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adds, " I know some of the better sort which are 

 able to work this and the Hke propositions ex- 

 actly." 



From Cockin's Sound they proceeded towards 

 the river, " where the supposed myne should be" 

 — from which expression it may be conjectured 

 that the object of the present voyage was the dis- 

 covery of gold and not of the north-west passage. 

 The weather being stormy, with the wind from the 

 northward, they put into Ramelsford on the 21st 

 of July ; and here about forty of the savages 

 came down to barter with them. " At which 

 time our master, James Hall, being in the boate, 

 a savage, with his dart, strooke him a deadl}^ 

 wound upon the right side, which our surgeon did 

 thinke did peerce his liver. We all mused that he 

 should strike him, and offer no harme to any of the 

 rest: unlesse it were, that they knew since he was 

 there with the Danes ; for out of that river they 

 carried away five of the people, whereof never any 

 returned againe ; and in the next river they killed 

 ^ a great number." " All that day he lay very sore' 

 pained, looking for death every houre ; c?.nd on 

 Thursday the three and twentieth, about eight of 

 the clocke in tlie morning he dyed, being very 

 penitent for all his former offences.'"^ 



Having buried the master tliey proceeded to the 

 northward and entered Cunningham's river, where 



* Purchas, voL iii. p. 832. 



