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Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage

INTRODUCTION
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Eventually, after other perils, they succeeded in making their escape.
A strait, called Sir Thomas Rowe's Welcome, leads due north out of Hudson Bay, being parted by Southampton Island from the strait through which we entered.

Its name is quaint, for so was its discoverer, Luke Fox, a worthy man, addicted much to euphuism.

Fox sailed from London in the same year in which James sailed from Bristol.

They were rivals.

Meeting in Davis Straits, Fox dined on board his friendly rival's vessel, which was very unfit for the service upon which it went.


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