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Rh Greenland. But this time he directed his Coue to the Wetward of Cape Farewell, tanding for the Strait of Davis; where he coating along took the Survey of everal Places, and then returned home again.

The third and lat Expedition of this glorious King was only of two Ships, commanded by Captain Carten Richards, a Holtenian by Birth; he pied the Land and its high and craggy Rocks afar off, but could not come near it, on Account of the Ice; and o, after he had lot his Labour, he returned home.

The fourth Expedition of King Chritian the IVth, under the Conduct of Captain Jens Munck in the Year 1616, was not made for the Dicovering of Greenland, but to find out a Paage between Greenland and America to China; the Misfortunes of which Expedition are related by the aid Commander. There