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of memoirs for a true and extensive history of Greenland. 

 Angrimus Jonas, also an Icelander, in speaking of this resi- 

 dence says expressly : " Fundata in Bordum (which must be 

 read, in Garden) episcopal! residentia, in sinu Eynatsfiord 

 Grocnlandiic Orientalis." I think the author of this account, 

 though a very good maitre d'hotel, was but a bad writer, for 

 he has not explained who these Skreglingres were against 

 whom he was sent. I will tell you what Doctor Vormius, 

 the most learned of all the doctors in northern researches, 

 told me both verbally and in writing. He says they were the 

 original savages of Greenland, to whom this name was pro- 

 bably given by the Norwegians ; but I do not know why. 

 They inhabit, apparently, the other coast of the arm of the 

 Sea of Kindelfiord, on the western side of Greenland, one 

 of the coasts of which was inhabited by the Norwegians. 

 And when this writer says that the Skreglingres possessed 

 all Vestrebug, he only meant the western coast, it not 

 being credible that he should mean the eastern, which was 

 occupied by the Xorwegians. Now it is to be presumed 

 that some Norwegian adventurers had passed Kindelfiord 

 in a small number, and were beaten by these Skreglingres. 

 The viceroy of Norway, whom the history, after the Ice- 

 landic mode of speaking, calls the " Judge of Greenland" , 

 w^ishing to obtain satisfaction for this affront, sent out a 

 stronger party and fitted out a good ship for this purpose. 

 But the savages seeing the vessels coming, did as was their 

 custom when they felt themselves to be the weaker party, 

 and fled and hid themselves in the woods, or in rocks and 

 caves. The Norwegians, finding no one on the shore, took 

 all the booty they could lay hands on, and carried it away in 

 their ship. This is what had led this innocent writer to 

 relate, that in the country of the Skreglingres are to be found 

 horses, goats, cattle, and sheep, etc., but no people, either 

 Christian or Pagan. M. Vormius thinks the locality of these 

 Skreglingres was not far from the Gulf of Davis, and that 



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