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*eafon that the Malouins, who fifli for Cod at Petit 

 Nordy and the Spaniards who follow the fame Fiftiery 

 at Pcrtocboua, are obliged to fit out long Barques to 

 fcour the Coaft and purfue'em ; for almoft every 

 year they furprife fome of the Crew on fhoar, and 

 cut their Throats,, and fometimes they carry off 

 the Veffel. We are aftur'd, that their number of 

 Warriours, or Men that bear Arms , amounts to 

 thirty thoufand ; but they are fuch cowardly fel- 

 lows, that five hundred Clijlinos from Hudjons Bay, 

 ufed to defeat five oi> fix thoufand of them. They 

 are poffefs'd of a very large Country, extending 

 from over againft the files of Mingan to Hudfons 

 Streight. They crofs over to the Ifland of Newfound- 

 Land every day, at the Streight of Belle Ifle, which 

 is not above feven Leagues over ; but they never 

 came fo far as Placentia, for fear of meeting with 

 other Savages there. 



Hudfons Bay ad/oyns to this Terra of Labrador s 

 and extends from the 52 d Degree and thirty Mi- 

 nutes to the 65 of Latitude. The Original of its 

 name ,was this. Captain Henry Hudfcn y an Englijh 

 M^n by Birth, obtained a Ship from the Dutch, in 

 order to trace a paiTage to China through an imagi- 

 nary Streight to the Northward of North- America. 

 He had firll form'd a defign of going by the way 

 of Nova Zcmbla ; but upon feeing the Memoirs of 

 a Damjh Pilot, who was a friend of his, lie drop'd 

 that thought. This Pilot, namely , Frederick An- 

 [child; had fet out: from Norway or Tfiandia, fome 

 years before, with a defign to find out a PaiTage to 

 Japan by Davis $ Streight, which is the Chimerical 

 Streight' I {poke of. The firfi: Land he defery'd was 

 Savage Bay* feated on the North fide of the T&ra 

 of Labrador ; then fweeping along the Coafl, he en- 

 tered a Streight, which about twenty or thirty years 

 afterwards, was chtiften'd Hudfons Streight. After 

 that, ftecang to the Weftward, he came upon fome 



Coails 



