14 SYDNEY H. BALL: 
of Iver Boty, etc.” 1560). Joun JAMES, one of Joan Davis’ men, on 
his voyage of 1585, mentions the presence of muscovite in the vicinity 
of Godthaab. 
In 1605, CHRISTIAN THE FOURTH, king of Denmark and Norway, 
sent out three ships under Admiral GODSKE LINDENOW, JAMES HALL 
being one of the captains. The explorers are reported to have dis- 
covered silver ore in Greenland said to contain 26 ounces of silver per 
hundredweight. On their return, hoping to acquire great wealth, Christian 
IV levied a tax on all his subjects, from the proceeds of which in 1606 
he equipped five ships, in order that their men might mine in Green- 
land. Lindenow, again in command, returned that year to the vicinity 
of Holstensborg and there did some digging. 
BAFFIN, а member of HaArr’s fourth voyage, financed this time by 
English adventurers, made this report on the prospect: (Wm. Baffin’s 
Voyages 1612—1622, London, Hakluyt Society, 1881, p. 25) “and we 
found divers places where the Danes had digged; it was a kinde of 
shinning stone which when our gold-smith, JAMES CARLISLE, had tried 
it, was found of no value, and had no mettall at all in it, but was like 
unto moscovue fludde (mica S.H.B.) and of a glittering colour.” Samples 
were, however, taken. Baffin’s opinion of the mineral resources of 
Greenland’s hills follows: (loc. cited, p. 33) “and they are all of stone, 
some of one color and some of another, and all glistening as though 
they were of rich value, but indeed they are not worth anything: for 
our gold-smith, James Carlisle, tryed very much of the ure and found 
it to bee nothing worth. If there be any mettall it lyeth so low in the 
mountaynes that it cannot bee well come by.” 
In 1636, a company of rich Copenhagen merchants (The Company 
of Greenland) sent two ships to explore Greenland. Some bartering 
was done with the natives, but as Peyrere (loc. cited p.227) says: “But 
a commerce of trifles was not the principal object of this voyage. The 
pilot who conducted them had known the bank on this coast where 
the sand was of the colour and weight of gold. He speedily proceeded 
to this bank and having filled his vessel with the sand, told his companions 
they were all rich, and set sail for Denmark. The Grand Master of 
this kingdom, who is the chief of the Company, and who in fact per- 
sonally formed it to reconnoitre the country and to visit it at leasure, . 
was surprised at so sudden a return: but the pilot, who felt aggrieved, 
told him that he had a mountain of gold in his vessel. But he had to 
do with a man who is not very credible. He asked for some of this 
sand and, having had it examined by the goldsmiths of Copenhagen, 
they told him they could not get a single grain of gold from it. The 
Grand Master, enraged that the pilot should have allowed himself to 
be duped, and to show that he had no part in it, commanded him to 
