frobisher's voyage. 51 



Queenes foreland, being an Island as we iudge, lying 

 neere the supposed continent with America ; and on the 

 other side, opposite to the same, one other Island called 

 Halles Isle, after the name of the Master of the ship, 

 neere adlacent to the firm land, supposed Continent with 

 Asia." (Page. 57.)* 



In Rundall f we find it stated that " Frobisher, now 

 left to himself, altered his course, and stood to the S.W. ; 

 and, seventeen days afterwards, other land, judged to be 

 Labrador, was sighted in latitude 62° 2' N." (p. 11). In 

 this latitude, however, lies Meta Incognita. 



"The great cape seen [by John Davis] on the 31st 

 was designated, it is stated, Warwick's Foreland ; and 

 the southern promontory, across the gulf, Cape Chid- 

 LEY.J On this Fox observes: 'Davis and he [Wey- 

 mouth, a later navigator] did, I conceive, light Hudson 

 into his Streights.' The modern authority before cited 

 e?cpresses a similar opinion ; and there is no reason to 

 doubt the fact. 



" From Cape Chidley a southerly course was taken to 

 seek the two vessel^ that were expected to be at the 

 fishing-ground ; and on the loth, in latitude 56° 40', they 

 \i^di ■& frisking gale at west-northwest. On the 12th, 

 in about latitude 54° 32', an island was fallen in with 

 which was named Darcie's Island. Here five deer were 



* " The second voyage of Master Martin Frobisher, 1577, written by Master 

 Dionise Settle. Hakluyt, vol. iil., New Edition, London, 1810." 



t Narratives of Voyages towards the Northwest in search of a passage to 

 Cathay and India. 1496-1631. By Thomas Rundall, Esq., London, Hakluyt 

 Society, 1849, 8°, pp. 259. 



X '" The worshippfuU M . John Chidley, of Chidley, in the county of Deuon, 

 esquire,' was apparently chief promoter of an expedition which sailed Anno 1589, 

 for ' the province of Arauco on the coast of Chili, by thestreight of Magellan. 

 Of this expedition M. Chidley was also the General. Hakluyt, iv. 357." 



