INTRODUCTION. 
XXXVU 
In the year 1605, Christian IV. ot Denmark 
sent out an expedition of three ships, towards 
Greenland, under the direction of Gotske Linde- 
nau, as admiral, and James Hall, an Englishman, 
as pilot. Hall landed on the west side of Green¬ 
land, and, according to Crantz, seized four ot 
the natives, who being wild and untractable, 
he was “ obliged to kill one of them, to strike a 
terror into the rest.” Lindenau, meanwhile, ap¬ 
proached the east coast, or rather, as Mr Barrow 
suggests, the coast about Cape Farewell, where, 
it is said, he traded with the natives, though he 
did not land; and, at his departure, seized two 
of them, and took them away with him. “ There 
was no resemblance between these men and those 
taken by Hall, neither in their language, dress, 
nor manners.” 
The next year Lindenau and Hall were em¬ 
ployed a second time in the same service; but 
they only appear to have visited the western coast 
of Greenland, where nothing of con sequence, was 
discovered. Hall, in a third voyage, with two 
ships, undertaken in 1607, returned, after ha- 
