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his visit behind him. On Countess of Warwick Island 

 he had built a house of lime and stone, and " the better," 

 says Best, " to allure those brutish and uncivill people to 

 courtesie, againste other times of our comming, we left 

 therein dyvers of our countrye toyes, as bells and knives, 

 wherein they specially delight, one for the necessarie 

 use, and the other for the great pleasure thereof. Also 

 pictures of men and women in lead, men a horsebacke, 

 lookinglasses, whistles and pipes. Also in the house 

 was made an oven, and breade left baked therein, for 

 them to see and taste. We buried the timber of our 

 pretended forte, with manye barrels of meale, pease, 

 griste, and sundrie other good things, which was of the 

 provision of those whyche should inhabite, if occasion 

 served. And insteade therof we fraight oure ships 

 full of ore, whiche we holde of farre greater price." 



Here we part from the Cathay Company. The in- 

 evitable trouble came with the discovery that, practically, 

 the only gold the ore would yield was that put in as an 

 " additament " by the Italian. A very thick cloud 

 rolled over Frobisher, who, like Lock, seems to have 

 believed in the genuineness of the affair all through ; 

 but soon his country had need of him and he came to 

 the front again in so worthy a manner that little more 

 was heard of his connection with this company that 

 failed. 



To complete the story. In 1861 (say three hundred 

 years afterwards) Captain Hall hearing among the 

 Eskimos how numerous white men had arrived first in 

 two, then three, then a great many ships, how they had 

 killed several natives and taken away two, how five of 

 the white men had been captured, and how these had 



