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Excerpt from The History of Greenland, Vol. 2: Containing a Description of the Country, and Its Inhabitants But as I find nothing very partie ar recorded of this vilitation, (there being indeed no labour to he mentioned on baptized Greenlanders, becaufe there were inone then, and as to the blefiing and benefit it was of to the miflionaries themfelves, that was a matter rather to be pondered in the filence of the heart than to be defcribed in words 5) therefore I {hall only fubjoin thus much cone cerning ir. The two brethren abovernentioned, who were natives of Moravia, arrivedjquite unexpected in a Dutch {hip May 20. The captain was obliged to land them thirty-two leagues OH from Goodhope, and the brethren were obliged to fetch all their provifion from the fame difiance. This was attended with many dan gerons circumflances. As they conld not take all at once, the captain attempted to advance a little nearer to their place, and kept three of them on board, but after ward the (now and contrary wind kept him oil' at fea. Ar lal't they were obliged to take their fiores out of the {hip into the boat oh' the Open (ea; and to unload them again at the next ifland, where they waited a week for better weather, and at the end of tall narrowly efcaped being loft on a funken rock. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.