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being four months at sea, came into Pitsligo Bay, 

 on the east coast of Scotland, on the 10th Novem- 

 ber, 1556, and was there wrecked, when, with great 

 difficulty, the ambassador with a few of his atten- 

 dants were saved ; but Richard Cliancelor, the 

 Grand Pilot, and most of the crew were drowned. 

 We are told by the writer of this unfortunate 

 voyage, that " the whole masse and bodie of the 

 goods laden in her, was by the rude and ravenous 

 people of the country thereunto adjoining, rifled, 

 spoyled, and carried away, to the manifest losse 

 and utter destruction of all the lading of the said 

 ship."* The ambassador was conducted to Lon- 

 don in great pomp, and the connection between 

 the two nations was from that time drawn closer 

 every year. The English merchants trading with 

 Russia extended their commerce far beyond the 

 confines of that extensive empire ; but as their dis- 

 coveries were made by land, they form no part of 

 the present plan, and could not with propriety be 

 introduced. 



MARTIN FROBISHER — FlTSt VoyOge. 1576. 



While this rapid progress was making in the 

 north-east both by sea and land, under the auspices 

 of the company of merchants trading to Russia, 

 the question of a north-west passage round the 

 northern coast of America to Cathaia and the East 



* Voyages and Navigations, Hakluyt, vol. i. p. 28(). 



