Baffin

William, an English navigator and discoverer, believed to have been born in London about 1584. In 1615 he took service as pilot of the “ Discovery,” in search of @ northwest pa age, and made a careful examination of Hudson Strait. His recorded latitudes and notes of the tides are in remarkable agreement with those of a later date. In the following year, with Capt. By lot, he discovered, charted, and named Smith Sound, and several others, and explored the large inlet now a ociated with his name. His last voyages 1616-1621, were to the Hast. At the siege of Ormuz, which the Eng: lish were helping the Shah of Persie to recover from the Portuguese, he was killed, Jan. 23, 1622.