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greatly puzzled geographers, could not be the 

 Frisland of Zeno, but, bemg m 6l° of latitude, was 

 evidently the southern part of Greenland. The 

 floating ice obliged him to stand to the south-west 

 till he got sight of Labrador, along the coast of 

 which he then stood to the westward, but could 

 neither reach the land nor get soundings on account 

 of the ice. Sailing to the northward he met with a 

 great island of ice, which fell in pieces, making a 

 noise "as if a great cliffe had fallen into the sea." 

 After this he entered a strait in lat. 63" 8'. This 

 strait, to which his name was given from being its 

 first discoverer, is the same which was afterwards 

 named Lumley 's Inlet ; but Frobishers Strait was, 

 for a long time, supposed by geographers to have cut 

 off a portion from Old G reenland, till Mr. Dairy mple 

 and others shewed the fallacy of such a supposition. 

 Among the openings between the numerous 

 islands hereabouts, they descried *' a number of 

 small things floating in the sea afarre off, which 

 the captain supposed to be porposes or scales, or 

 some kind of strange fish" — but on a nearer 

 approach they were discovered to be men in small 

 boats covered with skins. The captain says, 

 " the}^ be like to Tartars, with long black hair, 

 broad faces and flatte noses, and taunie in colour, 

 wearing scale skinnes, and so doe the women, not 

 differing in the fashion, but the women are marked 

 in the face with blewe streekes downe the cheekes 

 and round about the eyes." They approached the 

 ships with some hesitation, and one of the natives 



