what was samuel de champlain searching for?
Champlain's Dream: The European Founding of North America
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 In May 1638 , fresh from his defeat over Kent Island , Claiborne received a commission from the Providence Land Company , who were advised by his old friend Maurice Thomson , to create a new colony on Ruatan Island off the coast of Honduras in the Caribbean Sea . At the time , Honduras itself was a part of Spain 's Kingdom of Guatemala , and Spanish settlements dominated the mainland of Central America . Claiborne optimistically called his new colony Rich Island , but Spanish power in the area was too strong and the colony was destroyed in 1642 . 

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 After two years had passed with no word from Franklin , public concern grew and Lady Franklin — as well as members of Parliament and British newspapers — urged the Admiralty to send a search party . In response , the Admiralty developed a three @-@ pronged plan put into effect in the spring of 1848 that sent an overland rescue party , led by Sir John Richardson and John Rae , down the MacKenzie River to the Canadian Arctic coast . Two expeditions by sea were also launched , one entering the Canadian Arctic archipelago through Lancaster Sound , and the other entering from the Pacific side . In addition , the Admiralty offered a reward of £ 20 @,@ 000 ( £ 1 @,@ 811 @,@ 000 as of 2016 ) " to any Party or Parties , of any country , who shall render assistance to the crews of the Discovery Ships under the command of Sir John Franklin " . After the three @-@ pronged effort failed , British national concern and interest in the Arctic increased until " finding Franklin became nothing less than a crusade . " Ballads such as " Lady Franklin 's Lament " , commemorating Lady Franklin 's search for her lost husband , became popular . 

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 French archaeologist and historian Léon Heuzey began working with the French School at Athens in Greece at the age of 20 in 1851 . He made his most famous discovery of that period in the town of Farsala , a city in southern Thessaly . In antiquity , the area was named Pharsalos , and became known for the Battle of Pharsalus in 48 BCE , where Julius Caesar defeated Pompey during the Great Roman Civil War . 

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 From 1499 to 1508 a number of other expeditions were launched from Bristol to the ' New found land ' , the earliest being undertaken by William Weston . One of these , led by John Cabot 's son , Sebastian Cabot , explored down the coast of North America until he was ‘ almost in the latitude of Gibraltar ’ and ‘ almost the longitude of Cuba ’ . This would suggest that he reached as far as the Chesapeake , close to what is now Washington D.C. 

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 As the story became more widely known , on 4 November Henry Davenant , a member of the court of King George I , went to see for himself what was happening . He examined the samples Howard had collected and returned to London , ostensibly a believer . Howard had Toft moved to Guildford , where he offered to deliver rabbits in the presence of anyone who doubted her story . Some of the letters he wrote to Davenant to notify him of any progress in the case came to the attention of Nathaniel St. André , since 1723 a Swiss surgeon to the Royal Household . St. André would ultimately detail the contents of one of these letters in his pamphlet , A short narrative of an extraordinary delivery of rabbets ( 1727 ) : 
