Between the years 1576 and 1578 Martin Frobisher, the Elizabethan explorer, made three voyages in search of a passage to Cathay and India by the North-West. Much of the story of these voyages is recorded by V. Stafansson in his The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher published in 1938 in London in two volumes. One of the things the expedition either made or found were some iron blooms, which were later found with Frobisher's other effects in East Baffin by a later expedition in 1861-2 under the American C. F. Hall. One of these blooms was deposited in England and one in the USA. For a long time both were considered lost but in 1958 the American one was found in the Arts and Industries Building of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.