Teks asli (Inggris)

INTRODUCTION. Thirty-five years ago I made a voyage to the Arctic Seas in what Chaucer calls   A little bote No bigger than a mannë’s thought; it was a Phantom Ship that made some voyages to different parts of the world which were recorded in early numbers of Charles Dickens’s “Household Words.”  As preface to Richard Hakluyt’s records of the first endeavour of our bold Elizabethan mariners to find North-West Passage to the East, let me repeat here that old voyage of mine from No.