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Rh ooner were arrived and ettled here, but they found God was come along with them; I mean the aving Knowledge of his mot holy Word. For the aid Erick Raude his Son, called Leif, after he had been intructed in the Gopel Truths by King Olaf (who was the firt Chritian King of Norway) brought along with him from Norway to Greenland a Priet, who taught and chritened all the Inhabitants of the Country. Thus this Country has firt been ettled by Norway and Iceland Colonies, which in have increaed and been provided with many Churches and Convents, Bihops and Teachers; which lated as long as the Correpondence and Navigation continued between them and Norway, until the Year 1406, when the lat Bihop was ent over to Greenland. Yet the Norwegians were not the original Natives of the Land; for, not long after their Arrival, they met with the old Inhabitants, a avage People dwell- ing