This was mainly drawn up by Captain Walter Biggs,
captain-lieutenant of the lieutenant-general's company. On his
death it was carried on by his lieutenant, Cripps, and finally
entrusted to Mr. Thomas Cates of the same company for
publication. It was printed by Hakluyt in his collection of
voyages, and hitherto has been regarded as the only complete
narrative extant. It is of high value, but naturally suffers
from the defect of having been written by soldiers, who were
not able adequately to treat naval matters. The operations of
the fleet are sometimes altogether omitted.

It is anonymous but in a contemporary hand, and from
internal evidence was written by someone (probably an officer)
on board Frobisher's flagship, who was not either the captain
or the lieutenant. It is quoted in the text as the 'Primrose' log.
Being in the form of a log recording events from day to day, it
is of great value in correcting and testing Biggs's more slipshod
narrative, and further it supplies many details of naval move-
ments that he omits or misunderstands. It is, moreover, full
of touches that give a minute and vivid picture of the behaviour