MARTIN FROBISHER a.d. 



*577- 

 sound, after the name of one of the Captaines of the 

 two Barks. 



Having this knowledge both of their flercenesse and faire manes 

 cruelty, and perceiving that faire meanes as yet is not notable f° 



1111 i r • i • • j- j i allure them to 



able to allure them to familiarity, we disposed our selves, f am m ar ip, 



contrary to our inclination, something to be cruel, returned 



to their tents and made a spoyle of the same : where 



we found an old shirt, a doublet, a girdle, and also shooes 



of our men, whom we lost the yeere before : on nothing 



else unto them belonging could we set our eyes. 



Their riches are not gold, silver or precious Drapery, [HI. 36.] 

 but their said tents and botes, made of the skins of red Boates °f 

 Deare and Seale skins : also dogges like unto woolves, 

 but for the most part black, with other trifles, more to be 

 wondred at for their strangenesse, then for any other 

 commoditie needefull for our use. 



Thus returning to our ship the 3. of August, we Our departure 

 departed from the West shore supposed firme with -^ thc West 

 America, after we had ankered there 13. dayes : and so 

 the 4. thereof we came to our Generall on the East shore, 

 and ankered in a faire Harborough named Anne War- 

 wickes sound, unto which is annexed an Island both 

 named after the Countesse of Warwicke, Anne Warwickes 

 sound and Isle. 



In this Isle our Generall thought good for this voyage, 

 to fraight both the ship and barkes, with such stone 

 or supposed gold minerall, as he judged to countervaile 

 the charges of his first, and this his second navigation 

 to these Countreys. 



In the meane time of our abode here some of the The c ^ntrey 

 countrey people came to shew themselves unto us, sundry ^J s , e ] c 

 times on the maine shore, neere adjacent to the said unt0 USt 

 Isle. Our Generall desirous to have some newes of his 

 men, whom he lost the yeere before, with some company 

 with him repaired with the ship boat to common, or 

 signe with them for familiaritie, whereunto he is per- 

 swaded to bring them. They at the first shew made 

 tokens, that three of his five men were alive, and desired 



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