Meanwhile the English had not lost sight of the possibilities of the North-East Passage, if not for reaching the Spice Islands, at any rate as a means of tapping the overland route to China, hitherto monopolised by the Genoese.
Burrough sighted Nova Zembla in 1556; in one of the voyages in search of the north-east passage, though the very name (Russian for Newfoundland) implies that it had previously been sighted and named by Russian seamen.
The many expeditions which have set out to find a north-west or a north-east passage do not come within the scope of the book, except when they have had some special bearing on the struggle for the Pole.
Up till the beginning of the nineteenth century nearly all the Arctic voyages had as the chief object the discovery either of a north-west or a north-east passage to the Pacific Ocean.
Must we, then, renounce all hopes of discovering a north-east passage?
Have they often attempted to discover the north-east passage?
Schwaryencrona was a warm admirer of Nordenskiold, and this is why he had asked these questions about the north-east passage.
For the time had come, and the man, John, added a new chapter to discovery by the travellers he sent across the Dark Continent and the sailors he despatched to the Arctic Seas to find a north-east passage to China.
Amongst the young and lusty pilots were Sir Hugh Willoughby and Richard Chancellor, who turned their attentions to a North-East passage.
Old man though he was, his mind still ran on the discovery of a North-West, or North-East Passage to the Indies, and he became the governor of a company of merchant adventurers for the discovery of regions beyond the sea.
Yet another chapter of discoveries was opened by King John's expeditions for the ascent of the Western Nile, and for the exploration of the North-East Passage to Cathay.
We must now return to the period of the first attempt to find out a north-east passage to India.
One of the ships was wrecked off the coast of Nova Zembla, and Wood returned in the other, with an opinion that a north-east passage is impracticable, and that Nova Zembla is a part of the continent of Greenland.
Expeditions to the North--To Spitzbergen and the Yenissei--The Discovery of the North-East Passage.
The Austro-Hungarian Expedition did not succeed in discovering the North-East Passage.
The ease with which he had accomplished the two voyages already mentioned (to the Yenissei River) urged him to proceed with the expedition which he had been studying for years, the discovery of the North-East Passage.
Their voyage also forms the first attempt to discover a north-east passage to China.
It now remained for some explorer to sail round the North-East Passage, which was known to exist, but which, up to this time, no man had done.
The object of this voyage is unknown; but, judging from the ruling ambition of the navigators of those days, it was to attempt a north-west or north-east passage to the Indies.
The English Expedition in Search of a North-East Passage to India.
Hugh Willoughby, in search of a north-east passage.
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