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The ships and the dead bodies of those who perished, were dis¬ 
covered the following year by some Russian fishermen, and from 
the papers found in the admiral’s ship, and especially by the date 
of his will, it appeared that the greater portion of the crew of 
the two ships were alive in January 1554, having entered the 
river Arzina on the 18th of the preceding September. The jour¬ 
nal of Sir Hugh Willoughby, which, however, is extremely 
meagre of information relative to the object of his expedition, 
contains the following; brief account of his distressed situation. 
“ Thus remaining in this haven the space of a weeke, seeing 
the yeere farre spent, and also very evill wether, as frost, snowe, 
and haile, as though it had been the deepe of winter, we thought 
it best to winter there. Wherefore we sent out three men, 
south south west, to search if they could find people, who went 
three dayes journey, but could find none. After that we sent 
out other three westward, four dayes journey, which also returned 
without finding any people. Then sent we three men south 
east, three dayes journey, who inlike sorte returned without 
finding of people, or any similitude of habitation.” 
In 1566, another unsuccesful attempt was made by Capt. S. Bur¬ 
row, which was attended with a great sacrifice of life, without 
the slightest advantage arising from it. 
In the reign of Edward VI., some ingenious and enterprising 
men, began to revive the dormant question of a north west pas¬ 
sage round America, to Cathay, and the East Indies. Many 
sound observations, and not a few questionable, or even fabulous 
relations were adduced, to countenance the opinion of the possi¬ 
bility of such a passage. Martin Frobisher, a mariner of great 
experience and ability had persuaded himself, that the voyage 
was not only feasible but of easy execution; “ and as it was the 
only thing in the world that was left yet undone, whereby a 
notable mind might be made famous and fortunate he per¬ 
sisted for fifteen years in endeavouring to procure the equipment 
of the expedition. 
At length in 1576, by the patronage of Dudley, earl of War¬ 
wick, he was enabled to fit out two small vessels, one of thirty- 
five, and the other of thirty tons, and with this diminutive craft 
