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account of the vaft quantity of ice which encircled the 
fhore. Proceeding to the north-well:, they palled four 
illands of ice, “ of a huge bigneffe.” The fog became fo 
thick, that they could not fee two Ihips’ lengths from 
them ; and the fails, ropes, and tackle, were frozen fo ftiff, 
that they were unable to handle them. The thick log 
is reprefented to have frozen as fall as it fell, in the middle 
of July, and the fliffhefs of the ropes and fails made them 
ufelefs. On the igth of this month, the crews confpired 
fecretly together, while the captain was alleep, to bear up 
for England, and keep him confined to his cabin ; but he 
difcovered the plod in time to prevent it. They Hated 
their reafons in writing, which were thefe : “ That, if they 
Ihouid winter between 6o° and 70 0 lat. it would be May 
before they could attempt any thing; and that by the 
ill of May the following year they could be back into 
thole latitudes well fitted and frelh from England ; but 
that they were willing to encounter any danger in mak¬ 
ing difcovery, either in 6o° or 57 0 of latitude.” And 
after this, they accordingly, “ one and all,” bore up the 
lielme, and fleered to the fouthward. The captain, how¬ 
ever, had the refolution to punilh the ringleaders mofl 
feverely, and only remitted a part of the punilhment at 
the interceliion of Cartwright the preacher, and of the 
mailer. Being near to an illand of ice, the boats were 
lent to load fome of it for frelh water; but, as they were 
breaking fome of it off", “ the great illand of ice gave a 
mightie cracke two or three times, as though it had been 
a thunder-clappe ; and prefently the illand began to over¬ 
throw, which was like to have funk both our boats.” 
Purchas, vol. iii. 
An inlet is defcribed in 61.40. not much pellered with 
ice, and forty leagues broad, within which Weymouth 
fays he failed a hundred leagues well and by fouth, but 
which we now know mull have been impoflible. Indeed the 
whole account of Weymouth’s proceedings is fo confufed, 
that little or nothing can be drawn from it, except that 
he was among the illands to the northward of Hudfon’s 
Strait, and probably thofe of Cape Chidley ; and, though 
he calls every land he fell in with the “ land of America,” 
it is quite clear that he never came near the American 
coalt, except that part of it which is known by the 
name of Labrador, along which he continued to range 
from the 5th to the 14th of July, when he difcovered an 
inlet in lat. 56. up which he tailed thirty leagues, enter¬ 
taining fanguine hopes of a pafiage through it: this inlet 
correfponds with Sleeper’s Bay, or Davis’s Inlet. On the 
5th of Augull he arrived at Dartmouth. 
The voyage of Weymouth was a complete failure. He 
reached no higher than lat. 63. 53. “ Hee neither difcove¬ 
red,” fays Luke Fox, “ nor named any thing more than 
Davis, nor had any fight of Greenland, nor was fo farre 
north, nor can I conceive he hath added any thing more 
to this defigne; yet thefe two, Davis and he, did, I con¬ 
ceive, light Hudlon into his ftraights.” 
Hitherto the nation which might be fuppofed to be the 
moil interelled in profecuting difcoveries in the arflic feas 
along the two coalts of Greenland, had feen the repeated 
enterprifes of the Englilh in thofe feas with apparent in¬ 
difference. Roufed at length, however, to a fenfe of the 
propriety, but more fo perhaps of the importance, of 
northern difcovery, the king of Denmark caufed an ex¬ 
pedition to be fitted out for exploring Greenland. It 
confilled of two ihips and a pinnace ; one of which, the 
admiral, was called the Frolt, of the burden of thirty or 
forty Jails, commanded by John Cunningham, a Scottilh 
gentleman in the fervice of the king, and on-board of 
which was James Hall, an Englilhman, afting as principal 
pilot : the other lliip was the Lion, vice-admiral, of the 
lame burden, commanded by a Dane ; and the pinnace, 
of twelve lalls, was under the command of John Knight, 
alfo an Englilhman. The whole expedition was placed 
under the orders of admiral Godlke Lindenau. They 
failed from Copenhagen on the 2d of May, 1605. On 
the 24th, being in lat. 59. 30. they expected to have feen 
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Bufs-ifland, and concluded it to be laid down in a wrong 
latitude on the charts. On the 30th they law the fouth 
point of Greenland, which, out of compliment to the 
king of Denmark, they named Cape Chrijlian. To avoid 
the ice, which encompafled the Ihore, they flood to the 
wefbvard, and fell in with “ mighty illands of ice, being 
very high, like huge mountains,” making a hideous and 
wonderful noife ; and on one of them was obferved “ a 
huge rocke-ftone, of the weight of three hundred pounds 
or thereabouts.” Finding nothing but ice and fog, from 
the iff to the 10th of June, the Lion’s people hailed the 
admiral, “calling very fearfully, and defiring the pilot 
to alter his courfe, and return homeward.” The alarm 
fpread in the admiral’s fhip ; and they would have deter¬ 
mined to have put about, had not Cunningham, the cap¬ 
tain, protefled he would Hand by Hall, “ as long as his 
blood was warme, for the good of the king’s majeftie.” 
This pacified them for a moment; but the next floating 
illand of ice renewed the terrors of thofe on-board the 
Lion, who, having fired a piece of ordnance, flood away 
to the northward. 
On the 12th the admiral fell in with the coafl of Green¬ 
land, and gave the names of Mount Cunningham, Queen 
Anne and Queen Sophia's Capes, to certain portions of 
the land ; and, entering a deep bay, which they called 
Chrijlian's Fiord, a party landed and examined fome tents 
of the natives covered with feal-fkins ; and within, among 
other articles, fome veffels were obferved boiling over a 
little lamp, in one of which was found a dog’s head 
boiled. The latitude of the anchorage was found by ob- 
fervation to be 66. 25. The natives prefently came off 
to the fhip in their boats; and bartered whale-bone, feal- 
lkins, morfe-teeth, and unicorns’ horns, for nails and 
pieces of- old iron. The wind foon after became eaflerly, 
on which the pinnace fleered out to fea, and, coafling 
along the fhore to lat. 69, they found many goodly founds, 
bays, and rivers, and gave names to divers of them ; they 
met with much drift-wood. Hall would have proceeded 
farther to the northward, but the people in the pinnace 
earneftly entreated him to return, faying that thteir com¬ 
panions in the admiral would mutiny and leave them be¬ 
hind, which in faCl they had nearly done. They found, 
on their return, that the people of the fnip had been en- 
engaged in fight with the natives, of whom feveral were 
flain and three taken prifoners. 
Before they departed from Frojl Sound they turned 
on-fhore two Danifh malefactors, whom they had brought 
out for that purpofe by order of the court, with certain 
neceffaries; “and thus,” fays Hall, “ having committed 
both the one and the other to God, we fet fade home¬ 
wards.” They paffed down Davis’s Strait with a rapid 
current in their favour, and anchored on the 10th of 
Augull off the cattle of Elfineur. 
It would feem that the fhip, in which Lindenau was, 
flood away to the eafl coall of Greenland ; or rather, it 
may be fufpecled, to the fouth, fomewliere about Cape 
Farewell, where he was vifited by a number of the favages, 
as they are called, though very far from deferving that 
appellation. Wine, it is faid, was offered to them, and, 
not being to their tafle, was refufed; but they drank 
with great avidity whole mugs of whale-oil. The admi¬ 
ral mofl unwarrantably feized two of the natives, and car¬ 
ried them off to Denmark; and it is faid that thofe brought 
by Hall differed very much from thofe brought by Lin¬ 
denau, in manners, language, and appearance, the former 
being much fuperior in every refpecl. Relation du Groen- 
land par M. de la P eyre re, 1657. 
The Danifh government, refolving to follow up the 
further difcovery of Greenland, caufed four Ihips and a 
pinnace to be fitted out the next year for this purpofe, 
and James Hall was appointed pilot-major of the fleet. 
Two of the fhips, the Frofl and the Lion, were the fame 
as thofe employed the preceding year, and commanded 
by the fame officers ; the third was the Eagle, of 100 tons'; 
the fourth the Gilliflower, of 40 tons 5 and the pinnace, 
