CHAPTER XIII 
GREENLAND VOYAGE OF HALL AND BAFFIN 
The Norse colony in Greenland had been abandoned 
to its fate for more than two centuries. The annual 
knorr or ship had ceased to be sent, and during that 
long period the Norwegians had shown no sign of con- 
science, and remained careless and indifferent. At last 
a king of Denmark and Norway arose who was not so 
callous. Christian IV was the noblest and most patriotic 
Sovereign of the House of Oldenburg. He resolved to send 
an expedition to succour the lost colony or to ascertain 
its fate, the re-discovery of Greenland by Davis having 
become known to him. 
Three ships were fitted out. The Trost 1 (Consolation) 
built by Davis Balfour, shipbuilder to the Danes from 
1597 to 1634, was commanded by John Cunningham, a 
captain in the Danish navy, and the mate was James 
Hall of Hull, who is said to have been to Greenland 
before. The second ship, Den Rod Love, parted company 
and returned. The third was the Katten, a pinnace, in 
charge of another Englishman named John Knight. 
The expedition sailed from Copenhagen on the 2nd 
May, 1605, and sighted Greenland on the 30th. The Trost 
and pinnace sailed on until they came to in the neighbour- 
hood of a cliff which was named Mount Cunningham 2 
between headlands which were named Anne and Sophia 3 
after the Queen and Queen Dowager of Denmark. This 
was in the neighbourhood of the modern settlement of 
Holsteinborg. Hall went on in the pinnace with Knight 
as far as 69 0 N. The Trost had anchored in King 
Christian's Fjord 4 on the 12th June. The Danes kid- 
napped five natives, and the Trost and Katten returned 
safely to Elsinore on the 10th August. Hall was ap- 
pointed a mate in the Danish Navy, but the thoughts of 
the Danes had been diverted from the lost colony to the 
hope of material gain, mistaking the glittering lumps of 
1 Purchas calls her the Frost. 2 Mount Kakatsiak. 
3 Cape Sophia is Proestefjeld (1170 ft.), just north of Holsteinborg. 
4 Amerdluk Fjord, or Itivdlek, in the opinion of Steenstrup. 
