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 182 ENGLAND'S ATTEMPTS TO BEACH INDIA problem which English seamanship had set itself to solve. The death of Queen Mary put an end to constraints that had arisen out of her Spanish marriage, and with the accession of the Protestant princess in 1558 a host of projectors appeared. A rivalry sprang up between the advocates of the northwest and the northeast passage. In 1565 Anthony Jenkin- son urged on Queen Elizabeth a northeast exploration by sea "to set forward this fa- mous discovery of that renowned Cathay." In 1566 - 1567 [Sir] Hum- phrey Gilbert wrote his noted Discourse " to prove a passage by the northwest to Cathay and the East Indies," and offered to find it by the " travel hazard and peril of my life," on condition that he and his heirs should be secured in the fruits of the discovery. But the great northwestern attempt of Elizabeth's reign was the three voyages of Frobisher. Martin Fro- bisher, merchant, mariner, and on occasion corsair, had for fifteen years nourished a scheme for a passage north- west to Cathay. On his travels he met with Michael TRADERS FROM INDIA AT BOKHARA.