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Jens Munck's voyage is best related in the Hakluyt Publications for 1897. Laut's Pathfinders of the West gives fullest details of Radisson's various voyages. The French State Papers for 1670-1700 in the Canadian Archives give full details of the international quarrels over Radisson's activities.
Eighty years afterwards the fur traders dug from these river flats a sunken cannon stamped C 4 Christian IV and thus established the identity of Munck's winter quarters as Churchill harbour. Munck was not the last soldier of fortune to essay passage to China through the ice-bound North Sea.
With the exception, perhaps, of Bering's voyage a hundred years later, the record of Munck's wintering is one of the most lamentable in all American exploration. 'Died this day my Nephew, Eric Munck, wrote the captain on April 1 of 1620, 'and was buried in the same grave as my second mate. Great difficulty to get coffins made.
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