MARTIN FROBISHER ad. 



.578. 



But being scarce out of the sight thereof, there fell 

 such a fogge and hidious mist that we could not see one 

 another : whereupon we stroke our drums, and sounded 

 our trumpets, to the ende we might keepe together : and 

 so continued all that day and night till the next day that 

 the mist brake up : so that we might easily perceive all 

 the ships thus sailing together all that day, until the 

 next day, being the 22. of the same: on which day wee 

 sawe an infinite number of yce, from the which we cast 

 about to shun the danger thereof. 



But one of our small Barkes named the Michael, whose Master 



Captaine was Master Kinderslie, the Master Bartholomew K ™ de ™ l * e - 

 _ \ ' . , , j Bartholomew 



Bull, lost our company, insomuch that we could not Bu jj 



obteine the sight of her many dayes after, of whom 1 



meane to speake further anon when occasion shall be 



ministred, and opportunitie serve. Thus we continued 



in our course untill the second of July, on which day we 



fell with the Queenes foreland, where we saw so much 



yce, that we thought it unpossible to get into the 



Straights : yet at the last we gave the adventure and 



entred the yce. 



Being amongst it wee sawe the Michael, of whom I The Mickaei. 



spake before, accompanied with the Judith, whose Cap- -^[ Benton 



taine was Master Fenton, the Master Charles Jackman, claries 



bearing into the foresayd yce, farre distant from us, who Jackman. 



in a storme that fell that present night, (whereof I will 



at large God willing, discourse hereafter) were severed 



from us, and being in, wandred up and downe the 



Straights amongst the yce many dayes in great perill, 



till at the last, (by the providence of God) they came 



safely to harbor in their wished Port. In the Countesse The Countesse 



of Warwicks sound, the 20. of July aforesayd, tenne °{ ^ rwlcks 



dayes before any of the other shippes : who going on 



shore found where the people of the Countrey had bene, 



and had hid their provision in great heapes of stones 



being both of flesh and fish, which they had killed ; 



whereof wee also found great store in other places after [III. 41.] 



our arrival. They found also divers engins, as bowes, 



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