Addenda to HalVs Notes. 1 7 



They now stood over to the Southern shore of Frobislier's Strait, ami landed 

 on a small island with the gold finers to search for ore : and here all the sands 

 and cliffes did so glister, and had so bright a marquesite, that it seemed all to be 

 golde, but u])on tryall made, it proved no better than black lead and verilied the 

 proverbe; — "all is not golde that glistereth." * * * 



As the season was far advanced and tlie general (Commission directed him 

 to sear(;h I'or gold ore, and to defer the further discovery of the passage till 

 another time, they set about the lading of the ships, and in the space of twenty 

 days, Mdth the help of a few gentlemen and soldiers got on board almost two 

 liundred tons of ore. On the 22d of August, after making bonfires on the highest 

 mount on this island, and firing a volley for a farewell "in honor of the Eight 

 Hon. Lady Anne, Countess of Warwicke, whose name it beareth" they set sail 

 homewards, and after a stormy i)assage, they all arrived safe in different ports of 

 Great Britain, with the loss only of one man by sickness, and another who was 

 washed overboard. * * * 



THIRD VOYAGE (1578). 



The Queen and her court were so highly delighted "in finding that the 

 matter of the gold ore had appearance and made show of great riches and profit, 

 and the hope of the passage to Cathaia by this last voyage greatly increased"; 

 that, after a minute examination by Commissioners specially appointed, the voyage 

 was determined to be highly worthy of being followed up. The Queen gave the 

 name of Meta Incognita to the newly discovered country, on which it was resolved 

 to establish a colony. * * * rpj^^ g^^^ sailed from Harwich the 31st of 

 May, 1578, and, on the 20th of June, discovered West Friesland, which they now 

 named West England. * * * They found The Strait choked up with 

 ice, and the bark Dennis received such a blow with a rock of ice that she imme- 

 diately sank, but the people were all saved. "A violent storm now came on and 

 the whole fleet was dispersed. * * * They all however arrived at 



various ports of England about the 1st of October, with the loss by death of about 

 40 j)ersons." 



ADDENDA TO HALL'S ABSTRACT. 



I. There will be found in "Geo. Beste's True Discourse of the late voyage 



of Discoverie for the finding of a Passage to Cathaya by the North Weast under 



the conduct of Martin Erobisher Generall," the statements that Erobisher, on his 



first voyage, sailed 50 miles up the waters which he took for a strait, aud believed 



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