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whole expedition was placed under the orders of 

 Admiral Godske Lindenau. They sailed from 

 Copenhagen on the 2d May, 16'05. On the 24th, 

 being in lat. 595" they expected to have seen Buss 

 island, and conclude it to be laid dovi^n in a 

 wrong latitude on the charts. On the 30th they 

 saw the south point of Greenland, which, out 

 of compliment to the king of Denmark, they 

 named Cape Christian. To avoid the ice, which 

 encompassed the shore, they stood to the west- 

 ward, and fell in with " mighty islands of ice, 

 being very high, like huge mountains," making a 

 hideous and wonderful noise ; and on one of 

 them Avas observed "^ a huge rocke stone, of the 

 weight of three hundred pounds or thereabouts." 

 Findino' nothino- but ice and foo- from the 1st to 

 the 10th June, the Lion's people hailed the Ad- 

 miral, ''calling very fearfully, and desiring the pilot 

 to alter his course, and return homeward." The 

 alarm spread in the Admirafs ship, and they would 

 have determined to have put about, had not Cun- 

 ningham, the captain, protested he would stand 

 by Hall, *' as long as his blood was warme, for the 

 good of the king's majestic." This pacified them 

 for a moment, but the next floating island of ice 

 renevvcd the terrors of those on board the Lion^ 

 who having fired a piece of ordnance, stood away 

 to the southward. 



On the 12th the Admiral fell in with the coast 

 of Greenland, and gave the names of Alcimt Cun- 



