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eth day in the morning we weighed, and went again to the place where we lost our men and our boat. We had sight of fourteen boats, and some came near to us, but we could learn nothing of our men. Among the rest, we enticed one in a boat to our ship's side with a bell; and in giving him the bell we took him and his boat, and so kept him, and so rowed down to Thomas William's island, and there anchored all night. The twenty-sixth day we weighed to come homeward, and by twelve of the clock at noon we were thwart of Trumpet's Island. The next day we came thwart of Gabriel's Island, and at eight of the clock at night we had the Cape Labrador west from us ten leagues. The twenty-eighth day we went our course south-east. We sailed south-east and by east, twenty-two leagues. The first day of September, in the morning, we had sight of the land of Friesland, being eight leagues from us, but we could not come nearer it for the monstrous ice that lay about it. From this day till the sixth of this month we ran along Iceland, and had the south part of it at eight of the clock east from us ten leagues. The seventh day of this month we had a very terrible storm, by force whereof one of our men was blown into the sea out of our waste, but he caught hold of the foresail sheet, and there held till the captain plucked him again into the ship. The twenty-fifth day of this month we had sight of the island of Orkney, which was then east from us. The first day of October we had sight of the Sheld, and so sailed along the coast, and anchored at Yarmouth, and the next day we came into Harwich. THE LANGUAGE OF THE PEOPLE OF META INCOGNITA. Argotteyt, a hand. Attegay, a coat. Cangnawe, a nose. Polleuetagay, a knife. Arered, an eye. Accaskay, a ship. Keiotot, a tooth. Coblone, a thumb. Mutchatet, the head. Teckkere, the foremost finger. Chewat, an ear. Ketteckle, the middle finger. Comagaye, a leg. Mekellacane, the fourth finger. Atoniagay, a foot. Callagay, a pair of breeches. Yachethronc, the little finger. THE SECOND VOYAGE OF MASTER MARTIN FROBISHER, _Made to the West and North-West Regions in the year 1577_, _with a Description of the Country and People_, _written by Dionise Settle_. On Whit Sunday, being the sixth-and-twentieth day of May, in the year of our Lord God 15
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