. Round about the North pole . pease,griste, and sundrie other good things, which was of theprovision of those whyche should inhabite, if occasionserved. And insteade therof we fraight oure shipsfull of ore, whiche we holde of farre greater price. Here we part from the Cathay Company. The in-evitable trouble came with the discovery that, practically,the only gold the ore would yield was that put in as an additament by the Italian. A very thick cloudrolled over Frobisher, who, like Lock, seems to havebelieved in the genuineness of the affair all through;but soon his country had need of him and
. Round about the North pole . pease,griste, and sundrie other good things, which was of theprovision of those whyche should inhabite, if occasionserved. And insteade therof we fraight oure shipsfull of ore, whiche we holde of farre greater price. Here we part from the Cathay Company. The in-evitable trouble came with the discovery that, practically,the only gold the ore would yield was that put in as an additament by the Italian. A very thick cloudrolled over Frobisher, who, like Lock, seems to havebelieved in the genuineness of the affair all through;but soon his country had need of him and he came tothe front again in so worthy a manner that little morewas heard of his connection with this company thatfailed. To complete the story. In 1861 (say three hundredyears afterwards) Captain Hall—hearing among theEskimos how numerous white men had arrived first intwo, then three, then a great many ships, how they hadkilled several natives and taken away two, how five ofthe white men had been captured, and how these had. ESKIMO AWAITING A SEAL T9 ft^epage 222 . JOHN DAVIS 223 built a large boat and put a mast in her and sailed awayto death when the water was open—went to Kod-lun-arn (White Mans Island) and there found the house oflime and stone as described, and traces of the diggings,and many relics among which he made the collectionpresented by him to the British Government. In the year 1583, when Sir Humphrey Gilbert, whoseDiscourse gave so great a stimulus to Arctic discovery,founded St. Johns, Newfoundland—the first Englishcolony in America—a patent was granted by QueenElizabeth to his brother Adrian of Sandridge in thecounty of Devon, as one of the colleagues of theFellowship for the Discovery of the North-WestPassage. At this Sandridge—on the east of the Dart,bounded on three sides by the river, some two milesabove Dartmouth—was the home of the three Gilberts(John, Humphrey, and Adrian), whose mother by asecond marriage became the mother of Carew andWalt
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