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covered their bow and arrows, which they had hid 

 not farre from them behind the rockes. And 

 being only two salvages in sight, they so fiercely, 

 desperately, and with such fury assaulted and pur- 

 sued our generall and his master, being altogether 

 unarmed, and not mistrusting their subtiltie, that 

 they chased them to their boates, and hurt the 

 generall in the buttocke with an arrow." The 

 soldiers now began to fire, on which the savages 

 ran away and the English after them ; when one 

 " Nicholas Conger, a good footman, and uncum- 

 bred with any furniture, having only a dagger at 

 his backe, overtooke one of them, and being a 

 Cornish man and a good wrastler, shewed his com- 

 panion such a Cornish tricke that he made his sides 

 ake against the ground for a moneth after; and sa 

 being stayed he was taken alive and brought 

 away, but the other escaped." In the meantime a 

 storm having arisen, they proceeded with their prey 

 to a small island, where keeping good " watch and 

 warde" they lay there all night upon hard cliffs of 

 snow and ice, both wet, cold and comfortless, in a 

 country which yielded no better cheer than rocks 

 and stones, and a people " more readie to eat them* 

 then to give them wherewithall to eate." 1 



They now stood over to the southern shore of; 

 Frobisher's Strait, and landed on a small island, 

 with the gold-finers to search for ore; and '' here 

 all the sands and cliffs did so glister and had sq^ 

 bright a marquesite that it seemed all to be gold,. 



