In the autumn of 1577, after his return from his second voyage in search of the north west passage, Frobisher went to the court at Windsor, where `bicause that place & country, hathe never heretofore bin discovered and therefore had no speciall name, by which it might be called & known, hir Maiestie named it very properly Meta Incognita, as a marke and bounds utterly hitherto unknown ...': George Best, A true discourse of the late voyages of discoverie ... under the conduct of Martin Frobisher, Generall (1578), Third Voyage, 2.