Chapter XXV

Vasco Nuñez de Balboa.--His Discovery of the Pacific, and subsequent
Fate.--Ferdinand Magellan.--Sebastian el Cano, the first
Circumnavigator of the Globe.--Discoveries of Pizarro and Cortez.
--Urdaneta.--Juan Fernandez.--Mendoza.--Drake.--Discoveries of the
Portuguese and Dutch in the Western Pacific.--Attempts of the Dutch
and English to discover North-East and North-West Passages to India.
--Sir Hugh Willoughby and Chancellor.--Frobisher.--Davis.--Barentz.
--His Wintering in Nova Zembla.--Quiros.--Torres.--Schouten.--Le
Maire.--Abel Tasman.--Hudson.--Baffin.--Dampier.--Anson.--Byron.
--Wallis and Carteret.--Bougainville 464