The reference in the text is to a passage in the narration of Francis Fletcher, Drake's chaplain, _The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake_ (London, 1628): "_June_ 3, we came into 42 deg. of North latitude, where in the night following we found such alteration of heate, into extreame and nipping cold, that our men in generall did grieuously complaine thereof, some of them feeling their healths much impaired thereby; ... the next day ... the very roapes of our ship were stiffe, and the raine which fell was an vnnatural congealed and frozen substance.... In 38 deg. 30 min. we fell with a conuenient and fit harborough, and _June_ 17 came to anchor therein, where we continued till the 23 day of July following. During all which time, notwithstanding it was in the height of summer, and so neere the sunne, yet were wee continually visited with like nipping colds as we had felt before." This was the experience of the English (according to Fletcher, though his veracity is questioned by some writers), while sailing along the western coast of North America, from the region of Cape Blanco to Cape Mendocino.--See Hakluyt Society reprint of _The World Encompassed_ (London, 1854), pp. 113-118. Cf. H. H. Bancroft's _History of the Northwest Coast_ (San Francisco, 1886), vol. i., pp. 139-145. Drake's aim in this voyage was to find a northern passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Such a passage was supposed to exist, and was termed "the Straits of Anian;" Cortereal having found, as he imagined, its eastern end in Hudson's Straits. This supposed passage across the continent is shown on Zaltieri's map (1566), Mercator's (1569), Porcacchi's (1572), Furlano's (1574), and others. For various theories as to the origin of the name Anian, see Bancroft, _ut supra_, vol. i., pp. 53-56. 13 (p. 57).--On some early charts was shown an imaginary lake, Conibas,--its waters flowing through a river or strait into the great Northern sea, as in the Wytfleit-Ptolemy map (1597); or into the mythical "Straits of Anian," as in Judæis's map (1593), and Löw's (1598). On Wytfleit's map is shown, within the lake, an island and town of the same name. See Bancroft's _N. W. Coast_, vol. i., pp. 84-85: and Winsor's _N. and C. Hist._ vol. ii., p. 457. Bancroft thinks that the notion of the lake was "probably owing to Canadian aboriginal rumors," doubtless of Hudson Bay. 14 (p. 67).--The white cedar (a name commonly given to the arbor-vitæ, _Thuya occidentalis_) is found in abundance along the Atlantic slope. The red cedar (_Juniperus Virginiana_) is abundant from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico; its odor is offensive to most insects. It is probably the tree thus referred to by Sagard (_Canada_, p. 783): "In the forests [of the Huron country] are seen abundance of cedars; the odor of this tree is disliked by serpents, and on this account its branches are used by the savages for their beds, when on their journeys."