of Greenland.
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the Wind ſoon after proved fair, they made all the Sails they could, ſteering for Iceland, which they reach'd the Day following, and enter'd the Bay of St. Patrick, which lies on the Weſt Coaſt of the Iſland, in the Morning early when they were milking their Cows. A Hamburgh Captain by Storm driven on the ſame Shore, found Relicks of the ancient Inhatants.Birn of Skarſaa (as we learn by the aforeſaid Thormoder Torfager) gives the following Relation: In our Time (ſays he) one name John Greenlander, who for a conſiderable Time had been employed in the Service of the Hamburgh Merchants, in a Voyage from thence to Iceland, met with contrary Winds and ſtormy Weather, in which he narrowly eſcaped being caſt away, and loſt with Ship and Crew upon the dreadful Rocks of Greenland, by getting in at laſt to a fine Bay, which contained many Iſlands, where he happily came to an Anchor under a deſert Iſland; and it was not long before he ſpied ſeveral other Iſlands not far off, that were inhabited; which for fear of the Inhabitants, he for a while did not dare to approach; till at laſt he pluck'd up a good
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