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but our men found a fire and the side of a beare, on 

 a wooden spit, left at the same by the savages 

 that were fled. 



*' There, in the same place, they found a bootc 

 of leather, garnished on the outward side of the 

 calfe with certaine brave trailes, as it were of rawe 

 silke, and found a certaine great warme mitten. 

 And these caryed with them, they returned to 

 their shippe, not finding the savages, nor seeing any 

 thing else besides the soyle, and the things growing 

 in the same, which chiefly were store of firre and 

 pine trees. 



" And further the said Mr. Dawbeney told him, 

 that lying there they grew into great want of vic- 

 tuals, and that there they found small reliefe, 

 more than that they had from the nest of an osprey, 

 that brought hourely to her yong great plentie of 

 divers sorts of fishes. But such was the famine 

 that encreased amongst them from day to day, that 

 they were forced to seeke to relieve themselves of 

 raw herbes and rootes that they sought on the 

 maine : but the famine encreasing, and the reliefe 

 of herbes being to little purpose to satisfie their 

 insatiable hunger, in the fieldes and deserts here 

 and there, the fellow killed his mate while he 

 stooped to take up a roote for his reliefe, and 

 cutting out pieces of his bodie whom he had mur- 

 thered, broyled the same on the coles and greedily 

 devoured them. 



** By this meane the company decreased, and 



