moGRESS OF DISC0^T:RY IX THE NORTH. 6? 



ern colony is not now in existence ; but as to the 

 eastern colony, Egede was of opinion, that there 

 was a probability of some of the people being yet 

 alive *. 



Various attempts have been made by order of the 

 Danish Government, for the recoven' of this coun- 

 try-, and for ascertaining the fate of the unfortunate 

 colonists, but most of them were spiritless, and aU 

 of them failed in their object. 



Richard Hackluyt, in his " Voyages, Xa^igations, 

 Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation," 

 gives a quotation from the Histor\- of Wales, by 

 Dr DaAid Powel, stating the discover)- of Ame- 

 rica or the "West Indies by ^ladoc, the son of 

 Owen Guyneth, prince of North Wales, in the 

 year 1170. Madoc left his country, it is said, in 

 consequence of family contention, and proceeded in 

 search of adventures by sea towards the west. 

 Leaving Icelaud far to the north, he arrived at 

 lenffth at " a land unknown, where he saw many 

 strange things." Here he left most of his compa- 

 nions, and retunied home for more people " to inha- 

 bit this fair and large countn.,"' and then went out 

 again with ten sail of ships t. 



E 2 



• One of the Iceland bishops, who was driven very near 

 the coast of Greenland, while on a voyage to Norway, about 

 the middle of the sixteenth century, is said to have seen the 

 inhabitants driving their cattle in the fields. — Thonnoder Tor- 

 Jager. 



+ Hackluj-t's Voya^s. &c. vol. iii. p. 1 



