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but upon tryall made it pvooved no better than 

 black-lead, and verified the proverbe — all is not 

 gold that glistereth." 



On another small island, which they named 

 Smith's Island, they found a mine of silver, and 

 four sorts of ore " to holde gold in good quan- 

 titie;" and on another island a great dead fish, 

 twelve feet long, ^' having a borne of two yardes 

 long growing out of the snoute or nostrels," which 

 was brought home and " reserved as a jewell" in 

 the queen's wardrobe. They continued to proceed 

 up the strait for about thirty leagues, much ham- 

 pered with, and frequently in great danger from, the 

 floating ice. In one of the small islands they found 

 a tomb, in which were the bones of a dead man, 

 and several implements belonging to the natives, 

 the use of which was explained to them by the 

 captive " salvage" — who taking in his hand one of 

 their country bridles, " caught one of our dogges 

 and hampered him handsomely therein, as we doe 

 our horses ; and with a whip in his hand he taught 

 the dog to drawe in a sled, as we doe horses in a 

 coach, setting himselfe thereupon like a guide.'* 

 They afterwards found that these people " feede 

 fatte the lesser sort of dogges" to eat as food, 

 and that the larger sort are used to draw their 

 sledges. 



In endeavouring to seize a party of natives in 

 Yorke Sound, a skirmish ensued in which five or six 

 of the savages were unfortunately put to death, 

 and two women seized, " whereof the one being 



