Viii PREFACE. 



Whale-Fishery, may be mentioned, La Marti- 

 niere, Pierre de Mezange, Boisgelin and Fortia, 

 though these are writers, it should be observed, 

 who cannot be altogether followed ; — M. La Pey- 

 ronie, and Bernard de Reste, who have given 

 translations in French, not altogether accurate 

 however, of works of some value; — and Torfaeus, 

 Otho Fabricius, Olafsen, Olaving, Egede, Crantz, 

 Zorgdrager, Eggers, Moriniere, and a few others, 

 who have produced works of real merit. 



The Accounts of Greenland by the faithful 

 and enterprising Moravian Missionaries Hans 

 Egede and David Crantz, whose zeal and philan- 

 thropy carried them into one of the most un- 

 comfortable and inhospitable regions of the globe, 

 but particularly the latter, are works of peculiar 

 fidelity and value ; and the account of the Whale- 

 Fishery given by Zorgdrager, though written 

 considerably above a century ago, is, perhaps, on 

 the whole, the best that has appeared in any 

 language. 



The works of Egede and Crantz have been 

 translated into P'nglisli, and, with the article 

 of Sir Charles Giesccke, in Dr Brewster's En- 

 cyclopaedia, and some others, included in works 



