Life Of Sir Martin Frobisher
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1878 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: A Hurried Survey. 33 CHAPTER IX. Hoping to be now free from the natives, of whom he had learned enough for the present, Frobisher, together with Christopher Hall and four men, landed for the purpose of discovery. They climbed another high mountain, from which they saw, to the south-east, the two headlands that marked the entrance into the Straits. Looking to the north-west, they saw the sea still extending to the horizon. The tides and currents, too -- so the great navigator had observed -- set in from that direction; and thus everything went to corroborate his conclusion that this was another Magellan's Straits. Having enjoyed his grand day-dream for a time, gazing along the north-west passage to the Western Ocean and Cathay, he descended the mountain-side. The little band of explorers on reaching the lowlands found twelve deserted houses, which they supposed to have been workshops where the natives had been dressing leather, trying- out seal, whale, and other oils. Doubtless they were but the winter residences of the natives, and what appeared to them to be the traces of handicraft were but the foul remains of the people's food and fuel left to cleanse themselves when the savages emerged from the cellar-like domiciles in which they had hybernated to live their brief summer in tents of skin. Farther on the explorers, having climbed a ridge, saw, as it were under them, in the bottom of a narrow valley, three of the native wigwams or summer houses. By the tents they saw two dogs and other signs of life. Once more the great captain and his men put inglorious trust in their speed. It was for the boat,...
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- Academic Level: General
- Physical Format: Paperback/Softback
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