An account of several late voyages and discoveries

the N.ortb-E,,fl Poyages. 201 Hut what thc NorJVeg,ia111 conqucrcd or pof· fcffcd in tlus Country was an inconfidcrahlc corncr of that largc Contincnt. Thcmfckcs mcntion a Nation wJ1om thcy call S/.:relingcr1, co have inhabited in thc middlc of thc Lancl, but what thcy are wc know not. J3ut whc– thcr thcir Paucity cx¡;ofi:d thcm to thc mcr~ dcfocfs of thc Nacivcs, or whcthcr it wcrc an Epidcmical Difoafe which they call the hlack Plague, which fwcpt away not only ~ moft of that Natiun in Groneland, but alfo thc Mcrchants and Marinc:rs in /Vorrv.1y, that maintaincd that Traffick, or whcthcr it wcrc fomc .othcr Rcafon, whid1 is now for~ottcn; fo it is, thac fince 1 ~49, little lntcll:gcncc hath dcfccndcd to us <.:oncerning Grom/11na', üll fcclting the Norrh wcíl: paffagc to C/,111.1, occafion'cl 111orc kno,\~ledge of it. ln 138~;i, tbey íay, that the King of Demn,1rk fcnt a Flcct thither, with intcntion to re· eftabli!h his Dominion in thofe Pares ; but thélt bcin;.:; c~n awa.y, difcouragcd him from any fi.1rth1.tr Entcrprize; tilJ now of late Chriflitm IV rc– ncwcd fomcwhat agahi of that Navigation, C1f which by and hy. In 1406, thc .Biíllop rJ DroiJ!/;ei,,, tcnt a Pricíl: ( callcd .Andre(u) t;) fuccccd Henry Biíllop of C11rda, if dead ; if aJivc, to return and bring notice ot the thc ítarc of che Church thcre. But Andreas n~vcr c:1 me back; nor hath therc becn fiocc ~ny furthe1· carc t.akcn to fupply Biíhop~, or rn intain Chritrianity thcrc. Therc is a Rela-