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Spaniards, however, had dreamed of a northwest passage before any of these.
When Magellan passed through the strait that bears his name and his ship completed the first circumnavigation of the globe, men began first to see that America was no part of Asia.
In further proof, they sought to find a passage into the Pacific from the north as a complement to Magellan's passage from the south.
Such an attempt was first made by the Spaniards under Vasquez de Alon four years after the voyage of Magellan, that is, in 1524.
Alon was hoping to find this passage when he put in at Hampton Roads, just as Hudson hoped to find it 85 years afterward, when he entered the harbor of New York.
Hudson, who in a later voyage sought it once more in Hudson Bay and perished miserably there, set adrift in an open boat and abandoned by his own mutinous sailors.
End of section one.
Section 2 of Great Epics in American History, Volume 1.
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Recording by Betty B. Great Epics in American History, Volume 1.
Voyages of Discovery and Early Explorations, 1000 A.D.
to 1682.
By Francis Whiting Halsey.
Section 2.
Discoveries Before Columbus.
1.
The Men from Asia and from Norway, by Justin Windsor.
There is not a race of Eastern Asia, Siberian, Tatar, Chinese, Japanese, Malay, with the Polynesians, which has not been claimed as discoverers, intending or accidental, of American shores, or as progenitors, more or less perfect or remote, of American peoples.
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