MARTIN FROBISHER a.d. 



but presently within two houres it was frozen round 

 about the ship, a quarter of an ynch thicke, and that 

 day very faire, and calme. 



The 17. day we waied, and came to Thomas Williams 17. 

 Island. 



The 18. day we sailed North northwest, and ankered 18. 

 againe in 23. fathome, and tough oaze, under Burchers 

 Island, which is from the former Island, ten leagues. 



The 19. day in the morning, being calme, and no 19. 

 winde, the Captaine and I tooke our boate, with eight 

 men in her, to rowe us a shoare, to see if there were 

 there any people, or no, and going to the toppe of the 

 Island, we had sight of seven boates, which came rowing s W l °f tke 

 from the East side, toward that Island : whereupon we Cou * tre y 

 returned aboord againe : at length we sent our boate 

 with five men in her, to see whither they rowed, and 

 so with a white cloth brought one of their boates with 

 their men along the shoare, rowing after our boate, till 

 such time as they sawe our ship, and then they rowed 

 a shoare : then I went on shoare my selfe, and gave every 

 of them a threadden point, and brought one of them 

 aboord of me, where hee did eate and drinke, and then 

 carried him on shoare againe. Whereupon all the rest 

 came aboord with their boates, being nineteene persons, 

 and they spake, but we understoode them not. They The bxrip- 

 bee like to Tartars, with long blacke haire, broad faces, tton j f ' 

 and flatte noses, and tawnie in colour, wearing Seale 

 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. 

 Their boates are made all of Seales skinnes, with a keele 

 of wood within the skin : the proportion of them is like 

 a Spanish shallop, save only they be flat in the bottome, 

 and sharpe at both ends. 



The twentieth day wee wayed, and went to the East- 20. 



side of this Island, and I and the Captaine, with foure 



men more went on shoare, and there we sawe their 



houses, and the people espying us, came rowing towards 



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