A Description of Greenland
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A Description of Greenland is by Hans Egede, who was a missionary in that country for twenty-five years. The book is offered with an historical introduction and a life of the author, illustrated with a map of Greenland and numerous engravings on wood. The text says that in the Eastern district the Greenlanders erected a town, to which they gave the name of Garde.
The Danish Chronicle, one of the early documents upon which Peyrere founded his narrative, relates that an insurrection broke out in Greenland, in 1256, when the inhabitants refused any longer to submit to the tributary exactions of Magnus, King of Norway. The text says that nises or porpoises, otherwise sea hogs, are also placed in the class of whales, though of a much smaller size, and are met with in all seas. The text mentions an account of the Greenlanders concerning a fierce, ravenous wild beast, which they call Amavok; all pretend to know it, but no person ever yet was found that could say he had seen it.
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- Hans Egede
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