CHAPTER XI 

 BAFFIN BAY 



Sir Humphrey Gilbert Sir Martin Frobisher His first voyage The fateful 

 stone First meeting with the Eskimos The Cathay Company Second 

 voyage Third voyage Frobisher builds a fort The ships among the 

 floes Captain Hall finds the Frobisher relics Adrian Gilbert John 

 Davis His voyages and dealings with the Eskimos Reaches and names 

 Sanderson's Hope The Traverse Book William Baffin His first voyage 

 to Greenland His fourth and fifth voyages Discovers Baffin Land Dis- 

 covers Baffin Bay Smith Sound Jones Sound Lancaster Sound 

 Baffin's farthest north John Ross and Parry verify his discoveries. 



IN 1566 Humphrey Gilbert who was as near to 

 heaven by sea as by land - - petitioned Queen 

 Elizabeth for privileges in regard to discoveries " by 

 the North-west to Cataia" as an alternative to a petition 

 he, in conjunction with Anthony Jenkinson, had pre- 

 sented the previous year for a voyage by the north- 

 east. He received no answer ; but ten years afterwards, 

 in support of this unanswered petition, he published 

 his Discourse of a Discovery for a New Passage to 

 Cataia. This met with approval, and led, with little 

 delay, to the expedition under the Martin Frobisher 

 who, among other noteworthy services, commanded 

 the Triumph in the Armada fight to such good purpose 

 that he was one of the five distinguished men knighted 

 by Howard in mid-channel after the battle off the 

 Isle of Wight. 



Frobisher was a good seaman but no mineralogist. 



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