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In 1871, no‘less than 278 years since the crew of Barents 
wintered in Ice Haven, the old house and numerous relics 
were found by a Norwegian captain, among them the clock 
and some books. The interior of the house was exactly in 
the condition described by Barents nearly three centuries 
before. 
Seventy-six years after Sebastian Cabot’s attempt to effect 
a north-west passage, Sir Martin Frobisher persuaded some 
London merchants to once more embark in the enterprise, 
and three small vessels were fitted up for the purpose and 
victualled for twelve months. They started on the 17th of 
June, 1576, and passed by Greenwich, “* where we shotte off 
our ordinance and made the best show we could ; Her Majes- 
tie (Queen Elizabeth) beholding the same, commended it, and 
bade vs farewell with shaking her hand at vs out of the 
window. Afterward she sent a gentleman aboord of vs, who 
declared that Her Majestie had good liking of our doings, 
and thanked vs for it, and also willed our captaine to come 
the next day to the Court to take his leave of her.” Fro- 
bisher speedily doubled Cape Farewell and bore on to the 
West until he came to land, which Queen Elizabeth named 
Meta Incognita ; a little to the north of this a large bay was 
found which was named “ Frobisher’s Bay.” When Fro- 
bisher returned to England he brought with him not only the 
hopes of a north-west passage but a piece of black stone, 
which being examined by Baptiste Agnello, a quack, was 
found to contain a minute quantity of gold. Whereupon 
the London merchants again fitted out ships, and Frobisher 
was ordered to load them with the supposed gold ore, and 
to defer discovery till some more convenient time. The 
ships returned and the ore was found to be worthless, and 
for nine years the London merchants refused to send out a 
fresh Arctic expedition. In 1585, however, several vessels 
were fitted up and put under the command of John Davis 
with a view to the discovery of the North-West Passage. 
He discovered the straits which bear his name in 1585, and 
gave the name of Cape Walsingham to a prominent Cape 
on the East side of Cumberland Island. ‘This is just below 
the Arctic Circle, and Davis is the first Englishman who 
reached so high a latitude on the American shore. Cape 
Chudleigh, the most northerly point of Labrador, was also 
discovered by Davis and named by him after Mr. John 
Chudleigh. In 1607 Henry Hudson was entrusted by the 
Muscovy Company with a small vessel for the discovery 
of the North-West Passage. There seems to be but 
little doubt that in the course of this voyage Hudson dis- 
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