NICHOLAS AND ANTONIO ZENO ad. 



c. 1380-90. 

 both sides of Engroneland, for that I see it particularly 

 described in the sea card, but the discourse or narration 

 is lost. The beginning of the letter is thus. 



Concerning those things that you desire to know of The 5 letter. 

 me, as of the men and their maners and customes, of the 

 beasts, and of the countries adjoyning, I have made therof 

 a particuler booke, which by Gods help I will bring with 

 me : wherein I have described the countrey, the mon- 

 strous fishes, the customes and lawes of Frisland, Island, 

 Estland, the kingdome of Norway, Estotiland, Drogio, 

 and in the end the life of M. Nicolo, the knight our 

 brother, with the discovery which he made, and the state 

 of Groneland. I have also written the life and acts of 

 Zichmni, a prince as worthy of immortall memory, as any 

 that ever lived, for his great valiancie and singuler 

 humanitie, wherein I have described the discovery of 

 Engroneland on both sides, and the citie that he builded. 

 Therefore I will speake no further hereof in this letter, 

 hoping to be with you very shortly, and to satisfie you 

 in sundry other things by word of mouth. 



All these letters were written by M. Antonio to 

 Messer Carlo his brother : and it grieveth me, that the 

 booke and divers other writings concerning these pur- 

 poses, are miserably lost : for being but a child when they 

 came to my hands, and not knowing what they were, (as 

 the maner of children is) I tore them, and rent them 

 in pieces, which now I cannot cal to remembrance but to 

 my exceeding great griefe. Notwithstanding, that the 

 memory of so many good things should not bee lost : 

 whatsoever I could get of this matter, I have disposed 

 and put in order in the former discourse, to the ende that 

 this age might be partly satisfied, to the which we are 

 more beholding for the great discoveries made in those 

 partes, then to any other of the time past, being most 

 studious of the newe relations and discoveries of strange 

 counteries, made by the great mindes, and industrie of 

 our ancestours. 



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