An account of several late voyages and discoveries

to tb~ Nortl,-Eafl P'oyages~ 107 Sea, nor anx Bones of Fiíh on th~ Shore fide, excepting a fcw Cockle-füclls. The fl1wkitoes upon our com:, 1~ away in Jrdy were moft in– tolerabl~, then.: bcing no Fcm:e againft them. Tl1c Climate (ofthc ljle of C:h,nirto») is mofe unnatural, the Days in Summcr being excef– five hot, and thc Nights !harp Frofts, even roan inch thicknefs in the Ponds, and all this in 1rme and 'J11ly. Here an~ divers forts of flíes, as Buttcr-flies, Butchcrs-fücs, Horfo– fücs, infinite numbers of Ants and Frogs, ¡1lcnty of Vecches, whi<.:h recovered our Scor– butick Men. And yct that which is mofi: wonderful, the Winter is as fevcre here as in any ¡,lace lying 30 degrces more Nor– rhedy. The King of Denm,irk alfo, partly to ad– vanee the Trading of his own, and partly to ' renew his ancient Pretence to that Coumrv. if any thing füou)d be difcover'd wortb tlie claiming whilft the Englifb were bufie in thefe Difcoveries, tet out two Ships and a Pinnace 1605, thc Admiral was Capt. Jo!m Connigham a Scot, Godskt Lzndena:v a noble D.1ne was Vice-Admiral, the chicf Pilots were Jamer H.iil and 1ofm 1(.pigl,t, Englijh.}i/m. Godske arM rivcd on fome part of the Country where he ' traffick'd fome ftnall mattcrs with the Na– e tives, t0ok two of thcm, and returned into ¡ Denmark. Thc other two Ships arrivcd at ~ C.1pe f"itnll'ell, thcm:c wi.:nt h ob:Jh~r' s Straas, e