The North-west and North-east passages 1576-1611 . oseDudley, Earl of Warwick, whose favourable mind andgood disposition hath always been ready to countenanceand advance all honest actions with the authors andexecuters of the same. And so bj^ means of my lordhis honourable countenance he received some comfortof his cause, and by little and little, with no small expenseand pain, brought his cause to some perfection, andhad drawn together so many adventurers and such sumsof money as might well defray a reasonable charge tofurnish himself to sea withal. He prepared two small barks of twenty and f
The North-west and North-east passages 1576-1611 . oseDudley, Earl of Warwick, whose favourable mind andgood disposition hath always been ready to countenanceand advance all honest actions with the authors andexecuters of the same. And so bj^ means of my lordhis honourable countenance he received some comfortof his cause, and by little and little, with no small expenseand pain, brought his cause to some perfection, andhad drawn together so many adventurers and such sumsof money as might well defray a reasonable charge tofurnish himself to sea withal. He prepared two small barks of twenty and five-and-twenty ton apiece, wherein he intended to accomplishhis pretended voyage. Wherefore, being furnished withthe foresaid two barks, and one small pinnace of ten tonburthen, having therein victuals and other necessariesfor twelve months provision, he departed upon the saidvoyage from Blackwall, the 15 of June, anno Domini1576. One of the barks wherein he went was namedthe Gabriel, and the other the Michael; and sailing Frobisher. First Voyage. b o 1—2 4 Frobisher. First Voyage north-west from England upon the 11 of July he hadsight of a high and ragged land, which he judged tobe Frisland (whereof some authors have made mention),but durst not approach the same by reason of the greatstore of ice that lay alongst the coast, and the great miststhat troubled them not a little. Not far from thencehe lost company of his small pinnace, which by meansof the great storm he supposed to be swallowed up ofthe sea, wherein he lost only four men. Also the other bark named the Michael, mistrustingthe matter, conveyed themselves privily away from him,and returned home, with great report that he wascast away. The worthy captain, notwithstanding these dis-»comforts, although his mast was sprung, and his top-mast blown overboard with extreme foul weather,continued his course towards the north-west, knowingthat the sea at length must needs have an ending, andthat some land should have a begi
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