MARTIN FROBISHER a.d. 



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of the straights upon the Norther side, and standeth in 



the latitude of sixtie two degrees and nftie minutes, and 



is reckoned from Frisland leagues. God having blessed 



us with so happie a land-fall, we bare into the straights 



which runne in next hand, and somewhat further up to 



the Northwarde, and came as neere the shore as wee 



might for the yce, and upon the eighteenth day of July 



our Generall taking the Goldfiners with him, attempted 



to goe on shore with a small rowing Pinnesse, upon the 



small Ilande where the Ore was taken up, to proove No more & old 



whether there were any store thereof to be found, but ^/^f^ 



he could not get in all that Hand a peece so bigge as 



a Walnut, where the first was found. But our men 



which sought the other Hands thereabouts found them 



all to have good store of the Ore, whereupon our Generall 



with these good tidings returned aboord about tenne of 



the clocke at night, and was joyfully welcommed of the 



company with a volie of shot. He brought egges, foules, EgsJ^foules 



and a young Seale aboord, which the companie had killed °j iita eta ^a°f s 



ashore, and having found upon those Hands ginnes set set t0 catc h 



to catch fowle, and stickes newe cut, with other things, birds zvlthali 



he well perceived that not long before some of the 



countrey people had resorted thither. 



Having therefore found those tokens of the peoples 

 accesse in those parts, and being in his first voyage well 

 acquainted with their subtill and cruell disposition, hee 

 provided well for his better safetie, and on Friday the 

 ninteenth of July in the morning early, with his best 

 companie of Gentlemen and souldiers, to the number of 

 fortie persons, went on shore, aswell to discover the 

 Inland and habitation of the people, as also to finde 

 out some fit harborowe for our shippes. And passing 

 towardes the shoare with no small difficultie by reason 

 of the abundance of yce which lay alongst the coast so 

 thicke togither that hardly any passage through them 

 might be discovered, we arrived at length upon the maine 

 of Halles greater Hand, and found there also aswell as 

 in the other small Hands good store of the Ore. And 



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