_Aid_ (Admiral) Martin Frobisher _Thomas Allin_ (Vice Admiral) Yorke _Judith_ (Lieut.-Gen.) Fenton _Ann Frances_ Best _Hopewell_ Carew _Bear_ Philpot _Thomas_ (of Ipswich) Tanfield _Emanuel_ (of Exeter) Courtenay _Emanuel_ (Busse) (of Bridgewater) Newton _Francis_ (of Foy) Moyles _Moon_ Upcot _Salomon_ (of Weymouth) Randal _Dennis_ Kendal _Gabriel_ Harvey _Michael_ Kinnersley The Queen received the captains at Greenwich, and threw a gold chain round the neck of “her loving friend Martin Frobisher.” The fleet sailed from Dover on May 31st, 1578, and shaped a course down channel. The Admiral had issued an order prohibiting swearing or card-playing, and ordering that there was to be Divine service daily in every ship. Most of the ships were chartered, and the Admiral had not the same control over them as if they had been Queen’s ships, which increased his difficulties. [Illustration: Frobisher’s Discoveries.] After crossing the North Atlantic Frobisher again sighted Greenland, still supposed to be the Frieslanda of the Zeno map, and once more attempted to land. This time he was successful. Taking the pinnace, and accompanied by Fenton and Christopher Hall, he forced his way through the pack ice, and reached a bay where there were Eskimos in their kayaks and a summer encampment of tents. He intended to continue his discoveries but a dense fog came on, and he was obliged to return and attend to the needs of the fleet. Frobisher was thus the first to land in Greenland since the colony was abandoned to its fate by the Norwegians. During eight days the ships were crossing the ice-laden strait, making for the land of the false gold ore which had been visited during the two previous voyages. They were in much danger, encountering furious gales of wind, amidst icebergs and drifting packs. One day there was a violent concussion on board the _Salomon_, as if she had run stem on to an iceberg; and a whale rose under her bows. She was brought up all standing, and soon afterwards the whale was seen dead, floating on the surface. Another vessel lost her topmasts in a gale, but at last land was in sight and they were off Frobisher’s Strait. The entrance, however, was blocked by the pack. The Queen’s Foreland and Lock’s Island, names given in the previous voyages, could be seen over the wide extent of ice.