CH. XVII] 
Munk 
Still there were deaths daily. Those smitten with the 
scurvy suffered great pains in the loins, the body turning 
blue and brown, and becoming powerless, the mouth in 
a miserable condition, with all the teeth loose. Captain 
Munk was at last too weak to bury the dead. Only 
three besides himself were left in June. He wrote a note 
asking anyone that came to bury him. He and the other 
survivors crawled about on shore, seeking for any green 
thing. Towards the end of June they caught some fish, 
and got some every day. They began to gain strength, 
and in the middle of July they were strong enough to 
get the little Lamprey ready for sea, leaving the larger 
vessel, and the four survivors at length sailed, arriving 
at Bergen on the 25th September, 1620. 
After this appalling experience Munk needed some 
rest. His ability, however, was well known to the King 
and he was later much employed. During the early 
part of the Thirty Years War he was in command in the 
Weser. He became an Admiral, and died in 1628 x . 
After Munk's disastrous voyage there was a pause 
for a dozen years, and then Luke Foxe, with his diligent 
research, whole-hearted enthusiasm, and quaint humour 
engages our attention. 
Foxe was a Yorkshireman and almost certainly from 
Hull. He tells us that he was sea bred from a boy and 
had been in voyages to the Baltic and the Mediterranean. 
He had evidently received a good education and was 
well read. He had an excellent opinion of himself, and 
was very young when he applied to Captain Knight to 
take him as his mate. He was reminded of his youth 
and he afterwards admitted that he had been rather 
presumptuous. Foxe was much with John Tappe, a 
bookseller with a shop on Tower Hill, who published 
the Maryners Book, and a translation of the Arte de 
Navegar by Martin Cortes. This friend enabled him to 
study Arctic history. Foxe also had the great advantage 
of securing the friendship of Henry Briggs, the famous 
mathematician, Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, who 
introduced the practical use of logarithms. When Foxe 
1 La Peyrere's account in his Relation du Groenland is unreliable and 
inaccurate. 
Munk's narrative, Navigatio Septentrionalis (Copenhagen, 1621), has 
been edited for the Hakluyt Society (1897) by Mr Gosch. 
