 | Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1921 - 622 pàgines
...out the work cut out for his successors. He lighted Hudson into his strait, as Luke Fox truly said. He lighted Baffin into his bay. He lighted Hans Egede to the scene of his Greenland labours. He did more. His true-hearted devotion to the cause of Arctic discovery, his patient scientific research,... | |
 | Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley - 1990 - 340 pàgines
...12'N. Markham wrote that he 'converted the Arctic regions from a confused myth into a denned area . . . He lighted Hudson into his strait. He lighted Baffin into his bay'. He was killed by Japanese pirates off Sumatra in 1605. Going to Sea By the time Scott joined the training... | |
 | M. B. Synge - 2013 - 237 pàgines
...mapped out the mysterious regions of the north, and pointed out the way to those who came after. " He lighted Hudson into his strait. He lighted Baffin into his bay," But he did more than this. By his truehearted devotion to the cause of Arctic discovery, by his patient... | |
 | Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1921 - 624 pàgines
...out the work cut out for his successors. He lighted Hudson into his strait, as Luke Fox truly said. He lighted Baffin into his bay. He lighted Hans Egede to the scene of his Greenland labours. He did more. His true-hearted devotion to the cause of Arctic discovery, his patient scientific research,... | |
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He not only described and mapped the extensive tract explored by himself, but he clearly pointed out the work cut out for his successors. He lighted Hudson into his strait. He lighted Baffin into his bay. 