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GODS rOWEll AND PROVIDENCE IN THE 



PRESERVATION OF EIGHT MEN IN 



GREEN-LAND, NINE MONETPIS 



AND TWELVE DATES. 



But wee had the seutence of death in our selves, that wee should uot 

 trust in our selves, but in God which raiseth the dead. 



Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver : in whom 

 wee trust that he will yet deliver us. 2. Cor. i, ver. 9, 10. 



Green-land is a Country very farre Northward, situated 

 in seventy-seven degrees and forty minutes, that is, within 

 twelve degrees and twenty minutes of the very North Pole 

 it selfe. The Land is wondcrfull mountainous, the Moun- 

 taines all the year long full of yce and snow : the Plaines in 

 part bare in Summer time. Tiiere growes neither tree nor 

 hearbe in it, except Scurvy-grasse and Sorrcll. The Sea is as 

 barren as the Land, affording no fish but Whales, Sea-horses, 

 Seales, and another small fish. And hither there is a yearely 

 Fleet of English sent. AVee eight men therefore being em- 

 ployed in the service of the Right Worshipfull Company of 

 Muscowic merchants, in the good ship called the Salutation, 

 of London, were bound for this Greenland aforesaid, to 

 make a voyage upon Whales or Sea-horse, for the advantage 

 of the Merchants and the good of the Conmion-wealth. Wee 

 set sayle from London the first day of May, 1630, and 

 having a faire gale, wee quickly left the fertile bankes of 

 Englands pleasant shoares behinde irs. After Avhich, setting 



