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DISCOVERIES OF JAMES Hx\LL. l605. 



Admiral would mutiny and leave them behind, 

 which in fact they had nearly done. They found, 

 on their return, that the people of the ship had 

 been eno-ao-ed in fidit with the natives, of whom 

 several were slain and three taken prisoners. 



Before they departed from Frost Sound they 

 turned on shore two Danish malefactors, whom 

 they had brought out for that purpose by order of 

 the Court, with certain necessaries ; '' and thus," 

 says Hall, " having committed both the one and 

 the other to God we set saile homewards." They 

 passed down Davis's Strait with a rapid current 

 in their favour, and anchored on the 10th August 

 off the castle of Elsineur. 



It would seem that the ship, in which Lindenau 

 was, stood away to the east coast of Greenland; or 

 rather, it may be suspected, to the south, some- 

 where about Cape Farewell, where he was visited 

 by a number of the " savages," as they are called, 

 though very far from deserving that appellation. 

 Wine, it is said, was offered to them, and not being 

 to their taste was refused ; but they drank with 

 sreat avidity whole mu^s of whale oil. The Ad- 

 miral most unwarrantably seized two of the natives, 

 and carried them off to Denmark ; and it is said 

 that those brought by Hall differed very much 

 from those brought by Lindenau, in manners, 

 language and appearance, the former being much 

 superior in every respect.* 



* Relation du Greenland par M. de la Peyrere. l657. 



