NICHOLAS AND ANTONIO ZENO a.d. 



c. 1380-90. 

 any thing at all : and in the same chanels he assaulted 

 the other Isles called Islande, which are seven, Talas, Broas, 

 I scant, Trans, Mimant, Dambere, and Bres : and having 

 spoyled them all, hee built a fort in Bres, where he 

 left M. Nicolo, with certaine small barkes and men 

 and munition. And now thinking he had done wel for 

 this voyage, with those few ships which were left he 

 returned safe into Frisland. M. Nicolo remaining nowe 

 in Bres, determined in the spring to go forth and discover 

 land : wherefore arming out three small barkes in the 

 moneth of July, he sayled to the Northwards, and arrived 

 in Engroneland. Where he found a Monasterie of Engroneknd. 

 Friers, of the order of the Predicators, and a Church Reaching 

 dedicated to Saint Thomas, hard by a hill that casteth -flomas 

 forth fire, like Vesuvius and Etna. 



There is a fountaine of hot burning water with the 

 which they heate the Church of the Monastery and 

 the Fryers chambers, it commeth also into the kitchin 

 so boyling hot, that they use no other fire to dresse their 

 meate : and putting their breade into brasse pots without 

 any water, it doth bake as it were in an hot oven. They 

 have also smal gardens covered over in the winter time, 

 which being watered with this water, are defended from 

 the force of the snow and colde, which in those partes 

 being situate farre under the pole, is very extreme, 

 and by this meanes they produce flowers and fruites and 

 herbes of sundry sorts, even as in other temperate 

 countries in their seasons, in such sort that the rude 

 and savage people of those partes seeing these super- 

 naturall effects, doe take those Fryers for Gods, and 

 bring them many presents, as chickens, flesh, and divers 

 other things, and have them all in great reverence as 

 Lords. When the frost and snowe is great, they heate 

 their houses in maner beforesaid, and wil by letting in the 

 water or opening the windowes, at an instant temper the 

 heate and cold at their pleasure. In the buildings of the 

 Monasterie they use no other matter but that which is 

 ministred unto them by the fire : for they take the burn- 



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