NICHOLAS AND ANTONIO ZENO 



that being within they feele no cold at all. Hither in the 

 Summer time come many barkes from the Islands their 

 about, and from the cape above Norway, and from 

 Trondon, and bring to the Friers al maner of things that 

 may be desired, taking in change thereof fish, which they 

 dry in the sunne or in the cold, & skins of divers kindes 

 of beasts. For the which they have wood to burne and 

 timber very artificially carved, and corne, and cloth to 

 make them apparell. For in change of the two aforesaid 

 commodities all the nations bordering round about them 

 covet to trafficke with them, and so they without any 

 travejl or expences have that which they desire. To 

 this Monasterie resort Fryers of Norway, of Suetia and 

 of other countreys, but the most part are of Islande. 

 There are continually in that part many barks, which are 

 kept in there by reason of the sea being frozen, waiting 

 for the spring of the yere to dissolve the yce. The fishers 

 boates are made like unto a weavers shuttle : taking 

 the skins of fishes, they fashion them with the bones 

 of the same fishes, and sowing them together in many 

 doubles they make them so sure and substanciall, that it 

 is miraculous to see, howe in tempests they will shut 

 themselves close within and let the sea and winde cary 

 them they care not whether, without any feare either 

 of breaking or drowning. And if they chance to be 

 driven upon any rocks, they remaine sound without the 

 least bruse in the world : & they have as it were a sleeve 

 in the bottome, which is tyed fast in the middle, and 

 when there commeth any water into the boat, they put it 

 into the one halfe of the sleeve, then fastening the ende 

 thereof with two pieces of wood and loosing the band 

 beneath, they convey the water forth of the boat : and 

 this they doe as often as they have occasion, without any 

 perill or impediment at all. 



Moreover, the water of the Monastery, being of 

 sulphurious or brimstonie nature, is conveyed into the 

 lodgings of the principall Friers by certaine vesselles 

 of brasse, tinne, or stone, so hot that it heateth the place 



453 



A.D. 



[380-9O. 



Trade in sum- 

 mer time from 

 Trondon to S. 

 Thomas Friers 

 in Groneland. 

 Resort of 

 Fryers from 

 Norway and 

 Sueden, to the 

 Monastery in 

 Engroneland, 

 called S. Tho. 



M. Frobishet 

 brought these 

 kinde of boats 

 from these 

 parts into 

 England. 



[III. 12+.] 



