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land_n	league_n	show_v	west_n	2,186	5	10.0100	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11947	A true reporte of the laste voyage into the west and northwest regions, &c. 1577. worthily atchieued by Capteine Frobisher of the sayde voyage the first finder and generall With a description of the people there inhabiting, and other circumstances notable. Written by Dionyse Settle, one of the companie in the sayde voyage, and seruant to the Right Honourable the Earle of Cumberland.	Settle, Dionyse.	1577 (1577)	STC 22265; ESTC S110946	18,419	48

Europe which God hath so diuided in the exploring of the same that it seemeth apt and agreeable to the discouerer more then to any other to inioy all such commodities as they yealde and affoorde Consider also that Christians haue discouered these countries and people which so long haue lyen vnknowne and they not vs which plainely may argue that it is Gods good will and pleasure that they should be instructed in his diuine seruice and religion whiche from the beginning haue beene nouzeled and nourished in Atheisme grosse ignorance and barbarous behauiour Wherefore this is my iudgement in conclusion that who so euer can winne them from their infidelitie to the perfect knowledge of his diuine institutions and seruice hee or they are worthie to receiue the greatest rewarde at Gods hands and the greater benefites from those countries which he hath discouered Fare well ¶ A true report of Capteine Frobisher his last voyage into the West and Northwest regions this present yere 1577. With a description of the people there inhabiting ON Whitsunday last past being the 26. of May in this present yeare of our Lorde God 1577. Capteine Frobisher departed from Blacke Wall ▪ with one of the Quéenes Maiesties shippes called The Aide of nine score tunne or there aboutes and two other little Barkes likewise the one called The Gabriel whereof Maister Fenton a Gentlemā of my Lord of Warwicks was Capteine and the other The Michael whereof Maister Yorke a Gentleman of my Lorde Admerals was Captein accompanied with seuen score gentlemen souldiers and saylers well furnished with victuals and other prouisiō necessarie for one halfe yere on this his seconde voyage for the further discouering of the passage to Cata●a and other countries therevnto adiacent by West and Northwest Nauigations whiche passage or way is supposed to be on the North and Northwest partes of America and the sayd America to be an Islande inuironed with the sea wherethrough our Merchaunts might haue course and recourse with their merchandize from these our Northernmost parts of Europe to those oriental coasts of Asia in much shorter time and with greater benefit then any others to their no little commoditie and profite that doe traffique the same Oure sayde Capteine and Generall of this present voyage and companie hauing the yere before with two little Pinnisies to his great daunger and no small commendations giuen a worthy attempt towardes the performaunce thereof is also prest when occasion shall be ministred to the benefite of his Prince and natiue countrie to aduenture him selfe further therein As for this second voyage it séemeth sufficient that he hath better explored and searched the commodities of those people and countries with sufficient commoditie vnto the aduenturers which in his first voyage the yeare before he had found out Upon which considerations the day and yeare before expressed we departed from Blacke Wall to Harwiche where making an accomplishment of thinges necessarie the last of Maye we hoysed vp sailes and with a mery winde the 7. therof we arriued at the Islands called Orchades or vulgarly Orkney being in number 30. subiect and adiacent to Scotland where we made prouision of freshe water in the doing whereof our Generall licenced the Gentlemen and Souldiers for their recreation to go on shoare At our landing the people fled from their poore cotages with shrikes and alarums to warne their neighbors of enimies but by gentle persuasions we reclaimed them to their houses It séemeth they are often frighted with Pirates or some other enimies that moueth them to such souden feare Their houses are very simplie builded with pibble stone without any chimneys the fire being made in the middest thereof The good man wife children and other of their familie eate and sléepe on the one side of the house and their cattell on the other very beastly and rudely in respect of ciuilitie They are destitute of wood their fire is turffes and Cowe shardes They haue corne bigge and oates with whiche they paye their Kinges rente to the maintenance of his house They take great quantitie of fishe which they drie in the winde and Sunne They dresse their meate very filthily and eate it without salt Their apparell is after the rudest sort of Scotland Their money is all base Their churche and religion is reformed according to the Scots The fisher men of England can better declare the dispositions of those people than I wherfore I remit other their vsages to their reportes as yearely repairers thither in their course to and from Island for fish Wée departed herehence the 8. of Iune and followed our course betwéene West and Northwest vntill the 4. of Iulie all which time we had no night but that easily and without any impediment we had when we were so disposed the fruition of our bookes and other pleasures to passe awaye the time a thinge of no small moment to such as wander in vnknowen seas and longe Nauigations especially when both the winds and raging surges do passe their common and wonted course This benefite endureth in those partes not sixe wéekes whilest the Sunne is néere the Tropike of Cancer but where the Pole is raised to 70. or 80. degrées it continueth the longer All along these seas after we were 6. dayes sayling from Orkney we met floting in the sea great Firre trées which as wee iudged were with the furie of great floudes rooted vp and so driuen into the sea Island hath almost no other wood nor fewel but such as they take vp vpon their coastes It séemeth that these trées are driuen from some parte of the New found land with the Current that setteth from the West to the East The 4. of Iulie we came within the making of Freeseland From this shoare 10. or 12. leagues we met great Islands of yce of halfe a mile some more some lesse in compasse shewing aboue the sea 30. or 40. fathomes and as we supposed fast on ground where with oure leade wée could scarse sound the bottome for deapth Here in place of odoriferous and fragrant smelles of swéete gummes and pleasant notes of musicall birdes which other Countries in more temperate Zone do yéeld we tasted the most boisterous Boreall blasts mixt with snow and haile in the moneth of Iune and Iulie nothing inferiour to oure vntemperate Winter a soudeine alteration and especially in a place or Paralele where the Pole is not eleuate aboue 61. degrées at which height other countries more to the North yea vnto 70. degrées shewe thēselues more temperat than this doth All along this coast yce lyeth as a continuall bullworke and so defendeth the countrie that those whiche would land there incurre great daunger Our Generall thrée dayes together attempted with the shippboate to haue gone on shoare whiche for that without great daunger he could not accomplishe he deferred it vntil a more conuenient time All along the coast lye very highe mounteines couered with snowe