H^ Hairs Historic Notes. 



iiifitl\ lor the sake of tlic place tVoiii avIk'hcc tlicy came. A piece of this black 

 stoue beiiiir jiiveii to one of the adventurer's wives, by cLanee slie threw it into the 

 tire, and, whether from accident or curiosity, having quenched it while hot with 

 \ iufo^ar ' it glistered with a bright marquesset of golde.' The noise of this inci- 

 dent was soon si.read abroad, and the stone was assayed by the 'gold finers of 

 Loudon,' who reported that it contained a considerable quantity of gold. A new 

 \oyage was innnediately set on foot for the following year, in which we are told 

 b\ Master George Beste, Frobishei-'s Lieutenant, that 'the Captaine was specially 

 iliivcted by commission for the searching more of this golde ore than for the 

 searching any further discovery of the Northwest Passage.'" 



SECOND VOYAGrE, 1577. 



Froliisher was now openly countenanced by Queen Elizabeth, and on taking 

 !ea\e for his second roya(jc had the honor of kissing Her Majesty's hand, who dis- 

 missed him '" with gracious counteimnce and comfortable words." He was besides, 

 furnished with one tall ship of her Majesty's named "y^ Ayde^^ of two hundred 

 t unne or thereabouts ; and two other little barkes likewise ; the one called the 

 Gahriell, whereof Master Fenton was Captaine: and the other, the Michael, 

 whereof Master Yorke, a gentleman of My Lord Admirall's was Captaine:" 

 these two vessels were about 30 tons each. On the 27th May (1577) having 

 received the Sacrament and prepared themselves "as good Christians toward 

 tiod, and resolute men f(jr all fortunes," they left Gravesend, and after a long 

 passage fell in with Friesland, in Lat. COp, on the 4th of July, the mountains 

 covered with snow, and the coast almost inaccessible from the great quantity of 

 drift ice. # ♦ * 



Four days were here spent in vain endeavor to land, after which they stood 

 foi t he strait, discovered by them the i)receding year. They arrived off the North 

 loicland. (Otherwise Hall's island, so called after the num Mho had picked up the 

 ;:ol.|.ii ore and who was now Master of the Gabriell. They proceeded some dis- 

 lance up the Strait, when, on the 18th of July, the general taldng the gold-finers 

 with him, lamh-d near the spot where the ore had been picked up, but (;ould not 

 hiid in the whole island "a peece as bigge as a walnut :" But all the neighboring 

 islands are staled to have good store of the ore. On the top of a high hill about 

 two miles from the sliore they nmde a columne or crosse of stones, heaped up of 

 a giKxl heighth t<»j;ither in good sort, and solemnly sounded a trumpet & saidc 

 «;<TLaine prayeis, kneeling about the ensigne, and honoured the place by the name 

 of Mount Wmiciike. • * • 



