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ease. . . . Only I thinke it worth the noting, the continencie
of them both: for the man would never shift himselfe, ex-
cept he had first caused the woman to depart out of his
cabin....”
So, having laden the ships with Fool’s Gold and captive
Eskimos, Frobisher and his two consorts sailed for England
about August 24, and all reached ports safely, although they
were separated on the way. The Ayde (Frobisher’s admiral)
was ordered to Bristol by the Council a month after her
arrival in Milford Haven, and it is from there that we have
tire report of Dr Edward Dodding upon his post mortem
examination of the Eskimo man brought back from the New
World. It is dated from Bristol on November 8, 1577, and
corroborates many of the facts already outlined, such as that
Nicholas Conger’s “Cornish tricke” was a severe wound.
Dodding found that two of the man’s ribs were broken and
that the cause of his death was probably the pulmonary
effusion brought about by the braises on his lung. He also
reported an interesting occurrence at the death of the man
in Bristol: just before he died, he became conscious and
recognized those around him (“as his friends,” according to
Dodding; one wonders); he spoke “the few of our words he
had been able to learn [verba nostra quae ediscerat pauca
ut potuit], and responded appropriately to questions put to
him. And they who heard him said that he sang clearly the
same song that his fellows in place and rank chanted, stand-
ing on the shore, at the death of one of themselves.” Doctor
Dodding was scornful of the charms and incantations used
by the Eskimos : “If the futile, fickle rigmarole of spells, and
those useless and ludicrous rites, had had any power of as-
suaging diseases, assuredly this Calichoughe (for that was
his name) whilst he was alive ought to have checked and