MARTIN FROBISHER 



A.D. 



*577- 



The seventh day of this moneth we had a very terrible 7. 

 storme, by force whereof, one of our men was blowen 

 into the sea out of our waste, but he caught hold of 

 the foresaile sheate, and there held till the Captaine 

 pluckt him againe into the ship. 



The 25. day of this moneth we had sight of the [III. 3 2 -] 

 Island of Orkney, which was then East from us. 



The first day of October we had sight of the Sheld, The SheM. 

 and so sailed about the coast, and ankered at Yarmouth, 

 and the next day we came into Harwich. 



The language of the 



Argoteyt, a hand. 

 Cangnawe, a nose. 

 Arered, an eye. 

 Keiotot, a tooth. 

 Mutchatet, the head. 

 Chewat, an eare. 

 Comagaye, a legge. 

 Atoniagay, a foote. 

 Callagay, a paire of 

 breeches. 



people of Meta incognita. 



* Attegay, a coate. 

 Pollevetagay, a knife. 

 Accaskay, a shippe. 

 Coblone, a thumbe. 

 Teckkere, the foremost 



finger. 

 Ketteckle, the middle finger. 

 Mekellacane, the fourth 



finger. 

 Yacketrone, the litle finger. 



The second voyage of Master Martin Frobisher, 

 made to the West and Northwest Regions, 

 in the yeere 1577. with a description of the 

 Countrey, and people : Written by Master 

 Dionise Settle. 



N Whitsunday, being the sixe and twen- 

 tieth of May, in the yeere of our Lord 

 God 1577. Captaine Frobisher departed 

 from Blacke Wall, with one of the 

 Queenes Majesties ships, called The 

 Aide, of nine score tunnes, or there- 

 abouts : and two other little Barkes like- 



wise, the one called The Gabriel, whereof Master Fenton, 

 a Gentleman of my Lord of Warwikes, was Captaine : 



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