An account of several late voyages and discoveries

2 o 2, JI Suppleme1it to Rclation in Pur,has's Pilgrim, p~r. ?· of 1 onc lvo~ Boty a Gro'!e/~náer, tranílatcd 156c, out of the Norwetghifb Language, which gives a fufficicntl)· pal'ticulat Accoum of all thc Places in tbat Country that are in. ]1abitcd by Chrifiians, bue of nothiug bl!– fides. The occafion of our Voyages to thofe Coafrs, was to find out a way to Chin~, á c. by the North-wcfi, which had bccu fruit, lcily fou<Tht toward thc North-Eafl. Thc fu·U w hom we rea<l to have fearch'd d1c North- \Vcft for a Paffagc, was J.,J11r~p1 Frobijbcr, who in 1576, with two Barks com· ing to thc hcight of 62 dcg. found a grc.n Inkt, callcd by him Forb!fber's Str•itst whcre· into having fa.ikd 60 Lcagucs with main Land on cirher íide, rcmrncd. He founcl tbcre a cc.rrain Oar, which he concci\·cd co be of Go1d ; and the ncxt Ycar he madc a 1ccond Voyage to fotch a quantiry of it, but it proving to be nothing but black Lcad, ;¡ niwer'd not cxpcération ; yet thcy found a Silvcr Mine, which lay fo deep and faH in thc Rocks, that thcy could ll(-t dig it. They mcltcd Golcl alfo, but in vcry fmall quami– cie~, out of fcvcral Stoncs they fou¡,id there upon Smitl/s I!lc. They found alfo a dead. Fifh, of about twclve foot 1ong, not unlikc in füa pe to a Porpoifc, having an Horn fix foot long (fuch as is cemmonly cali'd Um– ~orn's Horn) growing out of his Snout, whid ,•