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Captain Hall found it after the three centuries, in a good state of preservation. 

 Tliey told him also how that their peoi)le had capturcid five of the white men; 

 that they had wintered among them. Then they showed him an excavation on 

 Kodhiiiarn eighty-eight feet long and six feet deep, which the while men had dug, 

 wliile on the shore was an inclined trench or slij). Here the five captive English- 

 liien, having dug up the buried timbers of the Fort, built a large boat, which had 

 a mast in her, with sails. Their boat had proved to bo a floating collin; for, 

 according to the natives, the Englishmen having finished their cralt, set sail too 

 early in the season 5 some froze their hands in the attempt ; yet they had finally 

 set out, and had never been seen afterwards. 



Such was the sequel of the story of the five Englishmen who had fallen vic- 

 tims to their love of peltry dimug the first voyage of the 'Gabriel'; and thus were 

 identified the island and long sought port of the third voyage, where the first 

 English Colony was attempted on the American Continent. (Life of Martin Fro- 

 bisher, with a narrative of the Armada: Eev. F. Jones. London, 1878.) 



IV. In the excellent "Collection of Historical Tracts," made by the late Col. 

 Peter Force, of Washington, to be found in the library of the State Department, 

 may be seen the "Neues of Walter Raleigh"; in which tract is a very curious 

 notice of Frobisher's. voyages and of their influence on Thomas Cavendish, or 

 "Candish," of London, in determining him, A. D. 1586, to set out on his voyage 

 around the world. Cavendish was the second Englishman who made such a 

 voyage. Drake, in 1578, had attempted to solve the i^roblem of the Northwest 

 Passage, reaching lat. 48° N. only on the western coast of America. 



