[Illustration: FROM THE MOLINEAUX GLOBE, 1592. [This globe is now in the Middle Temple. (See Editorial Note E, at the end of Dr. De Costa’s chapter.) This is thought to have been made, in part at least, from Davis’s charts, which are now lost. Kohl’s _Catalogue of Maps in Hakluyt_, p. 23. The sketch is to be interpreted thus:— 1. Grocland. 2. Hope Sanderson. 3. London cost. 4. Marchant Yle. 5. Davies island. 6. Challer’s Cape. 7. Gilbert’s Sound. 8. Easter Point. 9. Regin. Eli. forland. 10. Fretum Davis. 11. Mare Conglelatum. 12. C. Bedford. 13. Sandrson’s tour. 14. Mont Ralegh. 15. E. Cumberland isles. 16. E. Warwicke’s forland. 17. L. Lumley’s inlet. 18. A furious overfall. 19. Terre de Labrador. 20. Dorgeo. 21. I. de Arel.(?) —ED.]] Next in importance to the three voyages of Frobisher are the three voyages of Captain John Davis, who has been immortalized by the magnificent strait which bears his name, and which was discovered on his first voyage. On this voyage he sailed from Dartmouth on the 7th of June, 1585, with two vessels,—the “Sunshine,” of fifty tons, manned by twenty-three persons, and the “Moonshine,” of thirty-five tons, with seventeen men. But it was not until three weeks later that he was able to take his final departure from the Scilly Islands; and he arrived at Dartmouth, on his return, on the 30th of September. In this brief period he made some important discoveries, and sailed as far north as 66° 66′, and westward farther than any one had yet penetrated, “finding no hindrance.” He naturally concluded that he had already discovered the desired passage, and that it was only necessary to press forward in order to insure entire success. But he was compelled by stress of weather to put back, and he reached England shortly afterward. On his second voyage his little fleet was increased by the addition of the “Mermaid,” of one hundred tons, and the “North Star,” a pinnace of ten tons. He sailed from Dartmouth on the 7th of May, 1586, and for a time everything promised well; but at the end of July the crew of his largest vessel became discontented, and returned with her to England. Meanwhile, the “Sunshine” and the pinnace had been sent to make discoveries to the eastward of Greenland. But, in nowise disheartened by these circumstances, Davis determined to prosecute his enterprise in the “Moonshine.” He reached, however, not quite so far north as in his previous voyage, and apparently about as far west, and arrived home early in October,—“not having done so much as he did in his first voyage,” is the judgment of one of his successors in Arctic navigation.[194]