[197] Northwest Fox, p. 50.
[198] Northwest Fox, p. 117. The documents relating to Hudson’s fourth voyage are in Purchas’s Pilgrimes, iii. 596-610, and in Asher’s Henry Hudson, the Navigator, pp. 93-138.
[199] Northwest Fox, pp. 117, 118.
[200] Ibid., p. 118.
[201] Northwest Fox, p. 244.
[202] [The reader may consult the following, which has a parallel English text: Die Literatur über die Polar-regionem der Erde. Von J. Chavanne, A. Karpf, F. Ritter v. Le Monnier. Herausg. von der K. K. geographischen Gesellschaft in Wien. Wien, 1878, xiv. + 333 pp., 8º.
This book shows 6,617 titles, including papers from serials and periodicals. It is far from judiciously compiled, however; containing much that is irrelevant, and not a little that indicates the compilers’ ignorance of the books in hand, as when they were entrapped from the title into including Dibdin’s Northern Tour and other works equally foreign to the subject. One of the best collections of Arctic literature in this country is in the Carter-Brown Library at Providence; and this, putting strict limits to the subject and not including papers of a periodic character, shows a list of between six and seven hundred titles. Letter of John R. Bartlett.—Ed.]
[203] A Chronological History of Voyages into the Arctic Regions; undertaken chiefly for the Purpose of discovering a Northeast, Northwest, or Polar Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific: from the earliest Period of Scandinavian Navigation to the Departure of the recent Expeditions under the Orders of Captains Ross and Buchan. By John Barrow, F. R. S. London: John Murray. 1818. 8º. pp. 379 and 48.
[204] Narratives of Voyages towards the Northwest, in Search of a Passage to Cathay and India, 1496 to 1631. With Selections from the Early Records of the Honourable the East India Company, and from MSS. in the British Museum. By Thomas Rundall, Esq. London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society. 1849. 8º. pp. xx. and 260.
[This book has a convenient map of Arctic explorations between 1496 and 1631. The general reader will find condensed historical summaries of antecedent voyages, often prefixed to the special narratives, as in the case of Captain Beechey’s Voyage of Discovery towards the North Pole, 1843, and in the introductions to Asher’s Henry Hudson and Winter Jones’s edition of Hakluyt’s Divers Voyages.—Ed.]