no DISCOVERIES or 1586. 



consisted of the Sunshine, the Moonshine, and a 

 pinnace of ten tons, named the North Star. 



On the 7th May they left Dartmouth, and on 

 the 15th June made the land about Cape Farewell ; 

 coasted the west side of Greenland, and from 

 hence they had much intercourse with the natives^ 

 who came oif to their ships sometimes in an " hun- 

 dred canoes at a time, sometimes fourtie, fiftie, 

 more and less as occasion served, bringing with 

 them scale skinnes, stagge skinnes, white hares, 

 scale fish, samon peale, smal cod, dry caplin, with, 

 other fish, and birds such as the country did 

 yield." 



The civiUty of the people induced the adven- 

 turers to examine the rivers and creeks which ran 

 up into the main land. They found the surface 

 much the same as that of the moory and waste 

 o'lounds of Eno-land. The natives are described as 

 " of good stature, and in body proportioned, with 

 small slender hands and feet, with broad visages 

 and small eyes, wide mouths, the most part un- 

 bearded, great lips, and close toothed." They are 

 represented as being idolaters, having great store 

 of images, which they wear about them and in 

 their boats. They are said to be witches, and to 

 practise many kinds of enchantments ; they are 

 strong and nimble, fond of leaping and wrestling, 

 in which they beat the best of the crew, who were 

 west-country wrestlers. They discovered, how- 

 ever, in a little time that these Greenlanders were 



