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old and ugly, our men thought she had been 

 a devil or some witch, and therefore let her goe ; 

 the other being young and incumbered with a 

 sucking child at her backe hiding herself behind 

 the rocks, Avas espied by one of our men, who sup- 

 posing she had bene a man, shot through the haire ■ 

 of her head, and pierced through the child's arme 

 whereupon she cried out, and our surgeon meaning 

 to heale her child's arme, applyed salves thereunto. 

 But she, not acquainted with such kind of surgery, 

 plucked those salves away, and by continuale 

 licking with her owne tongue, not m,uch unlike 

 our dogs, healed up the childe's arme." It is stated 

 that they found here sundry articles of the apparel 

 of the five unfortunate men who had been seized 

 by the natives the preceding year, which is the 

 only apology offered for the cruel attack on 

 these people. 



By means of their t¥/o captives they at length 

 brought about an intercourse with the natives; 

 from whom they understood that the five men 

 were still living, and engaged to deliver a letter 

 to them, which letter was couched in the follow- 

 ing words : — 



" In the name of God, in Xi>fiom we all believe, 

 who (I trust) hath preserved your bodies and 

 soules, amongst these injidels, I commend me unto 

 you. I will he glad to seeke by al means you can 

 devise for your deliverance, either with Jojxe, or 

 with any commodities within my ships, xvhich I 

 will not spare Jbr your sakes, or any thiiig els 



