Mr. James Janeway's legacy to his friends containing twenty seven famous instances of Gods…

26. Greenland, is a Country that lies very far North-ward in seventy-seven Degrees, and forty minutes: Its wonderful Mountainous, which Mountains are all the year long covered with Ice and Snow. The plains in part are bare in Summer: But their grows neither Tree nor Herb in it, except Scurvy-grass and Sorrel: The Sea is as barren as the Land, affording ⟨p. 73⟩no Fish but Whales, Sea-horses, Seals, and some few small Fishes.

26. Greenland, is a Country that lies very far North-ward in seventy-seven Degrees, and forty minutes: Its wonderful Mountainous, which Mountains are all the year long covered with Ice and Snow. The plains in part are bare in Summer: But their grows neither Tree nor Hearb in it, except Scurvey-grass and Sorrel: The Sea is as barren as the Land, affording ⟨p. 73⟩no Fish but Whales, Sea-horses, Seals, and some few small Fishes.

27. In June 1668. the Peach-tree of London, a small Vessel of the Burden of about sixty Tuns, Edward Dixon Master, came into the Downs, bound for Guinea intending there to take in Negroes, and to transport them to the Barbados, and from thence to come for London, where John Watts, the son of John Watts, of Elham, in the County of Kent Chirurgeon, shipped himself with the consent of Richard Watts, public Notary of Deal; little dreading that his Nephew, being not above eighteen years old, should meet with such a calamitous Accident. The ship had not been long in the Downs, but a fair gale presenting, they suddenly hoisted Sail, God's providence seeming to fill their Sails with prosperous success; the first place they touched at, was the Gold Coast, where they staid not long, but sailed to old Calabar, in the Bight of Guinea. They entered a River, called the Cross River into Pirates Island. After they had taken in their Negroes, and ready to sail, their Anchor being a peek, the Master calls up the Boatswain and three men more, whereof the relater was one, and ⟨p. 74⟩