A new voyage into the northern countries being a discription of the manners, customs, superstition, buildings, and habits of the Norwegians, Laponians, Kilops, Borandians, Siberians, Samojedes, Zemblans, and Islanders : with reflexions upon an error in our geographers about the scituation and extent of Greenland and Nova Zembla.

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A new voyage into the northern countries being a discription of the manners, customs, superstition, buildings, and habits of the Norwegians, Laponians, Kilops, Borandians, Siberians, Samojedes, Zemblans, and Islanders : with reflexions upon an error in our geographers about the scituation and extent of Greenland and Nova Zembla.
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La Martinière, Pierre Martin de, 1634-1690.
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London :: Printed for John Starkey,
1674.
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THE TABLE.

CHAP. I.
THe Authors embarking at Copenha∣gen in a Vessel belonging to the King of Denmarks Northern Company, and his Arrival at Christiana in Norway.
CHAP. II.
Particulars of the Country about Christiana; with the Manners and Customes of the Pe∣santry in Norway.
CHAP. III.
Their way of fetching the Elks; the redicu∣lous opinion of the Virtue of their Claw; the power and authority of the Norwegi∣an Nobles.
CHAP. IV.
The Authors reimbarking at Christiania; his

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CHAP. V.
The Authors reinbarking at Berghen, and his arrival at Dronthem.
CHAP. VI.
The Authors departure from Dronthem to to take a view of the Silver and Copper Mines belonging to the King of Dane∣mark.
CHAP. VII.
Particulars of the Silver and Copper Mines in Norway.
CHAP. VIII.
The entertainment the Author received from a Norwegian Peasant in his return from the Mines.
CHAP. IX.
The Authors reimbarkment at Dronthem, The Mariners buying a Wind, and the dan∣ger of sayling in those Northern Seas.
CHAP. X.
The Authors great danger in a Storm.
CAAP. XI.
The Authors arrival at Varanger in the Da∣nish Laponia.
CHAP. XII.
The Manners, Customes, Superstition and Habit of the Danish Laplanders.

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CHAP. XIII.
The Authors departure from Varanger to∣wards Mourmanskoimore.
CHAP. XIV.
His travelling with Elks, with some particu∣lars of that Beast.
CHAP. XV.
The Authors Arrival at Mourmanskoimore with some particulars of that Country.
CHAP. XVI.
The Authors Voyage into the Country of the Killopes, with their manner of Living.
CHAP. XVII.
The Authors Arrival in the Muscovian Lap∣land. Their Trade, Customes, and Man∣ners.
CHAP. XVIII.
The Authors Arrival at Kola, the scituation of the Town, with the manner of their buildings and other particulars.
CHAP. XIX.
The Authors departure from Kola, in his return to Varanger, with the Funeral Formalities of the Muscovian Laplan∣ders.
CHAP. XX.
The work and imployment of the Laponian Women, with other particulars of that Country.

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CHAP. XXI.
The Authors meeting a Laplander going a hunting.
CHAP. XXII.
The Authors return to Varanger, the dexterity of the Laponians in throwing their Darts shooting with their Bows and other particulars.
CHAP. XXIII.
The Authors sailing out of the Sea of Va∣ranger, the continuation of thisi Voyage, with other particulars.
CHAP. XXIV.
The meeting of the Danish Ships which came out of Danemark with the Author and had been separated by Storm, with an account of their adventures.
CHAP. XXV.
The Danes resolution to Trade to Boranday and the Authors accompanying them.
CHAP. XXVI.
The Stature, Habit, buildings. and man∣ner of Living of the Borandians, with other particulars.
CHAP. XXVII.
The entertainment the Danes gave the Bo∣randians on Board, and the Authors Voy∣age into Boranday.

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CHAP. XXVIII.
The success of the Authors Voyage into Bo∣randay, and other particulars of that Country.
CHAP. XXIX.
The Author meets a Borandine Lord return∣ing from hunting, with a description of their Clothes.
CHAP. XXX.
The Authors departure from Vitzora, to∣wards Potzora, and his traffick there.
CHAP. XXXI.
The Authors departure from Potzora, to go into Siberia, his meeting with five persons of quality sent thither into exile by the grand Czar, their miseries and his arri∣val at Papinogorod.
CHAP. XXXII.
The Governors reception of the Danish Mer∣chants amongst whom was the Author.
CHAP. XXXIII.
The Danes, and the Authors trassick in Pa∣pinogorod, the scituation of the Town? with the Habit, and Customs of the Sy∣berians, and Muscovites.
CHAP. XXXIV.
The Authors departure from Papinogorod, towards his Ship, his passage thorow Sa∣mojespia, with their Manners, Customes and Vestments.

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CHAP. XXXV.
The Author departs from Boranday to go to Zembla, where he saw a Company of Zemblanes worshiping the Sun, and two others worshiping a wooden Idol, they called Fetitot.
CHAP. XXXVI.
Of a disease called the Scurvy with which the Author and most of the Danes in his Company were sick.
CHAP. XXXVII.
Their Fishing for the Sea-Horse, with the relation how two of their Sea men were struck over board with one of their Tails.
CHAP. XXXVIII.
The boldness of the Bears upon the Mountains of Voygat, with the taking of certain Foul called Pingoines,
CHAP. XXXIX.
Of a Zemblane which had like to have been surprized by the Danes, of another and his wife taken in their Canoe, with a de∣scription of their Boat.
CHAP. XL.
The taking of another Zemblan and his wife, their Habits, Arms, and manner of li∣ving.

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DHAP. XLI.
Their departure from Zembla back again to Danemark, their Arrival in Greenland the whale Fishing, and the way they make their Oyl.
CHAP. XLII.
Their departure from Greenland, three Suns appear to them at Sea, with the relation how by the Violence of a Storm they were driven upon the Coast of Island.
CHAP. XLIII.
Their Arrival at Kirkebar,, their journy to Hecla, the danger the Author incurred there, the marvellous effects of two Foun∣tvins which spring out of that Mountain, with other particulars.
CHAP. XLIV.
The Habitations, Manners, Superstitions of the Islanders, with other particulars.
CHAP. XLV.
Their departure from Cape Hori, their Ar∣rival at Copenhagen, the present of the Horns of two Sea-Horses, which were ta∣ken for Unicorns.
CHAP. XLVI.
The Error about the Unicorn and the virtue of its Horn.

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CHAP. XLVII.
The Authors reflexions upon an Errour i our Geographers in the scituation and ex∣tent of Greenland and Zembla, with Observations upon such as have writ abou Voygat and the Samojedes.
FINIS.
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