176 * DISCOVERIES OF }606. 



by Josias Hubert of Hull, but the Danes (envious 

 perhaps that the glory of the discovery would be 

 attributed to the English pilot) after the land 

 saluted, mutinied, and in fine forced the ship to 

 returne to Island. For which cause I have here 

 omitted the whole."* 



Peyrere gives from the Danish chronicle a long 

 account of the treatment and behaviour of the 

 Greenlanders in Denmark ; of the feats they 

 performed on the water with their canoes ; of their 

 manner of feeding on raw flesh and fish; and their 

 fixed melancholy and pining away till they finally 

 died of grief, t 



JOHN KNIGHT. I6O6. 



While the King of Denmark was setting forth 

 his second grand expedition for exploring " the 

 myne of silver," and in the hope of filling his 

 coffers with that precious metal, " the worshipfuU 

 Companies of Muscovey and the East India Mer- 

 chants" were fitting out a small bark of forty tons, 

 called the Hopezvell, for the discovery of the north- 

 west passage, under the direction of the same John 

 Knight who had been master of the pinnace in 

 the first Danish expedition. He left Gravesend 



* Purchas, vol. iii. p. 827. 

 t Relation du Groenland par Peyrere, p. 180. 



