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