A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1564. 



alone in one of the corners of the hall, crying with a 

 loud voyce, Hyou, the poore Indian stirring not at all 

 for the blowe, which he seemed to endure patiently. He 

 which held the dagger went quickly to put the same in 

 his former place, and began againe to give us drinke as 

 hee did before : but he had not long continued, and had 

 scarce given three or foure thereof, but he left his bowle 

 againe, tooke the dagger in his hand, and quickly 

 returned unto him which hee had strocken before, to 

 whom he gave a very sore blow on the side, crying 

 Hyou, as he had done before : and then hee went to 

 put the dagger in his place, and set himselfe downe 

 among the rest. A little while after he that had bene 

 stricken fell downe backwards, stretching out his armes 

 and legs, as if hee had bene ready to yeeld up the 

 latter gaspe. And then the younger sonne of the Para- 

 coussy apparelled in a long white skinne, fell downe 

 at the feete of him that was fallen backward, weeping 

 bitterly halfe a quarter of an houre : after, two other of 

 his brethren clad in like apparell, came about him that 

 was so stricken, and began to sigh pitifully. Their 

 mother bearing a little infant in her armes came from 

 another part, and going to the place where her sonnes 

 were, at the first shee used infinite numbers of outcries, 

 then one while lifting up her eyes to heaven, another 

 while falling downe unto the ground, shee cryed so 

 dolefully, that her lamentable mournings would have 

 moved the most hard and stony heart in the world with 

 pitie. Yet this sufficed not, for there came in a companie 

 of young gyrles, which did never leave weeping for a long 

 while in the place where the Indian was fallen downe, 

 whom afterward they tooke, and with the saddest gestures 

 they could devise, carried him away into another house 

 a little way off from the great hall of the Paracoussy, 

 and continued their weepings and mournings by the 

 space of two long houres : in which meane while the 

 Indians ceassed not to drinke Cassine, but with such 

 silence that one word was not heard in the parlour. 



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