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16 Heart, and ending his Boat on Shore, went to the next Houe, which eem'd but very mall and mean. Here he found all the Accoutrements, neceary to fit out a he aw alo a  or mall Hut, made up of Stones, to dry Fih therein, as it is cutomary in Iceland. There laid a dead Body of a Man, extended upon the Ground, with his Face downwards; a Cap ewed together on his Head; the ret of his Cloathing was made partly of coare Cloth, and partly of an old rutly Knife was found at his Side, which the Captain took, in order to hew it to his Friends at his Return home to Iceland, to erve for a Token of what he had een. 'Tis further aid, that this Commander was three times by Stres of Weather driven upon the Coats of Greenland, by which he obtained the Surname of Greenlander.

This Relation can be no more than of a Hundred Years tanding, as Theodore Torlack affirms; becaue the abovementioned Annals, in which we read it, were com- poed