26. Frobisher’s final voyage to the Arctic
“The singular achievement of this new expedition was not so much that it met most of its objectives, but that it did so in the face of many strong reasons to abandon the voyage entirely. If this untypical commitment and cohesion was an occasion for praise, a great part was due to Frobisher himself.” With 800 tons of ore loaded onto 15 ships, Martin Frobisher had completed his third and final voyage to the Arctic. The Northwest Passage was never found nor was the Queen’s colony established. But through three extraordinary exertions of human strength, Frobisher and his men were the first to make inroads into Canada’s Arctic and introduced to the English the Inuit peoples and their culture. ...