An account of several late voyages and discoveries

• x~, Thc lntrodutlion. F;fl,ing•B0at1 : Thcfo people r,cre 'ller1 niMble º" Foot, ª"" clo11thed r,ith Gu111e•l1 of the S'<,111 oj gre4' Birds, li"'-e Penguins, a11d Pelicans, ,r,i;A t~ Feather.t 11pon thc111. Thcir B0ot1 r,,ere •ade oj ,he Hidc, of Morfes, or great Seates; the1 had ~,¡. vers at their Bac~s f11U of Arron,'s, r,ith a H11tcht1 of F;pi-Bones; their Temper untraflab/e and i11docil, abhoring our Bccr, Spirit,, ""'' t'Weal1. Lta'lling Nova Zembla theJ flcer'd to Greenland. Thefi l"ou11trics afford no Trce,, or Shr11b1, except a Ji 11, Juniper,and" fen, dwarfFirs; abNnd•nce o/Moft, Heath, "fart of Cabbage, Lettice, Scurvygraf¡, Sorrel,Snake·weed,Harts-tongue,a ~ind o/Straw, berry ,diversfpccics of R.~1 nunculus,andHoufeled. In thc Holes and Roc/v infinite tJHanlilJ o/ Fo"L Ne{ls, r,hofc d,mg with the mofawaftl d doa,n 111a(t1 a n,oHld in thc /J aUeJS or Clefi,, which prod11ce J~ aforcmentioncd Plants; othern,ife thc Counrry i 1,enera/11 made 11p of va/l hcap1 of Rock.!, bro~u Stones, aml lee heap'd 11p ftom 111tl111 Generatio111. O/ Jf ater-Fowl thcre i~ incrcdiblc 'llariet1, 11nd ia fo g•·eat ahundtlncc, that wit h t hcir jlight thcJ· dar~ti 1heS11n, aml cover thc Sea. There ,zrealfo great t¡Han– tities o/Dog-Fifhes, Lobfiers, Gernels, Star-Filh. Mackrel, Dolphins, &,. a fort of Sea-Spide1 fou11d in Whales Sto111a,h,. l-or 110 which fec I~ French R.elations ofthe Danilh Voyages, Printe, at Paris botl, by M. Peyrere, and Marriniere. Anno Dom. 16~0. Ctzptain Luke Fox was fin. out in His M1jefües Pinnace the Charles, P;[111.1· led for 18 iUonths, yQ1mg Sir John WoUlenholmr being Trcafim:r, to.f~arch OHt ,z North-Wefi Paffag~ He traced f robifüer, Hudfon, l)avis, Baffin, ani Button