MARTIN FROBISHER ad. 



1577- 



unto the companie within boord a sodaine and fearefull 



noyse. The next flood toward the morning we weyed 



ancker, and went further up the straights, and leaving 



our Ore behind us which we had digged, for hast left 



the place by the name of Beares sound after the Masters Beares sound. 



name of the Michaell, and named the Hand Lecesters Lecesten 



Hand. In one of the small Hands here we found a 



Tombe, wherein the bones of a dead man lay together, A f m f e wlth 



j r^ i_ • -^i o i_ ■ j a dead mans 



and our savage Captive being with us, oc being de- ^ - m . 



manded by signes whether his countreymen had not 



slaine this man and eat his flesh so from the bones, he 



made signes to the contrary, and that he was slaine 



with Wolves and wild beasts. Here also was found hid 



under stones good store of fish, and sundry other things 



of the inhabitants ; as sleddes, bridles, kettels of fish- Br [ dles y 



skinnes, knives of bone, and such other like. And our other \ nstru _ 



Savage declared unto us the use of all those things, menu found 



And taking in his hand one of those countrey bridles, hid among the 



he caught one of our dogges and hampred him hand- Roc * es - 



somely therein, as we doe our horses, and with a whip 



in his hand, he taught the dogge to drawe in a sled as 



we doe horses in a coach, setting himselfe thereupon 



like a guide: so that we might see they use dogges for They use great 



that purpose that we do our horses. And we found °& t0 r f?. 



r . r . ill r -\ i sleds, and title 



since by experience, that the lesser sort or dogges they dogs for their 



feede fatte, and keepe them as domesticall cattell in their meat. 



tents for their eating, and the greater sort serve for the 



use of drawing their sleds. 



The twentie ninth of July, about five leagues from 



Beares sound, we discovered a Bay which being fenced 



on ech side with smal Hands lying off the maine, which 



breake the force of the tides, and make the place free 



from any indrafts of yce, did proove a very fit har- 



borow for our ships, where we came to ancker under a 



small Ilande, which now together with the sound is 



called by the name of that right Honourable and ver- 



tuous Ladie, Anne Countesse of Warwicke. And this 



is the furthest place that this yeere we have entred up 



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