The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: October 4, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781402195327
Subjects: voyages,William Baffin,d 1622,Greenland,Svalbard,Norway,Northwest Passage,travel,Clements R Markham; Science / Geography
First sentence: PURPOSING with myselfe to present this journall, or travis book, to you, which is usually kept of seafayringe men and mariners, in ther navigation of long voyagies and unknowne countryes; and having been lett thes two yeares, being travelling upon the sea to mayntayn my poore estat of wife and children; and this winter being at home, and remembring the manyfold cortesies shewed by you to my anciente father, Nicholas Gatonde, I thought good this simple labour, such as it is, to offer vnto you, right worshipful, desiring you to accept it, as a gift that proceedeth from such a one who hartily wisheth you well, and would, if ability served, present you with a better, seeing and knowing you worship and your ancesters have been always well-wishers to this towne and the inhabitants of the same; wherefor I intreat your worship to pervse it over.