238 DESCRIPTION OF GREENLAND. 



de Bon voyage. Doubtless it is thus called because those who 

 go beyond this cape seem to be going into another world, 

 and to be taking a long leave of their friends. Cape Fare- 

 well is, as I have told you, at sixty and a half degrees eleva- 

 tion, in a country of mountains covered with snow and ice. 

 It would be difficult to represent its form, on account of the 

 snow and ice, which vary, and on account of their whiteness, 

 which dazzles the eyes. Captain Munck being at this cape, 

 took the route from the west to the north to enter Hudson's 

 Strait, and found a quantity of ice, which he avoided because 

 he was in the open sea. He advises those who undertake 

 this voyage, not to go too far towards the north in this part, 

 on account of the ice and the currents, which are rough on 

 the coasts of America. He relates that on the night of the 

 8th of July, being on this sea, he saw so thick a fog, and it 

 was so cold, that the ropes of his vessel were covered with 

 long icicles, and were so frozen and hard that they could 

 not use them for their work. He then says that in the after- 

 noon, from three o'clock until sunset, it was so hot that they 

 were obliged to keep on only their shirts, for they could not 

 bear their clothes. 



He entered Hudson's Strait, which he called Christian 

 Strait, after the king of Denmark his master, and landed the 

 same night on an island which is off the coast of Greenland. 

 Those whom he sent to reconnoitre this island told him that 

 they had seen traces of men, but that they had found no men. 

 The next morning they met a number of savages, who were 

 surprised at the landing of the Danes, and ran in disorder 

 to hide the arms they carried behind a heap of stones near 

 the place where they were. After this they came forward 

 and graciously returned the salute the Danes gave them, 

 observing carefully, however, all the time to keep between 

 the Danes and the place where they had hidden their arms. 

 But the Danes succeeded so well in diverting and amusing 

 them, that they gained their treasury, where they found a 



