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which I hardly can believe) and found none but wild unciviliſed People there, like thoſe Forbiſher is ſaid firſt to have met with. He ſtaid there three Days, during which Time the wild Greenlanders came to trade with him; changing all Sorts of Furs and Skins with Pieces of precious Horns, againſt all Kinds of ſmall trifling Iron-Ware; as Knives, Sciſſars, Needles, common Looking-Glaſſes, and other ſuch Trifles. M. de Lindenow by Force carries away two Savages.When he ſet Sail from thence, there were two Greenlanders remaining in the Ship, whom he carried off, and brought them home along with him: theſe, as they made all their Endeavour to get away from him, and ſometimes would have jumped into the Sea, they were obliged to tye and ſecure them; which when their Countrymen obſerved, who flocked together upon the Shore, they made a hideous Outcry and Howling, flung Stones, and ſhot their Arrows at the Sailors, upon which they from the Ship fired a Gun, which frightned and diſperſed them; and ſo the Ship left them. The two other Ships, that ſet Sail in Company, and under
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