Pāhonoa te oro

For persistence of effort in the. face of adversity no enterprise in the history of exploration was more remarkable than England’s search for the northern passages to the Far East. The inspiration for the search was the hope of sharing in the riches of oriental commerce. In the tropical .regions of the Far East were situated, Roger Barlow wrote in 1541, “the most richest londes and ilondes in the the worlde, for all the golde, spices, aromatikes and pretiose sto