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foules white and gray, as big as geese, and they 

 saw infinite numbers of their egges." These birds 

 they skinned and found to be good and nourishing 

 meat, and the great store of bears, both black and 

 white, was no mean resource, and, as we are told, 

 no bad food. 



Mr. Oliver Dawbeney, merchant of London, 

 who was one of the adventurers on board the 

 Minion, related to Mr. Richard Hakluyt the fol- 

 lowing curious circumstances concerning this early 

 voyage : 



" That after their arrivall in Newfoundland, and 

 having bene there certaine dayes at ancre, and not 

 having yet scene any of the naturall people of the 

 countrey, the same Dawbeney walking one day on 

 the hatches spied a boate with savages of those 

 parts, rowing downe the bay toward them, to gaze 

 upon the ship and our people, and taking vewe of 

 their comming aloofe, he called to such as were 

 under the hatches, and willed them to come up if 

 they would see the natural people of the countrey, 

 that they had so long and so much desired to see : 

 whereupon they came up and tooke viewe of the 

 savages rowing toward them and their ship, and 

 upon the viewe they manned out a ship-boat to 

 meet them and to take them. But they spying 

 our ship-boat making towards them, returned with 

 maine force and fled into an island that lay up in 

 the bay or river there, and our men pursued them 

 into the island and the savages fledde and escaped ; 



