MARTIN FROBISHER a.d. 



1578. 

 found, which upon triall made, was supposed to be 

 very good. 



The 23. of August, the sayd Captaine mette together 

 with the other Captaines (Commissioners in counsell with 

 the Generall) aboorde the Ayde, where they considered 

 and consulted of sundry causes, which being particularly 

 registred by the Notarie, were appoynted where and 

 how to be done against another yeere. 



The 24. of August, the Generall with two Pinnisses 

 and good numbers of men went to Beares sound, com- 

 manding the sayde Captaine with his Pinnesse to attend 

 the service, to see if he could encounter or apprehend any 

 of the people : for sundry times they shewed themselves 

 busie thereabouts, sometimes with seven or eyght Boates 

 in one company, as though they minded to encounter 

 with our company which were working there at the 

 Mines, in no great numbers. But when they perceived 

 any of our Shippes to ryde in that roade (being belike 

 more amazed at the countenance of a Shippe, and a more 

 number of men) they did never shewe themselves againe None of the 

 there at all. Wherefore our men sought with their P^^^riffl 

 Pinnisses to compasse about the Hand where they did 

 use, supposing there suddenly to intercept some of them. 

 But before our men could come neere, having belike 

 some watch in the toppe of the mountaines, they con- 

 veyed themselves privily away, and left (as it should 

 seeme) one of their great dartes behinde them for haste, 

 which we found neere to a place of their caves and 

 housing. Therefore, though our Generall were very 

 desirous to have taken some of them to have brought 

 into England, they being now growen more wary by 

 their former losses, would not at any time come within 

 our dangers. About midnight of the same day, the 

 captaine of the Anne Francis departed thence and set his 

 course over the streights towards Hattons Hedland, being 

 about 15. leagues over, and returned aboord his Shippe 

 the 25. of August, to the great comfort of his company, 

 who long expected his comming, where hee found his 



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