Danish Arctic Expeditions, 1605 to 1620: Volume 2, The Expedition of Captain Jens Munk to Hudson’s Bay in Search of a North-West Passage in 1619–20

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. Munk's Navigatio Septentrionalis tells of the Danish attempt to find a North-West Passage in 1619-1620, which reached Hudson's Bay but lost almost all the crew due to cold and disease.