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urther schemes for ingratiating himself with the Spanish monarch, he proposed to solve the problem of a northwest passage—the secret which has so long baffled Chap. II.} 1524 the enterprise of the most courageous and persevering navigators. He deemed the existence of the passage unquestionable, and, by simultaneous voyages along the American coast, on the Pacific, and on the Atlantic, he hoped to complete the discovery, to which Sebastian Cabot had pointed the way. Quarta Carta, o Relacion de Don Fernando Cortes. S. XIX. In Barcia's Historiadores Primitivos, i. 151, 152. The same may be found in the Italian of Ramusio, III. fol. 294, ed. 1665. The design of Cortes remained but the offer of loyalty. A voyage to the north-west was really under- 1525 taken by Stephen Gomez, an experienced naval officer, who had been with Magellan in the first memorable passage into the Pacific Ocean. The expedition was decreed by the council for the Indies, in the hope of discovering the n