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VOYAGE TO GREENLAND. 
carried. Among these adventurers, Magus Hennisen, 
after having surmounted many difficulties and dan- 
gers, got sight of the land, which, however, he could 
not approach. At his return, he pretended that 
the ship had been arrested in the middle of her 
course by rocks of load-stone at the bottom of the 
sea. 
The same year, 1576, in which this attempt was 
made. Captain Martin Frobisher was sent on the 
same errand by Queen Elizabeth. He likewise des- 
cried the land; but finding it so difficult of approach, 
returned to England ; but not before he had sailed 
sixty leagues in the strait which retains his name, 
and landed on several islands, where he had some 
communications with the natives. He had likewise 
taken possession of the country in the name of Queen 
Elizabeth ; and brought away some pieces of ore, 
from which the refiners of London extracted a 
proportion of gold. In the ensuing spring, he un- 
dertook a second voyage at the head of a small 
squadron equipped at the expense of the public ; 
entered the straits again; discovered upon an island 
a gold and silver mine ; bestowed names upon 
different bays, islands, and headlands ; and brought 
away a lading of ore, together with two natives, 
a male and a female. Such was the success of this 
voyage, that another squadron was fitted out under 
the command of the same officer, with the rank of 
admiral ; it consisted of fifteen ships, including a 
considerable number of soldiers, miners, smelters, 
carpenters, &c,, who were to remain all the winter 
