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Franciſus, in his Book called Eaſt and Weſt India State Garden, in a Place, where he treats of Greenland, tells us, that a Captian of a Daniſh Ship, by Name Jacob Hall's Relation of the ſaid Monk, with many remarkable Things.Jacob Hall, being ordered by the King his Maſter to undertake a Voyage to Greenland, he touched firſt at Iceland, where he from the King's Lieutenant got Intelligence of Greenland, which before was unknown to him. And that he might the more fully be informed of every thing relating to the matter, a certain Monk was ſent for, to inſtruct him herein, who was ſaid to be a Native of Greenland; of whom the ſaid Jacob Hall, in his ſhort Deſcription, gives the following Account, according to our above-mentioned Author Eraſmus Franciſcus. "There has formerly been a Convent (ſays he) in Iceland, call'd Helgafield, or Holy Mountain, in which, though it was decay'd, lived a certain Friar, Native of Greenland, with a broad and tawny Face. This Friar was ſent for by the King's Lieutenant in the Preſence of Jacob Hall, who wanted to be informed
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