18 Addenda to HalVs Notes. 



that it extended across the continent througii wliicli ships might reach China. 

 AVith Christoi)her Hall, he climbed a high mountain, fi'om which they saw to the 

 southeast t he t wd headlands which marked the entrance to their " Straits." Look- 

 ing to the northwest, they saw the sea still extending to the horizon. The tides 

 and currents, too, set in from that direction; and thus everything went to con- 

 liriu Frobisher's belief that he had found another Magellan's Straits. On his Sec- 

 ontl Expedition his Instructions were not to push through the Strait into China 

 /■»»/• (hv present, gold being the first consideration. 



II. On his third voyage he found "such plenty of black ore, that if thegfoorf- 

 iHss might answer the great plenty thereof it might reasonably suffice all the gold 

 gluttons in the World." It is a well known matter of history that Frobisher loaded 

 his ships with this ore, which, on his return to England, proved to be but a black 

 stone tilled probably with iron pyrites. It was used only for filling up the London 

 Docks, and for ballasting ships. The Merchant, Michael Lok, who had pledged 

 his means and credit for the outfits of the first and the thhxl expedition, was 

 shut up in Fleet-street Prison and with his fifteen children hopelessly ruined. 



Hall brought home some of the like stone, a small quantity of which, loaned 

 with other relics by the Smithsonian Institution, was included in the Arctic exhibit 

 l>laced for the Naval Observatory in the Government building at the late United 

 States Centennial. The ore is sometimes called Fool's Gold. 



HI. The iiuthor of the latest account of Frobisher's voyages says 

 of Hall: 



Nearly three centuries elapsed before the Countess's Sound and Island were 

 again visited by an Anglo-Saxon, and he was an American. In 18Gl-'2 Captain 

 C. F. Hall spent two years among the Eskimos. The Countess's Island he found 

 to be called Kodlunarn, or the island of the white man. The account he received 

 from tlie natives of Frobisher's visits is a curious confirmation of the value of 

 tnulit ion among savage peoples. Captain Hall Iiad not then read any narrative 

 of the Admiral's three voyages, and heard the traditions as a new and strange 

 tale, whieh he was not then in a position to test or correct. 



Jle was told that the white; men's ships had come, first tw'O, then three, then 

 many. The wliite mcii had taken away two of their women, who had never come 

 back. Many fragments of briek, tiles, iron, et cetera, were shown him. Beste's 

 I5ulwark wa-^ trared. The small house of lime and stone had been well built, for 



