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He was looking for a northwest passage across the top of the Americas to the west. While there he thought he had found gold in Canada, but it turned out to be fool's gold (iron pyrites).

He became a privateer who preyed on Spanish shippong, finally being involved in repelling the Spanish Armada attack against England.

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