A.D. 



1578. 



Frobishers 

 first entrance 

 within ye 

 streights. 



Frobishers 

 straights. 



[III. 59-1 



Deere. 



The first sight 

 of ye Savages. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



course to the Northwards, was alwayes by contrary winde 

 deteined overthwart these straights, and could not get 

 beyond. Within few dayes after he perceived the ice 

 to be well consumed and gone, either there ingulfed in 

 by some swift currents or indrafts, carried more to the 

 Southwards of the same straights, or els conveyed some 

 other way : wherefore he determined to make proofe of 

 this place, to see how farre that gut had continuance, 

 and whether he might carry himselfe thorow the same 

 into some open sea on the backe side, whereof he con- 

 ceived no small hope, and so entred the same the one 

 and twentieth of July, and passed above fifty leagues 

 therein, as he reported, having upon either hand a great 

 maine or continent. And that land upon his right hand 

 as he sailed Westward he judged to be the continent of 

 Asia, and there to be divided from the firme of America, 

 which lieth upon the left hand over against the same. 



This place he named after his name, Frobishers 

 streights, like as Magellanus at ye Southwest end of 

 the world, having discovered the passage to the South 

 sea (where America is divided from the continent of 

 that land, which lieth under the South pole) and called 

 the same straights, Magellanes straits. 



After he had passed 60 leagues into this foresayd 

 straight, he went ashore, and found signes where fire 

 had bene made. 



He saw mighty deere that seemed to be mankinde, 

 which ranne at him, and hardly he escaped with his 

 life in a narrow way, where he was faine to use defence 

 and policy to save his life. 



In this place he saw and perceived sundry tokens of 

 the peoples resorting thither. And being ashore upon 

 the top of a hill, he perceived a number of small things 

 fleeting in the sea afarre off, which he supposed to be 

 porposes or seales, or some kinde of strange fish ; but 

 comming neerer, he discovered them to be men in small 

 boats made of leather. And before he could descend 

 downe from the hill, certaine of those people had almost 



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