Ocean's Story; or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries Maritime Adventures, Achievements, Explorations, Discoveries and Inventions; and of the Rise and Progress of Ship-Building and Ocean Navigation, from the Ark to the Iron Steamships

CHAPTER XXV.--Voyage of Jacques Cartier--Maritime Projects

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of Francis I. of France--Gulf of St Lawrence--A Quick Trip Home--Second Voyage--Canada, Quebec, Montreal--A Captive King--Voyage of Sir Hugh Willoughby and Richard Chancellor--Discovery of Nova Zembla--Disastrous Winter--Fate of the Expedition--Martin Frobisher--His Voyage in Quest of a Northwest Passage--Greenland--Labrador--Frobisher's Straits--Exchange of Captives--Supposed Discovery of Gold--Second Voyage--A Cargo of Precious Earth taken on Board--Meta Incognita--Third Voyage--A Mortifying Conclusion 245