA.Chapter VI · TO PROVE THAT THOSE INDIANS CAME NOT BY THE NORTH-EAST, AND THAT THERE IS NO THROUGH NAVIGABLE PASSAGE THAT WAY.Chapter VII · TO PROVE THAT THE INDIANS AFORENAMED CAME ONLY BY THE NORTH-WEST, WHICH INDUCETH A CERTAINTY OF OUR PASSAGE BY EXPERIENCE.Chapter VIII · CERTAIN REASONS ALLEGED FOR THE PROVING OF A PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-EAST BEFORE THE QUEEN’S MAJESTY, AND CERTAIN LORDS OF THE COUNCIL, BY MASTER ANTHONY JENKINSON, WITH MY SEVERAL ANSWERS THEN USED TO THE SAME.Chapter IX · HOW THAT THE PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-WEST IS MORE COMMODIOUS FOR OUR TRAFFIC THAN THE OTHER BY THE EAST, IF THERE WERE ANY SUCH.Chapter X · WHAT COMMODITIES WOULD ENSUE, THIS PASSAGE ONCE DISCOVERED.CERTAIN OTHER REASONS OR ARGUMENTS TO PROVE A PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-WEST.THE FIRST VOYAGE OF MASTER MARTIN FROBISHERTHE SECOND VOYAGE OF MASTER MARTIN FROBISHER,THE THIRD AND LAST VOYAGE INTO META INCOGNITA,THE REPORT OF THOMAS WIARS,THE FIRST VOYAGE OF MASTER JOHN DAVIS,THE SECOND VOYAGE ATTEMPTED BY MASTER JOHN DAVIS,THE THIRD VOYAGE NORTH-WESTWARD, MADE BY JOHN DAVIS,Previous chapter ←INTRODUCTION.Next chapter →Chapter I · TO PROVE BY AUTHORITY A PASSAGE TO BE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF AMERICA, TO GO TO CATHAY AND THE EAST INDIES.All chapters and sections (21)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsINTRODUCTION.A DISCOURSE WRITTEN BY SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT, KNIGHT.Chapters12345678910Other sectionsCERTAIN OTHER REASONS OR ARGUMENTS TO PROVE A PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-WEST.THE FIRST VOYAGE OF MASTER MARTIN FROBISHERTHE SECOND VOYAGE OF MASTER MARTIN FROBISHER,THE THIRD AND LAST VOYAGE INTO META INCOGNITA,THE REPORT OF THOMAS WIARS,THE FIRST VOYAGE OF MASTER JOHN DAVIS,THE SECOND VOYAGE ATTEMPTED BY MASTER JOHN DAVIS,THE THIRD VOYAGE NORTH-WESTWARD, MADE BY JOHN DAVIS,To prove a Passage by the North-West to Cathay and the East Indies.◇← INTRODUCTION.CHAPTER I. TO PROVE BY AUTHORITY A PASSAGE TO BE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF AMERICA, TO GO TO CATHAY AND THE EAST INDIES. →