A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1564. 



returned to lodge in our shippes. Being allured with 

 this good entertainment I failed not the next day to 

 imbarke my selfe againe with my Lieutenant Ottigni and 

 a number of souldiers to returne toward the Paracoussy 

 of the river of May, which of purpose waited for us in 

 the same place, where the day before we conferred with 

 him. We found him under the shadow of an arbour 

 accompanied with fourescore Indians at the least, and 

 apparelled at that time after the Indian fashion, to wit, 

 with a great Harts skinne dressed like Chamois, and 

 painted with devices of strange and divers colours, but 

 of so lively a portrature, and representing antiquity, with 

 rules so justly compassed, that there is no Painter so 

 exquisite that could iinde fault therewith : the naturall 

 disposition of this strange people is so perfect and well 

 guided that without any ayd and favour of artes, they are 

 able by the helpe of nature onely to content the eye of 

 artizans, yea even of those which by their industry are 

 able to aspire unto things most absolute. 



Then I advertised Paracoussy Satourioua, that my 

 desire was to discover farther up into the river, but that 

 this should be with such dihgence that 1 would come 

 againe unto him very speedily : wherewith he was con- 

 tent, promising to stay for me in the place where he was : 

 and for an earnest of his promise, he offered me his 

 goodly skinne, which I refused then, and promised to 

 receive it of him at my returne. For my part I gave 

 him certaine small trifles, to the intent to retaine him in 

 our friendship. 



[III. 322.] Departing from thence, I had not sayled three leagues 

 up the river, still being followed by the Indians, which 

 coasted me a long the river, crying still. Amy, Amy, that 

 is to say friende, friende : but I discovered an hill of 

 meane height, neere which I went on land, hard by the 

 fieldes that were sowed with mil, at one corner whereof 

 there was an house built for their lodging, which keepe 

 and garde the mill : for there are such numbers of Cor- 



Grosses. nish choughes in this Countrey, which continually devoure 



