Narratives of Voyages Towards the North-West, 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
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Whilst the last sheet was at press, I availed myself of an opportunity, that unexpectedly presented itself, to refer to a second copy of the North-west Foxe, containing a list of errata. In one of the answers given by Master Hubbart to the demands of Sir Thomas Button, in the text of Fox's work, the following passage occurs: “to hang a planet”; and it is so reprinted in the Appendix to the Narratives (lines seven and eight from the bottom of p. 247). The reading of the errata is: “I hung a plummet on”. Combined with Baffin's method of ascertaining the longitude, the passage is thus rendered intelligible.
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- Narratives of Voyages Towards the North-West, in Search of a Passage to Cathay and India, 1496 to 1631With Selections from the Early Records of the Honourable the East India Company and from Mss. in the British Museum, pp. 260Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1849