Description
In 1576, the English explorer Martin Frobisher “entered the territory of the Inuit with instructions to “˜bring hither above the number of iii or iiii or eight or ten at the most of the people of that country.'” Thrush notes that the first of those captives was lured close to Frobisher’s ship with a small bell. Upon realising he had been captured, the Inuk bit his tongue in two in fear. Later that year he died in London. His name is not recorded.
Bibliographic sources
Thrush, Indigenous London, 115. Photo by Lonpicman – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8543806