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To realise Thorne`s* scheme of passage across the north pole to the spice islands. He failed, and discovered neither the bay, nor straits, nor river named after him. *Thorne, Robert. Merchant and geographical writer who wrote to HenryVIII exhorting him to take in hand expeditions to the Indies by the north east and sending him a map.(Died 1527).

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