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THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.

CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, Esq., C.B., F.R.S., Pres. R.G.S., PRESIDENT.
MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HENRY RAWLINSON, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S.,
Associé Étranger de L'Institut de France, VICE-PRESIDENT.

THE RIGHT HON. LORD ABERDARE, G. C. B., F.R.S., VICE-PRESIDENT.
VICE-ADMIRAL LINDESAY BRINE.

ROBERT BROWN, ESQ., M.A., PH.D.

MILLER CHRISTY, ESQ.

THE HON. GEORGE N. CURZON, M. P.

THE RIGHT HON. SIR MOUNTSTUART E. GRANT-DUFF, G.C.S.I., late Pres.

R.G.S.

F. DUCANE GODMAN, ESQ., F.R.S.

ALBERT GRAY, ESQ.

C. P. LUCAS, ESQ.

A. P. MAUDSLAY, ESQ.

E. DELMAR MORGAN, ESQ.

CAPTAIN NATHAN, R.E.

ADMIRAL SIR E. OMMANNEY, C.B., F.R.S.

E. A. PETHERICK, ESQ.

S. W. SILVER, ESQ.

COUTTS TROTTER, ESQ.

PROF. E. B. TYLOR, D.C.L.

CAPTAIN W. J. L. WHARTON, R.N.

WILLIAM FOSTER, ESQ., Honorary Secretary.

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* For conclusion of “North-West Fox", see Volume II.

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Chart showing the Routes of the English Navigators who
sought a North-West Passage through Hudson's Bay,
1610-1632

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HE present volumes consist of a reprint of the narratives of two English navigators who sailed in search of a North-West Passage in the year 1631-namely, the North-West Fox, or Fox from the North-West Passage, by Captain Luke Foxe, of Hull, published in 1635, and The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captain Thomas James (of Bristol), published in 1633. Inasmuch, however, as Foxe prefixed to his own narrative abstracted accounts of all previous voyages northwestwards with which he was acquainted, his work became much more than a narrative of his own voyage. Most of these accounts of earlier voyages given by Foxe are merely abstracted from the pages of Hakluyt or Purchas; but several of them are original and of considerable value.

Both works (which are of much interest in their way, though differing widely from each other in

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