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abundance of ice which we saw with our eies," 

 and partly also " because the nights waxed darke, 

 and the winter began to draw on with his 

 stormes." On the 11th he anchored at Col- 

 magro, or Archangel, where he wintered, and 

 the next year returned home. 



Chancellor's voyage, although advantageous to 

 the Company in improving their connexion with 

 Russia, was very disastrous to the persons imme- 

 diately engaged in it, as all the ships were 

 wrecked on their homeward voyage, and Chan- 

 cellor and almost all the crew were drowned. 

 To detail the particulars of this voyage would 

 be foreign to my plan, as it is not immediately 

 connected with Arctic discovery ; and for the 

 same reason I pass over several voyages by which 

 it was succeeded, with this notice, that between 

 the periods of the return of Burrough in 1557, 

 and the next voyage to the northeast, in 1594, 

 Sir Martin Frobisher had made his three cele- 

 brated voyages to Labrador, and discovered the 

 Strait which bears his name. In the first voyage 

 he discovered, and brought to England an ore, 

 which was declared, by the assayers, to contain 

 a considerable portion of gold, and the second 

 and third expeditions were fitted out for the 

 express purpose of collecting a quantity of the 

 metal, and of forming an establishment in Fro- 



A.D. 



1556 



