MARTIN FROBISHER a.d. 



1578. 

 some complayning of their false Stemme borne away, 

 some in stopping their leakes, some in recounting their 

 dangers past, spent no small time & labour. So that 

 I dare well avouch, there were never men more danger- 

 ously distressed, nor more mercifully by Gods providence 

 delivered. And hereof both the torne ships, and the 

 forwearied bodies of the men arrived doe beare most 

 evident marke and witnesse. And now the whole Fleete 

 plyed off to Seaward, resolving there to abide untill the 

 Sunne might consume, or the force of winde disperse 

 these yce from the place of their passage : and being 

 a good birth off the shore, they tooke in their sailes, 

 and lay adrift. 



The seventh of July as men nothing yet dismayed, we Another as- 

 cast about towards the inward, and had sight of land, ' 

 which rose in forme like the Northerland of the straights, 

 which some of the Fleete, and those not the worst 

 Marriners, judged to be the North Foreland : howbeit 

 other some were of contrary opinion. But the matter 

 was not well to be discerned by reason of the thicke 

 fogge which a long time hung upon the coast, & the Fogge,snow, 

 new falling snow which yeerely altereth the shape of a J ^ ™ * 

 the land, and taketh away oftentimes the Mariners - tners mar kes. 

 markes. And by reason of the darke mists which con- 

 tinued by the space of twentie dayes togither, this doubt 

 grewe the greater and the longer perilous. For whereas 

 indeede we thought our selves to be upon the Northeast 

 side of Frobishers straights, we were now caried to the 

 Southwestwards of the Queenes Foreland, and being 

 deceived by a swift current comming from the Northeast, A swift cm 

 were brought to the Southwestwards of our said course 

 many miles more then we did thinke possible could come 

 to passe. The cause whereof we have since found, and 

 it shall be at large hereafter declared. 



Here we made a point of land which some mistooke 

 for a place in the straightes called Mount Warwicke : 

 but how we should be so farre shot up so suddainely 

 within the said straights the expertest Mariners began to 



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rent from the 

 Northeast. 



