An account of several late voyages and discoveries

the Nortl,-Eafl -Poyages 2 1 3 Of FHhes there is gt·cat borh Plenty and Variety, Wha)es, Seals, Dog-fifh ; but in thcfe are caught thc great quantity of Sea• 1 Unicorns, whofc Horns are 1e much efiecm– ed, and kcpt as Rarities in thc Cabinetc¡ of Princes. The Nativ.:s here are fo well fio– rcd with ir, that thcy havc fufficent both for truck and their own ufo. Thcy make of them (befides other Utcnfils) Swords, and Heads for theit· Darts and Arrows; which thcy work and grind with Stones, till thcy make them íharp picrcing as oU\'s. The Horn grows in the Snout of thc Fifh, and is his Wcapon, wherewith he fcars not to fight the Whale, and to affault and fometimes endan• ger a Ship. The Fifh it felf is as large as an Ox, very ftrong, f wifc, and hard to be caught, except left on the Shorc by the Tide, or en– tangled by the W eeds. Fowls are hcre in great abundance and variety. Our Mcn have foen thofo thcy call Bafs-Geefe, or fuch as once a ye.u comes to brecd in thc BaJj, a famous Rock or Hlan~ near Edinburgh. The Nativcs alfo havc a ve. ry grcat Art anc.l Dcxtcrity in making and fctting Snares and Springs to catch thcm ; , which they do chictly for their Skins and }ieathers. Two or tluec of our Men with their Guns killcd in one Day Fifc:ecn hundred, and found thcm wc.rfc \raíled, bctter cloth·d. than thofe of the famc kind in theíe Countries ; P 3 they