140 DISCOVERIES OF CORNELISON, 1594. 



Returning to the southward they named the 

 nearest point of Nova Zembla in sight Ice Point, 

 lying in lat. 7?°; and here they found certain 

 stones that glistened like gold, which on that ac- 

 count thev named Gold-stones. Farther south 

 they gave the name o^Or^ange to certain islands, on 

 the shore of one of which they saw about two 

 hundred sea-horses basking themselves in the sun, 

 which they attacked wnth hatchets, cuttle-axes 

 (cutlasses), and pikes, without being able to kill 

 one of them, but had recourse to the cruel 

 expedient of striking some of the teeth out of their 

 mouths. The morse, walrus, or sea-horse, is not 

 better described by Cook, than we here find it by 

 De Veer : " This sea-horse is a wonderful strong- 

 monster of the sea, much bigger than an oxe, 

 which keepes continually in the seas, having a 

 skin like a sea-calfe, or scale, with very short 

 hay re, mouthed like a lion, and many times they 

 lye upon the ice ; they are hardly killed unlesse 

 you strike them just upon the forehead ; it hath 

 four feete, but no cares, and commonly it hath 

 two young ones at a time. And when the fisher- 

 men chance to finde them upon a flake of ice with 

 their young ones, shee castetli her young ones 

 before her into the water, and then takes them in 

 her arms, and so plungeth up and downe Avith 

 them ; and when she will revenge herselfe upon 

 the boatcs, or make resistance against them, then 

 she casts her young ones from her againe, and 



