A.D. 



1556. 



232 PET AND JACKMAN. 



bishers Strait to superintend the working of the 

 mine ; but the loss of one of the vessels, with 

 a large portion of the provision intended for 

 themselves, and also with a part of the house and 

 stores put on board for their use, frustrated the 

 latter ; and the very small portion of the precious 

 metals which the ore was, after all, found to 

 contain, so completely disappointed the expecta- 

 tions of the court, and the individuals who had 

 been engaged in the expedition, that no further 

 attempt was made to procure it.* 

 1580. The subject of a northern passage to India 

 still continued to occupy public attention, and 

 the Muscovia Company, who were very pros- 

 perous in their trade with Russia, determined 

 to follow up the discoveries that had been 

 made along the northern coast of that coun- 

 try. They, accordingly, fitted out two vessels, 

 under the command of Arthur Pet and Charles 

 Jackman, who quitted the river Thames in 

 June 1580, and succeeded in passing Waigatz 

 Strait in August following. This expedition 

 was, in the end, equally unsuccessful with that of 

 Burrough ; not having been able to proceed 



* For a full account of Sir M. Frobisher's voyage, and 

 geographical discoveries, the reader is referred to a most 

 excellent paper by Commander Becher, R.N., published in 

 the Journal of the Geographical Society, vol. xii. part. i. 



