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Rh the Wind oon after proved fair, they made all the Sails they could, teering for Iceland, which they reach'd the Day following, and enter'd the Bay of St. Patrick, which lies on the Wet Coat of the Iland, in the Morning early when they were milking their Cows. Birn of Skaraa (as we learn by the aforeaid Thormoder Torfager) gives the following Relation: In our Time (ays he) one name John Greenlander, who for a coniderable Time had been employed in the Service of the Hamburgh Merchants, in a Voyage from thence to Iceland, met with contrary Winds and tormy Weather, in which he narrowly ecaped being cat away, and lot with Ship and Crew upon the dreadful Rocks of Greenland, by getting in at lat to a fine Bay, which contained many Ilands, where he happily came to an Anchor under a deert Iland; and it was not long before he pied everal other Ilands not far off, that were inhabited; which for fear of the Inhabitants, he for a while did not dare to approach; till at lat he pluck'd up a good Heart,