EXPEDITION OF HALL AND KKI.^HT 
crew mutinied, and obliged him to return. In 1612, he was 
employed on an expedition to Greenland, projected by some 
English merchants, but touching on that part of the country, 
from which he had taken the five Esquimaux in his second voy¬ 
age, he was recognized as one of the perpetrators of the act, and 
a native stabbed him in the side with a dart, of which wound 
he died shortly after. 
Amongst the companions of Hall, was John Knight, who con¬ 
tributed not a little to inflame the imagination of the Danes, 
with the inexhaustible riches of the gold and silver mines of 
Greenland, and who was consequently thought worthy by the 
company of Muscovy merchants of London, to command an expe¬ 
dition for the avowed purpose of discovering the north west 
passage. He accordingly sailed in 1606, and on reaching the 
coast of Labrador, his little barque was so incumbered with ice* 
that he took refuge in a small bay, where it was his intention 
to haul his vessel ashore, in order that she might undergo the 
necessary repairs. Shortly after his landing, he made an excur¬ 
sion into the country, in order to examine the interior, as the 
existence of the silver mines was still predominant in his ima¬ 
gination, and in some degree, he had been able to keep his crew 
to their duty, by the pictures, which he laid before them of the 
enormous riches, which they were on the point of accumulating. 
From this excursion, however, Knight never returned, and from 
the circumstance of the crew being subsequently furiously at¬ 
tacked by the natives, the conclusion was drawn that he, and his 
whole party had been massacred. After repairing their vessel, 
the crew bent their course towards Newfoundland, and after 
encountering numerous hardships and difficulties, they arrived 
in safety in England. 
Thus the merchants of England saw themselves defeated in 
every attempt, to obtain a participation in the Indian commerce, 
by either a north western or a north eastern route; but still their 
hope was not wholly extinguished of succeeding in the attempt, 
as the difficulties, which had hitherto arisen, were to be attri¬ 
buted more to the ignorance of the navigation of the northern 
latitudes, and the relative situation of the adjacent countries. 
