A.D. 

 1592. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



day : nor I thinke ever was within the remembrance 



of our fathers. Neither is it true that Munster re- 



porteth concerning the abundance of Brimstone : namely, 



that it is almost the onely merchandize and tribute of 



the Hand. For whereas the Hand is devided into foure 



Brimstone partes, the fourth part onely towards the North (nay, 



^^ A^ °!^f-^ ^^. ^^^ ^y^ri the halfe thereof) doeth use it for merchandize, 



of Island ^^^^ there is not one crumme of Brimstone paied for 



tribute of the Hand. 



Munster. 



Abundance 

 offish about 

 Island dimin- 

 ished. 



The twelfth Section. 



There are so great store of fishes in this Hand, that 

 they are laid foorth on piles to be sold in the open 

 aire, as high as the tops of houses. 



IN the open aire. In deed we have seen other country 

 merchants doe so, until they had unladen their ships 

 of outlandish wares, & filled them againe with fishes & 

 with other of our countrey merchandize. But whether 

 our men have done the like at any time, it is not 

 manifest. Certainly, that plentifull and ancient abund- 

 ance of fish is now decaied, and the Islanders now begin 

 to be pinched with the want of these and other good 

 things, the Lord laying the just scourge of our im- 

 pietie upon us, which I pray God we may duely 

 acknowledge. 



The thirteenth Section. 



Frisius, 



A 



They have most swift horses, which wil run without 

 ceasing a continual course for the space of 30. leagues. 



Certaine Cosmographer in his Map of Island re- 

 porteth concerning the horses of one parish, that 

 they will run 20. leagues at once in a continued race. 

 But we account both to bee impossible. For Munster 

 writeth that those beasts which excell all other in swift- 

 Raine deere. nesse & Strength of body, called II Rangiferi, cannot run 

 above 30. leagues in 24. houres. 



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