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Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage

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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 1577, Captain Frobisher departed from Blackwall--with one of the Queen's Majesty's ships called the _Aid_, of nine score ton or thereabout, and two other little barques likewise, the one called the _Gabriel_, whereof Master Fenton, a gentleman of my Lord of Warwick's, was captain; and the other the _Michael_, whereof Master York, a gentleman of my lord admiral's, was captain, accompanied with seven score gentlemen, soldiers, and sailors, well furnished with victuals and other provisions necessary for one half year--on this, his second year, for the further discovering of the passage to Cathay and other countries thereunto adjacent, by west and north-west navigations, which passage or way is supposed to be on the north and north-west parts of America, and the said America to be an island environed with the sea, where through our merchants might have course and recourse with their merchandise from these our northernmost parts of Europe, to those Oriental coasts of Asia in much shorter time and with greater benefit than any others, to their no little commodity and profit that do or shall traffic the same.

Our said captain and general of this present voyage and company, having the year before, with two little pinnaces to his great danger, and no small commendations, given a worthy attempt towards the performance thereof, is also pressed when occasion shall be ministered to the benefit of his prince and native country--to adventure himself further therein.


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