MARTIN FROBISHER a.d. 



1577- 

 twenty men may sit : they have for a sayle drest the 

 guts of such beasts as they kill very fine and thinne, 

 which they sew together : the other boate is but for one 

 man to sit and row in with one oare. 



Their order of fishing, hunting, and fouling are with Thy use t0 

 these said weapons: but in what sort, or how they use fi^fih, and 

 them we have no perfect knowledge as yet. 



I can suppose their abode or habitation not to be here, It " to be snp- 

 for that neither their houses or apparell, are of such *^ ir i„ hab - lt _ 

 force to withstand the extremity of cold, that the Coun- i ng j s e / se _ 

 trey seemeth to be infected with all : neither do I see where, 

 any signe likely to performe the same. 



Those houses or rather dennes which stand there, have 

 no signe of footway, or any thing else troden, which is 

 one of the chiefest tokens of habitation. And those 

 tents which they bring with them, when they have suffi- 

 ciently hunted and fished, they remove to other places : 

 and when they have sufficiently stored them of such 

 victuals, as the Countrey yeeldeth or bringeth forth, they 

 returne to their winter stations or habitations. This 

 conjecture do I make, for the infertility which I con- 

 jecture to be in that Countrey. 



They have some yron whereof they make arrow heads, Their use of 

 knives, and other little instruments, to worke their ^ ron ' 

 boates, bowes, arrowes, and darts withall, which are very 

 unapt to doe any thing withall but with great labour. 



It seemeth that they have conversation with some other 

 people, of whom for exchange they should receive the 

 same. They are greatly delighted with any thing that 

 is bright, or giveth a sound. 



What knowledge they have of God, or what Idoll Anthropophagi, 

 they adore, we have no perfect intelligence, I thinke them 

 rather Anthropophagi, or devourers of mans flesh then 

 otherwise : for that there is no flesh or fish which they 

 find dead (smell it never so filthily) but they will eate 

 it, as they finde it without any other dressing. A loath- 

 some thing, either to the beholders or hearers. 



There is no maner of creeping beast hurtfull, except 



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