An account of several late voyages and discoveries

tl 1 e Nort1,-E4l P'oyages: 109 Digg's lfland.) In that long Winttr he there cnclurcd, little ofNote happen'd, but that in .Aprii it rained, and then carne thithe;: vali quantities ~f Fow!s, of divers forts, to bree_d in chofe qmct umhfturbcd places.- Of all bis Company, which was Forty Six in one Ship, nd Sixtcen in the Pinnace, fcarce fo many werc lefr alive, as wcre able to bring the Pin· ace thorow very horrid dangers, to their own ountry. If any one dcfire to know wl1at became of te Eight Gronelanáers brnught at feveral ·mes into Denmllrl:, the Account is chis: Th= ing commanded grea t care fhould be taken f them, appointed certain Pcrfons. to att@nd hem, to give them Liberty enough, fo as ey prevcnted their efcape. No Neceffary r Conveniency was wanting ; their Food ch as they cot.1ld eat, Milk, Butter, Cheefe, lcfh, and Fiíh, but raw. They could ea.t Bread, no1· boil'd Meat, but nothing fo uch abhon-'d by them as Wine, or Brandy¡ heir pleafanteft Bcuvrage was Train Oyl. ut whatevcr was done to, or for them, , uld never take away that Melancholy and hagrin which they continually lived in for e want of thcir beloved Country. They uld never be brought to learn much of the miPJ Language, or to apprehend any thing Chriílian Religion. Three of them werc nt back towards thcir own Country 1606. P the