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came into Kingroad from Cattaie, Martin Forbisher being
captain of her, after having attempted to find the North-
west passage to the East Indies, China, and Cattay. . . .
The[y] brought with them a man of that country called
Callicho . . . with his wife, called Ignorth, and a child. They
were savage people, clothed in Stag’s skins, having no linen
nor woollen at all, and fed only upon raw flesh.. . . Oct’ 9th,
he rowed up and down the river at the Back of Bristol, it
being high tide of the sea, in a boat, the which was about
fourteen feet long, made of skins . . . ; and as he rowed up
and down he killed a couple of ducks with his dart; and
when he had done he carried away the boat through the
Marsh on his back. The like he did at the Weare, and at
other places. Within one month they all three died.”18
Further, a French translation of Settle’s account of the
voyage was published at Geneva in 1578, which adds some
original material (from what source is unknown) on the
Eskimos brought to England. “Le sauvage, & la femme avec
son enfant, qu’on avoit admenez de ce pays barbare, & nou-
vellement descouvert, fut présenté à la Boyne.... Tost apres
leur arrivée, le sauvage & la femme moururent, Taissant a
elle survivant son enfant aagé de quatorze à quinze mois.”19
Finally, a German visitor to England in 1592, Frederick,
Duke of Wirtemberg, caused to be recorded in his journal
that on August 21 he visited Hampton Court in company
with the Queen. “Among other things to be seen there, are
Iifehke portraits of the wild man and woman whom Martin
Forbisser . . . the Enghsh captain, took in his voyage to the
New World, and brought alive to England.”20
This brings us nearly to our terminal date; but the final
blow to the old, Unhistorical view of primitive society was
not delivered until a few years after, when John White