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ningham, Queen Anne, and Queen Sophia's Capes, to 

 certain portions of the land ; and entering a deep 

 bay, which they called Christians Fiord, a party 

 landed and examined some tents of the natives 

 covered with seal skins ; and within, among other 

 articles, some vessels were observed boiling over a 

 little lamp, in one of which was found a dog's head 

 boiled, " so that I persuaded myself," says Hall, 

 " that they eate dog's flesh." The latitude of the 

 anchorao'c was found by observation to be 66" 2.^'. 

 The natives presently came off to the ship in their 

 boats, and bartered whale-bone, seal-skins, morse 

 teeth and unicorns' horns for nails and pieces of 

 old iron. But on reaching the shore they began 

 to hurl stones at the strangers with their shngs " in 

 such sort, that no man could stand upon the 

 hatches." The Danes, however, succeeded after 

 some time in dispersing them by the fire of mus- 

 ketry ; but they assembled again in greater force 

 than ever, having upwards of seventy boats, and 

 not less than 300 persons on shore. The wind 

 luckily became easterly, on which the pinnace 

 steered out to sea, and coasting along the shore to 

 lat 69"^, they found many goodly sounds, bays, 

 and rivers, and gave names to divers of them ; they 

 met with much drift-wood, " but whence it 

 cometh," observes Hall, " I know not." Hall 

 would have proceeded farther to the northward, 

 but the people in the pinnace earnestly entreated 

 him to return, saying that their companions in the 



