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silver, lived in cities, erected splendid temples to idols, and sacrificed human victims to them, which they afterwards devoured. “ After the fisherman had resided many years on this con tinent, during which time he had passed from the service of one chieftain to another, and traversed various parts of it, certain boats of Estotiland arrived on the coast of Dro- geo. The fisherman went on board of them, acted as in terpreter, and followed the train between the mainland and Estotiland for some time, until he became very rich : then he fitted out a bark of his own, and with the assis tance of some of the people of the island, made his way back, across the thousand intervening miles of ocean, and arrived safe at Friseland. The account he gave of these countries, determined Zichmni, the Prince of Friseland, to send an expedition thither, and Antonio Zeno was to com mand it. Just before sailing, the fisherman, who was to have acted as guide, died; but certain mariners, who had accompanied him from Estotiland, were taken in his place. The expedition sailed under command of Zichmni; the Venetian, Zeno, merely accompanied it. It was unsuccess ful. After having discovered an island called Icaria, where they met with a rough reception from the inhabitants, and were obliged to withdraw, the ships were driven by a storm to Greenland. No record remains of any further prosecu tion of the enterprise. “ The countries mentioned in the account of Zeno, were laid down on a map originally engraved on wood. The island of Estotiland, has been supposed by M. Malte-Brun to be Newfoundland; its partially civilized inhabitants, the descendants of the Scandinavian colonists of Vinland; and the Latin books in the King’s library to be the remains of the library of the Greenland Bishop, who emigrated thither in 1121. Drogeo, according to the same conjecture, was Nova Scotia and New England. The civilized people to
