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Rh which I hardly can believe) and found none but wild uncivilied People there, like thoe Forbiher is aid firt to have met with. He taid 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, againt all Kinds of mall trifling as Knives, Sciars, Needles, common  and other uch Trifles. When he et Sail from thence, there were two Greenlanders remaining in the Ship, whom he carried off, and brought them home along with him: thee, as they made all their Endeavour to get away from him, and ometimes would have jumped into the Sea, they were obliged to tye and ecure them; which when their Countrymen oberved, who flocked together upon the Shore, they made a hideous Outcry and Howling, flung Stones, and hot their Arrows at the Sailors, upon which they from the Ship fired a Gun, which frightned and dipered them; and o the Ship left them. The two other Ships, that et Sail in Company, and under the