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named any thing more than Davis, nor had any 

 sight of Greenland, nor was so farre north; nor 

 can I conceive he hath added any thing more to 

 this designe ; yet these two, Davis and he, did, I 

 conceive, Hght Hudson into his straights."* 



JAMES HALL — Fij^st Voyoge, \6Q5. 



Hitherto the nation which might be supposed 

 to be the most interested in prosecuting discoveries 

 m the arctic seas, along the two coasts of Greenland, 

 had seen the repeated enterprizes of the English 

 in those seas with apparent indifference. Roused 

 at length, however, to a sense of the propriety, 

 but more so, perhaps, of the importance of northern 

 discovery, the king of Denmark caused an expe- 

 dition to be fitted out for exploring Greenland. 

 It consisted of two ships and a pinnace ; one of 

 which, the Admiral, was called the Frosty of the 

 burden of thirty or forty lasts, commanded by 

 John Cunningham, a Scottish gentleman in the 

 service of the king, and on board of which w^as 

 James Hall, an Englishman, acting as principal 

 pilot : the other ship was t\\€ Lion, Vice-admiral, 

 of the same burden, commanded by a Dane ; and 

 the pinnace of twelve lasts was under the com- 

 piand of John Knight, also an Englishman. The 



* North-west Fox, p. 50. 



