Thus the London adventurers in 1606, though having at hand a substantial body of useful information regarding the coasts, the winds, and the currents running northward from the West Indies past St. Augustine to Cape Hatteras, and comparable information regarding the more northern waters explored by frobisher, Davis, Gilbert, and others, had only a sketchy knowledge of the intervening coastline that would soon be explored by Captain Samuel Argall on commission from the Virginia Company and by Henry Hudson, an Englishman temporarily in the service of Dutch merchants.
"The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624"
Wesley Frank Craven
The British sea-captains of the time of Queen Elizabeth-Drake, frobisher, and the rest of them-are portrayed in our school books as valiant and hardy men, and the British colonies were built on the basis of their activities; yet, according to the sea laws in force today, they were pirates.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
Then his thoughts went farther back to the chambers that he had once occupied in London, and he saw himself and frobisher, who shared them with him, sitting at a little table daintily furnished with choice glass and silver covers.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
