XXXViii INTRODUCTION. 
ving got the length of Cape Farewell, the crew 
having mutinied. 
After this, Captain Carstcn Richardson, with 
two ships, was dispatched on a similar service, by 
the King of Denmark, but he could not get near 
the land for ice. 
In 1652, another expedition, of two ships, was 
sent out from Denmark, under Captain Dannell. 
The cast coast, at intervals, was seen from lati¬ 
tude 65° SO', to Cape Farewell, but no landing 
was effected. And the year following, a second 
examination of the coast was undertaken by the 
same navigator. The east coast was again seen, 
but only at a distance, from ITerjolf’s Noss to 
Cape Farewell. 
The recovery of the colonies seems now to 
have been lost sight of by the Danes for a num¬ 
ber of years, until the subject was revived by Hans 
Egede, a clergyman belonging to the congrega¬ 
tion at Vogen, in the northern part of Norway. 
Egede had read of the Christian inhabitants who 
