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There is an unfree person, who was in Iqaluit, Nunavut in 1576. He was captured by Martin Frobisher.

The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher, in Search of a Passage to Cathaia and India by the North-West, A.D. 1576-8

  • Account
  • January 1, 1576
  • [74]

    [...]

    And bycause they would not come within his daunger for feare, he flung one bell unto them, which of purpose he threw short that it might fal into the sea and be lost. And to make them more greedie of the matter he rang a lowder bell, so that in the ende one of them came n…

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The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher, in Search of a Passage to Cathaia and India by the North-West, A.D. 1576-8 (pp. 74, 130–131, 142–143). (1869). Burt Frankin. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31822006009385?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 [Stolen Relations project at Brown University.]

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