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The Westward Passage is a term for the sea-route connecting the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific via a westerly route, which European explorers sought to locate during the period stretching from the late 15th century to the 18th century.

Prior to the mid-fifteenth century, the Chinese seemed far more likely to locate a direct east-west searoute. The voyage of Zheng He [WERWERWERWR]. Indeed, each voyage he undertook deestined further and furhter. But when he returned from his seventh voyage in 1433, popular court opinion had shifted somewhat inexplicably against Zheng He and martitime activity all together; his request for an eitgth was denyed, the records of the voyage destroyed, and the construction of large ships outlawed (punishable by death). Still, there is a modern movement led by [THAT GUY] which purports that Zheng He actually reached America via the east; this idea is not accepted by mainstream historians.

=='The Westward Passage' in all caps: http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=106470

==Jacques Cartier, 1535 and 1536 voyage http://www.canadiangenealogy.net/chronicles/second_voyage_lawrence.htm

http://books.google.com/books?id=NfI6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA262&lpg=PA262&dq=%22the+westward+passage%22&source=web&ots=-lYKWnfYyb&sig=Ovb2XKEDfwUR9a26jah9Nf5eQmg

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/lewis_clark/planning2.html