p. 37-8: Expense inventory of Frobisher’s first voyage in 1576 include:
book of cosmographie in French
a great globe of metal in blank
a great carte of navigation
a great mappe universal of Mercator in prente
three other small mappes prented
an English Bible greate volume a New World of Andreas Thevett, Englishe and French…”
p. 37: There was not much reading-matter taken, and we may conclude the captain himself did not get far in the ‘book of cosmographie in French.’
p. 41, on provisioning of young seamen: The boys would have no silver whistle, of course, nor any weapons beyond a jack-knife and a poniard, but they certainly had a Prayer Book and a Testament. It was not the custom to sail on a foreign voyage without them, and to reach a heathen land without such consolation was unthinkable.